MY FRIENDS, SOMETIMES IT WILL TAKE A MOUNTAIN ARE WE PREPARED?

Jan. 3, 2015

MY FRIENDS, SOMETIMES IT WILL TAKE A MOUNTAIN ARE WE PREPARED?

Forgive me, Jesus I thought I could control Whatever life would throw my way But this I will admit Has brought me to my knees I need you Lord and I’m not ashamed to say Sometimes it takes a mountain Sometimes a troubled sea Sometimes it takes a desert To get a hold of me.

Your Love is so much stronger Then whatever troubles me Sometimes it takes a mountain To trust you and believe.” (Gaither Vocal Band – Sometimes It Takes A Mountain) My friends sometimes it takes a mountain to even show one of God’s elect, one of God’s Children, one of God’s chosen, how much we need our Savior.

That is why we must admit some situations brings us to our knees more than others and those troubled waters may not always be money problems or family issues sometimes it might just be to others insignificant, but a mountain in our life, one that God has created just for our Character.

Because my friends at times we lose our focus or take it off kilter just a fraction. Oh but our God is the one who while on Calvary knew what it would take to get a hold of us, so He said in 2016 I’m going to have to take them to another level.

but before that happens, it’s going to take a mountain or a troubled sea or maybe just a desert To get a hold of my child and tell them “I know the thoughts that I think toward you [my child],…thoughts of peace, and not of evil, [because He wants to give to each of us] an expected end.”

A end that  “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Jer.29:11 (KJV) 1Cor 2:9 (KJV) Arnold Palmer tells a story that I have told before but is appropriate as we begin our new year.

“It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and he had a one-stroke lead and had just hit a very satisfying tee shot. He felt he was in pretty good shape. As he approached the ball, he saw an old friend standing at the edge of the gallery.

He motioned him over, stuck out his hand and said, “Congratulations.” he took his hand and shook it, but as soon as he did, he knew he had lost his focus. And so, he went on to lose the Masters.”

My friends God is telling us today, I need to get a hold of you I need you to stay focused and find out my will for you and understand these mountains and troubled seas are just my way of telling you My grace and love is sufficient if you will give Me your all.

But, Christ must become our focal point until He “descends from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rises first: Then we which are alive and remain.

[Those who stayed focused to the end through our faith and endurance] shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” And so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4:16-17 (KJV)

So friends, our mountains, troubled seas and deserts are all about what it is going to take to make sure, we as God’s chosen listens to that still small voice that will guide us every step of the way on our journey to the promise land.

Every excuse we may give as the reason we cannot serve Christ, was challenged and answered at Calvary.