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My brother Eddie drew this picture of King and Obama... I added the bling : )
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Hello Mychurch Family...I Pray You Have A Wonderful Day!
"This is the day that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it"
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Have you entered into the comfort zone?
Today we are going to stretch our territory in faith...Later we will talk a little about the prayer of Jabez. If you are in the same place that you were in at the beginning of the year...somewhere along the line you have gotten complacent...and you have entered the comfort zone...If you don't seek God for growth, if you feel you are fine just where you are...if you feel you don't need nothing else from God regarding your spiritual life...(You have entered the comfort zone) It's no wonder why, you don't see the growth, you don't have the joy, your in lack, you still need the milk rather than the meat , because you have enter into the Comfort zone...God wants his people to have a more in-depth, meaningful, productive life in him... He came that we may have and life more abundantly(John 10;10) It was never his attention for his people to live shallow, nonproductive lives... But today we are going to break the comfort of it all....those who genuinely want more than what they have now...I ain't talkin material growth although that comes along with seeking God's kingdom first and all of his righteousness and all the other will be added.( Matthews 6:33.) I had the opportunity to share with a few people the way I've been feeling lately, and how tired that I have become of the same old,same old....Have you ever been there?... Tired of the little spurts here, and the little spurts there, tired of the whole ho-hum of it all... tired of people coming and leaving out in the same condition, tired of folks forever learning and never coming to the knowledge of God's truth... In which it caused me to look more deeply into my relationship with God...By examining myself I've now acquired a more desperate hunger for the Lord to manifest himself the more in me...A hunger for the things of God, a hunger that is so strong that it aches, a hunger that hurts...A longing that only He can satiate. A desire for him to increase my territory... to widened my courts...And I know that it is because of God's doing that I have this intense thirst to see the living God... (Psalm 42:1) As the deer panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (v2) My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God? My soul cries: Lord I'm desperate for you...Lord I'm longing for you...The Living God...I don't want a imitation or a watered down version "but I want the one and only living God...You know I don't know if I can efficiently express the hunger I have for God I just try to explain it the best way I can... I know God understands the ache that is there., because he put it there. And I know that he is going to satisfy it....For he say he satisfies the longing soul( Psalm107:9 ) Blessed is he who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.( Matthew 5:6) Ho everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and ye who have no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come , buy wine and milk without money and without price...(Isaiah 55:1)
Although the scripture say it cost no money, no price... It's gonna cost you something to receive the things of God...It cost something for the anointing of God...The price is your life... A life surrendered unto God... A life that is sold out to God...Verily, verily I say unto you Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone..." but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit(John12:24-25)(v25) He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he who hateth his life in this world shall keep unto life eternal... (Mark 8:36-37) For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul...(v37) or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthews10:37-39)He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.(v38) and he that taketh not up his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me...(v39)He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it... Which brings me to my dear brother Paul in (Philippians 3:7-10)But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.(v8)Yea doubtless,and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.(v9) And be found in him not having my own righteousness, which is the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...(v10) That I may know you in the power of your resurrection and the fellowship of his fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death...( Galatians 2:20)I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ who liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith on the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me... (Romans 12:1)Paul furthered urged his fellow brethren by the mercies of God to present their bodies a living sacrifice holy, and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.( 1Corinthians 6:20 ) For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.(1Corinthians 7:23)Ye are bought with a price; be not ye servants of men. Leaving the comfort zone: examples Abraham called to leave his familiar territory to dwell in a strange land- Genesis 12:1 ) The man at the gate called beautiful ( lame man leaving his beggarly state chose to rise and walk -Acts 3:1-10 ) Peter walking the water( Peter chose to leave the comfort of the boat and walked the water -Matthew 14:28-29 ) ( There are so many more examples throughout the bible these are to name a few... )
It's time to Launch out..."If what you've been doing is not working, if you are not moving, growing, maturing...Than it's time to do something different...even if it's a radical change...step out in faith...don't stay in your comfort zone..."but begin to tread some unfamiliar territories and see the outpouring of God's supernatural Power...
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"O MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME, AND LET US EXALT HIS NAME TOGETHER...
PSALMS 34:1
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The Work of a Prophet: Warning to God's Chosen: Amos 3:1-2 and Jeremiah 17:9-10; 23:16-18
Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Isreal, Against the the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying.... v2 - You only have I known of the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities(sins). Note here: He(the prophet) said hear the word that the Lord has spoken. Amos warned Isreal of the unset judgment of God, because of their sinfulness...
The problem our churches are having today is that men and women that are standing in the office of the prophet, and not speaking nor hearing what (thus said the Lord )We have prophets and prophetess coming out of the woodwork, prophesying thus saith the Lord which in fact He hadn't spoken it...People are flocking around such prophets, wanting to hear a word from the Lord... The prophe-lying that is going forth in our churches today is a word of prosperity,fame, they speak
things like safety which in fact God's pending judgment is at hand...They speak a prophecy from their own lustful hearts and not hearing the word from God. Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things desperately wicked, who can know it? v10. I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins even to give to every man according to his ways to the friut of his doing.
Amos heard the word that the Lord spoken against the whole family that He had chosen...Which includes his chucrh today...(we are His chosen ones)because of all their sin He was going to punish them. We are not hearing a lot of God's pending Judgment that is sure to come, because of disobedience.We do not hear a lot of ministers preaching on the coming destruction upon a sinful nation and people...We might lose a lot of money (oops! I mean people)...None the less if your the last man or woman standing...if everybody else get up and leave...You better preach the truth... Isaiah 58:1- Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumprt, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins...
Jeremiah to the lying prophets-
Jeremiah 23:16 Thus saith the Lord of Host, hearken(listen) not unto the words that the prophets, that prophecy, unto you; (prophe-lye) They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Lord. v17- They say still unto them that despise me, The lord hath said, ye shall have peace, and they say unto everyone that walketh after the imagination of their own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Here these lying prophets were speaking peace to those who hate God, those who were living sinful lives rejecting God and the salvation that he gives. they were telling these sinful people that God said they were gonna have peace and that they would not suffer the consequences of their sinful actions...(paraphrased) Instead of warning of the wrath that will come if you don't turn from your wicked ways... (Ro 6:23) For the wages of sin is death,but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
"If you are in sin there is no peace, there is no safety..If you don't turn to The Most High God...except Jesus as your Savior...you have nothing to look forward to but hell and all of it's fury... The Good Thing is that God made a way for us to escape damnation through His Son Jesus Christ It's not God's will that any man shall perish, but that all shall come to repentance... John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that He gave his only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. v17. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. Lastly: V18- For who hath stood in the councel of the Lord, and hath perceived ( grasped on to) and heard (received) His word?Who hath marked (noticed what the Lord was saying )his word, and heard it? Who has heard from the Lord? who will warn the people of the on set of my fury? Who will speak the truth Holiness or Hell? who will warn the sinful man a sinful nation of the wrath that's coming...who will hear the word that I have spoken: Saith the Lord.
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