Know Your Impact!

Psalm 22

A Psalm of pain and prophecy. Little did David know the words he was speaking would be the exact words Jesus(Son of God) would speak down his own generation.
When David is speaking this Psalm, he conjures strength from his past for his present and projects faith onto his future. What David invested toward God, during his life - his emotions, his suffering, his obedience, throwing himself at God's mercy, worked out to be a blessing for his future way beyond what he would physically be able to see.

Lessons

• Drawing hope from God's work in the past - ^v4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted (leaned on, relied on You, and were confident) and You delivered them. ^v5 They cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, and confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed or confounded or disappointed.
• Talking God's presence into his present -^v9 Yet You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope and trust when I was on my mother’s breasts.^v10 I was cast upon You from my very birth; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.  
• Prophesying to the future -^v30 Posterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation. ^v31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born—that He has done it [that it is finished]!

What David went through, enabled him to completely and utterly depend on God for his dear life. He went through preparation to be king like nobody else. His life after being anointed was full of toil and hardship and a lot of running away. Yet he learned that God is more merciful than men, more powerful than men, more loving than men. Ps 20:7 ⁷ Some trust in and boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in and boast of the name of the Lord our God. Now these things that David learned he would be transferring through his generations and because of all the trouble he was going through, his descendants would be blessed.

Conclusion 
No matter what you are going through, God has complete knowledge of it. He knows how you will fare in those circumstances and He knows how much you can handle. This being said, it does not mean that we are to settle down with our troubles but we need to realize that God must have thought us capable of handling that kind of a storm and coming out victorious. If David had quit in the midst of it all would we have all these wonderful Psalms to encourage us? David had no clue when he said "Posterity shall serve Him..." how far that impact would go! But I am sure God did. Our daily victories are building in us and through us a posterity who will remember and take courage from the works of God in our lives way beyond what we can see right now.

Purpose of Prophecy

Today, as we were having breakfast, an advertisement came up on the TV regarding some event which included Prophecy and end time events and stuff. My husband said,"It doesn't make sense if people prophesy, and know whats to happen, but do nothing about it."
My mind quickly ran back in reference to Hezekiah, isn't that what went wrong with Hezekiah, I thought to myself. Hezekiah passed away and his son Manasseh came to throne, and he did exactly the opposite of what his father had done. (2 Kings 21:1-3).
I remembered what went wrong in Hezekiah's story. The Bible says in (2 King 20:16-19) "16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD : 17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, that will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."
19 "The word of the LORD you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?"

Lessons I learnt

• Hezekiah did nothing about the Word of God that came through Isaiah the prophet-The Bible actually notes down, that Hezekiah was satisfied that the horrible event that was going to happen was not going to come about during his lifetime and he did nothing about it, since it didn't affect him.

Conclusion:The gift of prophecy is a powerful thing. It gives a person an edge over the others to know in advance. If the people in India and Indonesia had known a Tsunami was coming, they would have moved away from the sea. It is a powerful thing, especially with weather to be able to know when, how, what is going to happen. We have the book of Revelation in the Word of God, constantly warning us of the impending judgment waiting upon the earth. We've got a lot of people to be moved into the "safe zone", into the strong shelter(Proverbs 18:10), the fortress(Proverbs 14:26) and refuge(Psalm 9:9). We as believers know the way to the shelter. Are we working at sharing the route map to our Heavenly Father, with an urgency? Or are we not so worried about it, since its not going to affect us much??? On the other hand, maybe we have been trying to usher people into the right direction, through our life, through our prayers, through our actions...but we also, cannot deny the fact, that there will be some who think all that we say is a hoax. To such I'd say, I wish we'd learn a lesson from Katrina, everyone was warned, everyone was given a choice, some accepted a helping hand, others did not. To the believer who is continuing in that prayer for salvation for their loved ones I say-Don't give up. Lets continue to pray with urgency for our loved ones who have not yet heeded God's voice of prophecy, that God would continue to send them His people, His messengers until they are convinced and safe in the blood of Jesus. Their price has already been paid by our Lord, they need to know it asap. Great things can happen, as men and women of God learn to develop camel knees, in prayer.