This is my last Wednesday night bible study for awhile, I will still try to make it to church once or twice a month, but I am going to be attending ECU. If I have left you with only one thing I hope it will be this, the band name to official be The Son Day’s…pause for laughter… But really I want you to know God loves you, and that love will change your life when you accept it, no matter who you learned that from I want you to remember it. I do however hope I leave behind within you good memories and encouragement. This is not good bye it’s a new chapter we need to entitle I am saved by God’s grace. I love you all and I wouldn’t be as strong in my faith without your support and for that I thank you, and if any of you need to talk to someone feel free to call me I will do as much as humanly possible to help, but also pray about it because unlike me God Has no limits. [Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. ] Philippians 4:6 *Had someone read out that verse*
Most of the rest of my sermon is a post from my blog called "Priorities" on that you can read to see the progress in my walk with God, and as it continues in College.
*see “Priorities” in my February posts*
I picked this post for a few reasons, one of them being that I was getting pretty busy getting ready for college and I just needed a reminder of things He already told me. I also really wanted to incorporate Mark 8:34-36 they are such great verses. Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? This was also the post that struck up an interesting debate between Nick and Andrew, and myself two curious Atheists that comment on this post and several after this one. Most importantly sometimes you just need to humbly yourself before God and have faith that you are close enough to hear His call and enough strength to answer it.
This was just my outline, I added to every couple of sentence just stuff I felt I needed to say, and did not read it verbatim. I humbled myself before God, and did my best to have the Holy Spirit move thru me. Even with the story additions and group participation I still finish with time to spear, which if I would have been acting on my own accord that would have been a bad thing, but God had better plans with that “extra” time and I shared an over view of my testimony so far, even, little things I usually over look but that might help someone else. See my post “Developing the faith-ics (My testimony)” to get some of my testimony and when ever God is willing I will continue the testimony with starting my Faith-ics (My testimony continued). This is only my second sermon I lead and although I started off nervous I felt like I started to get the hang of it. I am not saying I will become a sermon leader (I pray if He calls me to that I will have the strength and willingness to listen) but I already am a Minister, all His saved children are meant to share the Joy that comes with the good news. Your actions not only effect your own walk but also the walks of those around you, If God put it on your heart to share the good news to someone and you don’t how much longer does that person have to wait before he or she is saved? God uses the people around us to answer the prays we have and vice versa.
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