July 12, 2010 Lip Service

The people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips.

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Monday and the day we pray for our president and all of our other leaders, and we pray for our veterans, our military, our police, firefighters, medical folks, and all others who work so hard to keep us safe and healthy. Please also pray for Kathleen Sansoni and her husband Tom. Kathleen is fighting a battle with cancer and needs our prayers and support, and we need to pray for Tom as he stands by his wife in this battle. A praise report on Tom, who was laid off from work a few months back, HE HAS BEEN CALLED BACK. Thank you Lord. In the meantime, God did provide. God is good, folks. Also Mark, who was laid off, has found new work and it is going good. Praise be to God. Also today please pray for the oil to stop flowing from the leak and help people who are to be in charge of these things understand that if we were drilling on top of the land and we had a leak, it could be capped quickly. There are many places in America where God has placed oil, gas, coal, etc., and He put it there to be used, and yes, we are to take care of the earth, but it is to be used. Right now God is talking to me about the coins, do you remember that story? Coming soon to this line, I am sure...

Speaking the Same Language or Lip Service: Isaiah 29:13 - These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. (NIV)

Here in the United States of America most of us think it would be nice if all people had to speak "English". After all, it is our language, and in days past those coming to America tried hard to learn to speak English, although many with an accent, and many speaking what we have learned to call broken English. We have many people in this country who can't speak English at all, and then we have people like me who cannot understand any other language except maybe the bark of our dogs when they want out. For a day or two, or for however long God keeps me on this subject, I want to talk to you about "speaking the same language". Where will it go, I have no idea for God has only opened the subject this morning and it could even end after today. But for today, I want to talk to you about what God did point out... and it comes from Isaiah 29:13 and it is about lip service, maybe that is what I should have called the message, lip service, and in fact, I am going back and changing the title right now... Hold on..... Ok, that is done.

Do you know people that might tell you just what you want to hear, that the words coming from their mouth are to be pleasing to your ears? It could be your car salesman, or the one selling you a house or some appliance at the store. Those who work on commission have been trained on telling you just what you want to hear and the rest is buried in fine print. You know it is the same when some of us, and again that word us which is you and me or me and you... us. We get on our knees and we talk to God and we pray and we pray and we pray and maybe we are praying our brains out, but are we praying from the heart or just our head? When we tell God, or others that we love them, is it coming from our hearts or our lips? Lip service does not cut it with God, and folks, it does not cut it with people either. Although sometimes when it is one person giving another lip service it might take a while for one to see through it, but God sees through it right away. Years ago, way back when I met Dolores, I used to watch some of this going on. You see, Dolores and I met at Parents Without Partners, and I would sit with Dolores when we first met and we would tell each other about our backgrounds... and I would look around the room and see this going on many places and sometimes you would see the same guy, talking with different women each week, but the story was the same, it was lip service. Dolores and I did not go to many of those meetings after we met, for we found out that we did not use lip service, we were speaking from the heart. Folks, lip service does not last, for it is just that, lip service, it could be somewhat true, it could be an out and out lie, or maybe it was true at the time but was not imbedded into the heart. So, folks, today as we go to pray and end the message for today, I want you to try this each time you speak. First, take your words on a trip around your body, run it past your brain and then take it to your heart, and work with it in your heart, for that is where the good stuff comes from. Anyone can speak from the lips, but I truly believe if you speak from the heart it is much more truthful and lasting, and maybe, maybe sometimes you will fool others and maybe fool me, but one thing for sure, the words that come out of your mouth will never fool God... He is the master of the truth.

Dear Father in Heaven, we do not want to give anyone lip service, be we speaking to You in prayer or in passing or speaking to others we want to speak from the heart, help us with that today please, and Lord, please check on our prayer list and act on our requests according to Your will for us, and Lord, please take care of my wife Dolores, she hurts so bad... In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings and one great blessing to share is the truth, so let your words come from your heart, that would be a great blessing to share... Love Ya, Pastor Dan.

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