when i’m going through a tough time, how do i know the cause of it? you must pray about it, talk to GOD.
psalm 73.16-17 (tev), i tried to think this problem through but it was too difficult for me until i went into your temple.
when you worship, GOD uses getting together with other believers to help you clarify things that are going on in your life. that's why i hate to miss church. even when margaret and i go on vacation, we go to church and GOD always speaks to us.
listen, i don’t go to church out of guilt, habit, because somebody forces me to, because of a ritual. i go to find out if GOD has anything to say to me. almost every one of the major decisions in my life, many of the major turning points, happen when i was in a church service. before i went that day i had no idea what was going to happen. but because i went, i heard something from the bible and it made a change in me, a major decision.
i don’t know when those are going to happen so i go to church whenever i can. what if GOD had that speaker or that message just for me, what if i didn’t show up? so, on the possibility that HE might want to speak to me any particular week, i show up.
i am going to be in church this weekend at least once and i am excited about and anticipating what GOD is going to share with me about what is happening in my life. GOD has given brian moll the teaching pastor at forefront church in new york city a general word for all of us who are there to hear but in it GOD has a specific word for me personally to hear and i will be there to hear it. i don’t want to miss it.
psalm 73.16-17 (tev), i tried to think this problem through but it was too difficult for me until i went into your temple.
just a thought from the front porch…
2 comments:
It's great to receive encouragement and fellowship from other believers. I was wondering if you think that God only speaks to us in "church" - as in the building of believers / or group of believers?
no way, HE speaks through the bible as you read it and HE speaks to you personally. it just is difficult to hear when there is so much going on around you. that is why church is good because it is quiet and you are focusing.
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