3/7/10 “Who’s Watching?”
Who’s Watching?
3 7 10 HT PM
Habakkuk 2:1-2 NKJV
Habakkuk 2:1 NKJV
I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
Habakkuk 2:2
Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
Habakkuk 2
In this chapter we have an answer expected by the prophet (v. 1), and returned by the Spirit of God, to the complaints in which the prophet made of the violence and victories of the Chaldeans in the close of the foregoing chapter.
1. Stand watch (as a watchmen on a city wall)
What it takes to stand watch
• Patience,
• Constancy
• Resolution
• Endurance (he will wait the time, and weather the point, as a watchman does, but he will have an answer)
• Whatever
2. Separate in order to hear (sometimes you have to get out)
Clouding your hearing with all the random talking and distractions limits what God can speak to you
A determination to hear even the slightest whisper!
He was planning to attend to the voice of God –
1 Samuel 3:1 NKJV
Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.
1 Samuel 3:2 And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was lying down in his place, and when his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he could not see,
1 Samuel 3:3
and before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle of the Lord where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down,
1 Samuel 3:4
that the Lord called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!”
1 Samuel 3:5
So he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.”
And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down.
1 Samuel 3:6
Then the Lord called yet again, “Samuel!”
So Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” He answered, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”
1 Samuel 3:7
(Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.)
1 Samuel 3:8
And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. So he arose and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you did call me.”
Then Eli perceived that the Lord had called the boy.
1 Samuel 3:9
Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel 3:10
Now the Lord came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!”
And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”
Those that expect to hear from God must withdraw from the world, and get above it, must raise their attention, fix their thought, study the scriptures, consult experiences and the experienced, continue instant in prayer, and thus set themselves upon the tower
3. Seek what He is saying (present tense) not just what He has said, what he is saying. Careful here on how we read the Bible
Psalm 27:7 NKJV
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalm 27:8
When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
Psalm 27:9
Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
Psalm 27:10
When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.
4. Selflessness (the watchmen and prophet watched for the benefit of others not self)
Isaiah 6:8 NKJV
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:
“Whom shall I send,
And who will go for Us?”
Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.