If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Even Moses, who spoke with God face-to-face, failed to obey perfectly. The conversion of Egypt is mentioned first (Isa. A voice of one calling in the desert, Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him. God was telling me that He has gone before me, or after me it is all the same to Him and He has made those crooked places or paths in my past life straight. God makes the crooked straight. His greatest fear is that you will walk in the truth, you will walk on the straight path, and he will not be able to sap your strength, divert you from your destiny in Christ, negate your Kingdom power, and make your straight path crooked. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. He will cut in two iron bars. Thats just me and I cant help it!" No results were found while searching for [% query %]. But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. TopicalBible Why will you continue to rebel? Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. As Warfield said, The world has always been very evil, ever since there entered it, through that forbidden fruit, the sin of man and all our human woes. 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. And then he was forgotten by the baker whose dream he interpreted. After Joseph asked Pharaohs chief cup bearer to speak to the ruler about his unjust imprisonment, he still remained in prison for two more years: In three days Pharaoh willlift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. When you are on a crooked path, you will have no direction and time will be lost. 3. Or more precisely, because of the power and authority I exercise in partnership with Him when I am in Christ. Only Jesus can take the crooked and make it. 40:4). But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. They Mount up on Wings of Eagles Of course, he was talking about things under the sun. God is telling His Kingdom men and women: I have madeyour crooked paths straight;I am makingyour crooked paths straight;I will makeyour crooked paths straight. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. The command is Prepare ye [plural] the way of the Lord. Rawlinson asserts that the way of the Lord is the way of holiness of Isaiah 35:8.5 That is precisely the highway to be built by His people. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 2 'I will go before you What did God mean when He spoke to me about making the crooked straight? Lets receive this strength to enable us to be victorious over every obstacle. God has given us the gift of His Word, which will help us to evaluate properly whether something in our lives will make the path crooked or straight. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. The Creator of the ends of the earth, Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? God sends His rain on the wilderness of our soul and our lost ways, that creates growth in a dry place. 36:26). Have you ever driven on a road that is poorly constructed and the bends are hard to handle, you could easily crash or hit a tree, or go off a cliff. When we are bumping around making gross mistakes and yes even outright bad choices, is the best time for us to reach out to Him while He may be found, we must give up our stubborn harmful ways, as the further we go down the beaten track, the deeper the hole. E The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 40:4). I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. After his own heart and will became crooked, he began wresting the wills of other angels, then those of mankind. CEV Fill up every valley and level every mountain and hill. The mountain of debt and huge foreboding obstacles, they appear to be insurmountable and block our way, preventing any movement forward towards the promises of God for our life. Gods word is like a seed that will bring life in your thinking where there was barrenness, the word will produce and if we allow it - we will see a harvest. Statham elaborates: Edward J. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. In Ecc 1:15, Solomon wrote, That which is crooked cannot be made straight. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. God Will Make Your Path Straight - God Will Make Your Crooked Paths Straight! Barnes's Isaiah 45:2 Bible Commentary. J. Alec Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction & Commentary (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993), p. 300. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Psalm 107:16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. You could say that with mankind there was an original Genuine Version made, but then things got corrupted on the way and a very insidous hacker got a virus in and then we became, this ongoing fallen behaviour persons of this worlds system. And said, You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. You see it is just the way to go in our personal development and the maturing process to reach out to God and make that connection to get on track, we need to accept that our limited way of thinking will lead us down the wrong track and in time it will be evident. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. I am hard pressed between the two. Again, another verse with reference to the crooked places made straight - to bring light and direction to those who are blinded and cant hear the right ways. We have a key part to play in the restitution of all things (Acts 3:21). Then shall the crooked be made straight. That reminds me of some parts of The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Similar themes are laid out in Isaiah 57 as well. But that is the great lie. How do you know who is of God? A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. But two chapters later the situation has changed. We do need help if you like and education to develop our pathways, so is it a surprise when we need to lean upon our Creator and the One who knows us best of all and find out that He does want to be part of our training and development in lifes processes. God will fight for you. 3, p. 28. "Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth." (Jeremiah 33:6) God is the healing power that heals us. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. In an introduction to eighteenth-century Scottish pastor and theologian Thomas Boston's book The Crook in the Lot, J. I. Packer describes a "crook" this way: The apostle Paul, once a persecutor of Christians, came to a place in his life where he knew it was better to be with the Lord when his work in this world was finished: For to meto live is Christ, and to die is gain. The point is, that is how it is! 7. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law. 1,908 likes, 110 comments - On And Off The Runway - Joyce Williams (@onandofftherunway) on Instagram on September 28, 2020: "The last few months I decided that I . Teach me Your paths. How does God make the crooked places straight? (Thomas Boston,The Crook in the Lot: Living with That Thorn in Your Side, pp. And cut the bars of iron. Spence & Exell, The Pulpit Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, n.d.), Vol. " I am making crooked places straight". I am not going to write more about repentance here. The mountain that was a massive oppressive blockade will be removed in Jesus Name. I . But the Lord raised up Cyrus, to deliver Israel. Here are seven reasons according to Boston why God makes a crook in a persons lot, along with related Bible passages: Even though we know from reading the book of Job that God allowed Satan to tempt Job to curse God through all the calamities Job faced, including the loss of his children, his wealth, and even his health, Job was not privy to that knowledge: And theLordsaid to Satan, Have youconsidered myservant Job, that there is none like him on the earth,a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? Then Satan answered theLordand said, Does Job fear God for no reason? Then he was imprisoned on a false accusation from his masters wife. The crooked places have to be made straight, and the rough places smoothed. Having that kind of strength and power before us, behind us, and within us is a huge comfort. The voice that cries to us to make straight Gods highway continues to sound. I will level the mountains/make the crooked places straight. A. Alexander, The Prophecy of Isaiah (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1978 reprint of 1875 edition), vol. there are indicators, kind of internal dials, warning messages, alerts that sound off inside. The Lord protects the strangers;He supports the fatherless and the widow;But He makes crooked the way of the wicked. For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. The crooked place now at once vanishes as being melted into the will of God. See the new person He designed you to be, in some ways we can rewrite our code by declaring the good things for our lives, that we have seen and received from God in vision and prophetic messages for our future. Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Bartholomew holds that the universal spread of shalom is the actual end game in history. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? Based on the Scripture quoted above, the crooked place, the place of deceit and wickedness that the Bible refers to most often is the human heart. There's nothing man in his own power can do to make the crooked man straight. It can change your life and your walk with Christ.). But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams. it is a place of stillness and peace, where your dependency is entirely on God and you listen for His sweet advice and hear His word for your life. When all is dried up and lifeless and there is hardly any green to be seen, the sweet deliverance of the gentle rain can revive the weary old plant and make it vibrant again. Then the instruction for receiving and seeing breakthrough: People trying to hinder you or make you look bad. He restored the years eaten by the locust. A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed. Quoted in John Philip Lange, Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Mark-Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, n.d.), vol. Then there are gates, not just any little wooden gate, but a huge metal gate, it is formidable and imposing, designed to stop us getting through. That you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel(Isaiah 45: 2, 3 NKJV). It is the path of an unfocused life twisting and turning aside from every road block and difficulty that life places in the way of the person on that path. He can release the addict, for example the one addicted to pornography, food, drugs, or Facebook from the grip of the addiction, through the power of His Holy Spirit. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. His water is living and changes the landscape of our parched soul to a place of vitality, that will bring forth a bud, we will see life coming forth where there was once barrenness. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. He will break in pieces the gates of brass. And she became the great grandmother of King David. 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; ESV Text Edition: 2016. Life is about choices and selecting a pathway for our future, so why would we go down a track that is not right for us? 7:13 to justify letting their hands hang limp rather than making straight paths (Heb. Only to be discovered after much testing, or way down the track when an unknown situation arises, or when a user presses all the buttons at once and it blows! 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, Cornelius. And he stared at him in terror and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. From this place of power he was able to save his brothers lives. That will teach you!!!" Based on the Scripture quoted above, the crooked place, the place of deceit and wickedness that the Bible refers to most often is the human heart. Z. And to those who have no might He increases strength. It appears we need to adjust our limited ways of seeing the problems of life and see the possibilities of hope, even when we need a total miracle which seems impossible to the natural mind. God took this man that many Israelites would have thought was unworthy of the Lord's blessings (because of what he was) and made him a world leader. At the beginning and most of the time when we choose a pathway, all appears to be the right way for us; we do our sums and sometimes we even have a real emotional fuzzy to say all is well, so off we go! But still, sometimes the enemy sneaks up on me in those early morning moments and speaks the ancient words of accusation, You are a rotten person. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. Do you want this freedom? For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. This is what David describes in Psalm 119:128: Therefore all precepts of all I make straight (original Hebrew). Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen. . Naomis husband foolishly took his family to Moab to escape a drought in Bethlehem-judah. It is a path that does not go straight for a destination, but winds and twists around obstacles in its way, requiring a lot more energy to get to the destination than the straight road, like an ancient Roman road. What David did with Bathsheba and to Uriah, her husband, was crooked. There is progression in this passage in Isaiah. In colloquial English, the straight and narrow is the opposite of crooked, as in he is a crook or he is a crooked person. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: LSB "I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses. At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. He certainly straightened out this mess. Some things are deeply ingrained and take time to reverse, so as long as we understand the process and see that if we trust God with our future, that He will graciously see that the effect will take place, it is a matter of faith and believing sometimes when we are in the face of opposing conditions. Mesquite limbs are always crooked and cannot be straightened. He gives strength to the weary and power to the weak. But it shall accomplish what I please, The straight path is also the spiritual and emotional road that the redeemed journey along, like the highway of holiness in Isaiah (Isaiah 35: 8, 9, 10 NIV, in which the unclean are the crooked). Why will you still be struck down? No one comes to the Father(in other words, no one walks on the straight path)except through me (John 14: 6 NIV). These things I will do for them, and not forsake them (Isaiah 42: 16 NKJV). I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. So, I searched. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 40:3), our taking that command seriously leads to the result that "the crooked shall be made straight" (Isa. Hallelujah! God wants us to lead our paths, since He is the one who makes them straight. No certanily not! You may be wondering why God has allowed various afflictions in your life. God says He will make the crooked places straight, so that we can see with our imagination, the good things and have the faith that will move that mountain in our life, bring us up out of that rut, the valley and the circumstances that hold us back and prevent us from achieving in life. What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted. If we could, we wouldn't need Jesus and His salvation. The crooked place is a place of deceit, a perverse and wicked place. But back to the text. J We see a parrellal in this verse, to reinforce the point, that even if you are the most difficult case, nothing is impossible with God. 29 He gives power to the weak,
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