Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Brothers in Christ, this weekly encouragement is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build up and edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart to send out
a monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who love and follow Jesus Christ in their walk with Him.
Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness."
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"Oh, that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! I
would soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against their adversaries.
The haters of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, But their fate would
endure forever. He would have fed them also with the finest of wheat; And with
honey from the rock I would have satisfied you." [Psalm 81:13-16 NKJV]

“Listen, Obey, and don’t Talk Back”

If only Israel would listen to the Lord, obey and walk in His ways, God would’ve blessed them
by softening and subduing their enemies in His perfect timing…He would have taken their
enemies out, can you imagine the hand of God coming against you, and I pity the fools that
would think they can fool God. The enemies of the Lords people thought they could fake God
out with fake submission, God sees, God knows real surrender, he knows hearts, thoughts,
words before they come from the tongue. Seems like we could suffer the same way as Israel
did for not listening and obeying when God speaks to us through His Word and leads us by
His Holy Spirit we need to listen. Israel could have remained in the land but did not listen to
God and were taken captive and destroyed by their enemies. God would of fed them the finest
of wheat and honey from the rock, if only Israel had listened. Also haters never going to taste
and experience that the Lord is good.

Only God can take something as hard as a rock bring something as sweet as honey out of a
hardened piece of material. Ever notice how God can take an extremely hardened person, that
you might have known in that condition, take that mean revolting person and make them
sweet as honey, unrecognizable from former self, except but God. Almost all of us has to do to
see this person is walk over and gaze in mirror and realize that we are not the same as we
once were, God changed us, soften us, made us sweeter, took our rock hard hearts and
turned them into honey pots… When we listen, obey, don’t talk back and follow directions.
I use to use this exact phase raising my son, trying to show him and tell him in easy form he
just needed to do three things. How easy God makes it for us if we would just do those things
He asks us to do we would be eating the finest wheat and honey from a rock.

I was overjoyed to hear my daughter one day tell her little ones they needed to listen, obey and
don’t talk back. So simple, yet sometimes we all rebel by pretending submission, better to
surrender and enjoy wheat and honey from the rock, you know when God brings something so
sweet as honey from a rock hard object it truly is a miracle and will be the best honey ever…
Because it’s a work of God when we submit- listen, obey and follow His direction and don’t
talk back-amen!

Agape,
Pastor Daniel Wright
ironmanoikodome.org
Proverbs 27:17

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