Notice that it was the desire, the passion of God, to give His heart and love to Solomon. He said of the temple, \u201cMy eyes and My heart will be there.\u201d God still desires to be with His children this way. We’re told again in the New Testament that God does not dwell in houses built with hands but that our bodies are the temple of God (Acts 17:24, 1 Cor. 3:16). God has chosen to live within the hearts of His people. It is all about a heart relationship.<\/p>\n
On the way home from church one Sunday, a little girl turned to her mother and said, “Mommy, the pastor’s sermon this morning confused me.” “Oh,” the mother asked, “why is that?” “Well,” said the little girl, “he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?” “Yes, honey;” the mother replied, “that’s true.” “And he also said that God lives in us. Is that true, Mommy?” “Yes,” the mother replied again. “Well,” asked the little girl, “if God is bigger than us and He lives in us, wouldn’t He show through?” That is the very heart of being a witness for the Lord. If we allow the God who is greater than us to live in us, He will show through.<\/p>\n
“LORD, may You show through to others in our lives today. Overflow our lives we ask in Jesus’ name.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Kings 9 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the\u00a0LORD, and the king\u2019s house, and all Solomon\u2019s desire which he was pleased to do,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0That the\u00a0LORD\u00a0appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0But\u00a0<\/em>if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:\u00a08<\/sup>And at this house,\u00a0which\u00a0<\/em>is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the\u00a0LORD\u00a0done thus unto this land, and to this house?\u00a09<\/sup>And they shall answer, Because they forsook the\u00a0LORD\u00a0their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the\u00a0LORDbrought upon them all this evil. 10<\/sup>\u00a0And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the\u00a0LORD, and the king\u2019s house,\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0(Now\u00a0<\/em>Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.\u00a0\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0And he said, What cities\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.\u00a0\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 15<\/sup>\u00a0And this\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the\u00a0LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0For\u00a0<\/em>Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a present unto his daughter, Solomon\u2019s wife.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0And\u00a0<\/em>all the people\u00a0that were\u00a0<\/em>left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>not of the children of Israel,\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.\u00a023<\/sup>These\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>the chief of the officers that\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>over Solomon\u2019s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. 24<\/sup>\u00a0But Pharaoh\u2019s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which\u00a0Solomon\u00a0<\/em>had built for her: then did he build Millo. 25<\/sup> And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the\u00a0LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that\u00a0was<\/em>before the\u00a0LORD. 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