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We all long to experience an encounter with God. There are hundreds of books and videos out there proclaiming to know ways how we can, but what if …. we already have? If we take the time to reflect on our lives, allowing God’s voice to resonate in our hearts, we will hear, “Remember when you prayed about this? I honored that.” It is then we realize that our encounter… was in that answered prayer.
Solomon’s Prayer
When Solomon was a young man, inexperienced and vulnerable, he came to God, pleading for wisdom and guidance. God honored Solomon’s prayer, and in due time, He reminded him that his prayer was remembered, honored, and answered. The Lord showed him all he had accomplished in his time as king, all he had built, attained and conquered. God was reminding him that it was all because He had answered Solomon’s prayers and would continue to honor him as long as he continued to walk before God in integrity, faithfulness, and uprightness.
1 Kings 9:3-5 — “The LORD said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.”
The Building
After that life-changing encounter with God, the Bible says Solomon went on to
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