~ When a message or a pastor on any given day presents the word of God.. don’t look for some new and exotic adventure to ponder as tho tickling your ears is the point of assembling as the Church. Rather, soak up every drop that is the word of God and allow it to cleanse you from decay, to sure up the foundation of your faith and your witness.. and to equip you to prove faithful when the miraculous appears in due season.
There is no such thing as not getting anything from a message.. not as long as the word of God is taught in context.. if such a thing runs thru your mind, it is a sure sign that you needed that exact message. You needed a cleansing, a return to the sure and solid simplicity of Christ that washes away all discontent and selfishness.. that corrects the drift and brings you back to center.. to the Truth and Beauty of our God.
There is no such thing as not getting anything from a message.. not as long as the word of God is taught in context.. if such a thing runs thru your mind, it is a sure sign that you needed that exact message. You needed a cleansing, a return to the sure and solid simplicity of Christ that washes away all discontent and selfishness.. that corrects the drift and brings you back to center.. to the Truth and Beauty of our God.
~ If we fail to discipline our physical man, if we choose to be discontent because we are bored or spiritually gluttonous, if we refuse to cleanse our spirit man regularly by washing in the basics of our faith.. we allow decay to cause the Truth of God in our hearts and minds and lives to gradually drift from the mark. Such a drift moves us to a place that reflects nothing that Jesus spoke or demonstrated. When the basic message of the Gospel seems small to us and we fail to appreciate the beauty of it.. we miss the miracle of the simplicity of Christ and the Gospel, and we allow failure to walk thru the door without knocking.
~ As Christians we can never hear the basics of the Gospel message enough.. sometimes it is tempting to feel that we just didn’t get anything from a specific message or pastor.. but the truth of the matter is that soaking up the basics on a regular basis is essential to the health and life and well being of every follower of Christ.. no matter how newly saved or how long you have walked this road..... think of it like brushing your teeth. If you neglect such a basic regular act.. decay will quickly set in.
Such is true for our physical man.. as well as our spiritual well being. If we fail to regularly soak up the basics of the Gospel, we open the door for decay to eat away at the foundation of our faith.. that decay will quickly lead to the utter collapse of our faith and commitment to Christ as well as the collapse of our witness to others.
Such is true for our physical man.. as well as our spiritual well being. If we fail to regularly soak up the basics of the Gospel, we open the door for decay to eat away at the foundation of our faith.. that decay will quickly lead to the utter collapse of our faith and commitment to Christ as well as the collapse of our witness to others.
~ Just came to mind how that the enemy tries so desperately to discredit the Bible and to remove it from our society or our hearing or the hearing of our children. He knows that without the foundation of the truths of the Word of God, we become spiritually sick and full of decay and weak. Easy prey for the devourer. Praise God for his mercy and his hedge that he keeps around all who seek his face, Praise to our God who guards his word and promises that it will not return void but will accomplish all and with power when the spirit of God brings it to our remembrance and we speak it forth in faith and declaration <3
