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Our Personal Relationship with God....
Okay the other day we talked about Elkanah and Hannah and Peninnah.
Our relationship with God NEEDS to be personal...what kind of relationship can we have if it is not personal.
The promises that God has made to us are awesome. All the promises of God are "Yes and Amen!" Not Maybe...
When we were in church this past Sunday, our pastor took us thru a whole lot of promises that our God has made to us.
There will be some parts of what I am writing that will sound just like Pastor Don Wolabaugh, and that's because they are quotes from him...
So where ever you see italicized text that will be straight from Pastor's sermon.
So the other day we spoke of 1 Samuel.
The next promise is 2 Corinthians 1:20 and this verse tells us that all the promises of God are yes and Amen and direct from the bible: For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
The next verse is Exodus 23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. You know all the promises of God are so awesome, but lets take this apart a little bit, and then we will read it all together again.
The very first part of this verse...And ye shall serve the LORD your God, oh this is so important, and I want you to really understand what it says...next we have...and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; God wants to bless us! He wants to bless our bread and He wants to bless our water...we will always have plenty when God is blessing us!
The last part of this verse says: and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. You know that sickness is straight from the devil. Now I know this is true and I do struggle with this one. Even though I know it's true. Why do
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I struggle with this...well I will tell you, a few weeks back I caught a little bug, now this is really the first time I have been even a little sick, in a few years. And I just figured this out. I got sick because I am walking closer to God (and so is the rest of this house hold!) and the evil one doesn't like it! So he says I think I'll throw this at her and see what happens. Well it did affect me, but I am not sure that the devil would agree that it was what he wanted. This was the week of our VBS (Vacation Bible School) and I was planning on going and kind of floating and helping were ever...so the ladies weren't really expecting me in a solid position. Well Monday and Tuesday I went to bed at 6:30 in the evening and slept until 4:30 in the morning...I coughed and had a runny nose all that week and we decided that God was just making sure that I got some rest that I needed. So that is what I did! BUT I am going to work to attain this promise in full. If I am doing what God wants me to do I will be able to claim ALL His promises. Now read the whole verse again... And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Let's move on... Our next verse is Deuteronomy 30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: When Pastor Don was speaking about this verse, he went into detail about the fact that when Temp agencies call Harvest Chapel asking if there is anyone looking for work to please send them to them because, and I think this is so neat, the people that Pastor sends to the temp agency are good employees. They have a good work ethic. If they are working in a factory and everybody else is producing 10 in a given time the people that are sent from our church are producing 12, and it is not because of our own strength and ability, it is because we rely on the strength and ability of God.
Well I really hate to do this, but I have to stop for a bit...so I will be back to you soon with more promises from God.
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