GOSPEL OUTREACH CHURCH

Let Your Conversation.....9/10/17
Let Your Conversation........ 9/10/17






1 Peter 5:7 (KJV)
7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  


"MIAMI - Before the storm hit, the fear seeped in, poisonous and sometimes paralyzing.
 
It flowed from the TV, a nonstop drone of dire warnings and lurid graphics and terrifying images from ravaged islands. It dominated Floridians' Facebook feeds - telegraphic reports and play-by-play accounts from friends and family who were packing up, hauling out or hunkering down.
 
The fear that mounted over a hundred hours as Hurricane Irma churned toward South Florida was no new emotion. People in Florida go through some lesser version of this drill nearly every year around this time, and Americans weren't exactly confronting this storm from a place of utter serenity.
 
Irma follows Harvey, which rattled the nation's fourth-largest city with record rains and devastating flooding. Wildfires are raging out west. Mexico's biggest earthquake in a century killed dozens this week. Hurricane Jose is nearing Category 5 status and is taking aim at the same Caribbean islands Irma just flattened.
 
All this at a time when nuclear war with North Korea is the stuff of daily conversation in Washington. A new president has part of the nation worried about instability and another part frazzled about the other chunk's worries.  
 
Anxiety has surpassed depression as the most common mental-health concern for American college students, a study in 2016 by Pennsylvania State University asserted."


Just before going to bed last night-after ENDLESS reruns of The Weather Channel-I spotted the above article.
 
I quickly saved it, knowing it could be part of today's message.
 
I had spent the day haplessly subject to the tittering of my wife and mother-in-law's  
 
FEAR and fascination on the rapidly approaching hurricane named Irma.
 
Beloved, there is only "SO MUCH ONE CAN DO TO PREPARE!!!"


SOMETIMES WE WIN/SOMETIMES WE LOSE/SOMETIMES WE GET RAINED OUT!!!!
 
I had quoted to myself several times last week the following TRUTH:
 
RULES FOR LIFE:
 
1)-DO NOT SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!
 
2)-EVERYTHING IS SMALL STUFF!!
 
Life is often quite frustrating!
 
Sadly, we DO live in such a day as this:
 
Isaiah 5:20 (KJV)
 
20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
 
And one cannot fix stupid!!!
 
I also was summoned this past week by by health insurance company to a clinic for an evaluation of my health.
 
I had no idea what to expect, believing it was to be a waste of my time?
 
I attended, however, and was shocking IMPRESSED with the professionalism and quality of care I received.
 
I actually had a 45 minute CONVERSATION with the Nurse/Practitioner-
 
A 45 MINUTE CONVERSATION WITH A PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE EXPERT!!!!!
 
As the nurse's aid and later the NP went through my medical record, I REALIZED how GOOD God has been to me in my 66 years of life.
 
STROKE-NO!
 
CANCER-NO!
 
RECENT SURGERIES-NO!
 
HEART ATTACK-NO!
 
DIABETES-NO!
 
DEPRESSION-NO!
 
MENTAL ISSUES-NO!!
 
As they both rattled off the MANY things and diseases I "COULD HAVE" suffered, I was deeply humbled and THANKFUL to God!!!!!
 
Psalm 103:1-5 (KJV)  
 
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.  


2  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:  

3  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;  


4  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;  

5  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
 
To quote myself from above:
 
Beloved, there is only "SO MUCH ONE CAN DO TO PREPARE!!!"
 
RULES FOR LIFE:
 
1)-DO NOT SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF!
 
2)-EVERYTHING IS SMALL STUFF!!
 
TODAY, if you slept well last night, if the approaching hurricane will not effect you, realize YOU cannot stop a hurricane nor prevent nuclear was with North Korea!!!
 
1 Timothy 6:6-8 (KJV)
 
6
 But godliness with contentment is great gain.  
 
7  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
 
 
8  And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
 
May this Scripture be your guiding principle for today and EVERYDAY:
 
Hebrews 13:5 (KJV)
 
5  Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
 
CONVERSATION- from the same as <G5157> (trope); a turn , i.e. (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefix as adverb like ); figurative deportment or character :- (even) as, conversation, [+ like] manner (+ by any) means, way.
Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
 


GOD BLESS YOU!
 
PASTOR DOUG

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