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just some food for thought not sure if any one will read it but i am just throwing it out there,
yesterday my pastor was out of town so he asked me to do the service for him, now i am my last pick to speak to the congregation but i also will never say no when the Lord opens the door of opportunity. i feel like i am the biggest screw up of all so i have no business speaking in the church, but i also know that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God...that is biblical. So are any of us really worthy? I think not, however God still uses us. Just like his original disciples. i like peter because he was like me, always screwing up but learnintg as he went and this man became so strong in the Lord that people would be healed just by his shadow....so taking thatinto consideration I allowed myself to be used by God and let him speak through me and i would even say to a pretty tough croud lol......so any way here goes
The message last night was essentially about hospitals and how most people outside the hospitals are just as sick as the ones inside, the only difference is the sickness has either gone undiagnosed or disguised....i remember when the doctors finally diagnosed me with diabetes there is no telling how long i had it before they told me but what brought me to the hospital was a sugar level of over 600 and pretty much being in a state where the people at the hospital told me i should be dead.....i was violently shaking and sweating yet freezing cold...it took something that shook my foundation and scared me to death to bring me to a state of humility so i would give in and say "I need help, take me to the hospital!"
Its the same thing with the church (or at least how the church should be) the church is a spiritual hospital for that community and the people out side are just as sick as the ones inside, see a church isnt a place of model behavior its a place for human misbehavior to be brought out into the open and dealt with....Its a purification process, just like gold...Gold isnt pure when you first find it in the river or in a mine its got impurities and needs to be sent through a purification process. That is done by sending it through the fire....heating it to a point that its never been before so all the impure things can surface, and when that happens ...over and over and over again.....gold becomes the pure shiny element that we see in the stores....same thing with us, we are born into this world a sinner but through life we go through a purification process and we have all the junk in our life brought to the top so it can surface and we can become a better person, however (this is when the hospital comes in) when we dont let those problems surface and deal with them with help from God, we tend to get a spiritual infection that can land us in one of the biggest crisis we have ever faced and when that happens, when we reach that point, it brings us to the state of humility to where we raise our hands and say "I need help, take me to the hospital!" and there at the altar we find our healer we find the medicine the cure for what we are battleing
yesterday my pastor was out of town so he asked me to do the service for him, now i am my last pick to speak to the congregation but i also will never say no when the Lord opens the door of opportunity. i feel like i am the biggest screw up of all so i have no business speaking in the church, but i also know that we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God...that is biblical. So are any of us really worthy? I think not, however God still uses us. Just like his original disciples. i like peter because he was like me, always screwing up but learnintg as he went and this man became so strong in the Lord that people would be healed just by his shadow....so taking thatinto consideration I allowed myself to be used by God and let him speak through me and i would even say to a pretty tough croud lol......so any way here goes
The message last night was essentially about hospitals and how most people outside the hospitals are just as sick as the ones inside, the only difference is the sickness has either gone undiagnosed or disguised....i remember when the doctors finally diagnosed me with diabetes there is no telling how long i had it before they told me but what brought me to the hospital was a sugar level of over 600 and pretty much being in a state where the people at the hospital told me i should be dead.....i was violently shaking and sweating yet freezing cold...it took something that shook my foundation and scared me to death to bring me to a state of humility so i would give in and say "I need help, take me to the hospital!"
Its the same thing with the church (or at least how the church should be) the church is a spiritual hospital for that community and the people out side are just as sick as the ones inside, see a church isnt a place of model behavior its a place for human misbehavior to be brought out into the open and dealt with....Its a purification process, just like gold...Gold isnt pure when you first find it in the river or in a mine its got impurities and needs to be sent through a purification process. That is done by sending it through the fire....heating it to a point that its never been before so all the impure things can surface, and when that happens ...over and over and over again.....gold becomes the pure shiny element that we see in the stores....same thing with us, we are born into this world a sinner but through life we go through a purification process and we have all the junk in our life brought to the top so it can surface and we can become a better person, however (this is when the hospital comes in) when we dont let those problems surface and deal with them with help from God, we tend to get a spiritual infection that can land us in one of the biggest crisis we have ever faced and when that happens, when we reach that point, it brings us to the state of humility to where we raise our hands and say "I need help, take me to the hospital!" and there at the altar we find our healer we find the medicine the cure for what we are battleing
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