Today's Scripture(s) - 1 Kings 11:1-2,4,6
"But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites: Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go into them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love." .... "For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. ... And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father."
Vice - immoral or wicked behavior; an immoral or wicked personal characteristic; a weakness of character or behavior; a bad habit. King Solomon started out well but became hindered because of a vice that he had and his vice was ... the love of women. 1 Kings 11:3 Says: "And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart." In his humility King Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom to lead the people of God rightly and the Lord granted him great wisdom and not only that the Lord blessed him beyond what many of us could even imagine. (Read 1 Kings Chapter 3), but as time went on King Solomon became in amoured with women, women and more women, women of many nations, nations that the Lord God commanded the children of Israel not to go into and for them not to come in with them, meaning, not to intermingle, not to marry or make them wives. These other nations worshiped false gods and did abominations and wickedness before the Lord God Almighty and when King Solomon became old his love for these women turned his heart away from the true and ONLY God, the Lord God Almighty the Great I Am. Do you have any vices? Are you harboring vices that will keep you away from the Father? Are you clinging to these vices are you in love with them? That last question is hard and biting I know, for those who have vices. Are you in love with these vices more than with God? Be honest. The end of verse 2 chapter 1 of 1 Kings is a very sobering few words: "... Solomon clave unto these in love." GET RID OF IT, GET RID OF THEM! They are not worth holding on to. They are not worth wasting your love on because in the end, they are detrimental to you and to your soul. Matthew 22:36-38 "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment." We cannot fulfill this command if we are loving vices with everything that is within us. Don't allow a vice or vices to destroy you.
Today's Prayer:
Father God in the name of Jesus I give you praise. Father I thank you for this day another day that you have made for me. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Father I thank you for waking me up this morning and I thank you Father God for keeping watch over me and all of my love ones last night as we slumbered and slept. I thank you Father for sending, giving your angels charge over each and every one of us, to keep us in all our ways. I thank you Father for fighting for us and cutting down every adversary that would attempt to rise up against us. I bless your Father God that no weapon formed against me, my love ones, my brothers and sisters in you shall prosper. You Lord are our battle axe and you Lord are our weapons of war. I thank you Father God for protecting and shielding us, thank you Father God for fighting for us. I thank you Father God for all things. Lord I ask today that you would deliver me from any and all vices that I may have, known and or unknown. I do not want anything to hinder my walk in you and I want you to look at my life and be pleased Father God. I do not desire to do any evil in your sight. I do not want to harbor any vices! I pray for my brothers and sisters this day Father that you would send them help, send help Lord, many have vices they are struggling with I ask today Father that you would deliver and set them free from the chains that bind in Jesus name. Break the chains, break the chains of vices that have them bound Father God, cause them to fall away right this moment in the name of Jesus. I thank you Father that there is a praise of thanksgiving on their lips to you and that there is an outpouring of worship to you Father God for being delivered and set free in Jesus name. Blessing and honor to your Father God for there is nothing too hard for you! Blessing and honor to you Father God for there is nothing impossible with you! Blessing and honor to you Father God for you are our salvation! Blessing and honor to you Father God, there is none like you. In Jesus name I pray. Amen