When God speaks do you listen?
Take a look in the Bible, there are many stories of people who God chose to talk to and they did not listen. They did not want to listen. They let their will be stronger than the will of God. Specifically let us look at the story of King Saul. His story can be found in the book of 1 Samuel. It states, and this is from a KJV Bible, 1 Samuel 15:3, 8-9 3 Now go and smite Amalek,
and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay
both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 8
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed
all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people
spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the
fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly
destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they utterly destroyed.
Now
here is the thing, if you go on to read 1 Samuel you will find that God
tells Samuel that Saul did not listen to what He said to do and that
Samuel will need to tell Saul that he is no longer king of Israel. Saul did not do God's will.
He did not kill King Agag like he was supposed to and he did not kill
all of the animals like he was supposed to. Instead of putting his faith
and trust in the Lord, he let his own will overrule what he was told to do by God.
Even more is that if you read the book of 1 Samuel, you will realize
that this was not the first time that Saul disobeyed God. This was just the last straw for God,
so to speak. So what happens next in the story you might ask. Well,
Samuel goes and asks Saul what does he think he is doing keeping Agag
alive and why did he not kill all of the animals. Saul give excuses and justifications,
which by the way, God really does not like that. Samuel then informs
Saul that he has lost his favor with the Lord and that there will be
another King that will rule over the Israelites. The next time that Saul
will see Samuel is the day that he will die. That next King is David
who found much favor with the Lord. This is the same David that kills
Goliath.
If you read the book of 1 Samuel and you really pay
attention to the story, you will realize that when God spoke to Saul
through Samuel, he did not listen. He forgot that he was chosen to be a
King by God. Not by man, not by a vote, not by any other mean but God.
He let that go to his head and thought that he was bigger than God. He
figured he knew what was best so why did he have to listen to what God
was saying.
So what is the moral of this story? Simple, follow
Gods will at all times. Never forget who we are truly here to serve. We
are here for God. To do Gods will. So if He speaks to you will you
listen? Will you remember that you work for God? Will you remember that
God is all, He is everything, He is our creator, He comes first?
If you would like to learn more about Saul's story or if you have any questions, check out BRINGING BACK GOD in BRISTOL, TN or in MARIETTA, PA. Listen to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on BlogTalk Radio and hear more stories and topics from the Bible, you won't regret it.
God Bless You All,
The Church Goer-Girl
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Monday, April 21, 2014
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Heroes
Hi All.
So today I want to talk about heroes. One of my favorite heroes is Paul.
What do we know about Paul? Right off the top of my head I can tell you:
That
is the basics of Paul. But there has to be more to his story than just
those five points. Think about it to yourself, what do you know about
the apostle Paul?
Did you know that he was studying to become a Pharisee? Did you know that he believed in the Old Testament and
everything that pertained to God? Did you know that he had a vision on
the way to Damascus of Jesus? Did you know that he was blind for three
days? Did you know that in today’s world we would have seen Paul (Saul)
as a terrorist for all the acts he committed before he was changed?
Saul
went around killing followers of Jesus Christ in the name if God. He
had a declaration from the Romans stating that it was okay for him to
kill Jesus followers. In today’s world that is a terrorist. Is there any
other way to look at it? Not really. Would you say that any of this
work is the work of a hero? My answer would be no.
PASTOR JOHN COLLINS stated at church service the other day, “God does not recruit
heroes. Not many mighty are called, not many noble, not many powerful,
not man great as the world count greatness are called. God doesn’t go
for big names to populate heaven. He takes ordinary folks and then does
extraordinary things through them. But even that isn’t the full story.
When God wants to recruit some front line soldiers for his army, he goes
into the enemy camp and rounds up a handful of the orneriest, meanest,
toughest, roughest, and wildest looking sinners he can find. The he
draws them to Christ, saves them, justifies them, converts them,
sanctifies them, cleans them up, fixes them up, dresses them up, and
then sends them out to do battle in the service of the King of Kings.”
Think
about that. He picks ordinary people that are sinners and converts them
so that they can do His will and one day makes it into the Kingdom of Heaven. If God would choose someone like Paul to do His will and convert
then that gives all of us hope that we can change to do His will too.
So
if you ever feel down and out or like there is no hope left for
yourself I want you to think about Paul. Think about what his life used
to be like until God entered it. Think about how God chooses ordinary
people. Think about how God chooses sinners. If Paul can be saved and do
great things than so can you and I.
If you want to learn more
about Paul or have any questions about the bible, check out PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at BRINGING BACK GOD in BRISTOL, TN. Also check out BRINGING BACK GOD, MARIETTA, PA
Love you guys and God Bless You!
The Church Girl
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