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  “ Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish, That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth .” Psalms 83 : 16 - 18 NKJV Without a consistent lifestyle of grace and absolute submission to the Will of God through prayer, everyone is wired by nature to live in arrogance.  But for God to respond to Sennacherib of old “ ‘Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israe l ( II Kings 19 : 22 )”, Hezekiah had to intercede for Israel before God. Even today and like the prayer of the psalmist, praying men are needed in our homes, churches, institutions, and societies to bless arrogant stewards with shame. Otherwise, our human financial, material, and political achievements do readily hinder the reverence of God as the only “ O Lo...

  “They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”….That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.” Psalms‬ ‭83‬:‭3‬-‭4‬, ‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ It is not a coincidence that craftiness and creativity have similarity in the creation of new things. Only that while the intention of the former is evil, the latter is designed with good intention. Everything that God created has been good, right from the beginning until now, including the salvation and preservation of His beloved people and their purpose for existence. Whereas, the wicked plan of the Devil and all his recruited agents, from the beginning, has always been “ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones “. For example, king Sennacherib’s intention was aim...

http://bible.us/psa83.12.nkjv Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.” The high patronage of ‎luxurious eateries is not necessarily because of the quality of the meal. There is an inherent attraction to taste of elegance and professional service than the deliciousness of the food. Likewise for the righteous being the temple of God, God will readily be attracted to the clean and consecrated heart. Although the fear of the Psalmist is understandable, a pasture that is fully possessed by God is not at all attractive to the enemy. The power of darkness will only be desperate to assume possession whenever God is excused by unrighteousness. Therefore, a righteous cry seeks the consistent possession of God, rather than fears the possession of the enemy. ‎