Faith

Heb11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

Sometimes we lack faith in the things that we ask from God because we doubt him. But, when you think about faith is an action word. Yet when we pray we have a tendency to second guess ourselves and wonder if he will for fill our prayer. I believe that the reason why so many people lack faith is because we expect God to fulfill the request right then but if he did that that would not build our faith. Sometimes we lack faith because we are afraid to take it to him in prayer. We even look at the faith of others and wish we had their faith but he gives out the same amount of faith to everyone. But,it just depends on how much faith we display is to whether or not that will come to pass. We should always have a now kind of faith in order to receive what we ask for. I know in my own walk i have had with my faith in God. But, i am working on that one day at a time. I know that he will bring through this storm I am in but I just have to keep the faith and walk with him daily.

Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost Sunday is a very special day to us Pentecostals this is the day that we celebrate our roots. Our roots can be found in the Book of Acts where Peter preached the first message to the masses. And it still continues to this day. I am glad to be known as a Pentecostal.

The thorns of life.

2Cor12:7 And lest I should be exalted above the measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in my flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure.(kjv)

Throughout the years many preachers, teachers and theologians have speculated what the thorn in Pauls flesh was. Some have said that may have been some kind of speech problem or a problem with his eyesight or maybe with his walking. Has anyone ever stop to think maybe it could have been some temptation of some sort that he could have been struggling with. We probably will never know exactly what it was until we get yo heaven. But,if we don’t kick certain temptations in our life they can become thorns in our flesh. We often hang on to the thorn as a trophy and won’t let God deliver us from that thorn. In a lot of cases I believe that we hang on to certain temptations because we don’t really know how to operate with out so thats why a lot of times we go back to the same thing over and over.But, there will be times that God will us Thorns to move us up to the next level in our walk with him. I also believe believe that he will give us a thorn in our flesh to teach us to depend on him.

In closing more and likely Paul’s thorn in the flesh was something that was physical. It could have been anything we should never question God is doing we should just follow his lead. He will never misdirect us .

Picking up old burdens that weighs us down.

Matthew11:28 If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens come to me and I will give you rest. (cev)

Sometimes we have a tendency to pick back up old burdens that we have laid at the foot of the cross. Or we don’t completely let go of them when we give that burden to him. But God never designed us to hang on to burdens or pick them back up as we walk with him, When we pick old burdens back up we can cause ourselves a lot of heartache and stress. If the burden gets heavy enough we can loose our anointing and also our spirit man can become sluggish and begin to die. But in order for this not to happen we must totally release the burden to God and not fight him on the issue so he can use it for his glory someday.

Wed night bible study

Last night our pastor taught on the differences between being a consumer and a producer. His text was was John 15 where Jesus is talking about the vine and the branches and how we are suppose to produce as Christians. He talked about how we have become a nation of consumers instead of producers which is very true and how it really can hurt your spiritual man. When we become so consumed with our own basic needs that turns us into consumers. But in the kingdom if God we aren’t suppose to be suppose to be producers but in so many ways even in Gods house we have become consumers by just listening to the word and doing nothing in return. God made his people to to produce because when you become stagnant you will slowly die and not bear the right kind of fruit. Thank you God for the reminder