Sunday_Service

Dear Heavenly Father, We all come to you this day to worship you, to love you, and to express our love to all others about your Son Jesus. Please cast away all fears, let your Holy Spirit come into our hearts this day, as we read or listen to your word , come upon us O’ God, change our hearts, open up our minds, open up our eyes, open up our ears, so we can hear and understand, and to learn to truth of your word. In Jesus Holy Name, Amen

So let us begin, in this verse are we fearful, or cowardly? Do we have any fears? This is for all of us, yes Christians, all of us, are we worrying about paying the bills, are we worrying about how are we going to pay for the credit cards, are we worrying on what or how much food we should buy. Are our lives are rapped around fear? There are some people I know that are afraid to walk even out of there house, there are people afraid of the dark, there are people that fear the word cancer. People are afraid of heights, people are afraid of all different kinds of things.

What other fears do we have? Are we afraid of keeping our jobs, the raise that everyone wants, how are we going to send our kids to school, are they dressing in the proper attire. What other kinds of fears do we have? , How many out there don’t want to sit in a dentist chair? How can we be afraid of anything, the battle against good and evil has been already won, and if God will supply all our needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus, Phil. 4:19 then why are we are we afraid? Also; For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6 Many are afraid of finances and money, what about our faith? This is our victory, our faith, if we don’t have faith in our Lord what do we have? Faith in what, faith in money, our jobs, our bank accounts, faith in our income, what if all of that was taken away?

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this that He has testified concerning His Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son.

And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.1John 5:4-12

And we know that some of us that are listening today have lost everything more than once, some of us out there have nothing at all, maybe a roof over their heads, or even a cave to live in, this is a world wide church, we are not to think within ourselves, we are to compare ourselves with each other as a whole, on a wider scale, and try to share what we have with each other. There is so many things going on in this world that none of us even know about, how other people live and how they survive. Fear is something we all have to work at, we don’t just receive it when we get saved we have to work at it, like in Rom. 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. And 2Coth 5:17, Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

We are being changed day by day and it takes time for each one of us, and each and every one in a different way, and at different times. Some have to be afraid of how much water they drink, and if there is any more at the well, or how far do we have to go to get more, most of the people of this world go to the sink and turn it on, and others may have to drive miles, even in this country. I new a lot of the American Indians that got all new pickups if there water supply was more than 3000 yards away, or some certain distance, from were they lived. I know back in the mid 70’s we got a lot of rides through the deserts and open plains in these pickups; it was an interesting journey, and a life of sharing. In some other countries some have to walk miles to get their water and their water is not the cleanest. Others have to buy drinking water, because there water supply is from the rain. So a lot of us take things for granted, we have to get rid of all fear and worry, if we are cowards in this life, we will not make it into heaven, I started doing a lot of research on fear, we battle in a different kind of way in Eph. 6:12 says For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

And some of you get so afraid losing your stuff and possessions, you start thinking or planning in your minds of carrying out your things, or how am I going to sell all this stuff, before you even loose your house! These are some of the lies and fears that the evil one is putting into our minds. So you don’t enjoy the time you have, as you do live in your house. Some are even planning to get a storage place to keep just stuff, before it even happens! God is a God of love, and He is not going to let any of us down. It is the fear that Satan puts into our minds, a fear that doesn’t even exist. So we have to fight back,

Most of the time people that put things in storage that can’t afford to take them, they end up loosing them, they might move far away or close by, and end up not being able to keep up the payments, and all these certain things are lost. Just like all these pawn shops, the same thing, might happen, I guess once you have experienced it you have that fear back in your past, but our minds are being renewed day by day, by the Spirit of the Living God. Well if you don’t take these possessions with you, they aren’t so precious to us in the first place The Lord and His love, are the most important things we should always carry. We also have our bibles and maybe our pictures of memories, are clothes, and maybe some small items like jewelry or some knick-knacks, are maybe the close things to us, and they are usually carried along with ourselves. I know I carried a 60 pound back pack for about 8-9 years, crossing this country about 13 times, you had your bible and your house with you, which was your tent and sleeping bag, pictures of some family, and cooking or camping gear, and most of the time with me a musical instrument, so you can sing together or play the tunes way up on the mountains, or forests, or deserts or where ever. I remember days sitting in all of the national parks and just strumming on the old 12 sting singing some songs, and it sounded so wonderful, you would here the running streams and the wind, and you would see the flicker of all the little campfires in the area. Nothing was like it, I was truly being with God, no worries, no fears, there was peace, and hope freedom and love, I miss those days, I had less fear then, when I had nothing, than I do now having a vehicle, and a house to keep up, and now the church and the office, and the computer systems and all these other gadgets that, you have to keep payments up on or you lose them. Some people don’t ever enjoy having the things they have, because they are always worried about losing them, or it will be taken away, or they will have to be sold or pawned. There are many people that live in fear just like this. God gave us all these things for us to help others, and to make better people within ourselves,

It is amazing how our personalities change when we do have to move, it is starting over. I have moved so many times, to so many different places, and most of the time I had to leave a lot of things. This move to Hawaii you would not believe what I left behind this time, but the thing about it if you keep your faith and God always gives things back, and they are always better, so my bothers and sisters keep that in mind always. I had many good years just to be out there on the open road with nothing, but what I had on my back. I guess for me it was the greatest part of my life; some people would say how do you do it? How come you never settled down anywhere, what did Jesus tell us in the great commission in Mark 16:15-18,

Go to all the world, well that is what this church now is doing, I got a letter in the mail today that this group needs people in Pakistan to lead in bible studies, a whole ministry within itself, maybe that will be our next project. There are many people in this country that stay in the same area, and have there kids, and there kids stay in the same area for all of there lives, and they might take that so called vacation, and go somewhere else for a couple of weeks and they end up back in the same town, never really meeting or getting on the inside of people’s hearts of where they went. We need to get out there and reach as many people as we can for the Love of Christ, we have to go places that no one has heard of the Lord. Are we doing this? No, we work in the same place, go to church in the same place, and stay in contact with the same people mostly all the time. Some people stay in the same town or city for there whole lives, and some of these cities and towns are not to pleasant anymore. But then they would say our family is here our friends are here, why go anywhere else? Fear! We are to be out there preaching to word of Christ to different people everywhere, and there are many people that can do that, they could be standing in a check out line at the store and say something like Jesus was good to me today with a stranger, and be able to witness, and right there in there home town, which is great. I know a lot of people that can do that, but are we all doing that? Or are we going to church and talking small talk, or talking about someone else’s faults, or other problems. Are we building the body of Christ, or are we are not? We see the same people day after day, week after week, year after year. When are we going to follow Christ’s lead, and do what we have to do to complete His will and objective, we need to get up off the couch, and out there and if we don’t, we are not doing what he asked us to do.

We need to get out of the rut Satan wants to keep us in. We need to move around a little, the more people that you meet, the more you learn, just think of all the things that you could pick up foods, languages, cultures, backgrounds, personality’s, and traditions, it is all a learning process, for both parties. The more people you met and get to know the more you are able to branch out and spread the word and your knowledge grows and your discernment grows, and your faith grows. We should not stay in the same house and the same town our whole lives; we have to follow the directions of Jesus Christ. I’m not saying everyone should get up and move, but consider it, or think on how you can branch out other ways, like what I am doing now, with this church. Letters, emails, phone calls are all ways of getting the word of our Lord out there to others.

Dear Father, thank you for all things, thank you for this church, and the ability to reach the far ends of the earth, for Your glory, and to spread the knowledge and love of your Son, and your Word, and what you have provided for us, and how you have protected us, and cared for us, even when we don’t realize that you are there at all times , may it be in a storm, or just a cloudy day, but you are always there for us all, bringing us light and love and truth, In Jesus Name, Amen