Bro Gary Weds PM 3/23/11

Bro Gary Weds PM 3/23/11

Concerning desire, God showed John in Revelations the church as a living creature characterized by a lion.  The church is to be bold and courageous and also must have the desire of a lion.  There are a lot of happenings in life that could get us focused on the wrong thing.  I’d like to bring some scriptures on desire.

Proverbs 18:1 KJVR

(1)  Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

God wants us to be individuals of strong spiritual desire.

Isaiah 26:8-9 KJVR

(8)  Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

(9)  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Tonight my thought pattern is not to make you feel condemned if you’ve desired to see if the rhubarb has come up, or any other natural desire; I just want you to grasp that a healthy soul has a real desire for God.

The desire of our soul is to Thy name… With my soul I have desired Thee in the night.  We can say “Amen”; we have been there.  We can say, “Dear God, It is You my soul desires.”

Psalms 19:10 KJVR

(10)  More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

The 19^th Psalm explains that God speaks to us everywhere.  We go to the woods or the river, the ocean, and all of these creations of God speak God to us.  God didn’t stop with the thought of creation speaking God.  The circle of God is to go throughout the whole earth.

Vs 7 says the Law of the Lord is perfect…  

Then God moved on David to say, “More to be desired are they than gold.”  All the law of God, the fear of God, and the judgments of God are more to be desired than gold.  However valuable gold is, it is temporary.  It cannot buy happiness, it cannot repair a broken heart, and it cannot repair a relationship.  

Gold cannot replace a mother or a father.  Us as parents and grandparents, as aunts and uncles know that it is so important that we have God in our lives to help us that we would love all our children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.  There is enough love to go all around if you know God.  It is only natural and right to love our own, but God help us that that is not the only ones that we love.

May God help us that wherever our path leads us that we show people the love of God.  There is a lot of “dog eat dog” out there, may God help us to show the love of God.

There is something about the Word of God and it is so sweet.  Karen told me of something that she had read:  “When put to the test, men that claimed to read the bible averaged 7 minutes of reading a day.  While those that said they watched a small amount of TV were found to have watched it 2 hours a day.”

This Word is more to be desired than gold and sweeter than a honey comb.  Emerson Wilson told his congregation not to plan to get the good things from the scripture just from him preaching.  That is water already in the cistern.  He told them to get in the book and start digging around and they would open up wells of living fresh water for themselves.

The half has never yet been told of what is in the Word of God.  

Haggai prophesied that God was going to shake all nations, Hag 2:7.  I wouldn’t try to tell you how many times God has shaken the nations.  If you read in histories you see where God shook France, God shook Rome, and God shook Switzerland.  We see today where God is shaking the nations again.  America needs to be shaken.  Thank God for those that are being shaken.

It isn’t always with natural disasters that God shakes people.  I believe God is shaking many people in America today.  God said, “I’m going to shake all nations.”  Sometimes we have to suffer in order to recognize our need.  As long as people are satisfied having their little fits, or pouring out their bitterness, or whatever they take pleasure in then they will not move toward God.  People need to be shook and stirred.  

If we’re going to see God move, and if we’re going to see the desire of all nations found, we must be willing to go through some things.  We may not have prepared ourselves for what comes our way.  We may be taken by surprise by what is sent to shake us or shake those around us.  

It is important to prepare ourselves for what we don’t want to happen.  You may end up in the resthome when you are no longer able to take care of yourself.  Don’t put your head in the sand.  Don’t think that because you are who you are things are not going to happen to you.  

We have been placed in this last month where Karen and I never thought we would be.  I don’t question God.  

Hosea 10:12 KJVR

(12)  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

There is some ground of our soul that we haven’t plowed yet.  We have to say, “Lord I’m your humble servant and if there are some areas in my life that you want to be plowed, then you plow it.”  It is saying, break up your fallow ground.  God is saying, “You get before me.  You pray.  You break up the fallow ground.”  

Deuteronomy teaches us to seek God with all of our heart and to love God with all of our heart.  It is marvelous that way back there in the Old Testament God taught us to seek and love Him with all of our heart.  The same message is taught to us in the New Testament.

Fallow ground means ground that is not bearing fruit at this moment.  God knows us and created us to bring froth much fruit.  “God, I’m asking you to help me to fall on the rock and be broken in such a way that whatever ground that you would want to take rocks out of whatever reservations need to be removed, whatever personal opinions that have just kind of been in the way, help me to break up that ground so that You can till it and plant Your seed, the Word of God, in it and it can bring forth fruit.”

Ps 34:10 the young lions do lack and suffer hunger.  Clark says that there are eight versions of the bible that say, “powerful men” desire and lack.  The whole thought to me is this.  As strong of a desire that lions have some times, as strong of a desire that Men have, ‘They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.’

Psalms 34:10 KJVR

(10)  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

Isaiah 54:1-2 KJVR

(1)  Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

(2)  Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

Let’s have the attitude that “God help me to reach past my comfort zone and reach out to more than mine.”  Some times when we by faith reach past our own, God in His mercy reaches down to them.  

God Help me to encompass some souls and show the love of God to them.  It doesn’t matter, old, young, or middle-aged.  Most people are beat up today.  You’ll not find the perfect young man or young lady that doesn’t have scars today.  We want to look past the outward.  God anoint our eyes.

Spare not – lengthen thy cords.  Put the cord of love out there and strengthen the stakes and say, “God I’m trusting in you.”  Let’s have God on our side in this tug a war.  Let’s stand on the sea of glass and pull on the cord of love so that some soul can be reached for God.