How does God discipline and chastise?

Many people pray asking God for help to stop the hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc not knowing it is GOD who is sending the hurricane, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc. It is God who withholds the rain. It is God who sends the drought. It is God who gives permission for the natural calamities. The only way we are going to stop it is if HIS people humble themselves and REPENT!

Christians must understand what God is capable of allowing when He sends judgment on His people who are rebellious and blind. It is HE who sends the famine or abundance. Understand HIM when He says My Ways are HIGHER. Ask HIM to search your hearts! For He is coming to judge His House. Most Christians have no idea what God does when He disciplines His own. Read your bible and learn what God is capable of allowing and sending!!

Leviticus 26 13- I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should no more be slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect [as free men].14But if you will not hearken to Me and will not do all these commandments,15And if you spurn and despise My statutes, and if your soul despises and rejects My ordinances, so that you will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,16I will do this: I will appoint over you [sudden] terror (trembling, trouble), even consumption and fever that consume and waste the eyes and make the [physical] life pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.17I [the Lord] will set My face against you and [a]you shall be defeated and slain before your enemies; they who hate you shall rule over you; you shall flee when no one pursues you.18And if in spite of all this you still will not listen and be obedient to Me, then I will chastise and discipline you seven times more for your sins.19And I will break and humble your pride in your power, and I will make your heavens as iron [yielding no answer, no blessing, no rain] and your earth [as sterile] as brass. 20And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.21If you walk contrary to Me and will not heed Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.22I will loose the wild beasts of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few so that your roads shall be deserted and desolate.23If by these means you are not turned to Me but determine to walk contrary to Me,24I also will walk contrary to you, and I will smite you seven times for your sins. 25And I will bring a sword upon you that shall execute the vengeance [for the breaking] of My covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of the enemy. 26When I break your staff of bread and cut off your supply of food, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread and deliver it again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.27And if in spite of all this you will not listen and give heed to Me but walk contrary to Me,28Then I will walk contrary to you in wrath, and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.29You shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.30And I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your sun-images, and throw your dead bodies upon the [wrecked] bodies of your idols, and My soul shall abhor you [with deep and unutterable loathing].31I will lay your cities waste, bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet and soothing odors [of offerings made by fire].32And I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.33I will scatter you among the nations and draw out [your enemies'] sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste.34Then shall the land [of Israel have the opportunity to] enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, to enjoy and receive payments for its sabbaths [divinely ordained for it].35As long as it lies desolate and waste, it shall have rest, the rest it did not have in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.36As for those who are left of you, I will send dejection (lack of courage, a faintness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to hasty and tumultuous flight, and they shall flee as if from the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.37They shall stumble over one another as if to escape a sword when no one pursues them; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.38You shall perish among the nations; the land of your enemies shall eat you up.39And those of you who are left shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away like them.
40But if they confess their own and their fathers' iniquity in their treachery which they committed against Me--and also that because they walked contrary to Me
41I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies--if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they then accept the punishment for their iniquity,42Then will I [earnestly] remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham, and [earnestly] remember the land.

Amos 4:6-13 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.7And also I withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest. I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city; one piece of ground was rained upon, and the piece upon which it did not rain withered.8So [the people of] two or three cities wandered and staggered into one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.9I smote you with blight [from the poisonous east wind] and with mildew; I laid waste the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards; your fig trees and your olive trees the palmerworm [a form of locust] devoured; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.10I have sent among you the pestilence [which I made] epidemic in Egypt; your young men I slew with the sword and I took into exile your horses, and I made the stench of your camp come up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.11I have overthrown some among you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.12Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!13For behold, He Who forms the mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what is his thought, Who makes the morning darkness and treads on the heights of the earth--the Lord, the God of hosts, is His name!

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