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Make Yourself Strong!
Listen to Wise Elders
✅ DO YOU ASK AND LISTEN to the Godly advice of the elders.
👑 Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, was advised by his dad’s counselors to be kind and pleasing to the people and speak good words and the people will serve you forever. SOLOMON had enjoyed 40 years of peace. Young Rehoboam made a horrible mistake. It cost him the kingdom.
😔 Rehoboam chose to listen to the self serving hooligans, his peers, who advised him to rule with an iron rod. "You better be harder than your father on the people," was their wisdom. Rehoboam threw the wisdom of the elders to the wind. He was brutal and unbending.
👑 So the Kingdom split from a 12 tribe union just like the prophet Ahijah said it would. 10 tribes gathered to the North called Israel and two tribes to the South called Judah.
🤴Reprobate Rehoboam, was very unpopular.
👑 Wicked Jeroboam in the North - Israel, (with 10 tribes) had left off with the worship of Yaweh and set up golden calves and demon priests to officiate worship. ---- The true priests and Levites LEFT HIM and immigrated to the South-Judah, to help Rehoboam.
🔥 Those Godly priests drew the sincere Israelis back to the LIVING LORD‼️ The whole kingdom of Judah was strengthened and blessed for a 3 year revival. Things were looking up for foolish Rehoboam. The priests brought (3) years of rest and peace.
🔥 LOOK 👀 WHAT THE LORD WILL DO when His people worship, pray, and speak the goodness of God over a nation‼️Unity , Favor and Peace even when a foolish king was in power.
✅ Read the story in 2 Chronicles 11:17 - So they STRENGTHENED (the Godly Ministers) the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years; for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.
Sing and Praise
When we SING and PRAISE THE LORD you
actually BRING HEALING into your body!🔥✝️🕊️
There is a nerve in your body that connects your brain directly to your heart, your lungs, and your gut. Scientists call it the VAGUS nerve. What it does when you worship will change how you think about praise.
The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the human body. It runs from the brainstem all the way down through the neck, chest, and abdomen. It is the primary pathway of what researchers call the parasympathetic nervous system, the system responsible for rest, recovery, digestion, and immune function. When the vagus nerve is activated, heart rate slows, blood pressure drops, inflammation decreases, and the body shifts from survival mode into restoration mode.
Researchers have identified three primary activators of the vagus nerve. Deep, rhythmic breathing. Cold water exposure. Singing.
Not just listening to music. Singing. The act of producing sustained vocal tones activates the vagus nerve directly through the muscles of the throat and the vibration in the chest cavity.
Psalm 100:1-2 says make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come into his presence with singing. The Hebrew word for joyful noise is rua, meaning to shout, to raise a battle cry, to produce a loud, sustained vocal sound.
Vagus Nerve
God did not design corporate worship as a warm-up for the sermon. He designed it as a full-body, neurologically active, physiologically restorative event that shifts your entire system from survival mode into the mode your body needs to heal, receive, and function at its highest level.
When you lift your voice in genuine worship, you are not just expressing gratitude. You are activating a nerve God designed that tells every organ in your body it is safe to restore.
Your voice was built to heal you.
Use it.
Written by Dr. Zac Breckenridge