Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/25/14

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 6/25/14

Mat 6:24  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

It is true and it is right that mammon is money and riches; anything of this world could be thought of as worldly mammon if you make it your source of confidence, trust, and help. 

Jesus taught this to help you and me to see that God is going to take care of us.  In this county, the state of Montana, and throughout the world, there are millions that have as their focus the enjoyment of the things of this world.  There are a lot of things in this world to enjoy but if people don’t have God first and concern for their soul first then they don’t enjoy them.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you.

Jesus taught us to seek His kingdom first and all these things shall be added unto you.  We don’t need to worry about things.

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

I brought this to emphasize to me and to you that as much as we enjoy a new tea kettle, (it is an important factor if you make press pot coffee or as you come to ward canning season), that will not satisfy your soul. 

It takes more than a musical instrument to satisfy the soul.  It takes the reality of Jesus Christ, it takes our sin being forgiven, and it takes the nature being sanctified.

God doesn’t want us worrying about tomorrow.  The emphasis needs to be, “How is it with your soul?”

In Genesis 2:7 it tells us that God formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

The emphasis is the soul.  Nothing that we can have will substitute.  If your child came to you 20,000 dollars short, what they really need is to get saved.  I am pretty often short but if I was long, there would be no satisfaction to my soul, it takes Jesus.

I am not saying to not help people, I want to emphasize that our emphasis is “How is it with your soul?”  If they don’t want to hear about their soul but only what you can give them then they are takers and are using you.

Isa 58:9  Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

You saints are not in bondage; that is not how the church of God operates.  You are free.  That is not saying that you do not have responsibility or that I do not have authority, but we are not a bunch of zombies in bondage.

Bondage is “I piped and you didn’t dance.” 

The putting forth of the finger: one of the worst spirits that you can get under is a faultfinding spirit.  If you get under one then no one can do it right, there is nothing that is right and yet you are the one that is wrong. 

There will be those that will bait you to be a faultfinder.  Don’t pick that up.  If you do, then confess your fault and ask God to help you.

Watch your words, don’t speak vanity.  Be careful what you talk about.  Don’t spend much time on things that are not of an eternal value.  It is not the last sale; until the last song and Jesus comes there will be another sale.

Isa 58:10  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Isa 58:11  And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

If you draw out your soul to the hungry.  Souls are so hungry, we want to be a hungry church, not hungry for gossip, hungry for God, hungry to carry these burdens, hungry for prayer, hungry to supplicate. 

If you don’t know how to supplicate, get a hold of me or one of these saints that know how to supplicate.  We must practice that.  It is getting a hold of God and begging Him to hold back those evil spirits.

Supplicate, intercede.  Satisfy the afflicted soul.  That soul that is hurting so bad.  It happens.  There is nothing like someone pouring the love of God, oil and the Spirit of God into your soul.

We don’t know everything or how to handle everything.  We don’t know what the next step is.  God help me to quit finding fault, talking vanity, so that I will know the way.

Thou shalt be like a watered garden, whose waters fail not

Jer 31:12  Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Make sure you have a song.  “Don’t pity me dear friends, I’m richly blessed.”  God has a happy song.

I could envision Brother Chancellor as he wrote, “I’ve found a second grace here is my rest.”  God wants everyone to have a song.  It will take care of a lot of troubles.

Their soul shall be like a watered garden.

Take a good look at a watered garden.  It is beautiful.  It comes over the pots.  It gets greener everyday and sprouts up.  You can almost watch the tomatoes grow.  That is how God wants our garden.

Psa 86:2  Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

Jud 1:1  Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

Jud 1:2  Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Let Him preserve you.  Let Him hold you in His hand.  Let His Word and Spirit guide, keep, and preserve you.

Called:  Know your calling.  You are called.  You say, “I am not called.”  You are not copping out like that.  Don’t believe the lie of the devil like that.

Mercy multiplied, peace multiplied, love multiplied.

I am convicted that we as a church can receive an anointing that perceives the need of children, young people, and adults.