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The Walk We are on (Bible Study) the road https://youtube/watch?v=Sol9xZChZ_0 old dirt roads https://youtube/watch?vuRcBRC6jxQ Jesus Walks https://youtube/watch?v=MYF7H_fpc-g how great Thou art https://youtube/watch?v=5xAGZo5_OjI Good evening, hope this week finds you doing well and blessed in God. For me, well this week Ive had things on my mind. Important things, things a man should consider, but thats the walk were on. And thats what we are supposed to be ready for. As some of you may know, I am newly ordained after spending a great deal of time trying to convince God, not me, You got the wrong guy. Well, so throw me in the same lot with Jonah and the same lot with Moses. But yeah, I couldnt believe, or I didnt want to believe that someone like me, God would call. As it would so happen, a dear friend of mine, has suggested to me, as I start my ministry that prison ministry could be my calling. And I could kind of agree with that, I didnt argue with it. Is any of this ringing a bell with you on any of your walks? Or am I the only one? Could just be me, I dont know. But I get the feeling that Im not the only one, that has been there. Last weekend, on Facebook, I was blessed to meet a lady from my childhood. A women, I think so highly of, that I called momma. My best friends momma. She and I and he and I, have went our separate ways over the years, lost touch. So that was a happy moment. Whats not a happy moment for me personally, is my best friend in high school, made some bad choices. And it looks like the first person in prison that I will minister to is my best friend. What makes him any different from me? Really? As the old saying goes, we were two peas in a pod. Although his mother swears up and down that I was hard headed, and I just cant see that. Why am I here now talking to you about God, when my best friend is in prison? Mom gave me a mailing address to write my friend. I talk to people all the time about God, Im blunt with it when it needs to be blunt, concerned when it needs to be concerned. I have spent days thinking on what to write in this letter. See this ones personal. This ones to my best friend. Have you ever been there in your walk? But nonetheless, I understand why God started this phase of my walk, here. See to God, were all personal to Him. Each and everyone of us. Even the ones that will reject Him and never accept Him. God has written the same letter to Him as He did to you. But my best friend, I dont know where he stands with God. But I want to help him. God knows where you stand with Him. And God wants to help you anyway. In fact He did, 2014 years ago. Have you ever been at this point in your walk? It has been said, with great knowledge comes great sorrow. This is true. But allow me to ask you this, should not our witness be this personal all the time? Now I know only God can pull that off, but this teaching is for your growing in God. Should not our witness, be personal? Lets look at Gods Word. John 3:16-17 Amplified Bible (AMP) 16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([a]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. Note here, Gods love is just for, everyone. Not the people you agree with, not the people you like, not the people who did no wrong in your eyes, but everyone. So as we walk in Christ, this is how we learn to be, this is how we grow in Christ. This is part of the walk, some learn this faster than others, but it is our driving force. If witnessing Christ, to an unsaved person is not important to the point, that it bothers you when they dont get it, there is something wrong. I once read, on a forum, a person that claimed to be Christian say they were looking forward to laughing at the souls in hell. Well my brothers and sisters, most of those souls in hell are the ones we failed. Are the ones we couldnt write the correct letter to. So to laugh at them, is to laugh at us failing God. So again, I ask you, where are you on your walk? And I do not ask you that to come down on you, I have been lesser places in my walk. I ask you that to help you up, in your walk. To encourage you to think about where you are. See the truth is, I concluded we write letters all the time. And who really likes the standardized form letter, with the fake signature at the end? I dont know about you, but I throw that crap in the trash. We need to grow in our walk to where even when were saying, you were wrong, were saying it to our best friend. And the signature at the end of the letter is very real. I love Psalm 1 for this. Nothing can take the me out of the equation better than Psalm 1. When I need to remind myself, its not about me this is what I read to myself. Psalm 1:1-2 Amplified Bible (AMP) Psalm 1[a] 1 Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. 2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. In closing, I know the letter I have to write to my friend, its nothing special. Its a letter, Ive been learning to write for some time now. And I know, whatever the reply may or may not be, the letter was what needed to be written. Because I will write a letter that says John 3:16 and John 3:17. And if my best friend has already accepted Christ as his Lord, those are sweet words to him. And if my friend has not, but wants to, those are sweet words to him. If my friend, cannot accept those words; those are sweet words to me. I have laid the greatest gift I have at the feet of my best friend. This is where I want you to be on your walk. Not in me, not in my church, but in your God. And I can say that because I have fell short of that, and I know what its like. Good day. Why me Lord https://youtube/watch?v=g2u_rEcWW8M
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:20:54 +0000

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