I want to take this time to apologize for the break in my "Happy Sunday! messages. I had computer problems. I hope to have them permanently resolved soon! I was so sad about missing even one Sunday. I was trying to complete the whole year without missing one Sunday! Oh well, I will try again. Thanks to everyone that let me know how they missed the messages.
I haven't missed any church services though, and Bishop has been preaching excellent messages as usual.
Last week he preached, "It's Time to Snap Out of It!" He used 2 Kings 7:3-11 as his text. I love that story!
2 Kings 7:3-11 (New Living Translation)
3 Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.” 5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! 6 For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. 7 So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives. 8 When the lepers arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. 9 Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace.” 10 So they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. “We went out to the Aramean camp,” they said, “and no one was there! The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around!” 11 Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.
Bishop encouraged us to "SNAP OUT OF IT!" You know what your "IT" is. It is that fear that keeps you from being all you can be, it is the negative things people have told you in the past, and it is anything that keeps you from moving forward. Bishop asked us, and now I ask you..."What if there is in a better you in you?"
God wants you to be your best! He has given you all you need to succeed.
2 Peter 1:3 (New Living Translation)
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.
You just have to decide to move!
“You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”
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