When are you the happiest? Is it when you are in the house of the LORD?

 

Good morning everyone.  God is good all the time, all the time God is good.

 

  Are you familiar with Psalm 26:8?  "LORD, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory lives".

  When you go to worship, whether in church, in your secret hiding place, in your "God" area where you study---can you honestly say "I LOVE BEING HERE"; "I LOVE STUDYING AND HEARING YOUR WORD" -- can you earnestly say this?

   When you sit in church or your special place--where is your heart? Your Mind? Do your thoughts wander. Do you have thoughts like: hope this is over so we can see the Cowboys play? The Texans play? Or, I am really wanting to eat lunch at XXXX today, hope service is over and I beat the crowd, or...........................

  Where is your heart, mind, and soul?  Do you really, earnestly seek the LORD, or do you just GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS?

   God wants us complete, not just portions of us or not when it is convenient; God wants ALL OF US - 100% DAILY!!!

    My thoughts should always be surrounded by obedience to God. Would this be pleasing to God?  Would God encourage me to do this?  God wants us to be hot for him.  The end times are drawing nearer and in Revelation 3:16 we are told to be either hot or cold, but if we are lukewarm HE will spew us from his mouth.  “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

  We should have the faith of the Canaanite woman in the Bible. This woman's daughter was possessed by demons.  We are often possessed by demons - - like the demon of leaving church in time to:  watch sports; go to a movie; eat lunch; play golf; go fishing; take a drive; or whatever.

   We need to rid ourselves of these demons.  The woman was of great faith as should we be and when she followed Jesus, crying out to him, here is HIS response:

  ²⁸ Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

  My prayer is that you and I will be made whole this very hour.  Are you happy when studying the word of God?  Listening to the word of God? OR, doing something else? Soul search and take salvation seriously. Love you all.

In Christ's Love and Grace

Johnny