Brother Gary Sunday Morning 1/11/15
Psa 33:8
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of him.
Standing with the highest esteem and the greatest
admiration. Standing with total
amazement and wonder. Standing in
worship.
Psa 119:161 SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a
cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
As I worked upon these thoughts, my conception of standing
in awe of God turned from God being so awesome I am afraid to be in His presence
to “God is so great that I want to be in His presence, what He has to say I
want to hear, where He directs I want to go that way.”
He can take us from all the things of the world that call
upon our minds and attention to that which is of eternal value and we can stand
there and commune: stand in the Word of God in such amazement of God.
Isa 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isa 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD
bloweth upon it: surely the people is
grass.
Isa 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall
stand for ever.
It is so wonderful that God has a respect to man as His
creation with a soul. We are sojourners;
we came from a life of sin to a wonderful place of seeking Bible salvation and
we thank God that we found it.
Isa 40:9
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of
Judah, Behold your God!
Isa 40:10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his
reward is with him, and his work before
him.
Isa 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he
shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them
in his bosom, and shall gently lead
those that are with young.
Zion is that city that was inspired by God and for God. We were either saved into Zion or were called
to come to Zion.
You are not going to find good tidings very often in the
newspaper. It is challenging to find
good tidings anywhere except in Zion. It
is dark in the world. We tend to be of
the disposition that we are only going to open the door a little bit because it
is too painful to know how dark it is.
Oh Zion that brings good tidings… lift up thy voice with
strength: there is something that only
God can give us in 2015, which is a voice with strength.
Times have evolved to the society that we live in don’t want
you to have any authority in your voice about what is right and what is
wrong. God wants you to have authority
in your voice about what is right and what is wrong.
God will come with a strong hand: David wrote the 39th Psalm when he
felt the hand of conviction so strong that he dealt with it in the thought, “I
am having a stroke.”
Among the things that we want to remember is that there is a
strong hand of conviction. We need to
count the cost when we are praying for someone in sin, “Are we willing to see
the strong hand of conviction rest there in such a way that they become very
uncomfortable in sin?”
He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: God has designed to feed us like a good shepherd. Many times we feel that we are lost in a
society that only knows people by numbers, “These are not individuals, they are
just that bunch, that class, or those.”
God looks upon us as individuals in His fold or in His
flock.
He shall gather the lambs in His arms: this is not an easy day. Noah preached and prayed faithfully and
consistently for 100 years. He did a
marvelous job. The ark was not full of
people. There were three stories. And it was 525 feet long. There was an upper window. “Through the upper window we shall see Him
standing by.”
Noah was powerful and useful. His wife was saved. We as brothers that have a saved wife are
very blessed men. You that have a
husband to pray for you are a very blessed sister. Noah preached and prayed and was faithful to
all those all around him.
God was faithful; when Noah had finished the ark, the
animals began to come into the ark. The
wife worked hard, the sons and the daughter-in-laws worked hard for they were
to gather substance for the animals that were to be there until the day that
they came back out of the ark.
We want to pray for those that we are burdened for. The job is too much for us alone. I don’t know what God is dealing with you to
do in 2015. We have heard the burden for
saints that want to do more in 2015. We
have heard the burden of saints that want to seek God. That is wonderful.
This we know this God that can deliver from addiction left
this word, “He will carry the lambs in his arms.” We want to remember that we are not the
savior of those that we are burdened for.
We know the one that can help them.
He will gently lead those that are with young.
Isa 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a
balance?
We want to grasp how great the hand of God is. David felt the hand of God dealing with him
because of his sin. We that are saved
have felt the hand of God dealing with us in our sin. That is a good hand for a sinner to
feel. That had is so big, so strong, and
so powerful that He measured the waters in the hollow of His hand.
He meted out heaven with a span: Of all the sky that surrounds the entire
world, when we try to comprehend the greatness of God, He meted out the heavens
in a span.
This God knows how to measure the dust of the earth. He is God.
He weighed the mountains in scales.
This God is so great, He can speak into and out of existence a scale to
weigh the Rocky Mountains.
Isa 40:13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Isa 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isa 40:22 It is
he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
It is God that sits on the circle of the earth. We have a friend near Zurich
Switzerland. This eternal God rides on
the skies and sits on the circle of the earth.
You might be burdened for someone next door to you and you
may be burdened for someone in Africa.
This God that sits on the circle of the earth will pass through and
visit Italy, Switzerland, Paradise Montana, Plains Montana, St. Regis Montana…
We stand in awe. It
is more than I can comprehend. What I
can comprehend we can say, “Total amazement.”
Isa 40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One.
Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who
hath created these things, that bringeth
out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his
might, for that he is strong in power;
not one faileth.
We as humans, not in the thought of falling back into sin,
but we tend to failure. I wanted to ask
Kayla if she remembers where I put the flash light that she gave me. I like flashlights. But there is something about God, all of
those stars… I don’t have any problem with standing in awe of Him. I stand in total amazement and wonder.
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator
of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
He will never get lost.
You may be in a certain amount of wonder or quandary in your life,
“Should we fix this this or that way?
What would God have me do in 2015?”
You may not have it figured out by service tonight.
God never loses His way.
He wants to help us find our way through the maze that we may not find
our way through without divine intervention.
He never gets weary.
The majority of us as humans know what it is to get weary. We must go back to the source of our strength
and say, “God I am coming to you and I am weary.” He says, “Child, I don’t get weary but I
understand your weariness.” He tells us,
“You need to come apart and rest.”
We have this opportunity in life to stand in awe of Him and
of the Word of God.
He gives power to the saint.
It will be a part of our life, CW Naylor was eight years on
the bed of affliction. In that time he
did little or very little for God. He
had been an active minister and had goals and ideals of spending his life
working for God and one accident laid him on the bed of affliction, a constant
sufferer of pain, without any income, his wife was out working.
The account I read said it was eight years and he felt so
faint, he felt so weary, and he felt so worthless. He felt like, “I am not doing anything, but I
am requiring aide and care.” It was not
until he changed his attitude and began to cry out to God, “God there must be
something good from you come out of me being here.”
Wherever you are this morning, you can surrender to feeling
useless, being mad at God, or having a bad attitude, or you can say, “I am
going to find God and see how something good can come from this
situation.” You won’t be able to
engineer it but He can.
Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fall:
We Americans idolize youth.
We look upon youth as if, “They have everything. They have strength, they have alert minds,
they have education, and they have abilities.”
We all saw those four children lined up on that altar
playing the instruments. I am not taking
away from the ability they have, but they will get weary and tired. That is why God gave them parents and created
that the Body of Christ would be such that there would be love care and interest
when we know a little one is facing difficulty.
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as
eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and
they shall walk, and not faint.
This covers the youngest saved individual to the oldest
saved individual in the world, they that wait upon the lord. Most often our strength is renewed by waiting
on God.
Isa 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will
help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
His promise is that He will uphold us. With His right hand of righteousness He will
hold us up. We don’t know what today
will hold. Ira Standfield wrote and sang,
“I don’t know who holds tomorrow, but I know who holds my hand.”
The mighty Hand of God that is big enough to measure all the
world in the hollow of it said, I will uphold thee.” You can count on Him.
Is 39:10, David in his sin said, “I felt the hand of God and
it was as a stroke.” The hand of
conviction that strong!
I have been asking you to pray for me that I will shake and
tremble in the presence of God. I am
enjoying it keep praying for me. Shaking
and trembling in His presence gives me such confidence in God.
Ps 51:1-19 shows the desired results of conviction.
Probably everyone has felt the convicting power of God in
the New Year to whatever degree. I am
convicted to clean my basement and garage, but I am convicted about things that
are not visuals and they are the convictions that are most important.
It will take some shaking and trembling before God. God will let people go on in sin, but for
that one that begins to feel the convicting hand of God there are some desired
results that He wants.
When people feel the convicting power of God they want to
talk about what they are feeling. May
God give us a good filter that we don’t down play the conviction in another’s life. God’s convicting power is very
important.
Jesus took the children in His arms.
Mr 10 13-16 Jesus put His hands on the children.
He said to the girl that was dead: Lu 8 “Maid arise.”
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