“Be Dedicated”

Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
So, Solomon loved God and feared Him. Solomon being the son of David. Solomon so prayed to God to for fill the promise that He made David His father. Loving God wholeheartedness and walking right. We know it is better to give than receive. Davids son’s prayer of dedication was towards all those who was doing their best and it is God’s hands that is in everything. I tell you when I was growing up. I thought my dad was the strongest man on earth. Stronger than anyone. When he spoke, I heeded to his command. As I got older, I realized he wasn’t as strong as he seemed. I found myself praying for him more from my heart. Every time I thought of him. Even when he disappointed me. Although I probably disappointed him at times. So not only was Solomon’s prayer for his dad David, but also speaks of the judgement of the wicked and the justification for the righteous. Solomon’s dedication to God’s people was also the way he was raised. So, the two records of this prayer are too long to do them justice but the beauty of the prayer and the evidence of the deep spirituality of the one who is praying will become clear. For this occasion, Solomon has had a platform built which was five cubits wide and five cubits long and three cubits high. The setting of this prayer is the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem constructed in the reign of King Solomon. It was the first Temple of the Israelites and was a magnificent and splendiferous edifice, unlike any in their subsequent history. Solomon, in all of his glory, never had a more glorious moment than his prayer of dedication of this Temple. David gave us the Psalms, and Solomon gave us the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon (sometimes referred to as Song of Songs). How is it possible that such profound literary works of great wisdom came from those two guys? God is your neighbor first always. God will always be near to rescue, defend and carry us we when we need Him.
“Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication”
It reads in, 1 Kings 8:22-53, ~ Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven; and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. Therefore, Lord God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’ And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father. “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. “When anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple, then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. “When Your people Israel is defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men), that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake (for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple, hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name. “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name, then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near; yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’; and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

{Prayer}
Father God, guide me to stay in Your light and ways. I thank You and praise You for the Word of truth and for the many examples of your goodness, grace, faithfulness and peace to Your people, the nation of Israel and the Body of Christ. I thank You and praise You that Jesus is coming back to sit on the throne of David as Scripture reveals. Guide us as we stay dedicated to You. I thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.

{Power Verse}
Commit your works to the Lord And your plans will be established.

Proverbs 16:3