Psalm 18: 29
Running and Leaping
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
(Psalm 18: 29 KJV)
God did something for David that I want God to do for me, and that you want God to do for you. God empowers David to run through a troop, and leap over a wall. His life is a meeting with battles and he wins every one, running through the battle, conquering soldiers. Many times David escapes his enemies, leaping over walls. This text, Psalms 18:29, is David’s testimony of the power that God gives him to win every battle. It is God who wins, because God gives David strength to run and leap.
What God did for David, God did for Nelson Mandela, who runs through the troop on Robben Island where he is imprison for 27 years to freedom. He runs and then he leaps over the wall of apartheid, knocking it down carrying his people on his back. God did the same for Barack Obama, who runs through a troop to become President of the United States of America, and leaps over the wall of impossibility to sign a Health Care Reform Bill.
John McCain was a North Vietnamese prisoner of war for five and a half years where he suffers torture, but he outruns the troop and reaches freedom in 1973. After set free, McCain keeps on running until he leaps over the wall of injustice, writing the John McCain Detainee Amendment, banning inhumane treatment of American prisoners of war, even those at Guantanamo Bay.
We want God to do for us what God did for David, Nelson, Barack, and McCain. When we do what we do on behalf of others God is with us, empowering us to run through troops and leap over walls. Let’s become the running and leaping generation and continue David's legacy. I’m looking to see you soon on the highway of life, running through a troop and leaping over a wall. Amen! Amen!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Pslam 69:13
GOD ANSWERS PAYER WHEN WE ARE READY FOR THE ANSWER
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time (Psalm 69:13a).
When we pray God does not always answer us because the time is not right for God to answer. I know we believe that God is a right now God, but that is not always true. God is a right now God if the time is right. Our God refuses to answer our prayers if what we ask God to do prevents us from doing the will of God, or prevents God’s will in the lives of others.
Don’t you remember that God sends Jesus into the world, only when the time is right. God waits for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobs to do God will in the earth. Then God sends all the prophets into the world, and lastly God sends John, to prepare the way for Jesus. And then when the time was right God sends Jesus, born of a virgin, name Mary.
Yes, in the fullness of time God sends Jesus (Galatians 4:4) That means that God sends Jesus into the world when the time is right for the world to need a Savior. God is a timely God, who knows our time and answers not our prayer if the time is not right for us, and others.
In the book of Psalms, Chapter 69:13a, the writer of the book of Psalms knows that God answers only at an acceptable time. And so David prayers that God answers his prayer when the time is acceptable. David knows God answers prayer at a determine time, and so he prays knowing that Gods answers his prayer when the times is right.
Not unlike David we must pray and patiently wait for God to answer our prayer. God hears us, and God answers us when God decides the time is right for us to receive that for which we prayer.
GOD ANSWERS PAYER WHEN WE ARE READY FOR THE ANSWER
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time (Psalm 69:13a).
When we pray God does not always answer us because the time is not right for God to answer. I know we believe that God is a right now God, but that is not always true. God is a right now God if the time is right. Our God refuses to answer our prayers if what we ask God to do prevents us from doing the will of God, or prevents God’s will in the lives of others.
Don’t you remember that God sends Jesus into the world, only when the time is right. God waits for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobs to do God will in the earth. Then God sends all the prophets into the world, and lastly God sends John, to prepare the way for Jesus. And then when the time was right God sends Jesus, born of a virgin, name Mary.
Yes, in the fullness of time God sends Jesus (Galatians 4:4) That means that God sends Jesus into the world when the time is right for the world to need a Savior. God is a timely God, who knows our time and answers not our prayer if the time is not right for us, and others.
In the book of Psalms, Chapter 69:13a, the writer of the book of Psalms knows that God answers only at an acceptable time. And so David prayers that God answers his prayer when the time is acceptable. David knows God answers prayer at a determine time, and so he prays knowing that Gods answers his prayer when the times is right.
Not unlike David we must pray and patiently wait for God to answer our prayer. God hears us, and God answers us when God decides the time is right for us to receive that for which we prayer.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Don't Play the Blame Game
Don’t be like Aunt Mae who almost started a riot at her granddaughter's school last week. There was a race at the school and Aunt Mae's granddaughter lost. The winner was a girl everybody harass because she has big feet. Well, those big feet run fast. Aunt Mae was furious when the girl with big feet put her feet over the finish line just seconds before her granddaughter. Aunt Mae says the race was un-fair because her granddaughter was defeated, not by the speed of the winner, but by her big-feet. Aunt Mae blames the girl’s big feet for her granddaughter’s defeat.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
FAITH IS TALKING GOOD
Everybody talking about faith got it. You see faith is talk. No talk, no faith. If you say you got it, you have it. And if you say you don’t have it, you don’t have it. You can’t have it, if you say you don’t have it. And if you say you have it, you have what you say. Every time you say what you say, you say what’s in your heart. And so if you talk, faith-talk, then faith is in your heart. Now, if you talk doubt and unbelief, THEN doubt and unbelief is in your heart. If you are talking doubt and unbelief: “Shut your mouth.” If you don’t shut your mouth you will have what you say. Now open your mouth and tell yourself and everybody else that God CAN DO ANYTHING but fail. Talk God- talk and you talk faith-talk. You see you can’t faith-talk without God- talk. And you can’t God- talk without faith-talk. Faith-talk is the proof that you believe God not only CAN, but will do all that you say that God will do. If you dare say it, God will prove that your hope in God to give you what you hope in your heart that God will give you is faith that gets you what you hope God will give you.Now remember the greatest faith-talk is prayer-talk. What's that you're saying, "you don't believe me." Well, talk to Mark (Mark 11:25), tell him what you don't believe.
I hear you raising the question, “What is faith?” Well, being this is Labor Day, I guess I can do a little work, and answer your question. Faith is: (1) love work; (2) abandoning sight; (3) living while dying; (4) living with dying; (5) an inheritance; (6) eating what you didn’t plant; (7) seeing light in darkness; (8) a river running in the spirit watering possibilities; (9) hope outrunning fear; (10) driving without gas; (11) turning words into gold; (12) dying when old; (13) sucking honey out of the rock of doubt; (14) a gift of the spirit; (15) standing without feet; (15) the path to salvation; (16) pleasing God; (17) the ears of God’s word; (18) holy assurance; (19) human hands at work; (20) salvation drinking grace; (21) grandmother’s gift; (22) grandfather’s speech; (23) mother’s eyes; (24) father’s ears; (25) the evidence that you trust God to bring into sight that which your heart longs for but your eyes cannot see; (26) faith is prayer; and (27) faith is earning a good report.
Philippians 3:13b
You ain't taking about nothing. I'm tired of hearing about this and that, yesterday, and last week. Listen, to me, because I want to give you the good word. Didn't the Bible tell you to to forget about what you said and did last week. I know you made a big mistake on your job, and you got a ticket for speeding in a school zone. But, go on. Forget about it. Don't sweat what happen yesterday. Forget it! So what, your wife forgot your birthday. I keep on telling you to "forget it." Listen, the prophet Isaiah had the good word from God, writing, "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Listen, you can't remeber what happen last year, neither can you consider, saying, "what if," about what you didn't do that you thought you should have done. Don't even consider what should, or could, or would have happened if you had done this or that. No, no, forget it. Yes, you made a poor choice; yes, you got yourself in debt; yes, you act a fool. But, forget it. Refuse to remember what when down yesterday.Why? God is doing a new thing. The new thing that God is doing he is doing now. Do you not see what God is doing? Listen, you will miss this thing that God is doing in your life;in your ministry, if you are looking at yesterday. You can't see what God is doing today, if you eyes are on what you did yesterday. Now when you look backward you are look at yourself because God is not present in the past. And you know as well as I that there in no power in self. But when you look forward you are looking at God. You see humanity knows about what happened yesterday. Hey, just check out the news. But no man, or woman, can predict the future. That's why the future is of God. It's a God thing. God is a futurist God. A God who moves forward, a progressive God, demanding a progressive people. God is moving, so you've gotta move, if you want the new thing that God is doing. Can't you see it? Well, if you can't it only because your eyes have a backward look.Don't look back and miss God. Look forward! In the words of old man Paul, forget those things which are behind, and reach forth for those thing which are before ( Philippians 3:13b).Now listen, you can't reach out and touch those things that God have for you if you are looking backward. Come on, give me a forward look. I know you can. Yes, you can; yes, you can. Oh, yes you can. __________________________________________________
Friday, October 23, 2009
Jesus Give My Life Your Light
When in doubt…about what is right and what is wrong……just remember when you’re doubting that Jesus still sits upon the throne…….in the heavens….on the right side of God….the Father………..look to Jesus for the answer……never doubt his love for you…..Jesus wants to lead and guide you……and that he will do ……if in your struggle to do the right and not the wrong……you call on the name of Jesus…. .wait…but not long….for that peace…..which is beyond human understanding….comes……calming your mind…..bringing clarity to your thoughts……light out of the darkness of confusion……so know that regardless of what may come……your life will always have purpose and praise…….if only you remember to say……Jesus…..the way…the truth….and the light…….shine on my path……..give my life your light……
When in doubt…about what is right and what is wrong……just remember when you’re doubting that Jesus still sits upon the throne…….in the heavens….on the right side of God….the Father………..look to Jesus for the answer……never doubt his love for you…..Jesus wants to lead and guide you……and that he will do ……if in your struggle to do the right and not the wrong……you call on the name of Jesus…. .wait…but not long….for that peace…..which is beyond human understanding….comes……calming your mind…..bringing clarity to your thoughts……light out of the darkness of confusion……so know that regardless of what may come……your life will always have purpose and praise…….if only you remember to say……Jesus…..the way…the truth….and the light…….shine on my path……..give my life your light……
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Yes You Can Shut Your Mouth
YES YOU CAN SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Everybody talking about faith got it. You see faith is talk. No talk, no faith. If you say you got it, you have it. And if you say you don’t have it, you don’t have it. You can’t have it, if you say you don’t have it. And if you say you have it, you have what you say. Every time you say what you say, you say what’s in your heart. And so if you talk, faith-talk, then faith is in your heart. Now, if you talk doubt and unbelief, THEN doubt and unbelief is in your heart. If you are talking doubt and unbelief: “Shut your mouth.” If you don’t shut your mouth you will have what you say. Now open your mouth and tell yourself and everybody else that God CAN DO ANYTHING but fail. Talk God- talk and you talk faith-talk. You see you can’t faith-talk without God- talk. And you can’t God- talk without faith-talk. Faith-talk is the proof that you believe God not only CAN, but will do all that you say that God will do. If you dare say it, God will prove that your hope in God to give you what you hope in your heart that God will give you is faith that gets you what you hope God will give you.Now remember the greatest faith-talk is prayer-talk. What's that you're saying, "you don't believe me." Well, talk to Mark (Mark 11:25), tell him what you don't believe.
I hear you raising the question, “What is faith?” Well, being this is Labor Day, I guess I can do a little work, and answer your question. Faith is: (1) love work; (2) abandoning sight; (3) living while dying; (4) living with dying; (5) an inheritance; (6) eating what you didn’t plant; (7) seeing light in darkness; (8) a river running in the spirit watering possibilities; (9) hope outrunning fear; (10) driving without gas; (11) turning words into gold; (12) dying when old; (13) sucking honey out of the rock of doubt; (14) a gift of the spirit; (15) standing without feet; (15) the path to salvation; (16) pleasing God; (17) the ears of God’s word; (18) holy assurance; (19) human hands at work; (20) salvation drinking grace; (21) grandmother’s gift; (22) grandfather’s speech; (23) mother’s eyes; (24) father’s ears; (25) the evidence that you trust God to bring into sight that which your heart longs for but your eyes cannot see; (26) faith is prayer; and (27) faith is earning a good report.
Everybody talking about faith got it. You see faith is talk. No talk, no faith. If you say you got it, you have it. And if you say you don’t have it, you don’t have it. You can’t have it, if you say you don’t have it. And if you say you have it, you have what you say. Every time you say what you say, you say what’s in your heart. And so if you talk, faith-talk, then faith is in your heart. Now, if you talk doubt and unbelief, THEN doubt and unbelief is in your heart. If you are talking doubt and unbelief: “Shut your mouth.” If you don’t shut your mouth you will have what you say. Now open your mouth and tell yourself and everybody else that God CAN DO ANYTHING but fail. Talk God- talk and you talk faith-talk. You see you can’t faith-talk without God- talk. And you can’t God- talk without faith-talk. Faith-talk is the proof that you believe God not only CAN, but will do all that you say that God will do. If you dare say it, God will prove that your hope in God to give you what you hope in your heart that God will give you is faith that gets you what you hope God will give you.Now remember the greatest faith-talk is prayer-talk. What's that you're saying, "you don't believe me." Well, talk to Mark (Mark 11:25), tell him what you don't believe.
I hear you raising the question, “What is faith?” Well, being this is Labor Day, I guess I can do a little work, and answer your question. Faith is: (1) love work; (2) abandoning sight; (3) living while dying; (4) living with dying; (5) an inheritance; (6) eating what you didn’t plant; (7) seeing light in darkness; (8) a river running in the spirit watering possibilities; (9) hope outrunning fear; (10) driving without gas; (11) turning words into gold; (12) dying when old; (13) sucking honey out of the rock of doubt; (14) a gift of the spirit; (15) standing without feet; (15) the path to salvation; (16) pleasing God; (17) the ears of God’s word; (18) holy assurance; (19) human hands at work; (20) salvation drinking grace; (21) grandmother’s gift; (22) grandfather’s speech; (23) mother’s eyes; (24) father’s ears; (25) the evidence that you trust God to bring into sight that which your heart longs for but your eyes cannot see; (26) faith is prayer; and (27) faith is earning a good report.
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