Choosing To Have Faith In GOD
Thank you dear Lord, this morning was a great time of fellowship, sharing, and learning in Your house. I had a wonderful time; I hope you all did as well! Welcome all you visitors, I am happy you guys chose to come back and share with us! I was so so glad to see my sister and her family in attendance! I love you.
Thank you Donald, our one-man band, the song "Who Will Go Who'll Choose The Lord" was such a Joy to hear! (Not leaving Sarah or Mrs. Hess out, we love you girls and your talents are much appreciated by all!) I cannot wait to put a couple of your songs on here to share with everyone else! In addition, you might have noticed that the title of this song is the title of this weeks blog entry, how fitting and divinely choreographed! Who knew the sermon would be on this exact point? Who knew Donald would write a song this week on this same topic? God did!!!
You cannot serve 2 masters!
"No one can serve 2 masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other, you cannot serve God and mammon."
Matthew 6:24
Now what is mammon you ask? Mammon is money or wealth! Therefore, you cannot serve God and money. Well really, I never thought about anyone as serving money. However, I get it now! Not is it just saying that you are serving money, but that you are putting your faith in money, and faith in your own ability to make money. Instead what we should do as servant of Christ, put our faith in Him and His ability to provide for us! Now this makes it so much clearer!
Who will provide!
Oh my, during these times of economic downturns it is hard to be still, listen, and trust and have faith that all will be ok. Believe me, when I say that I am there with you. How after a job has been lost are we to just have faith that God will provide food, shelter and clothing for us as well as our children? How after the steady flow of money that was already so tight to begin with stops abruptly with really no foresight, are we to just have Faith that God is going to provide all the health care, medication and transportation that we need? It really seems like a seemingly crazy thing to think about, but do think about it!
God tells us to not worry! He will provide!!! Really if He says He is going to then well, He is going to. If God says for us not to worry about things of this nature, then really we should not! He gives us His word and He always fallows through! ALWAYS!!! Choose to have Faith In GOD! Choose to serve The One and Only Master! Make the conscious decision to not let worry consume you, and be a servant to the world. Choose to be a servant of JESUS CHRIST!!
"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet you heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add on cubit to his stature?"
Matthew 6:25-27
Cliff Hanger!
A couple of weeks back Brother Larry described an event that I thought gave a startling look at a mans life in today’s times. A man whose master is mammon, clinging to everything he has built, a home, a career, a family, his own sense of his place in the world. Literally clinging, hanging on by white knuckles. his arms beginning to tremble and shake from the weight of his body. Sweat dripping from his brow, eyes darting to and fro looking for a way to hold on. His mind reeling at his astonished realization, that his faith in money has lead him to ruins. He is unable to let go and reach out for any assistance, no one waiting on the edge to pull him to safety. Crying, screaming in utter helplessness the man has no choice, he lets go. Lets go of all that he thought sustained him, all the prideful things that he thought fulfilled him and he fell. Fell in to God's Grace! He put his faith in the Lord! Can you not just envision this, with so many men and women losing their jobs, over 100,000 just last week alone! Their downward spiral is happening as we sit here. Pray for them, their families, and their hearts, to come to peace in the Lord and let them feel the joy that can only come from Jesus!
GOD your Master Will Provide!
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you the even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, oh you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? For after all these things the gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the
Matthew 6:28-34
Behold and Consider what you have.
Yes, no matter it seems the amount of faith and trust I think I have I still worry. I am still growing, my faith still growing, my trust still growing. I pray that one day I can just wake up with no worries. How can I do this? How can I accomplish this goal of leading a worry free life? Really it is very simple, Just place faith and trust in Jesus, let the Spirit indwell in us, listen and obey what He says! So, I will continue to behold, or look intensely at what Gods word says and what he is saying to me. I will consider what I have been given, my abilities my talents that he blessed me with. I will overcome trials and hardships through Christ Jesus, and be thankful in all that he gives. There will always be trials! I will take up roots where I have been placed. I will continue to strive to put my relationship with Jesus 1st in all that I do! I will acknowledge that I cannot handle anything without Him. I will continue to believe that I am not alone in my struggle; Jesus walks with me hand in hand. For God our Heavenly Father cares for all of us Much More! He cares for us more than for the birds and more than for the lilies for through no effort of their own, but by the Grace of God they are still alive and as a beautiful as ever!
"Who will Go? Who'll Choose The Lord"? Me! I will choose the Lord, my God! He is my Master!
I choose to JUST SERVE JESUS!
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