FEAR AND WORRY!

"Therefore take no thought saying, WHAT SHALL WE EAT? or, WHAT SHALL WE DRINK? or, WHERE WITHAL SHALL WE BE CLOTHED?...Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things" Matthew 6:31-32. My friend, Satan has a double barrel weapon which he uses to destroy you. He uses WORRY AND FEAR. We fear rejection, so we follow the crowd, we fear not fitting in so we take drug, we fear of sleeping alone so we sleep with any one, we fear of not being loved so we search for love in all wrong places and on and on- you fill in the blank... Do you know what is Panic attack? The stress of life, the worries and concerns, the things carried around in a person's heart and mind, will reach a point where they actually cause the body to go into physical distresses, the heart rate and body temperature go crazy, even causing heart attack. Brother, I think I diagnosed the problem. Now my suggestions for you to make changes in your life are: 1) Don't add more things when you have full schedule. 2) Don't subtract God's presence from your crisis. 3) Don't multiply your problem by inserting your solutions 4) Don't divide your life into secular and sacred. NOW OUR GOD IS IN CHARGE MAN, YES HE IS. RELAAAAAAAX. HE CARES FOR YOU!!!

BROKENNESS!

"My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit"...Psalms 51:17. My friend, God wants to lift you up and that is His desire about you! He wants to lift you up in your studies, in your job, in your business. You may be saying "I have not found blessings in all that I do, everything that I do get hindered..waiting for profit ends in loss..thought you had a good relationship but cheated, expected great things from your children and they have gone astray.. everything I took ended incomplete? There can be loneliness of the rich as well as poor, to the King and to the peasant- there are days when the singer has no song and the musicians has no music- yes, yes, Occasions arise in our life that sadden the most buoyant and dampen the hope of the most hopeful. But my dear remember the promise from our Lord "I am with you always"..that lifts spirit of the sorrowful and encourages the downhearted. Isn't that right? BUT WORLD THAT CELEBRATES SUCCESS DOESN'T SEE THE VALUE IN BROKEN THINGS! But our God brings beauty out of Brokenness. Let me explain to you, can I? For a plant to rise from the soil the seed must be broken. For a baby chick to experience larger life the shell must be broken. Even a thoroughbred horse must be broken; it must learn to respond to the tug and the sound of his master's voice, right? Are you getting what I am telling you. In another words "Brokenness is the work of God by which He strips us of self-sufficiency and pride so that the character of Christ may shine through us". So my dear, ENDURE IT, GO THROUGH IT, PRAISE GOD THROUGH IT--HE IS TAKING YOU SOMEWHERE IN YOUR LIFE! Y'ALL HEAR ME??

Cpmplaints, Complaints!!

"For I have learned by experience"...Genesis 30:27. Yes, YES, I have learned a lot in my life as a leader and minister for the last 38 years. My friend, you want me to share some of them? Okay! Some people are against everything- This keeps them from having to assume the responsibility of launching out. There are others who are against any improvement unless they get the honor of thinking first. Their pride demands that they be first- or NOT AT ALL. Some have too much pride to ever change. They say two plus two is five, for them it will always be five. Some complaints will come from those who are often unhappy and simply have a complaining spirit. THEY EVEN SAY THERE IS NO SALT IN THIS BANANA WHILE THEY EATING IT. Others will present complaints regarding matters about which they have little or no information. In any case, my brother, NEVER SHOULD THEY LEAVE US DEPRESSED. A church is simply a group of called-out people who feel some form of ownership. Christians are sinners but forgiven, right? A friend of mine who is a Bible College graduate told me "I want to be a pastor of a big church, but I don't like people". Don't quit man, use this occasion as an opportunity to either grow ourselves or to help the complainer grow in Christlikeness. Ohh, by the way, I am not talking about your church or people you know, I am talking about people in Iceland, Ha Ha Ha .