Beauty is Dangerous 🌹

Heeeey good people and the rest of y'all 😆. Let me stop. Heyyyy others. How y'all doing? I hope you're doing fabulous 💅🏿. Me, I'm chilling, doing and feeling stupendous. (Had to give y'all a different word since it seems like y'all enjoyed “amazing” 😁.) Anywho, what's goodie? I wanted to come and talk about beauty today.

Not vanity. Just beauty. Simply looking good.

In the Bible when you read about the people God favors they are typically described as being beautiful. Attractive. Appealing to the eye. Yet, in Proverbs 16 the word also talks about how God hates those who are conceited. The most interesting stories about beauty that I find in the Bible deal with the wives of the prophets. The story of Abram and Sarai or Isaac and Rebekah.

In both relationships the men were faced with situations where they had to brace themselves when entering into new territory to be possibly killed because of how the Kings would view or desire their wife. In Genesis 12:12-13 & 26:6, both men feared for their life because of how beautiful they were. They both went into new territory portraying themselves as the brother instead of the husband of their wife. All of this was to avoid death behind the beauty of a woman.

Talk about being a prize 🏆.

Beauty is dangerous. There are many different stories in history where beautiful women were the catalyst for some type of destruction. The Bible also reiterating this. There are consequences that follow when you touch those that God favors. Destruction of some sort is usually the cost a person pays. In the story of Abram and Sarai the Egyptians were struck with horrible diseases because of Sarai (Gen 12:17). In the story of Isaac and Rebekah, when Abimelech discovered who Rebekah truly was to Isaac, he warned everyone not to touch either of them or face death. Abimelech knew the consequences he could've suffered had anyone slept with Rebekah (Gen 26:8-11).

There are many different variations of beauty in the world. Yet, there are some people you can't touch because of who they are connected to. Had Sarai and Rebekah been the wives of any other person outside of the prophets that God was using the consequences would've still been there just on a different level. God seems to appreciate beauty in his creations. He just doesn't want us to become conceited in our ways.

Both examples of beauty in the Bible also remind us that covenant is everything.

Setup & STILL Standing 🙌🏿‼️

What up Good people ?! Listen, hear, my day today was a little rocky. The energy was definitely not giving what I needed at first. Then I had to take a moment and remind myself of who my father is. Come on somebody. Glorrryyy. Let me be completely honest. He, my Father, had to remind me of who he is! Grateful is an understatement.

I hope your day went well and if it didn't start that way I hope you were able to turn it around.

Let me share this fire my Father pressed on me to help shift the energy that was trying to sit on me today. Hopefully, once we get thru this word it'll be pressed on you and every attack that tried you today will be flamed off of you as it was me. 🙌🏿🤗

Grab your word, turn to 2 Chronicles 13 verse 12. It reads “And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.” I'm not sure if you read my previous blog or not. But ugh, if you didn't you might want to. See as we progress further in this blog you'll see that you could be setup on both sides and still end up standing. Much like David was setup and tried many times while under Saul but always came out on top. (Praise the Lord.)

When you read 2 Chronicles 13, you'll study how Abijah secured victory in battle over Jeroboam by relying upon the Lord (vs 18). See, Jeroboam took it upon himself to think that he could overthrow God's intended reign of Israel from David's lineage (vs 5). He felt a little too confident with his success over Solomon's son Rehoboam & felt he would do so with Abijah as well (vs 7). Boy, did he mess around and find out.

How many of you know that God doesn't play about his kids?! If you know you've been doing your best to walk with God and follow his ways of righteousness that should excite you. Although Jeroboam was more than equipped in number to defeat Abijah (vs 3)….he wasn't equipped to beat God! What's even crazier about all of this is Abijah warned him not to do it.

He didn't listen.

While Abijah was warning him, Jeroboam was busy scheming and positioning Abijah for an automatic L; so he thought. Jeroboam set him up on both ends, front and back (vs 13) just to still face defeat (vs 17). My Father!

See our Father, has this thing with making people into believers even when they feel like the odds are in their favor. See, Abijah had half the amount of chosen men in comparison to Jeroboam. Was set up on both sides, front and back, took out 500 chosen men of Israel while only having 400 men of Judah, cried out to God and was STILL STANDING at the end of it all. My Father. 🙌🏿

Did you catch that?! Even with the odds literally stacked against you as a child of God the “dub”, the WIN, the Victory is STILL yours regardless of what it looks like. You can warn your opponent all you want. Some are just not open to receive the word you give. Sometimes the only thing they understand is the L ‼️So let God give it and you continue to stand for righteousness.

I hope this blessed you like it blessed me. I'll catch y'all another time. Be you. Be blessed. Keep standing.

Love ya later,

Shya