Bro Gary Wednesday Night 12/28/11

Bro Gary Wednesday Night 12/28/11

Psa 95:1  O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Psa 95:2  Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Psa 95:3  For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Psa 95:4  In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

Psa 95:5  The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

Psa 95:6  O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

Psa 95:7  For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

Psa 95:8  Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Psa 95:9  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Psa 95:10  Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Psa 95:11  Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

It is wonderful to have an invitation and to be greeted.  We are invited by God and instructed by the Psalmist, “Oh come.”  David learned at a young age the value of music and singing and what it does for us.

We could talk about problems and never get done for the rest of the year, but we need to realize how thankful that we need to be and make a joyful noise.

If you are in a deep place then just stay in God’s hand.  The deep places are His and so are the hills.

O come, let us worship:  This is marvelous instruction.  His name is Immanuel which means God with us.  We can have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us.

Of all the really great things that God made, I think of the star of the east.  A marvelous creation of God! 

We know that Nature preaches.  The Sun and the Son will cause people to realize that there has to be a God in heaven and I need to know Him.  The stars, in Genesis it says, “He also made the stars.”  To you and to me the bible says, “Let us kneel before our maker.” 

Many in this audience can make an expression of how lonesome we get for our parents.  Our parents are gone.  In the spiritual and in the natural, I can kneel before my maker.  Most of us will reach a place where we cannot go back home again.  Some in this audience will never have all of their sons at home again.  Yet we can come before our maker and bow down before Him.

In this chapter it tells about our maker, his majesty.  There is no other that has majesty.  We show up for a little while and then we are gone, but we can kneel before our maker.

2011 is a tough year for many in this audience.  It has been a year of weeping, of heartache and sorrow for many.  We will look back and say, “Oh God that is what it took to get me where I needed to be.”  Our heart may be in many pieces but we can kneel before our maker.

He is our God and we are the sheep of His pasture.

Referring to the minister of the Old Testament or the priest:  “Today if you will hear His voice…”  We are blessed to be called to the closet.  When you are driving or when you are working, you may not be able to go into the prayer closet but you can go before God and meet before God. 

Today the majority of this audience felt drawn to the place of prayer.  Maybe no one called other than God and said, “Spend time with me.”  I’m not elevating man; sin ruins lives.  The plan of sin was to totally destroy and ruin lives.  We have a redeemer, it is wonderful!

The great High Priest Jesus says, “Son or daughter stay tender; when I call, respond.”

God left this thought with David:  “When your fathers tempted me and proved me and saw my work…”

We were all erroring in our heart.  What compassion that should give us for souls that are erroring.  You look upon souls and you can see that they have errored in their heart; they have chosen many things.  They have allowed the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life to deceive them.

How it ruins lives and leaves them so empty! 

God swore that they would not enter into His rest.

Psa 96:1  O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

God help me to realize a new song every day: the song of deliverance, of the lamb, of victory.  Sing unto the Lord.

Psa 96:2  Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

Psa 96:3  Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

We need to be enlarged so that we can grasp the wonders of God.  We have a small mentality.  God is so big that the heavens cannot contain all of Him.

Psa 96:4  For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

Psa 96:5  For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Psa 96:6  Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

God chose to cause David to show there is a certain amount of difference between honor and majesty.  They are both full of beauty, of comeliness.  The antonym of comeliness is rudeness.  God is never rude.  It is amazing how God approaches men in their low estate. 

The worst thing I can think of in the world is individuals that are involved in selling children.  That is the lowest you can go.  In Cambodia they are selling children starting at three years old.  I’m not meaning adoption.  I believe that the percentage is 35% of young people, in a perverted world it is boys and girls,  35% of the prostitutes are under 16 years of age.  

This same spirit is alive and working in America.  It has a plan to take your grandchildren and our children.  These spirits don’t know boundaries.  

If there is ever a time that we need to pray it is now.  We are here for that purpose.  I look at the beautiful children that are here tonight.  You and I have the marvelous privilege and opportunity of standing in the gap. 

May God challenge me and challenge you to be so right before the eternal God of comeliness that He would make a strong appeal to Zoe’s heart and Zoe’s mother’s heart.  The same goes for our daughters and son in laws, the same for your daughters and son in laws.  Don’t be deceived in thinking that it won’t happen to you. 

Don’t be stopped by rejection.  If one rejected you ask God to give you two if two reject you then ask God to give you three.  There is nothing more wonderful than Bible salvation.

There is only one God of glory.  You can look at all the totem poles in Alaska they may be beautiful in the eyes of the beholder but there is no glory there.  A painting may be beautiful but there is no Glory there; it takes God. 

With this honor there is majesty.  There is magnificence in splendor or ornament.  We all have sights that are beautiful to the eye.  A new born baby is beautiful.  Majesty, splendor!  You and I able to identify with an eternal God, Majesty!

With the thought of strength: omnipotence, all power.  You and I are going to wear out.  That doesn’t mean that we don’t want to do our job or carry our burden, or do our best.  There will be times when you are exhausted on Sunday night or Wednesday night.  Our God of omnipotence has a plan that we bow down, pray, have our evening devotions, and wake up the next morning with strength.

We find beauty by meeting God in His sanctuary.  We receive the beauty of a new song.  It is wonderful to have a new song, a song with meaning that we never knew before. 

The beauty of a vessel of honor:  our heart has been so broken this year seeing lives ruined by sin.  It has caused me to realize that the plan was to ruin my life. 

The beauty of a vessel of honor: it is beautiful.  God taking a life on the road to destruction and as they call out to God, God takes something that is all twisted and warped and God makes something beautiful out of it. 

The beauty of a living sacrifice, I had this planned but whatever I need to do…  A living sacrifice, God has something different today than the blood of bulls and goats.

The beauty of prayer! Isn’t prayer beautiful?  It is not just an ushering up to God of the things that we want.  It is worshipping God, getting into the presence of his majesty, of his honor, of his strength and of worship.

When people say that their thoughts are with us it is to be appreciated.  It is wonderful though for those to agree in prayer with us.  There is a fasting for our own needs and there is also a fasting for someone else.  There is beauty of prayer in carrying one another’s burdens. 

It is beautiful to be greeted; it is beautiful to be loved.  I’m going to treat my sisters like they are my sisters and my brothers like they are brothers; I love the family of God.  The beauty of Godly behavior, of in honor preferring one another. 

God can use whomever He wants to.  Sometimes He sends spiritual food through children.  God gives a song or a scripture and edifies His people by one of His own.  There is nothing more ugly than strife or division.  Stay beautiful.  Unity is beautiful. 

Solomon said, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”  God has a way of making eternity real to us.  He has a way of placing us where we cry unto Him, “God only you can change this by your majesty.” 

He has all strength and power.  He gives strength to turn the battle to the gate.  We will have severe battles, rest in God’s strength.  Do right; there is much strength in virtue.  The strength of valor is facing uncertainty with extreme confidence in God.