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  • A Sermon by my big sister, of which I am very proud of

    Sermon I am working on.  Of course, when I get up there God will change it all around but I like to have some thoughts so I don't chase rabbits!  
                         TEST THE WATER, FOR GOD'S SAKE
    It is so good to be here today. As most of you know, I am a certified lay speaker for the Sherman McKinney District of the United Methodist Church. My passion has always
    been to preach but my husband did not want to be preacher’s wife so I love it when
    Bill is gone. Oh, that didn’t sound right (: I mean I love it when I get to preach!
    Sammy says I don’t need the practice because I practice preaching AT him 24/7.
    So I got to thinking. What if all Christians prayed for a passion we could USE to make this world a better place? What would happen?
    One day some people who were on a raft off the coast of Brazil. They perished from thirst - as you know the ocean water is undrinkable. What they did not know, however, was that the water they were floating on was fresh water. A nearby river was coming out into the sea with such force that it went out for a couple of miles, so they had fresh water right there - right where they were all the time but they had no idea. BECAUSE they DID NOT test the waters! I am sure they prayed till the day they died, but they never tested the water.
    Ironically, we also are sitting on a wealth of living water and it is time we wake up out of our thirst and started drinking and sharing it with the world around us. What a difference it would make! If only one person had tested the water in that boat!
    In John, Chapter 4 verse 10 and 14: Jesus said, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.. Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
    Now I don’t know about you but that really excited me. And then I got excited for YOU!
    I always wanted to go see Elvis sing and I kept putting it off and then he died and then I could only listen to him on DVD’s or the radio. Oh, they have an all Elvis, All the time channel, but it’s just not the same thing. I can never fulfill my dream of seeing Elvis live because I WAITED.
    I have been wanting to visit Yellowstone National Park for several years now so I was sad when I saw on the news of that is was burning. Folks in the area say it will be 100 years before it would look like it did before. Since I probably won’t live that long (unless it is just to spite everyone), I will never fulfill my dream of seeing the beauty of Yellowstone.
    But they do say Old Faithful was not touched.
    So I immediately went in and told Sammy I was ready to go on vacation and visit the Old Geezer. He got a good laugh out of that one. I don’t know if it was the vacation suggestion or he was correcting my usage of Old Geezer to “old geyser”. But he was not to deter me. The more I read about it, the more I wanted to go.
    Did you know it erupts on an average of every 74 minutes? but it doesn't like to act average - Sometimes it spews every 45 to 110 minutes. It can spray up to 8400 gallons in 4.5 minutes and the steam temperature can get up to 350 degrees! An eruption in the 1980’s at the Old Faithful lake actually spread residue 300 times that of Mt St Helens eruption and remnants of it was found virtually all over the United States.
    So it got me to thinking.
    What if God’s people - I will affectionately call us “Old Geezers” :> were to get that excited about our Christianity and let’s say we would let go every 74 minutes spewing the joy of Jesus to everyone who would listen!
    And you don’t even have to preach it. People would just see the joy inside you and know there was something different about you and want what you had.
    Or you could make a difference in the life of someone and only you and that someone would know but then they would pay it forward and make a difference in the life of someone and they tell two people who tell two people who tell two people, well you have seen the commercial! Pretty soon the whole world is paying it forward and we could be like the church of Acts 4. 24
    24:They raised their voices together in prayer to God.
    First and foremost they found the difference to their life was the distance from the floor to their knees. And they didn’t just pray like we do for a test. You know I laugh when I hear someone saying we no longer have prayer in school because as long as we have pop quizzes, we will have prayer in school!!
    But then they did something a lot of us don’t do. They got up off their knees and wore out the soles of their shoes! They put their prayers into action.
    Acts 4:
    30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness!
    Now my son was in a earthquake this week and I saw it on TV and I worried and prayed and couldn’t him to answer his dadgum cell phone! I prayed and prayed and he laughed when I finally got hold of him. (Now he wouldn’t have been laughing if I had gotten hold of him!) He was driving down the road and didn’t even feel it! (I told him THAT was my prayers protecting him) Hey, a mother’s got to get all the points she can! When he got home several things were shaken off the shelfs and walls and he hadn’t even felt it!
    In Acts 4, it says:
    33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all.
    You see they felt (literally felt like an earthquake!) the calling of Christ so strongly they pooled all their resources and in verse 34 it says, There were no needy persons among them.
    They didn’t ask the government to take care of them. They didn’t expect FEMA to come running.
    They pooled their resources and took care of each other.
    They didn’t worry about the stock market or high gas prices or unemployment because they knew if they were the ones down on their luck, their brothers and sisters in Christ would be there to make sure there was NO NEEDY person among them.
    NOW after looking at my last IRA statement, I am so glad to know you all are my brothers and sisters in Christ and are going to pick me up when I am broke (ha)
    Praise GOD he gave me this sermon when He did!
    Oh, what a difference there would be in this world if God’s people just prayed and did it boldly! If we used all the living water Christ can give us, we could cause an explosion like the world has never seen.
    But I can’t do it by myself I hear you say.
    That reminds me of a little boy who was out helping his dad with the yard work. Dad asked him to pick up the rocks in a certain area of the yard. Dad looked over and saw him struggling to pull up a huge rock buried in the dirt. The little boy struggled and struggled while Dad stood back and watched. Finally, the boy gave up and cried, "Daddy, I can't do it."
    Dad asked, "Did you use all of your strength?"
    The little boy looked hurt and said, "Yes, sir. I used every ounce of strength I have."
    The father smiled and said, "No you didn't. You didn't ask me to help."
    The father walked over and then the two of them pulled that big rock out of the dirt
    TOGETHER!!!! !.
    Start asking the Father in Heaven to supply your needs and just give you a little extra so you can supply the needs of others. You will be shocked and amazed. He has just been waiting for you to ask! With God, all things are possible. We CAN use all the power He gives us! If ALL of us would do it, what a difference we can make.
    He has already given us the how!
    2 Chronicles 7:14 says
    "If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and PRAY and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
    That is a promise!! He just can’t seem to find anyone taking Him up on the offer.
    Now I know all of you have turned from your wicked ways so I’m not even going to preach that sermon (ha)
    God will supply you with more than enough to make a difference in someone’s life.
    And then when He does THANK HIM!!!!
    Every day a woman stood on her porch and shouted, “Praise the Lord!”
    And every day the atheist next door yelled back, “There is no Lord!”
    One day she prayed, “Lord, I’m hungry. Please send me groceries.”
    The next morning she found a big bag of food on the stairs.
    “Praise the Lord,” she yelled and started dancing and shouting Hallelejah’s up to Jesus and the atheist jumped out from behind a bush and yelled:
    “I told you there was no Lord, I bought those groceries.”
    “Praise the Lord,” the woman said. “He not only sent me groceries, but he made the devil pay for them.”
    Glory!!!! Glory!!!
    Guy H. King says:
    No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
    No doubt in her mind. She had prayed, God had answered and Satan had no power when it comes to a Christian praying with the belief their prayers will be answered!
    Praise God !
    (Ephesians 3:20) tells us "He's able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think."
    Christians, and I am talking to all of you - I most certainly hope!
    We have to start somewhere and where better than right here in this little church! If you just do what God asks, it will be so contagious, others can’t wait to do it too. AND HE will heal our land!!!
    Let’s make prayer a priority in our church life! Do a Bible Study on Prayer! God will teach you. how.
    Start a prayer journal. Keep track of what you ask and what is answered. You are gonna be mighty surprised at all the answered prayers! Look around you, take an inventory of all your blessings that God has already given you that you forgot you asked for and I bet you forgot to thank him for them when you were mumbling about something you didn’t get that you didn’t need anyway!
    At the end of each journal entry write five things to be grateful for that God did for you each day. You will find yourself thanking God all day and really noticing the things He is doing for you each day that you have taken for granted for so long.
    Make TIME to pray. Do it all day long everyday. Turn every decision over to God! Don’t worry about it. It will not be long before you do it without ceasing.
    THEN SMILE! When others see you, let them know by your body language that you are blessed and God is good and it all started with one little prayer which led to another which led to another. It is contagious. Have you ever seen someone smiling at you. You can’t help but smile back unless you are Billy Joe Barnard. Just kidding!
    But what if they ask me why I am so happy what do I say?, you ask. I am not good at talking about God with other people. Remember back in Acts when the church was filled with the Holy Spirit. THAT is HIS job. Let Him do it!!!
    The Bible tells us in Romans 8:26
    “The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.”
    A Sunday School teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible; Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a week to learn the verse.
    Little Rick was excited about the task -- but, he just couldn't remember what to say. . After much practice, he could barely get past the first line. On the day that the kids were scheduled to recite Psalm 23 in front of the congregation, Rickey was so nervous. When it was his turn, he stepped up to the microphone and said proudly, "The Lord is my shepherd, and that's all I need to know."
    That is all we need to know.
    The next time you start to say something negative about this great land of ours, STOP, PRAY, DRINK the living water. I love Gail Bates. Don’t say anything negative to her about our country because she will be quick tell you it is the greatest country who has helped the most people, not even in this great land of ours but in all nations! I love that!
    Pray for our leaders, no matter what side of the aisle you are on! The life they save just might be your own.
    Will you worry about Tomorrow and what is going to happen next month or next year or will you pray to God to bring you blessings so you can spring up like Old Faithful and shower over 3.1 million people a year with the awesome sight of a believer who keeps on coming even when others have dried up. You know in French Old Faithful means “Super-fast Water Explosion” so don’t be surprised at how fast the Living Water Works!
    In Tuesdays with Morrie, which the ladies are reading and will meet on August 18 to discuss, he tells the story about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He’s enjoying the wind and the fresh air - until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore.
    “My God, this is terrible,” the wave says. “Look what’s going to happen to me!“
    “Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, “Why do you look so sad?”
    The first wave says, “You don’t understand! We’re all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn’t it terrible?“
    “The second wave says, “NO, you don’t understand. You are not a wave, you are part of the ocean!“
    Morrie goes on to say, “In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.“
    Can you count on your fingers the ones you LOVE? Or are there too many to count? Too many people that you have been concerned about and did something about.
    If not, will you start now to be a church that’s prayer life is so powerful, God blesses you
    So that you can bless others. And then reach out and encourage the next Christian to do the same who tells another Christian about it who tells another Christian about it and on and on and on.
    It is scary to get out there and really devote your life to Jesus. To put him first and foremost in your life!  Don't be scared of what might happen!

    One night a house caught fire and a young boy was forced to flee to the roof. The father stood on the ground below with outstretched arms, calling to his son, "Jump! I'll catch you." He knew the boy had to jump to save his life. All the boy could see, however, was flame, smoke, and blackness.

    As can be imagined, he was afraid to leave the roof. His father kept yelling: "Jump! I will catch you." But the boy protested, "Daddy, I can't see you." The father replied, "But I can see you and that's all that matters."
    Are you willing to jump knowing Jesus will do the rest? Right now, Today??

    It has to start somewhere. Let it begin with US! The First United Methodist Church of
    It Doesn’t Matter Where. Let us just call it the First United Methodist Church of Love!
    Let us turn to Page 431 and sing:

    Let There Be Peace on Earth

     

    Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me;
    let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
    With God, our creator, children all are we.
    Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony.
    Let peace begin with me; let this be the moment now.
    With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow;
    to take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.
    Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.
     
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