The outside looks good!
I have heard that saying. You must have heard it also.
TYPE “TANE MAHUTA” INTO SEARCH AND READ THE WHOLE STORY!
THE OUTSIDE (at the top) LOOKS GOOD, BUT THE INSIDE (at the bottom) IS ROTTEN.
And it really is rotten!
The inside is rotten!
First Peter 1:18,19
“FOR YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS NOT WITH PERISHABLE THINGS SUCH AS SILVER OR GOLD THAT YOU WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EMPTY WAY OF LIFE HANDED DOWN TO YOU FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS, BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST,..”
The teacher was an atheist. In order to get his viewpoint across to the students he wrote the following on the blackboard:
GOD IS NOWHERE!
One of the students believed in God and did not like what he saw written in front of everybody. He got up from his seat and made a horizontal line between the ‘W’ and the ‘H’.
GOD IS NOW/HERE!
GOD IS NOW HERE!
Only a short sentence. Thirteen words. But what a challenge!
“If we were nearer to Jesus we would be nearer to one another.” That’s what I read in a book today written by C.H. Spurgeon.
What a challenge for me personally. What a challenge for all those who belong to the body of Christ. But it is especially a challenge for those, who are pastors of churches.
“IF WE WERE NEARER TO JESUS WE WOULD BE NEARER TO ONE ANOTHER.”
There is only a small town, but there are ten to fifteen different churches with ministers. Are they working together?
You have probably heard about D. L. Moody. When he came to a place to evangelize, the ministers of that community were sitting behind him praying for the listeners while he was preaching the GOSPEL!
But where are the Evangelists today and where are the servants of the Lord who are willing to work together?
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Isaiah 49:15
“CAN A MOTHER FORGET THE BABY AT HER BREAST AND HAVE NO COMPASSION ON THE CHILD SHE HAS BORNE? THOUGH SHE MAY FORGET, I WILL NOT FORGET YOU!”
I think we do! WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Sometimes we are suffering terrible pain. Sometimes we are suffering terrible WORRY. That’s when our system becomes toxic. That’s when our system becomes poisoned.
The doctor tells us that — and the BIBLE told us that long ago!
The Bible says, “DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING
1. BY PRAYER AND
2. PETITION WITH
3. THANKSGIVING
PRESENT YOUR REQUESTS TO GOD.
BUT HOW DO WE STOP WORRYING?