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What I’ve learned here, most importantly, is that AFTER we’ve done ALL that God has commanded us to do, we are supposed to STAND. NOT run, NOT cry, NOT walk out, NOT hide, NOT complain, NOT surrender...........STAND.

When I was a little girl, our mother used to make us practice sitting still and having quiet time. No T.V., no radio, no walking around, just sitting still, reading sometimes. I’m sure she could have done the same thing with us standing, but the result was the same. I learned in my inner soul to be calm. To not have to constantly be busy doing something, anything, to fill the time.   

Maybe that is part of what prevents some of us from getting the victory over our problems. We do not know how to hold still. Many of us have been told to put on good preaching tapes, to put on good music, and ladies, there is NOTHING WRONG with doing that, but sometimes, God just wants us to muse or meditate on His word. We see the word meditate used only in the Old Testament and the word think used throughout the entire Bible, yet how can we think or meditate if there is no quiet? Why would God put a word in the Bible and ask us to do these things, (Phil.4:8b...."if there be any virture, if there be any praise, THINK on these things", if he did not intend for us to do it?   

 So ladies, if there is a trial in your life, why not turn everything off and find a quiet place and let the words of God YOU read this morning, or recently, turn over and over in your mind? Preaching tapes are excellent tools, in their place, but they are SOMEONE ELSE’S words, someone else’s thoughts and opinions of what God has told that person.....then relating it to YOU as to what you should or shouldn’t do. Music tapes are lovely and refreshing and sometimes just what we need, but "The word of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever" Psalm 12: 6-7. Wouldn’t you rather have the pure words of God as advice than the recycled words of someone else’s opinion?

I think of these pure words.... "Be still and know that I am God"Ps 46:10 or I Kings 19:12, "and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice" We do not know how to give things time. If something doesn’t work out for us in today’s society, we immediately think we have to "fix" it. And fix it RIGHT NOW, there may not be enough time tomorrow.........God’s timing is not our timing. I can’t imagine God rushing into anything, yet we as His children rush into everything..... Marriage, careers, purchasing homes, having children, then we blame God when they don’t turn out the way we want them to....... It’s like we’re trying to hurry up and get done with life, are we trying to hurry death?

I think of myself and my friend, both of us having marriages that would challenge old Sol himself. I think of our STAND. Boy, the past few days I have wanted to RUN.......it just seems so much easier. I think of my friend, whose problems are different than mine, but have the same results......she has RUN in the past, just like I have, but from something deep inside us, we have returned to remain . I believe that something is our STAND. Something that God has given us. A belief somewhere deep, deep inside us that God is still with us, still loves us, still cares. A belief that God WILL honor obedience, that His way is the right way, and then we get the old Book out and read again where, after having DONE (action word) everything, running, hiding, avoiding, talking, etc., etc., that we are just supposed to STAND.....to remain unchanged, to make resistance. How do you make resistance against the wiles of the devil? Read Eph 6:10-18. Not once there does He say to quit, to give up, to turn back, or to move to the side. He simply tells us to STAND.

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