Scripture tells us there is way that seems right in a man's thinking however; when he thinks like this; it brings spiritual death. If I were to judge this interpretation about orphans and widows from the worldly concept and the way out thinking of the secular left wing world; they would say that; this concept makes a person dependent for their security on another person and they would be right however; from what I am hearing and seeing their fleshly carnal thinking has caused them to seek God in their own ideas in finding fulfillment in their life.

God made mankind with a need to have fellowship with Him and with other people. And unless man understands how to stay within God's protective hedge of His forgiving grace and acceptance; man will try to meet this need for fellowship in all types of fleshly endeavors.

Before I go on let me again reaffirm that; our battle of loving each other is by God's grace at work in us and as Paul, said early; his call was to inform God's children and the world of the devil's devices in his attempt to keep God's creation in bondage to doing their own thing. So with that intent and having nothing personal against no one; I will continue. Remember the devil is our real enemy.

First let me start by saying; mankind was a spiritual orphan the day he came into the world with out Christ Jesus. That is why he had to become born again so God the Father could become his heavenly Father. That is why we must look at and understand the meaning of what our righteousness represents in comparison to being religious and leaning to our own understanding. If we are to truly mature in Christ Jesus; we must learn how to worship God in spirit and in truth with Christ's mind that now lives in us.

These are two different worlds of reasoning and a born again believer must recognize these differences between living with precepts verses living with different concepts. This will make a difference between Godly reasoning in the Spirit verses reasoning in our flesh. Precepts are defined in the Greek as a person being motivated in their thinking based on experiencing God's forgiving grace attitude towards us by His loving holding power verses concepts that are behavior or a broad set of hypothetical guiding principle that determine how a person or culture behaves, or how natural events are perceived. I pray you are hearing me.

Now when a born again believer is not truly walking in his righteous state of forgiving love and grace; and I believe that it is because he is totally ignorant of his covenant agreement that God His Father made with him; they can have no true Godly view of what God has in store for them due to the ignorance with in them. I personally want to be forgiving for those if there are any who intentionally with malice strive to be ungodly and destructive. I ask God from time to time to keep me open minded and always think the better of every one and at times that can put you to task to be on your knees with a humble heart.

There is an example in Lamentations chapter5: which defines the heart attitude we must walk in that can only be motivated by experiencing God's forgiving grace and the only thing that will delivers us from the same afflictions that had come upon these people that are defined in this chapter. I will again comment between some of these verses in comparing them with what is going on in the thinking and life styles of today that is the same afflictions they had to deal with. This includes the secular world with its problems and the born again church who are both losing their freedoms and on a parallel course of action.

"O LORD, earnestly remember what has come upon us! Look down and see our reproach (our national disgrace)! We first see the attitude that these people being sorry for the condition they were in and were crying out to God and asking Him if; He was aware of their seriously inadequate condition they were in. They had decided to take responsibility for their actions and ask for help in spite of the fact; they were not sure God was interested or listening.

This is the uncertainty that a person lives in when they are double minded by not truly knowing the forgiving and loving grace of the Lord. From a worldly view meaning nationally these people were failing as a governing body and from a Christian view of today this includes America and Christian Judeo values which are being exchanged for government control and the Christian church is becoming a reproach in preaching a gospel that is foreign to the love and grace of God the Father in many areas.

We have become orphans and fatherless and our mothers are like widows. A born again believer that is not living in the security of God their Father's loving counsel and knowing their eternal and every day security is subject to all the afflictions and fears that a child has in their growing pains of not being protected as they should be by a Father who is the perfection of what God the Father wants to be to His children.

Today we have the family under the most severe attack by the enemy in father's abandoning the responsibility of parenting and leaving single moms to work and support the children they were left to nurture with out a father's guidance. What ever happened to man's commitment to love their wives as Christ loved the church and laid down His life for it? God's precept of wholeness for the family is husband and wife (male and female) raising children in the admonition of the Lord and; in order for this country to prosper that foundation must be operating to it maximum anointed Holy Ghost empowered fullness.

Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. Since I believe that the scripture states; the born again church is the light and salt that sets the standard that should be influencing the thinking of how the world turns. When God's children do not know and operate in their given inheritance; the influences of strangers and foreigners who are those who are self centered and out for greedy conquest come and steal and destroy God's kingdoms rule from taking dominion in the earth. The born again church has been whittled down to only a few or remnant still staying true to teaching our righteous position in Christ. God help us that we get true born again people in office with the wisdom of God that have as their priority of making policies by and for the people. As of right now there are policies being passed that are unequal and prejudicial and causing America to decline and become a second rate power through obligated rules of government control.

God rose up American as a light on a hill and people flocked to its security from other lands to start a new life with freedoms that they did not have. If you look at history; all nations fell from power from corruption from with in its own borders. Looking at this with a scriptural wisdom perspective; it boils down to when mankind plans his own way with out God's loving forgiving passion to protect them; they are slowing deceived in staying in agreement with the constant revelation of God's truth and they substitute it with distortions of God's word and the god who they have come to know has become an idol.

I have said this many times before and it bears being repeated. American was built on Christian values and if we are not alert; America is becoming a religious country of making God into their own image. What really happened to "In God we trust" Scripture tells us what will happen in these last times before Jesus return. There will those who will depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. The God we are suppose to be trusting has been turned into a chameleon by the secular world for sure and a large portion of the born again church. If the body of Christ ever comes to mature and begins to proclaim the gospel and know how to petition God the Father; the world will come to respect the body of Christ as a God sent force to deliver it from corruption in many circles that is running ramp at this time.

We are commissioned by God to "redeem the time for the day in which we live is evil." The Old Testament defines Christ Jesus as our redeemer and the one who has bought and brought us back from the curse that we were born with and He put us back into God's family and has given us His power to do the same for others by our weapon of sharing His forgiving grace with them. You can't share this anointed weapon with others if; your not experiencing God's total and unending love that can not be offended no matter what crevices of life you might get caught up in.

We must have a sure conviction from with in and truly understand that when ever our righteous spirit is at work in our thinking; no matter where we are in examining and trying to learn who we are in Christ Jesus; a person can truly say and know that every thing is resting and points to the reason for life is in and on Christ Jesus who is the Son of God in the flesh. Any other doctrine is false and conceived by a lying spirit from the devil him self.

We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our (own) wood is sold to us. Let's talk first about the Christian perspective and deal with the believing system that the body of Christ should be based on. The word water in the Hebrew is mayem: meaning semen, a course, flood and stream. Our becoming born again was by being impregnated with the sperm (semen) of God the Father and thus we became a new creation in Christ Jesus. When we get side tracked into believing any other doctrine in making God into our own image; we dam up the continual wisdom stream of becoming more flooded with His forgiving grace that; keeps a spiritual hedge that protects us from apostatizing and renouncing the true understanding of our righteousness and we start believing in another gospel.

Paul tells us in Romans 8:31-32 "If God be for us; who can be against us. He that did not spare His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, now that we are in Him; He shall also freely give us all things." I remind you again; God's forgiving grace can not be earned; it is freely given to us. With out reasoning with the mind of Christ; mankind has the thinking process that; they have to earn recognition and acceptance and in turn; they can spend their whole life on goals that can wear a person out because; they do not know how to enter into God's rest.

Thus; we have the mentality; I have to pay through obligation for an inheritance I was automatically given when God became my Father. This was what these people were becoming weary with in their thinking. Nothing has changed over these thousand of years. God love and grace is the same yesterday, today and forever and he came to seek and save all His sheep who wander in their wilderness walk in trying to find their own way and instead of walking in green pasture and beside still waters they lean to their own understanding and get trapped in the thickets of life. In turn the devil uses the same tactics to keep people ignorant of who they are in Christ Jesus.

The word wood in the Hebrew is ets: meaning; a staff representing firmness in our believing system of trusting in our Heavenly Father's word to supply our needs and wants. It is in us being aware what David said in Psalms 23: when he states; "even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death; I will fear no evil because; I know that God is with me and that; His rod and staff comfort me." Our staff firmness is in knowing that the rod defined here is called a scion in the Hebrew and it means a young member of a family or a child who is a descendant of an especially rich, famous, or important family who knows who his Papa God is. How much of a rich inheritance as being a child of God do you walk in?

Now from a secular view and this country not knowing how to function in their inheritance and resources given to them by God; we must go back to what our fore father's stated in the constitution and the bill of rights. There are enough natural resources and men and woman who have the capability and talent given to them by God to stand in the gap causing us to not be dependent on foreign oil and getting loans from countries that hate our guts with goals of having an anti-christ spirit trying to create a one world government putting people of the world under a dictatorship.

We have people in this country who are in positions of authority with mega bucks that are at work behind the scenes to sell America down the drain. This is a serious business and we can not stay asleep and be misinformed as to what is going on in this dispensation of time on this planet. A person who searches the scripture is able to define the playing field of life and know the devil's devices causing them to not pray amiss and know how to use their influence in counseling with their Heavenly Father to be a part of creating His will in the earth. God's original plan was to put Adam and Eve with a protected force field around them which is the righteous robe of Him self and told them to increase and multiply and take back the world that Satan had taken control of because; this is where he ended up when he was cast out of heaven.

What you have read in this article and all our articles on the web site declare the truth of knowing God's heart and staying informed and not be or stay ignorant of what our life means being in Christ Jesus. We are told by God that; we are not servants but His friends; and because we know how a friend thinks and loves; we know he wants to share his thoughts with us; so we can reign with Him.

Our pursuers are upon our necks (like a yoke); we are weary and are allowed no rest. We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians [merely] to get food to satisfy our hunger. This is the same condition we can find our selves in today. We must know who are enemy is and surly know that the only one that peruses us for our good is the Lord and we must not get ahead of Him in having a striving survivor mode mentality in these chaotic times. Jesus was very clear when He stated; "The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy however; I have come to give you an abundant life now and for all eternity."

When a born again Christian breaks their covenant agreement through their ignorance of the pact God made with them when they had their new birth from above; they come into agreement with demonic spirits of influence that brings fear and with it comes agitating passion and moral conflicts into their life.

Now in the Hebrew definition of Egyptians and Assyrians this not only represents a physical area but also an influencing spirit that can attack a person and cause them to lose their freedom in Christ Jesus. Egyptians represent fortified areas of demonic influence that wants to make us feel hemmed in and constantly being besieged in our mind with worry and doubt. The word Assyrian represents; a spirit stopping us from going forward and prospering under God's empowering grace and it causes us to doubt and know that; our steps are being ordered by the Lord. These people were surviving through fear and constant toiling to get their daily needs met only because; they did not trust or truly know that the God that led them out of a Egypt mentality was trying to give them a promise land mentality.

Let's be honest in our evaluations. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years and through their disbelief died in that condition and never got to live in the promises of God who were the people He loved and still does. I have met and talked to born again believers that have gone on to be with the Lord; who died in this condition and also those who are still with us who are in this condition.

From a secular view this country is on a parallel course as I have said. We are paying the price for high gas prices by importing oil from Saudi Arabia and other places when God gave us America who has the resources to be self sustaining with extra to spare.

Our education process has deteriorated to the point that our great heritage has been neglected and has not been passed on to the next generation who will eventually be making decisions on the destiny of this country. The environment and rich soil that America has for new technologies that we can have and the ones that we already have in place are being stymied by government regulations and control causing manufactures to go over seas with their wears to make money.

The land of the free and the home of the brave; what's happening. Our intra structure and foundation is cracked. "Unless the born again church which is called by His name will humble them self, seek God's face and pray with boldness with a clear understanding of who their enemy is; our land will not get healed."

Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.
When a father does not bring up their children in the admonition of the Lord; they sin because; they give their lack of knowing of their own inheritance that they did not search after from their father and were not able to pass it on to their children. This is becoming very evident as we see some of these demonstrations going on all over this country and see young people undisciplined and who have no clue as being educated and knowing God's plan for humanity. We have some of the people who are in office in these areas praising these kids for their efforts. Have we lost our mind to the point of complete insanity and it is too late for some to understand that it is in God we trust.

We defined sin earlier as a person losing or not using his allotment or share that God gave them as an inheritance. Now this definition only applies to born again children of God. These people who I consider to be rioters I have a hard time believing that; they are born again. That's because; they still have the sinner nature they were born with and the law of the land needs to crack down and bring some sanity back to this country. As fathers pass down Godly wisdom to their children; so is the ignorance and false concepts of man making God into their own image passed down. Stay informed and you can see daily the forces at work to destroy humanities freedoms and a spirit at work to under mind America's greatness.

Servants and slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hands. We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness the wild Arabs, who may attack if we venture into the fields to reap our harvests. Let's get it forever settled in our mind. Only God can deliver us from the conditions that we are dealing with at this time. When a nation is not God faced focused and voting their God given conscience with Godly wisdom when they mark their vote in that enclosed booth; this country becomes as a herd of sheep being led to be slaughtered by leaders that have no sound Christian based educated knowledge. That goes for pulpits and offices of leadership in the government.

That's because people put their confidence in the words of the flesh and become beguiled to put people in office that have a false concept of what liberty represents. This country was founded for the people and by the people. I am not trying to be harsh but; America deserves what it gets because; in their freedom to vote; they have voted people who are novices into office that have no clue how to lead. America has been so blessed that; they have taken their liberties for granted and been asleep at their watch towers of honest prayer before God causing an anti-christ spirit to take control to divide and conquer. The born again church must be professing their faith in their daily travels in the market place and not stay behind the closed doors of the church building as if being a church member will make them safe from the world's condition they we are living in.

I am not anti church however; there is an absolute totally different interpretation between people coming together as a social club or those who gather in Christ's name and allowing the Holy Ghost to lead our gathering. We are all separately the body of Christ and not a bunch of wandering nomads who don't know how to walk in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

I know that our strength is in walking in God's forgiving grace at all times which causing us to be able to love those who oppose them self and are weak and frail. But let me be honest. My first impression when reading this verse was "what a bunch of wusses." I said that there is a lying spirit of fear that is running ramped and I believe that a large majority of the born again church rather them tapping into their God given weapons of warfare; they work with in their own endeavors in trying to defend them self from the onslaught of the enemy. When this takes place that is why this chapter that we are defining is called lamentations; which represents an expression of regret, annoyance, or disappointment that these people were experiencing.

Somebody once said that the definition of insanity is "A person who does the same thing over and over again who is expecting a differant results.  This is the condition man finds him self in with out God's forgiving grace at work giving a person not only His wisdom but the power to change his out look in a sick environment. David the King recognized that his wilderness walk in the earth was him going through valley of the shadow of death however; (this shadow is a spirit of fear and confusion and it has no power unless you let it have power over you.) David knew how to let God's rod and staff and what that represents keep him in perfect peace and rest in God's provision. We as God's children must learn and acknowledge the same God he followed.

They were bothered with in their short dispensation of life compared to eternity or in their wilderness walk with a sword which is the Hebrew word chereb: and it means that; they went through times of drought with lack in one area or another in their life because; they were plagued with a spirit that what ever they put their hand to came to nothing and their endeavors were laid waste. Scripture tells us that any thing we do in obedience to God's commands by putting our hands to work in doing it; we will prosper. Again here is the real issue; God's commands to our heart are carried and made real to us by us experiencing His forgiving grace.
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