Make His Promise Complete

HONE (MAKE PERFECT OR COMPLETE) HIS PROMISES (VV. 16-18) – January 23, 2011 – SUNDAY (The general gist of today’s message). Series Message II

16 “Now, LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.’ 17 And now, LORD, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David come true.”
18 “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!”

Too many times people never realize until after the fact or in some cases too late that they have drifted away from God and His promises and blessings. They drift away and then their world falls apart and they say to themselves, “I don’t know why this is happening?” When in fact, they have drifted away from God. You can come to church every Sunday and drift away. You can attend church every Wednesday and still be drifting away. You can read your Bible and pray daily and still drift away. Then God has to give you a little wake up call, by allowing you to do your own thing. That own thing that tells you I can do this. Then you realize after things fall apart, that you really didn’t know what you were doing.

How many people like their alarm clock? Not many! Why is that? Your alarm clock wakes you up when you would rather do your own thing and sleep. However, your clock was set for a reason. You had something important that required you to get up and respond. Sometimes we need God to give us a wakeup call to get us moving in the right direction instead of sleep walking our way through life.

God wants you to come to Him and allow Him to be the trash man. All that garbage inside us that is holding us back; He wants to take from us. All that clutter in our lives, He wants us to bring to Him so that He can remove the clutter so we can find the good that is underneath. Once we allow Him to remove the clutter to get to the good in us; He can take that good and make it great for the purpose He has on our lives.

Once all this clutter is removed, only then can He get the fires going in you. Only then can revival begin to take hold. Only then can we come before Him with open hearts and minds, willing to use our hands to help show others their need for revival. Revival will not happen in the corporate, if it doesn’t happen within the individual first.

Solomon has built this great altar. Solomon has come to God humbly giving himself before the assembly. Solomon has recognized God as who He is: He is God. Solomon brings everything to the Lord in front of all the assembly. Remember Thomas said, “My Lord, My God.” Acknowledging exactly who his Lord is and what place He takes in his life. Solomon is doing the same thing. Forsaken themselves and placing the Lord first in their lives; seeking Him and seeking His promises.
What the Lord offers is free. In a world that has lost all hope, and been blinded by a me, me, me way of thinking. We must show them that there is Hope in the Lord and if our thinking turns to a Him, Him, Him way of thinking; God will take care of me, me, me!

A. Remember His fulfilled promises.
1. Salvation (Rom. 10:13). “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (NIV)
2. Supply (Phi. 4:19) – “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus” (NIV)
B. Reflect on promises yet to be fulfilled.
1. Revival
2. Return

To get the best return, you must be willing to give your best. We have been created in the imagine of the Father. This can be a good thing and a bad thing because we are humans. It is a good thing because God thought so highly of us that He created us in His image. The bad thing is, we are humans and many times we place ourselves equal to or beyond the creator. Pride is an extinguisher of the fire of revival.
Do you want the Lord to fire you up so revival can take a hold of your life and move you forward or do you want to sit back and wait on your wakeup call because you want to do your own thing?

Drifting might be a good thing if you are a race car driver or in the movie the Fast and the Furious, but drifting is not good in the life of the follower of Christ in any form. Revival is a blessing that must start with us accepting the call, the place in the order, and humbly giving God our all; not just drifting along in our own world, doing our own thing.

The devil wants to take you to hell. He wants to take everyone you are associated with to hell right along with you. He comes to destroy all that you are and all that you can be. He comes to fill your life full of garbage to cover up the good God wants to use to make great with His blessings and promises. Who are you going to allow to take hold of you today? Do you want a life that is always in question? Or do you want a life where there are actually answers? The choice is yours. Don’t let your wakeup call come to late. The Bible says, “Seek Him and you will find Him.” Seek revival in the Lord humbly, and you will find that the fire in your life has not gone out, but just covered up with clutter. “Lord, Revive us again” so that we may be the best for you and so that we may share that fire as Solomon did with the entire assembly of our community.