DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE SERMON WAS ABOUT AT YOUR CHURCH LAST SUNDAY? THIS MIGHT SOUND LIKE A DUMB QUESTION BUT YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED AT HOW MANY PEOPLE JUST CAN'T REMEMBER. WE GET SO CAUGHT UP IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES THAT SOMETIMES WE ARE NOT REALLY THINKING ABOUT JESUS. I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS ONE OF THOSE IN MY YOUNGER DAYS. I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET OUT OF CHURCH, GET HOME AND GET READY FOR THAT FOOTBALL GAME, OR GO FISHING OR JUST ANYTHING BUT BEING IN CHURCH. YOU ASK ME WHY I EVEN WENT??? I WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW WHAT A GOOD CHRISTIANS I WAS. ISN'T THAT SAD. I HAVE SINCE ASK...
Mark 4:37-38, "And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master carest thou not that we perish?"
MATTHEW 12:46-50; 8:23-27; MARK 3:31-35; 4:35-41; LUKE 8:19-26
I HAVE BEEN STUDYING ALL THE PLACES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE JESUS IS TELLING US TO "ASK" AND FOUND IT EXCITING. I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU TO DO THE SAME. I KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY IT. JUST READ AND THINK ON THEM. HE IS TELLING US TO ASK ALTHOUGH HE KNOWS WHAT WE NEED EVEN BEFORE WE ASK. HOWEVER, IF HE SAYS ASK, THEN WE SHOULD ASK.
WE JUST NEED TO REMEMBER TO ASK IN HIS NAME. THAT IS WHAT HE TELLS US IN JOHN 14:13-14 WHERE HE SAYS "
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS THOUGHT OF PEACE TOWARD US? THAT IS WHAT JEREMIAH 29:11 SAYS "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
HAVE YOU EVER JUST SAT ALONE SOMEWHERE AND SANG PRAISES TO JESUS? WHAT A WONDERFUL FEELING IT IS TO JUST BE CAUGHT UP IN HIS LOVE. THIS BRINGS TO MIND A WONDERFUL FRIEND OF MINE. I CAN STILL SEE HER SITTING ON HER FRONT PORCH ON HER "HILL TOP", LIFTING HER HANDS TO THE LORD AND SINGING PRAISES TO HIM. WE SHOULD ALL FIND OUR "HILL TOP" AND DO THIS.
Matthew 13:44, "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field."
