The Story of Two Babies in a Womb
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense!” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?” The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That’s absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well, I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “But certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.” The first replied, “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first, “Well, I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.” I believe there is a reality after delivery and we’re here to prepare ourselves for that reality. (Matthew Warner)
“The”:
”Sermon of a lifetime.”
There are many words in the English language and one of those is the word, definite. The definition of definite is: complete and final, firm, final and complete. It is not to be challenged or changed.
We have many parts of speech in our language but we only have one definite article. That is “The”. It always is used to point attention to one specific thing. Bringing our information about this to my point this morning let us consider the following. The word “the” appears in any translation of the Bible, thousands of times. We cannot look at all of them but there are a few hundred of them that deserve our attention.
In fifty years of preaching I have never preached a sermon centering around “the”, but I am now by revelation from The Holy Spirit. There is no way I am able to cover everything about this word. I will make an effort today to show you how important this word is in understanding things about God and Jesus.
What is the difference between the next two sentences? Go stand under a tree. Go stand under the tree. “I am the Lord, your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. You shall have no other gods before me.” Ex. 20:1-2 “I and my Father are one” Jn. 10:30 The is a common, but very important word in any language.
Your Heavenly Father Wants you blessed and Healthy!!
“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs…and He will give you everything you need.” Matthew 6:31-33 NLT
If you were a parent, wouldn’t you want the best for your children? Would you ever want them to be diseased, poor and suffering? Of course not. You’d want your children to be blessed, strong and healthy, and enjoying the best things in life, wouldn’t you?
Think about this for a moment. If you on earth know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in heaven who loves you and knows how to bless you and your children with divine health, provision and protection!
Beloved, expect to receive good from the Lord, who is full of grace and mercy, every day!
Joseph Prince
Have you ever thought about why you can trust God no matter what. For someone to be trustworthy they are to be trusted to come through time and time again. It would be hard for someone to have your trust if you continually say but yet do the opposite. God is not like man that he has said or would say and not follow through with his word.
God can be trusted because the Scripture tells us Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 He is exactly the same in the past, in the present, and in the future.” He has been trusted, he can be trusted, he will be trusted.
When my husband was diagnosed with the virus last fall his first words to me were, “You know God has a good track record of keeping me alive.” He was saying I trusted God to bring me through then and I trust he can now. For those of you who may not know Kenny was in the hospital for 41 days in 2013. He was on a vent for 5 days. The doctor had diagnosed him with pulmonary fibrosis. For those who don’t know this is a grim diagnosis. But to the doctor’s amazement he started to get better. A team of doctors met and tried to figure out why he was getting better and not worse. But God!
Who are you putting your trust in today! Let your life be anchored in God who is our hope-today, tomorrow, and forever.
2 Corinthians 12: 7-9 Paul said-Three times I pleaded with the Lord to relieve me of this. But he answered me, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.”
Are you experiencing a hard place in your life? I describe hard places as those difficult times of life. We all will go through these times. Not a matter of if but when.
As I look back over my life I see the hard places I have gone through. There were times when I spent all my energy trying to figure out ways to get out of that place. And of course the enemy always said it is your fault. If you had done this or if you had not done that you would not be in this situation. I know that God does not always come in and deliver his immediately. The hard places are not meant to destroy but to mature us. It is a place of patience, faith, trust and learning.
Maybe you are one that is in a hard place and there is not going to be no instant breakthrough. Quit trying to use all your energy in trying to figure it all out. Maybe you like Paul have pleaded with the Lord to take it away. Could God be saying to you as he did to Paul, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.” Weakness is the state or condition of lacking strength. No, we don’t have the strength to breakthrough. It is not through our strength that we overcome these hard places anyway. If you are that one this Scripture is for you.
So do not fear, I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with a righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:1:10
Why it is important to never give up on God’s goodness! Ed Elliot
“I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for and confidently expect the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for and confidently expect the Lord” (Psalm 27:13-14, AMP).
The Psalmist makes a powerful point that if he had given up on trusting in God’s goodness towards him, he would have given up. Knowing God and the fact He is a good God helps us no matter what we are facing in life to hold on to Him and His ways because we can be assured to see His goodness manifest in our lives.
You never need to give up on yourself or life as long as God is a good God, and He tells us He will never change.
“I the LORD do not change.” Malachi 3:6
-WHAT IS YOUR SAY SO OF THE LORD-
David told us what his say so of the Lord was.
I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust”. Psalms 91:1-2
It doesn’t matter what others say of the Lord, it is your “say so” that will generate faith in your heart to believe. David said, “He is my Refuge and my fortress, my God. Could it be that Davids “say so” of who God was to him caused faith to arise in his heart. He goes on to say,” God shall deliver, God shall cover, don’t be afraid, you shall trust.
David’s “so say” caused him to have confidence in the Almighty (the all sufficient God eternally capable of being all that is people need) and that He would take care of him in spite of the storms of life. What is your “say so” of who God is? What do you need Him to be in your life? He is the Almighty One. Let faith arise in your heart today as you say who God is to you.
Remember this song – I lift my hands to believe again You are my refuge, You are my strength As I pour out my heart, these things I remember You are faithful, God, forever
EVERYONE WHO CAME TO JESUS
WAS HEALED Joseph Prince
“And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.” Luke 6:19
Did you know that when Jesus walked on earth, more than two-thirds of His ministry involved healing the sick? He went about healing the sick and all who came to Him were healed. The Bible records that “the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.” I wish somebody in Hollywood would produce that scene in Luke 6:19 You see the sick, lame and blind coming to Jesus. And every time one of them touches Him, BAM! His healing virtue is powerfully released and the person is healed and overjoyed! That’s a powerful image to have in your mind whenever you are believing in God for healing!
I was in line to check out at a local store this past week. A couple of people were behind and were engaged in a conversation and as one of them walked away he said, “Hey buddy I am not broke I am just in between pay days”.
I heard the Holy Spirit say, “See you are not broken you are just breaking out to a breakthrough”. I needed that word so much at that moment. The last couple of months have been overcoming, overcoming and more overcoming. But God….
Maybe you need to know today that you are not broken. Could it be you to are breaking out to a breakthrough. The place called “to” is where the battle is. It’s the “to” place where we can become discouraged. The enemy wants us to give up during this place called “to”. That is where faith is put in action. Like Paul and Silas we will pray and praise our way through.
This morning you may feel broken, weary, push to the limit. I prophesy to you that things are breaking through. You will see the breakthrough.
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