Psalms 7

Psalms 7: 1-9

Some of what I will say in this post has already been covered in previous posts I have made. Please forgive me for being redundant, but God continues to speak this word in my spirit so powerfully, I have no other choice but to deliver it!

I. Years ago, some Bible scholars told me you can look into the Psalms that correlates with the year number in which we live and find a prophetic word, or see some things God wants to do for His people in that particular year.

While we know God always wants to move for His people and bring His people to a new level in Him, our challenge is to become like the men "…of Issachar, who were men that understood the times and knew what Israel ought to do…" (1 Chro. 12:32)

If that is so (and I believe there is some validity to it) what is God saying to us for this year? While there are many "words" from the Lord, I absolutely know this is not the only word from the Lord…this is simply what God is speaking to David Copeland! This is my "part" of what I hear God saying to me.

Psalms 3-7 were all Psalms David wrote when he was on the run from his son Absalom. I do not have time to do a complete exegesis of all these Psalms, but I am convinced that since 2003, God has been giving the Body of Christ opportunity to deal with all Absalom's we have created in our lives!

Just some quick characteristics of Absalom: Absalom was the 3rd born son of David/he was born to a woman named Macaah (2Sam 3:3) a lady whom David married during the time he was running from Saul. Macaah was a Syrian woman (Geshur)(whose name means oppression) and basically became a relationship born out of burn-out, frustration, fear, anxiety and hurt. Again, it's interesting that Macaah's name in Hebrew means "oppression" any time you have relationship with "oppression" you're going to birth "oppression"

So Absalom was a legitimate son of an illegitimate relationship; illegitimate because everyone knew David was next in line to be King of Israel, and he should have been marrying someone of priestly or at least Israeli decent.

Out of this relationship came a man who would become a deceiver, a manipulator, a conspirator, and a man so insecure, he would build a monument to his own name in Jerusalem because he never had a son to carry on his name. (All this is located in 2 Sam 3-18). While David was in the Tabernacle stealing the heart of God, Absalom was at the city gates stealing the hearts of the men of Israel.

What does this mean for us? All of us have created relationships, connections, ministries, and even whole denominations have been birthed out of fear, frustration, insecurity, burn-out, anger and running from the devil! And sometimes running from God! At least, I know I have! Some people are much more spiritual than I am though!

This is the hour in which God is calling us to deal with and let go of every Absalom we have created, no matter how good, how wonderful or even how precious they are to us! And if we refuse to deal with them, God will send a Joab to us to kill our Absalom! And when Joab came to attack Absalom, he showed no mercy!

I say we let go of everything. I didn't say anything, I said everything! Only you and God can determine what an Absalom in your life is! But I can honestly say, if we refuse to move forward in this, we will never be able to get to that true place of dominion God has called us to! And that Absalom we are trying so hard to protect could ultimately be our downfall.

The spirit of Absalom is nothing more than Jezebel in disguise.

II. The number seven in scripture is the number of completion. There are things in our lives, our ministries, our friendships and our activities that have fulfilled their purpose in our lives and must be released and let go of! We will never have what is in God's hands until we let go of what is in our hands!

III. 2007 marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War in which Israel returned the city of Jerusalem to Jewish control. 40 in scripture not only symbolize a generation, but also the end of a cycle. There is never the end of anything without there being the beginning of something new!

40 is also believed by the Rabbi's to be the period at the end of which a man obtains maturity; the age of understanding; the age in which a man obtains his intellectual prime;
So, the number 40 is completeness, wholeness, fullness, new understanding, generation, cycle, new season!

IV. What does all this have to do with me and 2007?

1. We are coming to the end of the season in which God is completing His dealing with our Absalom's!
- If we don't deal with them, He will send a Joab anointing and do it for us! And when the Joab anointing shows up, he will not be merciful!

2. There is an increase in persecution coming to the true Body of Christ.

- The spirit of compromise will try to pressure some of us on our jobs, in the market place, even in our churches and our homes: we must be willing to stand for the truth in God's Word, no matter what the cost!
- Look at vs. 1
- (Charisma) According to Release International, a British persecution watchdog group, 250 million Christians will encounter persecution and repression in 2007. Christian persecution is occurring in the worlds 4 ideological zones of Islam, communism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Of course, persecution in the Muslim world is advancing the most rapidly. Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Nigeria, Pakistan and Sudan with North Korea being named the world's worst persecutor of Christians.
- But the persecution in America will increase the fastest!

3. God intends this persecution to lead us to a searching of our hearts and motives for doing what we are doing!

- look at vs. 3

4. God wants to bring into our remembrance the promises and prophetic words He has spoken over our lives.

- 1 Tim 1:18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1Ti 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience…

5. The Key verse here is in vs. 9
- Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
- 1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Pe 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
1Pe 4:16 Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

What about Peter James and John? What about Joan of Arc? Are we going to continue to only talk about The John Wesley's, George Whitefields, the Smith Wigglesworths, the Jonathan Edwards (Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God)….who defied the spirit of the age, the pressure to compromise at the beginning of our history as a nation…but realized the world was in a state of transition (just as it is today) and purposed to go all the way with God!