The truth remains to be the truth even if no one supported it. The truth doesn’t have to have a good logical argument. If God who can heal, allows a loved to one die after you have prayed without ceasing, would you still praise Him and worship Him? If you are desperate about something but the more you pray the worse it gets and eventually it fails to work out, would you still love God?
There are times to just pray. This is because there is nothing else you can do. This is because if you do something else, it will distract you from the mission and make the situation worse. There are other times when you can’t just pray, you must do something. This is because there is something to do. May God grant us the wisdom to know the difference.
Love..KEEPS NO RECORDS OF WRONGS. Church attendance counts if you can’t count. Tithe and offerings count if you can’t count. Trying and trying again to have a good marriage counts if you can’t count. Acts of kindness count if you can’t count. It only counts if you can’t count. May God help us to know how to conduct ourselves so that what counts doesn’t count, in Jesus’s name, Amen!
What shortage are you facing? In the event of any shortage, turn to Jesus and He will eventually give you an excess. Do you have a shortage of happiness? A shortage of love? A shortage of money? A shortage of good health? A shortage of good school grades? Turn to Jesus and give Him the little you have, and Jesus will do what He always does, He will give you an excess. This is the much He always gives!
Avoiding distractions can easily become a distraction. We should remain focused on the desired goal. We can be so busy avoiding distractions, that avoiding distractions becomes a distraction. You can be so organized until you achieve nothing except organization. You can keep time so well and do nothing after that. You can dress so well and yet you are not ready for the function. To achieve anything avoid distractions!
It is easy to think that your life is sustained by the power of your prayer. What a lie! You don’t even pray for everything you need. God in His kindness provides you with much more than you ever ask for. If God totally depended on what we pray for to run our lives, we would be in a crisis. We thank God that our prayers are not the only basis of His operations in our life.
God tells Joshua to have memorabilia. National memorabilia. A collection that will trigger the memory of everyone in the nation. When dealing with memorabilia, it is not about what is collected but what memory is triggered. The item may be cheap but it carries the best memories ever that no money can buy. The memorabilia may be extremely expensive but its memory is pain that is so deep that one’s life span is shortened.
Now that this is the situation, what do we do? Over time we lose our zeal and passion, therefore we need a revival. Over time we die and we need a resurrection. Over time we forget our mission and vision and we need to be reminded. Over time we forget we are dispensable and we need to be shaken into the realization that we are not invincible. Those moments of reawakening must come from preaching, teaching, seminars, and seasonal evaluation.
To save us from extremism God gave this command that we shouldn’t add or subtract to what He has said. An assessment of most contentious issues shows that they are additional or subtracted from God’s word. God is asking that we leave it as it is. Why can’t we leave it as it is?