The Lord Was There
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If you have your bibles, I want you to look in the depths of the Old Testament, to be precise in the book of Ezekiel.
Many of you have been the topics of conversations a number of you have been the main topic of some very serious discussions. There have been some people discussing you. And in the discussion some questions arose, question such as how in the world did they endure so many different experiences, hardships, difficulties, really how did they encounter so many problems and adversities in the years past and yet you are still here.
Some of you don’t have to go back that far, because there have been some of you that have been through some major transitions just on this last month and you really don’t know how you made it. How is it that some of you survived the car wrecks, some of you experienced physical assaults and attacks on your health?
Some have experienced some things that nobody knows about but you and God, some inner hurts, some inner pain, and even some love scars. And the question has gone out, how in the world giving all that you have been up against, after experiencing the university, of hard knots, how is it possible that you are still in your right mind and you are still alive in the land of the living.
Others raised the question, how is it possible that they have endure great stress, how is it that they have handled these problems of such a serious and extreme nature, how it is that you have been under so much extreme pressure and such great stress, and you have not taken a leave of your senses, someone may ask how is it that they have been under such tremendous distress and have not yet been institutionalize at some center for the mental insane.
The reason some of you are still in their right mind I submit to you that the answer is found in the four last words of our text. Open up to Ezekiel 35:10
“Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them’—although the Lord was there—
The four last words of our text tell us, even though you been through hell and high waters the real reason that you have made it is because the Lord was there.
Saints my soul leaps with joy just to be able to mention these words to you “The Lord Was There” it’s been rough sometimes, your way may have got dark sometimes, some people counted you out, some people had wrote you off, but what they didn’t know is that you was never in the situation by yourself. What they didn’t know is that the Lord was there.
This morning I want to tell you some things that
Don't Focus on who isn't There
Don't Focus on who isn't There
My brother’s and sister’s I believe that while we were going through our calamities and our tribulations, I believe that there is a tendency, a propensity, a predisposition, an issue on our part that we have spent too much time dwelling on who was not there. I believe that there is a strange proclivity, a strange inclination and tendency on our part, that we focus to much on who didn’t come through, who didn’t show up and who let me down when I so desperately needed them. I believe that we’ve been too busy concentrating on the haters in our lives. But want to I submit to you this morning to stop focusing on those who was not there, and start focusing on who was there.
I suggest to you that we need to stop looking to those who really had no power to help you in the first place. In fact, I’m glad that some people didn’t show up, because if they would have been there, they might’ve said the wrong thing, given me the wrong advice, pointed me in the wrong direction. Because the truth of the matter is if you have the Lord on your side and then you could recite
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
So for the people that didn’t show up, so for the people that didn’t respond, when I was sick, when I was hungry, when I was homeless, when I was thirsty, when I was broke, when I was lonely, when I was sad, when I broke and broken, for those of you that didn’t show up in the time of need I want to say thank you, because the Lord was there, and in my brokenness I focused on God. In my solitude I learned that He is all i need
And can I drop this in your spirit? The God that I serve is always there in your time of need.
Remember Daniel, do you all remember when Daniel was in the lion’s den to be devoured by the lion and God changed the lion growl into music, it was only the Lord was there. Remember Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. You all do remember the three Hebrew boy that was in the fiery furnace, they were thrown into that fiery furnace and somebody said did not we throw three men in the fire and somebody said yes, and then somebody else said well I see four men in the fire and the fourth one looks like the Son of God yes the Lord was there even in the fire.
And I believe that I can get about fifty of you all who has had some trials and some tribulations to say, in your situation, when I’m going through Yes the Lord is there. He was there in the sickness, he is there the my lowest hour, He’s there when I’m tired, he is there when my best friend has left me, I can truly say that the Lord is there.
The Battle is Not Yours
The Battle is Not Yours
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Understand the battle is not yours
So here in our text it opens up by giving us an interesting episode about the people of the nation Israel, our text tells us that God is anger and disturb with Mt. Seir [and if you don’t know let me tell you that Mt Seir was known for their evilness, and God was sick of it, just like God is sick and tired of evilness today.
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste. I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord. Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment, therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go. And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall. I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
“Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them’—although the Lord was there—
Understand that God is there with you when you are under attack….he has set his eye on you and he has set himself against those things that are attacking you.
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
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