Message #3680

[ecuworrier]

.. earlier today a nice moment... well how does GOD do appointmenting... He makes you have to go to one place and not another in order to check something out  He makes you hungry He makes you stand in a queue then get a sandwich you are not sure you really want then He makes you sit and eat it and ponder then rush to one place and there as you are about to sort something out you find someone about to leave who you would otherwise have missed if you were earlier... person has been trying to contact mutual contact from my church ... though person goes to another church that is even more self important than our own a self importance to be admired really... they... well they are asking me about evangelism .... asking me!? well it seems they have just discovered by accident that they and me have a mutual acquaintance that is not christian who they say is asking questions about GOD... well put like that that seems quite a surprise... i attempt to refer them to the superpowers of their own church which goes down unexpectedly not very well ... yes i am surprised at this! too... but when they spell out the story i am not very surprised ... what they seem to be viewing as a GOD APPOINTMENT certainly is one GOD never does nuffink for no reason... nevertheless ... have i evangelised that person the mutual acquaintance that is... well it was and it er well ... in truth i remember that occasion well it was really well GOD appointment though one does wonder sometimes... in truth they offended me and actually with this review the way they offended me hey if i had been on the button!... instead i was offended and not only was i offended but they were terribly offended by that i was offended.... and we have hardly moved from that stance now some time ago.... hey there is a theme here that GOD has been exoticising rather dramatically of late here there and elsewhere and it is all about GOD and the Kiss of Life....  i am moved though by this today encounter that unreadiness about evangelising are we ever?... and what to say how to handle... i point out that me well i just fumble along  that it is truthfully in my view GOD's Projects and that if GOD is on someone's case they are already being 'saved' i really do struggle with the 'language of the christian' and had only the day previously really been struggling with conversation.... and try to give some tips about asking GOD for help more i cannot really say i feel... but i do feel very humbled by this VERY GOD APPOINTED MEETING!!! and may we both be Blessed by it... what is Glorious is that i get some stuff from GOD and hey i need that... yes i need that to function!... but i do feel sad that that person feels they ... hestitate to ask the great and the good of their own church... oh Jesus!!

ok winding back the clock again... sat in a cafe to read some Bible was a bit disappointed that no-one had left a paper but hey i was there to read some Bible... so Bible i read! there was some psalms stuff.... which i was quite glad to be amongst... i have had some really interesting reading times of late quite challenging at times... and curiously instructive too  ...and so the psalms seem or feel to be a nice leisurely loojking after kindof stroll at i seem to be particularly attached to the first verses of each psalm over a number of them round the 100 mark... and i recall that prophetic word of reading of GOD thou shall.... thou shall be Blessed ... thou shall sing the Glory and the praise ... thou shall... it all suddenly seems quite exciting again ... and GOD LOVING!

psalm 100 catches my attention  briefly..  i am caught up with the promise of making a joyful noise to the Lord i am caught up with nature clapping theri hands... more than one version... am loving that!...

psalm 100 brings me back though to long ago when someone attempted to get me to learn it off by heart as a psalm that was gonna see me through... i never quite learned it off by heart ... but i sat staring at this psalm in the amplified translation thinking it was quite a joyous one! and thought the person well.....

A Psalm of thanksgiving and for the thank offering.

1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all you lands!

2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come before His presence with singing!

3 Know (perceive, recognize, and understand with approval) that the Lord is God! It is He Who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His]! We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!

5 For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.

i like that continuing a theme GOD is in the process of making us and not ourselves! gottago

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,