Stop And Consider.

Ecclesiastes 7:13; Matthew 6:34; Philippians 4:11-12; Psalm 34:1, 9:19-20; Proverbs 21:11-12

We are walking in today:  Stop And Consider.

Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?  In the NLT  this scriptures reads:  Accept the way God does things, for who can straighten what he has made crooked?  The things that God has made crooked are the things that we sometimes don't wanna face in our lives.  Those things which deviate from the normal, common order, form or rule.  Sometimes it is persons who are unusual--the crosses and difficulties that meet us in this life.  We cannot arrange events according to our own wishes and expectations.  Therefore not only is calm passive acceptance a necessary duty but the wise man will endeavor to amend himself to the current circumstances.  Accepting where you are while remaining in expectancy of where you are going!  There are so many things in life that we have no control over.  The only thing that we have control over is our ability to choose our response!  Happiness is not a by-product of conditions around us.  Behaviours are a product of your own decisions based on values.  Not a product of your conditions based on feelings.  We want all the crooked things to be made straight and ordered, in order to be happy.  But living the overcoming life, involves learning how to gain control over one's circumstances rather than being controlled by them!  Matthew 6:34 (NIV) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.  Consider what God has done--who can straighten what He has made crooked?  When times are good be happy, when times are bad, consider--God has made the one as well as the other.  Therefore a man cannot discover anything about his future.  Solomon is asking us to stop and consider, what God has done.  Solomon wants us to ponder what he has told us about life and realize that we don't understand everything that is going on.  Moreover, consider the things we see in life that don't make sense, we can't do anything about them.  Who can straighten what He has made crooked? 
I am talking about the God that we serve!  We need to take the time out to stop and consider.  Because I am telling you that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord.  It is all according to His purpose!  God is good all of the time--in our ups and in our downs.  All the time He is good!  Fiveamprayer, stop and consider!  Who can make straight what God has made crooked?!  Who can change anything any way?!  No one but God!  Paul says here, Philippians 4:11-12(AMP) 11) Not that I am implying that I was in any personal want, for I have learned how to be [a] content (satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or disquieted) in whatever state I am. 12) I know how to be abased and live humbly in straitened circumstances, and I know also how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance. I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency and enough to spare or going without and being in want.  Stop and consider.  We don't want to consider that we are going through this for a reason.  In our new level that God is taking us to, we must consider how we will get there.  This is apart of the process.  This is how we get out breakthrough!  We must stop and consider when all hell is breaking loose that we are to look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  No matter what you are facing, stop and consider--God's hand in the situation; that He is mindful of us;  nothing is too hard for Him!  We can stop and consider that no weapon that is formed against us shall ever prosper!  Stop and consider, that He knows the plans that He has for each and every one of us.  Stop and consider, that He has already made a way of escape for us!  Stop and consider, that in every storm, trial and tribulation He is working it all out for our good!  Stop and consider, that it is good for us to be afflicted.  Stop and consider, that you have to go through this way.  Trust Him, He knows your end from the very beginning!  Stop and consider, you are in the place you are in because God put you there for a reason, for His purpose!  Be content and learn what He is teaching you.  Hold on to Him and His unchanging word!  He is Jehovah Jireh, it is by His hand that we have all that we need.  That is where all of our provision comes from.  Thank You Lord!  Thank You for making a way out of no way!  Stop and consider, that He is the only way out of no way!  Stop and consider, how good He has been to you!  It is He that has brought you out.  It is all about God and Him alone getting the glory!  This is not about your will being done!  Stop murmuring and complaining!  We are to praise Him anyhow!  God is always good and we are to be in constant praise unto Him!  Psalm 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  Stop speaking against what God has already said, regarding your situation.  I am walking this out by faith, not by sight!  Hallelujah anyhow!  Stop and consider, that this is making you better, wiser and stronger!  This is my set time for favor!  We think that God is coming one way, but He is coming another way.  Stop and consider that!  Because sometimes it doesn't look the way that we think that it should look.  Or things seem to us not to be working out the way that we think that they should.  Trust in God, He is working it all out!  Amen!  Psalm 9:19-20 (AMP) 19) Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before You. 20) Put them in fear [make them realize their frail nature], O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!  Fiveamprayer take a selah, to stop and consider that!  It is darkest just before the day break.  Stop and consider!  We must stop and consider who God is!  The Creator of all things, that there is nothing too hard for Him!  He knows all and sees all.  There is no better candidate, no other candidate for bringing you out of the mess that you are in!  That tough place that you are squeezed into, but are you focused on the the Lord?  Stop and consider, how much time and focus is there on the situation or on Him?  Are you trusting that He will bring you out?   That Him showing up mighty in your life will display His glory to others, and encourage them to know that if He has done it for one, He can do it for them too?!  Selah!  He is Adonai Jehovah, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Tsidkenu, Emmanuel, He is omnipresent and He promised to never leave nor forsake us!  Accept how God does things--He is the only one to bring us out!   Sometimes we come out a particular way, to teach us something--obedience, patience, how to pray without ceasing, to pray and fast. God is teaching us, stop and consider.  Ask Him which way Lord, consider Him in all that you do.  He is the one ordering our steps, how can you proceed in walking it out, if you are not considering Him!?  Take some time to stop and consider some things in your life.  On that new job that God gave you, be content.  In your marriage hold on, He is the God of reconciliation.  He is a Jehovah Rapha, our healer, for those that need health restored in their bodies.  We must stop and consider, God is telling us to let go of somethings in our lives.  We will have to let go of some people, some things, some places and situations.  We have gotta let this go--stop and consider why the same thing just keeps on happening to us.  Over and over and over again, year in and year out.  We repeat those lessons that we haven't learned.  Proverbs 21:11-12 (KJ21) 11) When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. 12) The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked, how God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.  So when God is teaching us something that you have not learned, it is a process and you will keep going over it again until you learn it!  We point the finger at others--consider if it is you!  Everything that He has made is good.  Take a moment and consider.  Go into God and sit a His feet and stop and consider.  He has been waiting for you to seek Him out.  Turn it over to Him, totally and completely--for us to be content in the place that we are in.  Stop and consider being obedient, no longer wavering or getting out of position.  He knows the plans that He has for us, let us walk in His word and His word alone!  He works all things together for our good!  Don't worry about tomorrow, seek Him where He can be found!  Stop wrestling and trying to figure it out.  Just do it, submit to God, set aside your plans, thoughts and ideas.  His ways are higher than our ways, go ahead and trade up and upgrade to God's level!!  From His point of view, He can see much more than our limited view can.  Trust that He knows what you are in and already has a plan set up for your exit.  Your job is to learn, be obedient to what He gives you to do in the place that you are in.  We lift up fiveamprayer this morning have them to stop and consider.  You make all things work together for our good!  We crucify our flesh to walk this out by faith.  We lift up prayer requests, for Dr. Columbus in this time of bereavement and Pastor Paul for healing in his body.  We can trust God because it is all for our good!  We come to repent this morning and ask for forgiveness.  We were not considering or taking the time to stop and think of You in our situation.  That we were not waiting on You but running on ahead and making matters worse.  Teach us Lord how to wait on You, to pray and fast. Teach us how to hold on to Your living word! 



We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit:   We are gonna stop and consider!

Welcome to the overflow...
 All of the crooked places in our life are made straight only by You Lord.  We will accept Your way and how you do things.  Who can make straight what God has made crooked?  We are to remain right there in that mess--hold on, God can turn our mess into a masterpiece!  Can't nobody else do that but God!  You just got to keep holding on and trusting His word!  He is a rewarder to those that diligently seek Him!  He works all thing together for our good!  We have gotta learn to be content in whatever state we are in.  Stop and consider.  God is making us better, wiser, and stronger.  That is why we have to go through to be built up to His specifications.  We are to lean not to our own understanding.  Give God all of the glory!  Thank Him, stop and consider!  You are still here and in your right mind with the activity of your limbs!  You know that it could have been so much worse.  He will not put more on you than you can bear.  He will provide a way of escape for us!  Hallelujah!  Stop and consider, no more murmuring and complaining. Thank You God for every test, trial and tribulation.  We are to look to God not out selves, for the way out.  Don't worry about tomorrow, God is our Shepherd and we shall not want.  We are the seed of Abraham and the blessing is on us!  No more complaints about your job, there are many who are still looking for a job.  Sit still and trust God.  He hears your complaints!  Tell Him thank You, He came that we would have life and that more abundantly!  Stop and consider--it could have been so much worse!  God is still keeping us!  Giving us joy that the world can not take away and peace that surpasses all understanding.  He is good all of the time, and all of the time He is good!  Stop and consider!  Why do you often end up here?  Are you being disobedient?  Stop and consider--time for a self check.  This is not a time for you to look at others.  Thank You God for giving us a word to re-focus on You.  That we have perfect peace with our minds stayed on You!  We trust You Lord!  Thank You Father!  Stop and consider!  Visit us on facebook, it will encourage you.  Get ready for testimony time that will be on tomorrow!  God is good all of the time!  Have a blessed day! 

More Scriptures for fiveamprayer to consider!  Amen, amen!

Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.  Deuteronomy 8:5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.  Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!  2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.  Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Isaiah 43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.  Psalm 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained