Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 10/23/13
Php 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my
salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
It is very important that we have the prayers of the
Saints. We also need the intercession of
the Holy Ghost.
Our needs will not be met haphazardly but by someone feeling
the need to pray for us. When we as the
saints pray earnestly for one another it moves the heart of God.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what
is the mind of the Spirit, because he
maketh intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
First we see the Holy Spirit interceding and then later in
the chapter, we see Jesus interceding.
We thank God for that.
Every one of us can look to God to help us in those spots
where we are weak, in those spots where we may not have it all together, or are
not balanced the way that we should be.
We can look to God for help in those spots where we have
created a pattern of letting our mind just go anywhere or where we do not have
thought patterns according to the Word of God.
I can wake up in the morning and my mind will get churning on
problems. It is not that the problems
are not existent, but they are my thoughts and not God’s thoughts.
Our infirmities represent that portion of us where we need
help from God. In the world we live in
today, every one of us is bombarded with way too much information. If you are of a mind to, then we can know
what is going on in one person’s life in the next state and the next
state. If you can handle it then that is
ok, but if you read it and you carry it all day long then I’m not sure that you
can get it together.
God knows our thoughts afar off. He has things for me to think on that if they
don’t get interrupted they will come into my heart, mind, and soul and will
help me to think as I ought.
The Spirit makes intercession for us. Isn’t that wonderful! Just the thought that God is sending thoughts
in and the Holy Spirit is interceding with thoughts that God knows is in His
plan for the day. If I will let Him
prepare me then I will be what He wants for the day.
It is wonderful that we have access to God the Father, Jesus
the Son, and the Holy Spirit of God.
Before you are every involved, the Holy Spirit is making intercession on
your behalf. It is important that we let
the Holy Spirit work in our life and don’t grieve Him.
Isn’t it wonderful to know that I love God? My closing is about a man that loved God. He fell in love and in his young age, before
marriage, he went blind. When he went
blind the love of his life said, “I cannot marry a blind man.”
His sister assisted him and helped him to get his
education. One day in the process of
time she said, “George I’m going to be getting married.” He said, “I am happy for you.” The night of her wedding as he sat all by
himself, God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit of God came to
visit.
I ask myself and I ask you, “When you are all by yourself,
who are you visiting with? Where is your
mind going?”
As He sat there, a voice began to ring in his soul. He knew what it was to have been loved and then
left alone.
Listen to the song:
- O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be. - O light that followest all my way,
I yield my flick’ring torch to thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be. - O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be. - O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.
George
Mattheson
He was not old, but His soul was weary. What a powerful message. A man whose heart had been broken and the
love he had hoped for had deserted him, but he knew God. Doesn’t it thrill you that we have light? In such an hour all by himself when he could
have been thinking of what his life could be, it wasn’t there. He met with God and God met with him.
Most of the time when pain comes we wrap our self in pain,
this one that was blind did not.
I’ve been reading in Daniel that in the last days the devil
would do his best to wear the saints out.
The scripture says that unless the days be shortened no flesh would be
saved. I’ve read in Revelation of the
spirits that would be turned loose on souls today.
I’ve thought of the majesty of God. We live in a world of wonder. I thought of what is going on in lives. Salvation is so wonderful yet we see
individuals that are choosing to be lost.
The scripture refers to the devil with all deceivableness
and lying wonder.
We are here gathered to worship God in spirit and truth.
Paul was asking you and me, “Who will you let separate you
from Christ?” There will not be one in
this audience that will not be targeted by the devil and by people. If you look at that then you will be gone.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Tribulation means all the afflictions like sicknesses or
this leg and knee of mine. Maybe your
eyesight is deteriorating or your digestive system is not working right, maybe
it is your nerves. There are afflictions
of being anxious in our minds, being worried about this or that.
The enemy will come to children, young people, to those in
the prime of the life. He will come with
an oppressive spirit like a hound putting his paw on the chicken. Are we going to be depressed and let that
separate us from the love of God?
I’m always impressed with what people will leave Jesus for
and think, “Is that going to help the situation?”
Are we going to let depression and discouragements, disappointments
or feeling miserable in our body separate us from the love of God? We have to have it settled before it
comes.
Sometimes there are reports that are nothing but tribulation,
to hear of bad things happening. Bad
things will happen, but are we going to give up God or carry on foolishly?
Distresses are tribulation multiplied. Persecutions mean pressures. There is so much pressure today to excel, to
be accepted, to try to be this that or something else.
When you do your very best someone will come along and say,
I wish you would have done better. All
you that work in the outside world will give eight for eight and go past your
line of duty and they will still wish you had done better than you did.
We cannot let that separate us. We may feel that we are pursued. Have you ever felt like the devil or people
are pursuing you? Don’t ever let anyone
leave the impression that you are going to be their savior. You need to take the sign down and say, “I am
not your savior. You need to find the
same one that I did.”
Famine is the lack of the necessities of life. That could happen. Right now we live in a valley of plenty that
may not always be. We mostly have
leftovers from last year and if the lack of necessities was long enough, we
would soon run out of holey socks.
Will you let extreme dangers separate you from Christ? There are perplexing perils where we are not
sure, “How should I handle this?” These
are perplexing and dangerous situations in the world today. We cannot let these perils separate us from
Christ.
Perils are dangers that bring alarm to our spirit and our
mind. We think of our children and what
they are exposed to.
The enemy doesn’t care what he uses and if we don’t have it
settled, “I’m not going to let this separate me from God,” then they will take
us.
Apostasy is a result of individuals allowing the
difficulties of life to absorb them and they fail to worship; they fail to meet
God in the closet. They fail to meet
with God. When they come into the house
of God their minds are a clutter with whatever it is.
Some remember when apostasy began to move into Plains, worldliness
began to move in. They were playing here
and playing there and pretty soon the Spirit of God left them. That spirit of apostasy will begin to work
anywhere if it can just get you to drift.
You may not leave the body but if you don’t stay rightly related to God
then your spirit is wandering.
Paul had a lot of perils.
2Co 11:26 In
journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in
perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in
perils in the sea, in perils among false
brethren;
Our weariness and painfulness can become a real danger to
us. If we get absorbed with our pain
then we will not worship or reach past our circle. Our entire life will be centered about our
circle. We must reach past our circle
and past our own.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Peril or sword: Paul had the testimony, “I am ready to die
for Christ.”
I don’t know what the future holds. Our situation may be more pronounced than
Paul’s, but I doubt it.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us.
We must have it and keep it settled. “The reality is I am going to conquer and
keep it settled before Christ.”
Paul had it settled that none of these things would separate
him from God. He knew the power of
prayer. We serve a God that when you
pray either circumstances change or He keep you through them.
He knew the power of the Holy Spirit interceding. The Holy Spirit is concerned about us keeping
the victory and having the kingdom.
Have you ever wondered how you made it? You made it because the saints prayed and
because the Holy Spirit interceded for us.
He saw that our heart cried out, “God I want to serve you.”
The Holy Spirit was on one side and Jesus was seated at the
right had of the majesty of the Most High.
You have a need and Jesus turns to the father, “Oh Father,
help him today. Carry him today. Send a song, send a thought. Send a revelation. Help him to stay true and faithful.”
Paul knew the power of God.
Paul knew a love that will not let me go.
George: his fiancé walked away from him because he went
blind but he found a love that would not let him go.
We must have it settled.
“I am going to serve you whatever it costs. I’m going to be true to you whatever it
costs.” He wants you to have it settled,
“God I’m going to be as an instrument.
It will just set there until the master musician picks me up.” God wants you and me to be an instrument for
Him to pick up and put out a beautiful melody.
In a world that doesn’t have decent songs or decent lives
portraying the virtues of motherhood, of kindness, faithfulness, of modesty, of
clean young men and clean old men, and clean all the way through. We want to be able to look at the young and
the older sisters with purity in our eyes.
What a wonder it is to see boys, even little guys being
taught manners. Holding the doors and
not pushing people off the streets. We
need to have the right attitude, not loving the young to take advantage of
them.
Know a love that won’t let you go. Love Him so much that mothers, dads, single
sisters, and brothers love God so much that your life plays a beautiful harmony
of how wonderful it is to serve God.
This world needs examples of happy people.
Thank God there is a love that will not let you go. There is probably not any that hasn’t experienced
someone that has loved them for a while and then walked way. You cannot stay there.
No one wants to hear how your son or daughter doesn’t
come. For the majority of them that is
their song. You visit them and you will
find out how disappointed they are they raised children and their children left
them.
They want to hear a different song, your song that you found
a love that won’t let you go, that you love them.
You may feel that you are in greatest peril. Your son or daughter may be in greatest peril:
about to topple into strange religion, drugs, or alcohol.
Paul says, “I am persuaded.”
In the greatest of perils you don’t have to let that separate you from
the love of God.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
Dear church we are blessed to know God. We are blessed to know truth and to have the
marvelous examples of those that have left the Word of God for us. We have the testimony of this man George, “O
love that will not let me go.”
Settle it at the pew, the altar, or where you are, “No man
will separate me from the love God.
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