Luke 7:2-6
2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” 6 So Jesus went with them.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
I had a conversation today, about someone thinking that no one loves them... it just seem to them that no matter where they go they have negative reactions with people. As though their spirit goes to war with people. Of course my first response is that I told them they have to pray..and of course what is everyone response "I pray and nothing happens..." I had to explain to them, I thought I knew how to pray, but then I learned... through adversity I did not believe that I could of pray, I felt prayed out..
I know how they felt. But God did a renewal in me... he thought me how new he can be... Its like David renewal and newness with God, he was so excited that he told everyone to Sing a new song, make it jolly and gave it praise... because of Gods wonders. I learned that I could not do without him..and I learned that when I pray now that I take my mind straight to his throne and Imagine I am in front of him and I am praying to him.. I become the child and I let him be the father. Then I had to work very hard on obedience... it is very tough to want God to help you when you want to do your own thing. Think about all the times that you fell into the mud and God took you out and washed you and showed you a new way.. he saved you; so now that you know gladness you forget about God, all of sudden you believe that you did all of that yourself.. so you put God back on the shelf... I heard someone said "that when God saves you, the adversity comes in right after to take it all away from you... to distract you .. to make you believe that the Good that happen did not happen."
The adversity does their job well and you have to do your work well and believe... Faith without work is no faith at all... you have to hang on to the hem of Christ's garment... just like a child hangs on to their mother's dress coat, when they do not want to be lost or be taken away.. its the same way during those times that we hang onto the hem of Christs garment and he will take you through the storm. When the storm is over is when we have to give God more reverence, because that is our vulnerable time.
Just remember weeping endures for a night but joy cometh in the morning....
I love this passage about the Centurion servant... whatever job you are doing you do your best... I always tell people I had to learn that I was not working for the Managers and Directors of my job... I come in to the office to first and foremost do Gods work and receive Gods paycheck... He is the one who makes it all happen.. I am very concerned about giving away Gods glory to man... Here is the Servant who was sick to death... but because of the love that his master had for him, he could not see him suffering.. he believe because of the person he was he deserve deliverance... so the centurion went out of his way to show this servant love... even though the servant thought he was not worthy... It is God who sets your status.. It is God who give you the greatest amount of love, and he does not want anything out of it... All I know is that we cannot do it without God.
I want to Give a big shout out to my wonderful praying sister Cathy and Pastor, Pastor Carol.. who knew I was concerned about a situation and was able to reach out... I want to thank God for that, for the prayers and the moment... it was just an example of how he will never leave you forsaken.... I want to thank you God for Pastor Carol and Cathy, may you continue to keep them under your umbrella of protection.. may you deliver them from all evil seen or unseen and may they be delivered in your grace to know your joy and happiness in all of their affairs.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
I had a conversation today, about someone thinking that no one loves them... it just seem to them that no matter where they go they have negative reactions with people. As though their spirit goes to war with people. Of course my first response is that I told them they have to pray..and of course what is everyone response "I pray and nothing happens..." I had to explain to them, I thought I knew how to pray, but then I learned... through adversity I did not believe that I could of pray, I felt prayed out..
I know how they felt. But God did a renewal in me... he thought me how new he can be... Its like David renewal and newness with God, he was so excited that he told everyone to Sing a new song, make it jolly and gave it praise... because of Gods wonders. I learned that I could not do without him..and I learned that when I pray now that I take my mind straight to his throne and Imagine I am in front of him and I am praying to him.. I become the child and I let him be the father. Then I had to work very hard on obedience... it is very tough to want God to help you when you want to do your own thing. Think about all the times that you fell into the mud and God took you out and washed you and showed you a new way.. he saved you; so now that you know gladness you forget about God, all of sudden you believe that you did all of that yourself.. so you put God back on the shelf... I heard someone said "that when God saves you, the adversity comes in right after to take it all away from you... to distract you .. to make you believe that the Good that happen did not happen."
The adversity does their job well and you have to do your work well and believe... Faith without work is no faith at all... you have to hang on to the hem of Christ's garment... just like a child hangs on to their mother's dress coat, when they do not want to be lost or be taken away.. its the same way during those times that we hang onto the hem of Christs garment and he will take you through the storm. When the storm is over is when we have to give God more reverence, because that is our vulnerable time.
Just remember weeping endures for a night but joy cometh in the morning....
I love this passage about the Centurion servant... whatever job you are doing you do your best... I always tell people I had to learn that I was not working for the Managers and Directors of my job... I come in to the office to first and foremost do Gods work and receive Gods paycheck... He is the one who makes it all happen.. I am very concerned about giving away Gods glory to man... Here is the Servant who was sick to death... but because of the love that his master had for him, he could not see him suffering.. he believe because of the person he was he deserve deliverance... so the centurion went out of his way to show this servant love... even though the servant thought he was not worthy... It is God who sets your status.. It is God who give you the greatest amount of love, and he does not want anything out of it... All I know is that we cannot do it without God.
I want to Give a big shout out to my wonderful praying sister Cathy and Pastor, Pastor Carol.. who knew I was concerned about a situation and was able to reach out... I want to thank God for that, for the prayers and the moment... it was just an example of how he will never leave you forsaken.... I want to thank you God for Pastor Carol and Cathy, may you continue to keep them under your umbrella of protection.. may you deliver them from all evil seen or unseen and may they be delivered in your grace to know your joy and happiness in all of their affairs.
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