Jamal really did another wonderful job leading the church during our worship in song period. He led us in a powerful song entitled, I Don't Mind Waiting on the Lord and he nailed it!
We had a couple of visitors today that was refreshing to see and they appeared to have a wonderful time in worship and fellowship.
I concluded our series on Commitment with an exposition on I Kings 18:17-21 which I labeled When Standing Up Means Standing Alone. Here Elijah is told by the Lord to tell Ahab that the famine and drought was now over and Ahab calls Elijah a troublemaker. Elijah engages Ahab in a powerful debate as to who's God is more powerful, Jehovah or Baal, and he tells Ahab to gather the children of Israel, 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah and meet him on Mount Carmel.
Elijah says to them in verse 21, how long must you linger between two different opinions? If the Lord is God follow him, but if Baal then follow him, and the people did not answer him a word. God wants to know if we are willing to stand for him even if we have to stand alone. It is easy to stand when your friends are standing, but God is looking for soldiers who are willing to stand even if they must stand all by themselves.
2 comments:
It must have been a weird day period this weekend. Our service was....awkward toooo. I can't understand it, especially, after the weeks we've been in our worship services. We had the elements of an undesirable day. But God is good anyhow.
Well, well, well. What a powerful text. Keep preaching/teaching it will all come out in the wash as my granny use to say.
Keep Preaching!!!
Ron
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