Good morning everyone welcome to The Church Ministries 81st Sunday Service, well we are all well on our way to our 2 year anniversary which will be in August. The plans all came from the Lord and we didn’t have our first Sunday sermon until Dec. 14th 03. Our prayer ministry has been going strong, but the attacks have been getting heavy I prayed and walked and I walked and I prayed on Friday searching for an answer from the Lord. We have now such an obligation that we are spreading all of our prayers with education on many key points, mixed in with our regular prayers so many others can use them to teach others on the Love of God, discipleship and evangelism which many of our brother and sister churches and ministries are using to educate the different inner lands of India and Africa. Praise God for the internet, and the ability to share what God inspired me to write and we are all able to share so many things with so many others, which is good to edify and pray and have a mixture of teaching biblical principals that we can share with the rest of the world, so at least we are out there with this computer and Church following the great commission, even though I have been so sick and week I still can get out there deep into the unchartered villages, which makes me feel there is a divine purpose to The Church Ministries. We are still in partnership with world evangelism with the Double Edged Sword Ministry and we also need to pray for Pastor Andru Vijay Kumar and his congregation because the school and the congregation has been writing prayer requests and even the children from the school are writing, it seems Pastor was in a bad accident and we are all asking for everyone’s prayers. Also we need prayer for ASP Fred Nero of the United Christian Faith Ministries and his wife Bishop Shirl they are going through a tough time now that Fred just got out of the hospital with no more cancer and he has to go through more chemo you will find the story on the church needs and goals page so congregation please pray from them and there family. We also need to pray for our sister Joanna Cody who is a nurse in Buffalo, NY and she is getting tormented by spiritual warfare and the institution is trying to fire her for praying with and for her patients, unbelievable for the second time, unreal things are just keep happening to the beautiful Christians of this world, we also need prayer for my Doctor Yvonne for the healing of her detached retina. So Church please pray for us all.
Other news I have added two more links to the Index page and one we have a map of Israel which is so accurate and precise and all in flash so this is by far the best like we have of the homeland of our Savior and it breaks all the attractions and parks and cities down to the history and with pictures and the story behind it, very intense, also I added a wonderful presentation of the Christ or they call it the Kristo very heavy flash video one of the best plus for the 4th of July they have a special presentation with an interview with Jesus link, you need to check all three of those out.
So the church is growing in education and others from far away places are beginning to take notice. We still don’t sell anything on this website so we don’t get up there in the most clicks this is just our Church giving our hearts which we are now expanding to missions and prayer. We also added a few pages to the church so you all can get some idea what kind of prayers we are sending out to the world and still we are affiliated to many prayer networks and I haven’t even sat down to count them but it doesn’t really matter as long as we can still write and send and show scripture and love and compassion where it is needed we feel blessed to be able to serve. We also wish to thank the Spiritual Warfare Prayer Warriors network because much of the staff has been helping me with there prayers and added extras like poems and good reading on faith and healing and the love of Christ. And they are helping me along with so many other networks and single people because this week I sent out a prayer for myself and I was over whelmed with the responses and it brought me much joy and faith and fellowship which I really need at this time, because I could not even get in to see my doctor. Anyway church we have some good news I received a phone call from our sister in the real estate field and she found a house for me on the beach somewhere close by and it is a friend through a friend deal which might save the church and my thinking and my health, ever since this moving thing stared I have lost more weight and don’t feel like eating when I am praying and shedding tears at the same time, I have been pretty much upset and confused and we all know where that is coming from, so I am still waking up with the sword of the spirit rebuking evil thoughts and feelings and it has been a war. At least we don’t expect The Church Ministries to be out on the streets by the 21st of this month, but praise the Lord and in all His goodness and I do thank you for all your prayers, bless you all, God always comes through when you need Him. So keep your prayers coming and we need to add some pray to Rev. Dr Jacob Cracko for the missions work he is doing in the A&N Islands in India, he is part of the reconstruction team that is helping with the relief of the people and now he is teaching the women to sew and he is about to get about 20 new sewing machines so he can have classes and maybe next a whole outfit that makes clothes for the people that lost everything during the Tsunami disaster, and he is out there getting people back on there feet again, he has been a good friend and a main member of this Church, There is so many more people I would like to mention but we need to worship and praise the Lord.
Dear Heavenly Father, We are all gathered here today and any day to worship you with our assembly stretched out all over the world we are here to praise you and to shout the Name of the Lord, we lift our eyes to the heavens, for that is where our help comes from and our blessings and our Love it comes from You Father. We cannot express how much you have given us all, with so many blessings and love to us all, you are a mighty God, you have given us now direction and something to look forward to, I thank you, I wish The Church Ministries could go into all the towns and villages some day, I just need to be healed of this affliction. Lord we are just going to sit her in silence and wait for you to answer us, let us all stand up and say load we love you Lord. Common Church loader on three one two three “We Love You Lord” now how many people heard Him say I love you too, I know many of you have, because I have done this exact thing before and I did here the Lord say I love you too. We want You to know that we all love You and we all ask for your forgiveness of all our sins and some of the times this past week some of us have lost a little faith including myself, and that is a sin. We can’t let the devil take away our faith or our testimony that is what he wants, so we just have to keep praising the Lord. Some of us this week have lost a bit of trust and we went out to seek other opinions when that is just not needed Lord you are our all in all, and we are still surrounded by earthly flesh and we do make mistakes and we do sin and we all get weak, so Father please forgive us please let us be renewed and prosper. We all have been under the guns of Satan maybe not all of us well if your not maybe there is something wrong, because if your not under attack you don’t pose a big enough threat, so you review what you have done this past week and figure out how many people that you helped and how many others you prayed for and so on, we know that doing good deeds is not going to help our salvation but God likes a cheerful giver and He likes when we can help others, don’t we all feel good when someone helps us when we really need it? We have or some of us have been fighting spiritual warfare and we are at war against Satan and his agents or his demons, this is no game this is for real and some of us are inflicted with much pain may it be physical or emotional or deep down in our souls, we all need to be revived so let us all praise the Lord and get refreshed , It used to bother me when I would walk out of a church building and feel worse off then I did before I went in, now what does that tell you, it tells you a lot. Lord we know you have ultimate control and we love You , Jesus be close to us all, please be apart of this congregation of truth, we need You here with us all, please sit beside us, please rest with us, Jesus none of this could have been possible without You, You are our true Shepard and we want to follow Your lead, and we want to know more about You, Your thoughts and thinking we all want to share Your mind and learn what Your thinking so we can be better people and closer friends, we want to imitate You, without You dear Jesus we are nothing, and if You are here we have a complete body, a complete body of believers and a complete body of the church, and a complete body of Christ. Please stay with us Jesus. Dear Holy Spirit we humbly ask if you can spread Your anointing around to all the different people far away and close by, on top of a mountain or in the dry desert, in the city, or way deep in the forest. Please guide this assembly in purity and in peace. Thank you all, we are so fortunate to have You all with us we all love you all, In Jesus Name, Amen
What a mighty God we serve, I Paul can cheer and feel the power of our Lord Jesus. Hail the Father the Lord thy God of heaven and earth that gives us all things even when we feel alone and suffering He is still right here to comfort us all. I am a sinner that needs to repent, I ask all of you today to look at yourselves and to examine what each of you are doing for the Lords glory. Let us observe our creation and listen
Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made." Isa. 43:7 NASB
For I am ready to set things right, not in the distant future, but right now! I am ready to save Jerusalem and give my glory to Israel. Isa. 46:13 NLT
We know much about the book of Isaiah about the future and deliverance, the prophecy of when we will all live with God in perfect peace. As we worship God the life and breath that made us all for His glory and His companionship. We all know that the time is now that we will share the present needs. His righteousness is upon us, and we don’t have to wait for His future Salvation, His presence and Love is right here now, right at the door. God made us to worship Him and we are to be His children. He wants to share our lives now .
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:5-6 NASB
Remember my dear brothers and sisters we all want to enter into the kingdom, but we can’t enter by living a better life, but we must be spiritual reborn. We are to concentrate on the importance of the Holy Spirit, The Holy Spirit was available to us after Christ descended back into Heaven as the physical presence of Our Lord left us, He made His promise that He would not leave us as orphans, so He left His spiritual presence, which is The Holy Spirit and still His presence would still be with us and among us the gift to the human race. So, no matter what we are suffering we have The Lord with us, always, we may think we are alone, but we are not. We walk by faith not by sight; we do not have to see a spirit to know that He is there. We know the Godhead is amongst us and with us. So what more do we need. You all know I am faced with many attacks and persecutions, so we have to all turn things around, we cannot be worrying about what we cannot do, we need to focus on what God can do in all our situations. We are to turn to God first for all our needs; we have to fill our hearts with Him not of things of this world. We are to serve Him and Glorify Him that is why He made and created each of us.
We have to declare in our minds, souls and hearts what is really most important. We know we like in a fallen world of pain, schedules, payments, things that we need to exist. We should focus on God first we cannot let anything stand in the way of our love of our creator. God made us Christ came to save and heal us, and The Holy Spirit is to comfort and guide you. We should live our lives full of thanksgiving not murmuring or complaining that will never please God. Look at what happened to the Israelites in the wilderness, it was there complaining that brought many to their death, we have to trust Our God and never murmur or complain. I who am chief of all sinners, I to have been murmuring and complaining and today is the day we all stop complaining. Dear congregation let us never complain or be unhappy with what The Lord has given us. As we go over the book of Numbers 11:1
The people soon began to complain to the LORD about their hardships; and when the LORD heard them, his anger blazed against them. Fire from the LORD raged among them and destroyed the outskirts of the camp. The people screamed to Moses for help; and when he prayed to the LORD, the fire stopped. After that, the area was known as Taberah--"the place of burning"--because fire from the LORD had burned among them there. (Num. 11:1-3)
The Israelites complained about their hardships instead, they should have been praying to God about them and what happened, thousands were destroyed when God sent a plague of fires as a punishment 11:4 they were not happy enough that they had manna, they wanted meat, God sent quail and as they began to eat a plaque came and killed many.
Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt, and the people of Israel also began to complain. "Oh, for some meat!" they exclaimed. "We remember all the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt. And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic that we wanted. But now our appetites are gone, and day after day we have nothing to eat but this manna!" The manna looked like small coriander seeds, pale yellow in color. The people gathered it from the ground and made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like they had been cooked in olive oil. The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night. Moses heard all the families standing in front of their tents weeping, and the LORD became extremely angry. Moses was also very aggravated. And Moses said to the LORD, "Why are you treating me, your servant, so miserably? What did I do to deserve the burden of a people like this? Are they my children? Am I their father? Is that why you have told me to carry them in my arms--like a nurse carries a baby--to the land you swore to give their ancestors? Where am I supposed to get meat for all these people? They keep complaining and saying, `Give us meat!' I can't carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy! I'd rather you killed me than treat me like this. Please spare me this misery!" (Num. 11:4-14 NLT)
Now the LORD sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall into the camp and all around it! For many miles in every direction from the camp there were quail flying about three feet above the ground. So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels! They spread the quail out all over the camp. But while they were still eating the meat, the anger of the LORD blazed against the people, and he caused a severe plague to break out among them. So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah--"the graves of craving"--because they buried the people there who had craved meat from Egypt. From there the Israelites traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed for some time. (Num. 11:31-35 NLT)
14:1-4 The constant complaining about being stuck in the wilderness wanting to return to Egypt and the murmuring of battling the giants in the promised land, they rebelled against Gods leaders and did not trust in the Lords promises, we all know they that complained were not about to enter into the land of milk and honey. They were all doomed in the wilderness to wander until death.
Then all the people began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. Their voices rose in a great chorus of complaint against Moses and Aaron. "We wish we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!" they wailed. "Why is the LORD taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and little ones will be carried off as slaves! Let's get out of here and return to Egypt!" Then they plotted among themselves, "Let's choose a leader and go back to Egypt!" (Numbers 14:1-4 NLT)
16:3 People questioned Moses and Aarons authority and leadership. So they became greedy, so they could have power and authority and what happened to them. It starts with the destruction off the leader Koraa then Dathan and Abbiram all their friends and families were swallowed up by the earth. The fire burned up 250 other men which stood in the same rebellion.
One day Korah son of Izhar, a descendant of Kohath son of Levi, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, from the tribe of Reuben. They incited a rebellion against Moses, involving 250 other prominent leaders, all members of the assembly. They went to Moses and Aaron and said, "You have gone too far! Everyone in Israel has been set apart by the LORD, and he is with all of us. What right do you have to act as though you are greater than anyone else among all these people of the LORD?" (Num. 16:1-3 NLT)
One day Korah son of Izhar, a descendant of Kohath son of Levi, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, from the tribe of Reuben. They incited a rebellion against Moses, involving 250 other prominent leaders, all members of the assembly. They went to Moses and Aaron and said, "You have gone too far! Everyone in Israel has been set apart by the LORD, and he is with all of us. What right do you have to act as though you are greater than anyone else among all these people of the LORD?" (Num. 16:1-3 NLT)
When Moses heard what they were saying, he threw himself down with his face to the ground. Then he said to Korah and his followers, "Tomorrow morning the LORD will show us who belongs to him and who is holy. The LORD will allow those who are chosen to enter his holy presence. You, Korah, and all your followers must do this: Take incense burners, and burn incense in them tomorrow before the LORD. Then we will see whom the LORD chooses as his holy one. You Levites are the ones who have gone too far!" Then Moses spoke again to Korah: "Now listen, you Levites! Does it seem a small thing to you that the God of Israel has chosen you from among all the people of Israel to be near him as you serve in the LORD's Tabernacle and to stand before the people to minister to them? He has given this special ministry only to you and your fellow Levites, but now you are demanding the priesthood as well! The one you are really revolting against is the LORD! And who is Aaron that you are complaining about him?" Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, "We refuse to come! Isn't it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects? What's more, you haven't brought us into the land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool us? We will not come." Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not accept their offerings! I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, and I have never hurt a single one of them." 16And Moses said to Korah, "Come here tomorrow and present yourself before the LORD with all your followers. Aaron will also be here. 17Be sure that each of your 250 followers brings an incense burner with incense on it, so you can present them before the LORD. Aaron will also bring his incense burner." So these men came with their incense burners, placed burning coals and incense on them, and stood at the entrance of the Tabernacle with Moses and Aaron. Meanwhile, Korah had stirred up the entire community against Moses and Aaron, and they all assembled at the Tabernacle entrance. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to the whole community, and the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Get away from these people so that I may instantly destroy them!" But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. "O God, the God and source of all life," they pleaded. "Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?" And the LORD said to Moses, "Then tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." So Moses got up and rushed over to the tents of Dathan and Abiram, followed closely by the Israelite leaders. "Quick!" he told the people. "Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don't touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, you will be destroyed for their sins." So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents with their wives and children and little ones. And Moses said, "By this you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things that I have done--for I have not done them on my own. If these men die a natural death, then the LORD has not sent me. But if the LORD performs a miracle and the ground opens up and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD." He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.The earth opened up and swallowed the men, along with their households and the followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned. So they went down alive into the grave, along with their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished. All of the people of Israel fled as they heard their screams, fearing that the earth would swallow them, too. Then fire blazed forth from the LORD and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense. And the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are holy. Also tell him to scatter the burning incense from the burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives. He must then hammer the metal of the incense burners into a sheet as a covering for the altar, for these burners have become holy because they were used in the LORD's presence. The altar covering will then serve as a warning to the people of Israel." So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 bronze incense burners that had been used by the men who died in the fire, and they were hammered out into a sheet of metal to cover the altar. This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized man--no one who was not a descendant of Aaron--should ever enter the LORD's presence to burn incense. If anyone did, the same thing would happen to him as happened to Korah and his followers. Thus, the LORD's instructions to Moses were carried out. (Num 16:4-40 NLT)
16:41 The next is a heavy situation the people rebelled against. Moses and Arron over the death of Korah and God heard this and he wanted to kill all of the Israelites and Moses and Arron rushed to give atonement for their sins and God began to destroy them, but only 14,700 died.
But the very next morning the whole community began muttering again against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You two have killed the LORD's people!" 42As the people gathered to protest to Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tabernacle and saw that the cloud had covered it, and the glorious presence of the LORD appeared. Num. 16:41-42 NLT
Moses and Aaron came and stood at the entrance of the Tabernacle, and the LORD said to Moses, "Get away from these people so that I can instantly destroy them!" But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. Numbers 16: 43-45 NLT
Just one day after Korah and his followers were executed for grumbling and complaining against God, the Israelites started this whole thing all over again , haven’t these people learned their lesson already , so they just started murmuring and complaining this time with muttering Their whole negative attitude cause even more trouble it is don’t these guys get it, it is like do they just want to die. So here they are rebelling again I mean there faith was completely eroded away and they had thoughts of giving up and heading back to Egypt. I mead it is a simple path of death they chose how could these men be the way they were, well it began with disappointment and disbelief then it moved to complaining about both God and there present conditions. Next came bitterness and resentment, followed finally by rebellion and open hostility, so let us convert the words now If you are dissatisfied skeptical complaining , and now bitter you guys better watch out, I would not want to be in your shoes, didn’t you all learn your lesson the first time? All these attitudes lead to the separation from God, what are they doing? These guys better start siding with God at least that is a step in the right direction but don’t get worse, they were asking to die, it does not make any sense. I would have sided with God and try to make it through life.
20:2-3 Here is where Moses made his mistake. Everyone was complaining again and The Lord held Moses to speak to the rock, the thing is Moses took his staff and struck the rock nor just once but twice, heavy situation Moses was taking credit for the miracle. He made the mistake of saying “Must we bring you water from this rock” so for this whole action of rebellion and trying to be as God, which none of us can be, as God we cannot take credit for the miracles God has done. So the Lord told Moses he could not enter into the promise land. You might think was God to harsh with the punishment to Moses. We have to consider all over actions, we cannot get angry or wanting that power, we have to agree that the people were consistently complaining, nagging, and ever slandering Moses, the Israelites were in complete rebellion against Moses and God. You see Moses was a model and speaker for God, for the entire nation and because of this great responsibility he could not just get a slap on the hand, so by Moses striking the rock he disobeyed Gods direct command and also dishonored God. Well, we all have a great responsibility as leaders me as a Pastor; I must have the truth and edify many different nations now that the Church Ministries has branched out through the world. I myself have been punished because maybe I am relying too much on doctors instead of the power of God. You see we are all made up of earthly flesh and we as a race of sinners should always trust in our Creator!
How could we possibly doubt Our Creator? Who gave us life and made this world and the univerHow could we possibly doubt Our Creator? Who gave us life and made this world and the universe. How can we not trust in His word. So our Moses did some heavy thinking in the presence of all his people. se. How can we not trust in His word. So our Moses did some heavy thinking in the presence of all his people.
21:5 Now this is a spectacular episode here they are complaining again about where they were at and the manna for food. God again sent poisonous snakes, this time to end there complaining and unbelief. We have to understand the area possessed a variety of poisonous snakes, some of them hide in the sand and attack without any warning. All the races of people were afraid of the snakes because once bitten it meant an awful death of suffering slowly, with severe intensity. As you all know the correlation of the bronze snake lifted up John 3:14-15 with Jesus filled up all the people had to do is look at this snake that was lifted up attached to a pole. In the same way Jesus even explained in the Book of John right before the famous John 3:16 the importance of this chapter in the book of Numbers there is a great similarity as the Israelites looked at this bronze snake that was lifted up and the way the Son of Man was lifted up on the cross. So Jesus explained that the Israelites were healed by the sickness of snakebites by looking at the snake on the pole. So we must point out here that all believers today can be saved from sickness and sin by looking to Jesus death on the cross. You have to remember the snake itself did not heal the people but it was their faith that God would heal them. We have to understand faith works with obedience to our Lords directions. The fact as we look to Jesus looking up to Him, and belief and trust in Him brings us our salvation and healing another way of looking at the two sections of scripture is the bite of the deadly sin which we are freed from when we look up to Our Savior Jesus Christ. The inner breakdown would be Psalm 78-8 the Israelites were not faithful to God 78:10 they refused to obey the laws of God 78:11 and as we all forget the miracles that the God has done for them and all of us. Our complaining and murmuring has its beginnings in all our bad thoughts our non belief and not trusting in Our Father who has so much incredible power, we can never let our complaining destroy our relationship too God. You see how mad God was at these Israelites it is amazing that God does not strike us dead over the horrible things we say when we do not have faith. I myself included, that is why The Holy Spirit led me to this subject today. We all must trust, believe, and have faith no matter what happens. God is in control, Satan and his agents may be torturing us but God is watching our faith and attitudes as we go through these trials and afflictions. Remember the word “affliction” “means the misery of physical ailment or mental distress caused by troubles, trials and tests.”21:5 Now this is a spectacular episode here they are complaining again about where they were at and the manna for food. God again sent poisonous snakes, this time to end there complaining and unbelief. We have to understand the area possessed a variety of poisonous snakes, some of them hide in the sand and attack without any warning. All the races of people were afraid of the snakes because once bitten it meant an awful death of suffering slowly, with severe intensity. As you all know the correlation of the bronze snake lifted up John 3:14-15 with Jesus filled up all the people had to do is look at this snake that was lifted up attached to a pole. In the same way Jesus even explained in the Book of John right before the famous John 3:16 the importance of this chapter in the book of Numbers there is a great similarity as the Israelites looked at this bronze snake that was lifted up and the way the Son of Man was lifted up on the cross. So Jesus explained that the Israelites were healed by the sickness of snakebites by looking at the snake on the pole. So we must point out here that all believers today can be saved from sickness and sin by looking to Jesus death on the cross. You have to remember the snake itself did not heal the people but it was their faith that God would heal them. We have to understand faith works with obedience to our Lords directions. The fact as we look to Jesus looking up to Him, and belief and trust in Him brings us our salvation and healing another way of looking at the two sections of scripture is the bite of the deadly sin which we are freed from when we look up to Our Savior Jesus Christ. The inner breakdown would be Psalm 78-8 the Israelites were not faithful to God 78:10 they refused to obey the laws of God 78:11 and as we all forget the miracles that the God has done for them and all of us. Our complaining and murmuring has its beginnings in all our bad thoughts our non belief and not trusting in Our Father who has so much incredible power, we can never let our complaining destroy our relationship too God. You see how mad God was at these Israelites it is amazing that God does not strike us dead over the horrible things we say when we do not have faith. I myself included, that is why The Holy Spirit led me to this subject today. We all must trust, believe, and have faith no matter what happens. God is in control, Satan and his agents may be torturing us but God is watching our faith and attitudes as we go through these trials and afflictions. Remember the word “affliction” “means the misery of physical ailment or mental distress caused by troubles, trials and tests.”
Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient along the way, and they began to murmur against God and Moses. "Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?" they complained. "There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this wretched manna!" So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among them, and many of them were bitten and died. Then the people came to Moses and cried out, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take away the snakes." So Moses prayed for the people. (Num. 21:4-6 NLT)
Then the LORD told him, "Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to the top of a pole. Those who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!" So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Whenever those who were bitten looked at the bronze snake, they recovered! (Num. 21:8-9NLT)
In Psalm 78 we see the sources of Israel's complaining
Then they will not be like their ancestors--
stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful,
refusing to give their hearts to God. Psalm 78:8
They did not keep God's covenant,
and they refused to live by his law. Psalm 78:10
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Their spirits were not faithful to God
they refused to obey God's law
They forgot what he had done--
the wonderful miracles he had shown them, the miracles he did for their ancestors in Egypt, on the plain of Zoan. Psalm 78:11-12
they forgot the miracles God had done for them
Our complaining has its roots in one of these thoughtless actions and different attitudes, If we could just take notice of all our complaining and there are times we don't even know we are doing it, we know it doesn't please God in any way, and it doesn't get us closer to the Kingdom, we should always be thankful and praising the Lord for all the things he has done in our lives and we should understand He made us just like He wanted to , with the different color hair and eyes and how big or small we are, we should always be thankful of who we are, and we should never be complaining about anything, we are part of a race of priests and we should always live our lives of thankfulness and be worshiping our creator, that is why He made us, remember in the first scripture, He loves us and He wants to know us, and that is why our personal relationship is so important in our whole lives, and that comes first before anything else, we are to give God our best time of the day, not just the left over time, He knows our hearts, it is awful hard to get anything past our Lord that he doesn't know about, so my brothers and sisters no more complaining, we should be cheering that we even exist, and be in full joy that we have so many promises that our mighty God has given us all.
God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you. Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then God will be given glory in everything through Jesus Christ. All glory and power belong to Him forever and ever. (1Pet. 4:10-11) Yes God has given us different gifts and different ways to communicate, and special ways to try and help others, I wish this whole world would like to assist others, with prayer, love and compassion. Some of us try, and some of us don’t even know the power of God, or don’t even know the Lord. But to send out our caring thoughts, and our sympathy, to let others know they are out there with them. To gather all the feelings through the Spirit and then direct them to others to help when the time is needed. I pray and hope for all complications that we all go through, some more than others, and some even compounded together with various obstacles, I pray for a great peace, with grace and sincerity that your life will all come together, with healings and comfort, and an inner harmony with our Lord. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. (John 14:18) God will never leave us alone, although sometimes we feel that we are, sometimes we feel that there isn’t anyone in this world that fully understands what we are going through, but the Lord hears all our hearts, and He knows what is traveling within our minds, so we might not have a person right there, or a friend to hold and break down and cry with, or just some one to listen for a few minutes, there is always Jesus, He is there, and always will be. He does talk, but we have to listen very openly, we ourselves have to listen, it may not be a voice, it could be just the beauty of the shifting clouds, or the way the wind blows, or it may come from something else, a letter, a gift, an email, a group of flowers that have just bloomed, to show you a certain beauty that everything will be all right. But we have to look for the signs, the effects we sometimes take for granted. We know He is there, and He can answer in all different ways if we become patient and calm. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:27) God is so awesome and sometimes we are getting hit with evil, getting hurt physically, with suffering, or mental torment, but this things are only temporary, we have a whole life to share in the next life to come, we tend to worry so much about this short time we spend on this planet earth, we must look to the future and the joy and gladness we will receive, when we can do all we can for others now. We strive to have hope, we want the best for our family’s and loved ones, so we just keep on praying, asking, and knocking, and all things will work out for good to those who love and believe in the Lord and His people, to live with forgiveness, and understanding of others, and then all things will be added to us. But you, dear friends, must continue to build your lives on the foundation of your holy faith. And continue to pray as you are directed by the Holy Spirit. Live in such a way that God's love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you. (Jude 1:20-21)
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. Isa. (65:24) We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies. (2Cor. 4:8-10) "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks. (Matt.7:7-8) "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. (Matt 24:4-13) As we read the scriptures they are pretty much self illuminating, but why because of the increase of wickedness which is happening all over the world, the love of most will grow cold? But who can change things? The children of God with Jesus who is love and is already living in our hearts, but we also need God’s unconditional love, the Agape love of God. Remember people again will hate us because of our faith and the love we have for the brothers and sisters and our want to bring joy into peoples hearts with our transference of our minds and thoughts and to share God’s love to every household or any country or any village. We still are carrying around extra baggage and sin, and we have to make ourselves vessels to be used, clean and sanctified so God’s Agape love which is so powerful and intense that we cannot even explain it. “We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us. And so we also ought to give up our lives for our Christian brothers and sisters”. (1John 3:16) So we have many people that are just out there enjoying there lives, but the true Christians the ones who God called, the ones He wants to suffer to understand the sufferings of His Son, like I had said before all over the world we have the crucified ones, or the suffering ones, they are not any better or different then any other Christians but many do hold the different keys to the Kingdom. They are on that narrow road and have been there for years, and they are still suffering day after day, but we have to examine the truth and we all need to thrust out of ourselves any source of sin, bitterness, self- righteousness, unforgiveness, different forms of anger, one of the biggest is pride, then ambition, and resentment, we need to be cleansed to let God’s love flow through us, so our love can flow through to others. We all have to be conditioned and we all have to be trained and disciplined, so we are totally clean. We have to deny ourselves getting rid of our own thoughts and desires and our self emotions, these all can stand in the way to Let the Love of God to pour into us. We have to confess our sins daily and read our bible just like the Berarans in Acts 17:11 and we have to watch any pollution that may enter into our heart, soul, and or our minds from the world, this must be a daily checklist, otherwise we will be unhappy, full of tears and just not experience joy and peace. We have to be pure, not just half way but completely. “The truth is, a kernel of wheat must be planted in the soil. Unless it dies it will be alone a single seed. But its death will produce many new kernels a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who despise their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. All those who want to be my disciples must come and follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And if they follow me, the Father will honor them. (John 12:24-26) These words of Christ are self explanatory which is why we have to have “self” gone from our insides and just follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and be a doer of the will of God. Our lives are nothing in this world, without God’s love, we are already dead in Christ, "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Gal. 2:19-20) Our spirit must be conditioned to be put on standby for any bad emotions or ungodly thoughts as they enter in each day. We are surrounded by sin; we cannot even go through a check out in a drugstore or supermarket from the magazine covers and the pictures that appear right on the waiting isle. Do not love the world nor the things in the world If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. (1John 2:15-17)
We the children of God have to be on our toes, we know that God is Love, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love”.(1John 4:7-8) So God gives us unconditional love and human love is conditional, human love is always built around expectations but God’s love is pure and everlasting and He has so much to give and always wants to give it, but we have to be open for it and our bodies or vessels have to be clean so God can pure His perfect love into us. That is why human love is different it could be built around self-centeredness, or fear, and many types of bondage in ways of two sides, like who loves you more, or I will love you if you do this, or I will not love you anymore if you do that, this is why God’s love is so beautiful and goes directly to the heart. That is true Agape love. You see God will show us a time and need to repent, and when we must move all our feelings of self out of the way, and at times it takes patience and understanding for any brother or sister to really be open to God and His direction-- His will, and His Love. God does not want us to change our free will, so the Lord moves when we become open with Him. Our faith, our choices, our desires, all have to be lined up with God thoughts and our relationship, God can give us everything we need, we don’t need anything from anyone else, God can and will give us all things but we have to let Him. Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. (Rom. 8:5-8) But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.) Since Christ lives within you, even though your body will die because of sin, your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God. The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as he raised Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal body by this same Spirit living within you. (Rom. 8:9-11) It is the old saying let go and let God, we give everything to Him and He will direct our paths, we can’t be impatient, we have to trust Him and the scriptures, God loves us so much if we only let Him. My Prayers are with you, God Bless, Rev. Paul
Well I have less than 20 days left, this was a beautiful house and church office the Lord suppied me with.
Dear Lord, Well another week has passed us by and we are at awe with how You directed this whole assembly, Father You are awesome. You have such power; we don’t want to be like the Israelites complaining or murmuring, and not excepting your grace to the fullest extent. We need you Lord, we are grateful you didn’t punish us all like you did when you handled the people in the book of Numbers, please give us all another chance, forgive us of our debts that we owe, please continue to lead us, and show us the right way, and the true way is through Your Son Jesus, till next week Father we will try to praise You and worship You as much as we can, in the spirit of Thanksgiving and love. In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen
