Pray the Hardest, when it is the hardest to pray

     Today's church sermon while listening online.            There are two roadblocks to Peace. They are:           -When noise drowns out wisdom.                      -"It's time to TURN OFF the noise of the world, and TURN UP the wisdom of God."           -When Passion goes over principal.                      -"Most of our fights are driven by our passions. War starts on the inside of a person and shows on the outside." -James 1:7- the Wisdom of God. -James 3:16- the wisdom of the world.         There are 5 steps of how to be people of peace. Those 5 steps are in James and they are verses 7 and 8. Here are the 5 steps: -Get out of the driver's sit. -Silence the lies. -Nuture your relationship with God. -Remove the dirt. -Realign your heart with God. Al...

          Jesus prayed a lot in Luke. He was teaching people to pray during that part of his ministry. He prayed for a lot of different things. He was lonely, for friends and mean people, to his Father, etc. He went to a place where He was alone to pray. He didn't want to show off. Here are 7 of His prayers from Luke:  -"Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed" (Luke 5:15–16). -"One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor."- (Luke 6:12–16). -"Therefor...

           I never had more of a confirmation then just now during my Bible study time. For a few days in a row, these past couple of weeks, all I could think to pray about was peace, love, compassion, and forgiveness. You might see a prayer or two on here about that. Well, God brought me to a Psalm that had three of those things in it. Now to me that is showing me that we really need those things in the world today. Here are those three things worded in the Bible: -Peace-Psalm 61:2 -Steady Love-Psalm 61:7 -Good Faith.-Psalm 62:7 I've been praying for the Peace and the Love. Never thought about the Faith til now. I will throw this out there too. Psalm 61 talks about how we should handle it and how to pray for our leaders that are dealing with it now. Anyone that's dealing with it because we can pray these things for them.             Then I got to thinking about what other words can describe these words. I started thinking...

June 10th, 2020 -All Lives Matter To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”  - Luke 18:9-14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are a world full of "Pharisees". Everyone thinks they are better than the next person. Everyone is mad at everyone else. They are so confident in their own...

"Pray the hardest, when it is the hardest to pray."   Facebook post-  I am going to say something stronger on here then I usually do but it has nothing to do about politics or which side I am on so please take it into consideration. I know all my friends and family are smart and know me so they know where this is coming from. I am not trying to start anything. It is just my missionary heart speaking in this time of need for the world. Trust me I have been struggling with some of the same things and I am scared because of how close it hits home for me. I'm not too proud to say on Facebook that I have been crying a lot lately with things going on but that's me again. Here it is: "Why can't I think how to pray? It's not the time to lose it. It's time to do it! How, Daddy, How? Is the world so messed up? That different from even a year ago? We all want Peace, Love, Forgiveness, and Compassion. So why won't we  just listen instead of fight. Why won...

Beautiful Diversity Beautiful Diversity is what makes the World a beautiful place. It comes in Many shapes, colors, and sizes. It is Very unique. It never comes in the same  Package. That's what makes it so Beautiful.   Diversity is something that God does  beautifully. He makes people in His image Which is just beautiful. He makes us  Different because that is needed in the  World. Whether it is color, body ablities,  And so forth. Everyone can do something! That is beautiful diversity! Beautiful Diversity is older people then You because they have wisdom to pass Down. They have been through things That you are going through now. They  Are also the gentler generation. They  Have been through so much. More then We could ever think of. Times are  Different but we can still learn from them In some way. Diversity is something this world needs. Can you just imagine if we were all the Same race? Can you imagine if nature  Was all the same rac...

Church Sermon notes from May 17th, 2020 . -Luke 6:17-26 -Why do we got to church?            -We desire to be like Christ. -Love is Christ!           -1 Cor. 13 -What does a follower of Jesus look like?                -Look at Chapter 6 -The Beatitudes            -They are in Luke and Matthew in 2 different semons. -The Sermon on the Plain               -Luke 6 -The Sermon on the Mount                 - Matthew 5 -John 6:63 Did this open your eyes? Did you see how God wants us to act? It is so important! He goes over it more then one time.