Where Were You Today?

It is Sunday Night and I can't help but wonder where you were today.  I sure hope you spent some time with God  sometime within your day. I started my day with morning service at my  church. What a way to start your day...with all the fellowship you can find at a good church. Smiling faces,  and kind words always make for a GOOD DAY for me.  The lesson today touched me because it reminded me that we need to RENEW our walk with God on a regular basis.  I love God with all of my heart,  but sometimes in our messed up days we fail to obtain all that God has for our lives because we fail to get down on our knees and humble ourselves before him.  I stood there for a while thinking that I had no need to go to the altar for prayer.  I kept telling myself that my life was already right with God.  But then I realized that it had been a long time since I had used an altar to speak with my Lord.  I knew then that I wanted to thank him for all of my blessings,  but that I also wanted to show him that I was willing to renew my walk with him and have him place within my heart a new fire.  I prayed for : A desire to be a better Wife, a better Mother, a better Friend,  a better Witness, a better CHRISTIAN in general.  We become cold and indifferent in our lives sometimes and I am no exception.  It felt GOOD to talk to my Father down on my knees. I had forgotten that the altar, ( although it is thought of as a place where you FIND God,)  is also  a place where you MEET God heart to heart and let him know that he is the most important thing in your life.

If you have never been on your knees before God asking him to forgive your sins and come into your life to live TODAY is the day.  You have no promise of tomorrow,  in one blink of an eye you can wake up in eternity.  If you have not made your life right with God then you will open your eyes in a place of everlasting torment,  a place called HELL.  I know that people have forgotten to talk about HELL, some people believe there is NO SUCH PLACE as Hell,  But the word of GOD is the same yesterday, today,  and tomorrow.  The book called the BIBLE speaks of a place called Hell.  So know this my friend, you will spend eternity somewhere.  When I open my eyes I want to see GOD.

In the evening I went to another family church.  I enjoyed smiling faces of old friends.It was amazing how my pastor here spoke of almost the same thing as the pastor where I had attended church earier in the day.  That proved even more to me that if you let God rule a service it will be just what he wants it to be. In the churches today MAN sets the ideas of the church,  the order in which things will be done,  and the spirit of God feels trapped and sometimes it doesn't show up at all.  That is why we have dead churches starving the souls of thier members. Preachers are affraid to offend a member of the church so they walk on egg shells.

I know a preacher who was asked his views on certain subjects and I hope you will be as amazed as I was about his answers.  This is why the world has gotten so far out of hand.

How do you feel about abortion?  "well, I really don't have an opinion on that matter.  It is argued all the time,  and no body has an answer."

What do you think about the trouble that is happening and the news coming out about the abuse within the Catholic Church?  "Well, what can we really say about that?  It's a bad thing."

How do you feel about GAYS and Lesbians in the pulpit?  " Well, we are not at liberty to judge.  I have met some really nice Gay ministers,  and they seem to love the LORD.  They feel that God created them that way since birth.  So you can't really blame them."

I turned off the tv.  I couldn't stand it anymore.  THIS MAN is the shepard to well over 3ooo members and his speaking engagements they say is sold out in just a few hours and can have double-digit thousands in attendence.  A mighty powerful man. He stated that it is more important to share with people what God can do in thier lives,  than to try to explain what goes on in the world.  He said " GOD is a loving God who has so many great promises for his people.  He wants them to prosper so that they can Glorify his name.  He even went as far as to say that God doesn't want to see anybody poor,  because they would not have reason to celebrate thier life.  He said his motto for living is and always will be to teach the world of God's Love and kindness.

What is happening in our world today people?  MAN is worried about losing members of thier church for speaking the truth.  Our pastor tonight brought up the same thing.  We do not take a stand for anything these days.

 MAN is unwilling to step on toes...because he is afraid some feet will walk out the door...of course not without taking thier wallet or pocketbook.  Messages from the pulpit today is like children being lead into a candy store.  The pastors  sugar coat everything they say so that it will be appealing to it's members.  They are afraid to give thier member the real MEAT of the WORD of God.  Well, let's look at it this way...  when you have to go to the denist of life you can blame it all on your pastor,  because he is suppose to be responsible for what he feeds his sheep. 

If you are in a church that tells you everything you do in life is RIGHT  because you have RIGHTS...you had better take stock of the situation because I am one lady who is not afraid to say  YOUR pastor is leading you straight into HELL. The things that were WRONG when GOD said they were WRONG  is STILL WRONG Today.  It doesn't matter if the world's way of thinking says if it feels good DO IT,  or if the world's way of thinking says we have the RIGHT to live however we CHOOSE.  None of this matters when you stand before God who says "Depart from me for I know you not,  you workers of iniquity"  You can not and never will be able to live your life the WAY you want to...it's GOD'S WAY or the highway ( the highway to HELL my friend.)

It is my prayer for the day that if you are not in a church that teaches Right from Wrong,  Good from Bad, Heaven and Hell,  that you will feel a stirring this week  of fear in your heart that maybe you need to learn more about a TRUE and Loving God  who has STANDARDS for living . STANDARDS ... the first part of the word is STAND.  Take a STAND for something in your life.

If you are a Christian I challenge you this week to bow before God on your knees and ask for a stronger walk with him.  If you just go through the motions of life on a daily basis  I pray that a FIRE will be placed down in your soul this week to renew that feeling inside you that you felt when you first felt the tug at your heart's door. The Sounds Of Joy do a song and I heard it for the first time Saturday night  it said I hope someone's SOUL catches on FIRE.  AMEN to that.

GOD BLESS until next time.