Habakkuk's Plea- Lesson Learned

Have you ever gotten to the place in your life where you just knew it was time to cry out to God, more than ever before? Been to the brink and beyond, feeling you've fallen off the cliff, or that someone you love has done so, and knew it was TIME... time to intercede for someone. It was TIME... to intervene on behalf of those who don't understand the fulness of what they are going through, or are doing with their lives?

This is the first part of the story of Habakkuk. The beginning of his vision recorded in the self-same titled book of the Bible. God reveals to him a vision. He tells him, watch what I will do!


Habakkuk is fed up. He's tired. He's desperate. He knows things MUST CHANGE and that only GOD can change the situation! Read the whole book to gain the perspective of the story, and what God does... it's not very long, and it will teach you quite a bit. :)


God is the God of the Breakthrough. He is the God of Provision. He is the one true God, and He will hear you when you call on Him!

Habakkuk 1 New Living Translation (NLT)

1 This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received in a vision.

² How long, O Lord, must I call for help?
    But you do not listen!
“Violence is everywhere!” I cry,
    but you do not come to save.
³ Must I forever see these evil deeds?
    Why must I watch all this misery?
Wherever I look,
    I see destruction and violence.
I am surrounded by people
    who love to argue and fight.
⁴ The law has become paralyzed,
    and there is no justice in the courts.
The wicked far outnumber the righteous,
    so that justice has become perverted.

⁵ The Lord replied,

“Look around at the nations;
    look and be amazed!
For I am doing something in your own day,
    something you wouldn’t believe
    even if someone told you about it.

God showed Habakkuk what He was wanting to do; He was showing him how Israel would be affected, and about the other nations who would affect them. God was there to show Habakkuk that while it might seem that everything is lost, it isn't. God is in control!! 

No matter what has happened in your life; in the lives of the people around you, in your town, city, state, country... GOD is in control. No matter what it looks like... feels like... sounds like... smells like... God IS in control! Trust, and keep trusting. Ask Him to show you what He wants you to know and understand. Be obedient, to the best of your ability, asking the Holy Spirit to come along side you and be with and guide you... allow His angels to minister to you... and KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

TRUTH

Si deve conoscere la verità e la verità vi sarà liberi.

ותדע את האמת, ולהגדיר האמת יהיה לך חינם.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Jesus once said, You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the Light, the Rock of our Salvation, Living Love Divine, our Peace, the Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End.


Truth is a PERSON.
Truth is a WAY to WALK, a PATH to take.
Truth... is not the same as fact. Something can be a fact and not be truth; it cannot ever be truth without being factual on some level.

Some people speak of "personal truths" - what works for you doesn't work for me because it's "your" truth, but not mine. But deep down, we know that isn't true. That's a cop out. It's saying, I know what's right but for me, this is what I choose to do so I will call it truth. Isn't it?

Tell me the truth. Don't just give me dry facts.

Give me truth.

Jesus is TRUTH.

Give me Jesus.

I challenge you, reader, to distinguish TRUTH from fact... Not just fact from fiction. And one way to find truth is to look deep into the recesses of who you are... past what others think of you. Past what others say about you or what you perceive they want you to be. Past your past... past your present. Look until you see who you were created to be: created as a child of the one and only Living God. Created for great things. Created to know TRUTH. Created for beauty, for good, for love. Created for relationship. Created for God's good pleasure as His child. YOU, dear reader... have the opportunity to KNOW and LOVE the Creator of the universe, the One Who put you here on planet earth for SUCH A TIME AS THIS. There is a reason for you being here. For being now. For being where you are today. Behind EVERYTHING is a reason. And that reason is LOVE.