God's Moving

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Good Monday morning!

1 Kings 19:11-13, “And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. 12 And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. 13 And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Always looking for God in the big and the loud can cause you to miss the moves of His hand in the small and the quiet. I want to tell you that God is no more present in a great hall than He was at the cave entrance that day.

Fear can cause us to run from things that are out of our control. We go out under what limited power we possess trying to fix things that aren’t ours to fix. It is not God who leads us to be troubled. It is lack of trust that takes us there.

Jezebel had threatened to end his life. Elijah was afraid and he ran. God gave him strength then, He gave Elijah peace.

Once back to his right mind, the prophet continued to do the work to which God had called him.

Some things aren’t ours to fix. We have to trust that God is moving in the things that we can’t see.

Have a great week!

Let the Lord do His work!

-Pastor Butch

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When they want you to think they’ve got it together, it may be all that they can do to hold it together.

You know, for everything I've done. Every sin, every evil thought, every judgment and every bad decision when it was over, only the scar remained.

What’s funny to me is how much time I wasted trying to cover them up. I mean, we’ve all got them. We may not have deserved some of them but wherever they came from we earned them.

So the question becomes, do you allow them to shackle you to a long past hurt or use them as a reminder of future blessing?

Diane and I talked to a lady yesterday. She just praised God for His goodness. She was sincere and we could feel her strength. She said it wasn’t always this way. She asked for nothing. No pity. We just listened. She said that there was a time when she and her family were homeless. They just could not get it together. Then one day, they began to pray. That simple. She and her family began to pray. Then they began to seek God for a path out of their desperation. That hadn’t a clue what they were doing. They just sought God.

With a newfound peace, they went to work. Fast forward. Together they put a daughter through college. She works in a hospital today and their son is in his first year. And this is but a small part of her testimony. They still pray together.

The Lord is still doing it y’all. We can’t call on Him and just sit down. If we will only trust Him, He will bring wholeness to our lives and use our scars to help others who are hurting.

Our every scar should remind us not only what we learned through the experience but that even when we are at our best, of how far we have yet to go.

I’ll choose the blessings.

Oh yeah, the lady’s dad and I have the same nickname. Poor fellow!

Thank you Lord for your finishing work!

-Pastor Butch

135 Winstead Dr.

Danville VA

(434) -792-5999

Nehemiah 12:36 - "And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them."

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