August 18, 2010 Calming Life's Storms 3

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life."

Salvation Wednesday, my dear brothers and sisters, Salvation Wednesday and the day we pray for the lost, and we pray that God will use us to help bring them in to be saved. The first thing I must do today is to pray for this computer. I cannot get connected to the internet to send my message and to read email. It worked fine last night, but, well something went wrong overnight, more than likely Satan trying to block the work of the Lord. But anyway, I am going forward with the message and maybe God will have it worked out till I get finished with it. So I am going to the Lord now... Lord, your hands on my sick computer would be appreciated. It will not hook up to the internet, Lord. I trust You to take care of it... thanks, Lord... In Jesus name. Amen.

Also today on our prayer is Vicki, and folks, we need to keep her there daily till she has her surgery in September, so if I forget to list her, please remember to pray for her. For Beverly who had a stroke, and for Jim who must go to a nursing home.

Calming Life's Storm 3: Matthew 6:25 - "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
(NIV)

When I talk about Life's Storms and Calming Life's Storms I just need to tell you this... Worry, Worry, might be one of the things that causes a lot, maybe even most of Life's Storms and also might be just the hardest thing to give over to the Lord. The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:25/end that we should not worry. "Do not worry," Jesus tells us. I know that I have worried and worried and I have been in pain from worry over things, pain in the belly that would drop one to the floor. I would turn the worries over to the Lord as we are told to do, I have gone to the altar at church and laid them on the altar of our Lord. I would pray for God to carry them for me, and then, and then, and then, I would get up and pick them up and take them back. How many of you have done the same thing? Sometimes our worries are about things we have no control over, like the weather, other times it might be over family or maybe things we have going on in our lives. Folks, it is easy for me to say we need to trust the Lord and give the burdens and worries over to Him, yet I find this one hard to do also.

As I said, sometimes we worry about things we have no control over, and other times we might worry about things that we need not to worry about. We worry about food, clothes, you know our basic needs, and God has promised He would take care of them. Sometimes Dolores and I worry that we will have enough in the food bank to help others, yet when people show up for food we have never had to turn anyone away. NEVER, praise the Lord for that, for He is good.

Today I want to bring this one out, for our Bible tells us in many places we are to help others. As we trust God to take care of our needs we need to remember that needs of many are supplied through the hands of God's workers. We should not need, nor should others need to rely on the government to supply our needs, as we have a government that is broke and calls on us also, only they don't ask, they take. Folks, how can people trust the government and not the Lord? That is for another day. Today as we go to prayer and ask God to take our worries and help us with them, I want to point out his scripture...

Galatians 6:2 - Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (NIV)
Brothers and Sisters, we really need to help carry the burdens of others. One way we do this is by praying for them, others is to just sit and talk to them, still others we might need to help with a few dollars from time to time or with some food or clothes. Sometimes when one is at a dark point in their lives we might even need to babysit them. You will recall that just a few weeks ago I told you about those who helped me when I was at the bottom. Folks, we need to help each other, and we need to share our blessings, and folks, we need to share those talents that God has lent to us.

Think about this, maybe you do electric and I fix cars, we can help each other. Maybe you sew and can help people with that. Maybe you can read and someone else cannot. We have many ways, too many ways to even mention, that we can help carry the burdens of others. Talk to God about it and get your assignment on how to help others and also talk to Him about your worries and burdens. No one has no worries, and no one needs to carry their burdens alone. Go to God, and let's do it NOW.

Dear Father in Heaven, here we are, first wanting our assignment to help You in bringing in the lost and then we need Your help in taking the load off of our backs. Lord, help us, help us, and help us so we can help others and help You. Be with those on our prayer list. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Now go forth, unloading your burdens on the Lord, and yes, you may also let me know about them and I will see if I can help, and then go forth also sharing your blessings and helping others... Love ya, Pastor Dan.