<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.79in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }
A:link { so-language: zxx }
-->
</style>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Tel:
<a href="tel:253-517-9195" target="_blank">253-517-9195</a> - Email:
<a href="mailto:jmbetter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmbetter@gmail.com</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Web:
<a href="http://www.2rbetter.org/" target="_blank">www.2rbetter.org</a></b></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">March 18, 2013</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
<br></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@page { margin: 0.79in }
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }
-->
</style>
</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
28 - MICAH 3-5 - PROPHECY OF PROMISED DELIVERANCE</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
3:6-7 (3:1-7, ESV) PROPHECY: AGINST RULERS AND PROPHETS.
<font size="3">“Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the
prophets, and the day shall be black over them; </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">7
</font><font size="3">the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners
put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer
from God.” </font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Righteous</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are Your judgments Father, against false rulers and prophets.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed be
your :name.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
3:12 (3:8-12) PROPHET MICAH: CONTRASTED WITH PROPHETS AND RULERS.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Therefore
because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall
become a he</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">a</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">p
of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">For
Adam’s sake You drove him out of Eden, Father. For </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Judah’s</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
sake Your brought chastisement in judgment. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Judgment</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
is Your strange work, and works for our good when all else fails.
Micah spoke a true word. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
4:2 (4:1-8) RESTORATION: PEACE, PROSPERITY AND POWER FOR ISRAEL.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“And many
nations shall come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his
ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
what a comforting word! After the weeping of night follows morning.
After the purging of judgment comes blessing. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
4:10 (4:9-10) RESTORATION OF TRAVAIL AND INTERCESSION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Writhe
and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you
shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall
go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem
you from the hand of your enemies.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, forgive us for ever doubting Your love and
restoration-faithfulness during the times of judgment! Your design
during such times is but to purge us, bring us to contrition and
repentance, and restore us to Your blessing once again! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
4:12 (4:11-13) RESTORATION: ISRAEL NOW AN INSTRUMENT OF JUSTICE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But they
do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his
plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
You restore us through judgment, that we might be merciful
instruments of judgment to restore others! O the depths of Your
wisdom! Your ways are past finding out! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
5:2 (5:1-6) MESSIAH: HIS FIRST AND SECONG COMING. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
you, O Bethlehem Ephratha, who are too little to be among the clans
of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in
Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Always
You have foreseen and determined the coming of Your Son </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Jesus</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
Father! He is Your instrument, Whose obedience perfected through
suffering, enables You to accomplish all You have fore-ordained! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
5:7 (5:7-15) MESSIAH: RESTORER OF ISRAEL. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Then
the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew
from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man
nor wait for the children of man.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a word of Grace: Covenant Love and Faithfulness, O Father! Your word
is more sure than the heavens! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
3:8 (3:8-12) PROPHET MICAH: </b></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">HIS
GOD-GIVEN PREPARATION. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“But
as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and
with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to
Israel his sin.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Done
through anointing and empowerment!</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “You are no Lover of Christ” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">You
are no lover of Christ if you do not love his children. As soon as
ever the heart is given to the master of the house it is given to the
children of the house. Love Christ and you will soon love all that
love him.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 88:1-2 (88) I CRY OUT DAY AND NIGHT BEFORE YOU.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“O LORD,
God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Let my
prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
Your Son Jesus shared these afflictions in common with all mankind.
In all our temptations He was afflicted even as we, yet without sin.
We </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">hallow
your :name</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
for sending such a wonderful, self-sacrificing Son! And </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
were in Him, reconciling the world unto Yourself!</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Title:
“A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">This
sad complaint reads very little like a Son, nor can we conceive how
it could be called by a name which denotes a song of praise or
triumph; yet perhaps it was intentionally so called to show how faith
“glories in tribulations also.” Assuredly, if ever there was a
song of sorrow and a Psalm of sadness, this is one.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">O Lord God
of my salvation. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">While
a man can see God as his Savior, it is not altogether midnight with
him. While the living God can be spoken of as the life of our
salvation, our hope will not quite expire. It is one of the
characteristics of true faith that she turns to Jehovah, the saving
God, when all other confidences have proved liars unto her.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I have
cried day and night before You. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Day
and night are both suitable to prayer; it is no work of darkness,
therefore let us go with Daniel and pray when men can see us; yet,
since supplication needs no light, let us accompany Jacob and wrestle
at Jabbok till the day breaks. Evil is transformed to good when it
drives us to prayer.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:4.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">I am as a
man that has no strength.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
I have but the name to live; my constitution is broken up; I can
scarce crawl about my sickroom, my mind is even weaker than my body,
and my faith weakest of all. The sons and daughters of sorrow will
need but little explanation of these sentences; they are to such
tried ones as household words.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:7.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your wrath
lies hard upon me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Dreadful
plight this, the worst in which a man can be found. Wrath is heavy in
itself; God’s wrath is crushing beyond conception, and when that
presses hard, the so</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">u</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">l
is oppressed indeed. The wrath of God is the very hell of hell, and
when it weighs upon the conscience, a man feels a torment such as
only that of damned spirits can exceed.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:8.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">You have
made me an abomination unto them. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
mass of men who gather around a man and flatter him are like tame
leopards; when they lick his hand, it is well for him to remember
that with equal gusto they would drink his blood.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:14.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Why do You
hide Your face from me? </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Will
You not so much as look upon me? Can You not afford me a solitary
smile? Why this severity to one who has in brighter days basked in
the light of Your favor? We may put these questions to our
Lord, nay, we ought to do so. It is not undue familiarity, but holy
boldness. It may help us to remove the evil which provokes the Lord
to jealousy, if we seriously beg Him to show us why He contends with
us. He cannot act towards us in other than a right and
gracious manner, therefore for every stroke of His rod there is a
sufficient reason in the judgment of His loving heart; let us try to
learn that reason and profit by it.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:15.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">While I
suffer Your terrors I am distracted. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
near akin to madness soul-depression sometimes may be it is not our
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">province
to decide; but we speak what we do know when we say that a
feather-weight might be sufficient to turn the scale at times. Thank
God, O you tempted ones who yet retain your reason! Thank him that
the devil himself cannot add that feather while the Lord stands by to
adjust all things</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">88:16.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Lover and
friend You have put far from me. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lonely
sorrow falls to the lot of not a few; let them not repine, but enter
herein into close communion with that dearest Lover and Friend Who is
never far from His tried ones.</span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none" align="LEFT">
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">(We
have not attempted to interpret this Psalm concerning our Lord, but
we fully believe that where the members are, the Head is to be seen
preeminently. To have given a double exposition under each verse
would have been difficult and confusing; we have therefore left the
Messianic references to be pointed out in the Notes, where, if God,
the Holy Spirit, be pleased to illustrate the page, we have gathered
up more than enough to lead each devout reader to behold Jesus, the
Man of sorrows and the acquaintance of grief.) </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"></p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>TO
SUBSCRIBE - Please Email: <a href="mailto:mailing-subscribe@2rbetter.org" target="_blank">mailing-subscribe@2rbetter.org</a></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>TO
UNSUBSCRIBE - Please Email: <a href="mailto:mailing-unsubscribe@2rbetter.org" target="_blank">mailing-unsubscribe@2rbetter.org</a></b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font size="3"><b>FOR
ARCHIVE ARTICLES - Web:<a href="http://2rbetter.org/pipermail/mailing/" target="_blank">http://2rbetter.org/pipermail/mailing/</a></b></font></p>