“I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”
John 14: 6
12 “Look, I AM coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. 13 I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22: 12-13
Pastors Noreen & Henry Kevern
Held
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.
Psalm 116:15
In these last few years we have seen so much death. Scores of people died during the plague of Covid. Thousands were killed during a twenty year war that was never fought to be won. The rise of more and more deadly muslims attacking and killing and maiming people has been happening all over the world. The rise of foreign gangs in the US have caused such terror in neighborhoods. We have seen the escalation of the lies of the devil coming out from its sly hiding and boldly declaring war on what GOD says is good and what the devil says is good. People have been hoodwinked into believing these lies and they go forth and work to cancel GOD’s WORD and HIS people. We have had an increase of natural disasters that are more deadly and seem to be catching us unaware. The recent flooding in Texas and the flooding that hit NC nine months ago caused such destruction and loss of life. Fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, storms seem to be happening everywhere. So where is GOD in all this?
There is such a great divide in this country and across the world. Swarms of muslims invade Europe and they are seeking to conquer Europe and their governments seem to be encouraging them to do so. Communism, socialism and marxism seem to be gaining support. It seems as if they are working overtime to demolish all aspects of GOD in the world and to promote the agenda of the devil. We have murdered over sixty five million babies all for the sake of selfish personal choice.
What shall we say? Are we so wrapped up in our lives, living as though tomorrow will not come, that JESUS is not going to return soon? Are we satisfied with the choices we have made with our lives? Do we even look to GOD and seek HIS face and HIS will for our lives? Have we allowed a slow fade into sin and evil to overcome us and have forsaken the WORD of GOD to embrace the world and believe the lies of the evil one?
Why have we forgotten we were bought for a price?
I speak not of these things to create an atmosphere of fear or to instill a feeling of hopelessness. Indeed not, because there is always hope. Hope is the gift from GOD that enjoins us to rest in HIM and to learn to trust HIM. Hope is the gift that fills in these times to seek GOD and to learn to renew our faith, our hope and to renew our covenant relationship with HIM. To encourage us to ask HIM to forgive us for our human failings and to take HIS hand and ask HIM to help us to begin again. Hope is present in every area of life. Because GOD is present. By seeking GOD and HIS will, we can ask HIS HOLY SPIRIT to revive us, that HIS SPIRIT would fill us with what we have missed. To lead us back to the LORD and to begin again, and to keep looking into the face of YESHUA and saying, JESUS, help me to begin again.
GOD says, “IF MY people who are called by MY Name, would humble themselves and pray, and seek MY face and turn from their wicked ways, then I would hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
GOD is holding us in the palm of HIS hand even though we may not perceive it. HE carries us and when we look back, we see HE was carrying us through each and every storm of our lives. HE never leaves us or forsakes us and so we have nothing to fear.
Where is GOD in the midst of all these things that are happening. HE is all around us, reaching out HIS hand for us to take hold of and to ask HIM to help us. We are being held in the midst of despair for the death of the children in the floods. HE is there with us when we sin. HE is there with us through the hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes. HE is with us when we murder our children, HE is speaking to the rapist, the molester to stop and HE is holding us when it happens and so HE knows our pain. HE holds us while loved ones are being searched for and comforts us in our sorrows. HE is with us when we are in the pits of despair, calling out and just wanting to end it all because our pain is so great. HE is with us when we pray for healing and it does not come. HE is with each parent as they put their child in a coffin and close the lid. We are held.
As we look through our pain and sorrow, let us look to GOD and ask HIM to reveal HIMSELF and to comfort us. HE is holding us as we cry with such heartbreak. Nothing is unimportant to GOD. All HE wants is for us to turn to HIM and ask HIM to hold us.
There is so much to look forward to in our moments of grief. When we turn to GOD and call on HIS Name, HE is holding us. Our children who were washed away by the floods, they are in HIS arms. They are more than okay, they are in the loving hands of GOD being held. They are being held.
We have to restore our sense of trust that no matter what is going on, that GOD is there, in the midst of everything and HE is holding on to you. We have to return to GOD and keep our eyes on HIM and to walk in HIS way, HIS truth and HIS life and remember that we are here to learn to love HIM and to prepare for going home and living with HIM forever. We must take the belief that whatever happens to us in this world is bringing us to a complete relationship with GOD, to work out all our kinks of our eyes on self instead of our eyes on JESUS.
We have to prepare ourselves to be living our lives walking in HIS SPIRIT and in HIS truth. We have to remember that without GOD we loose our direction: Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, submit to HIM and HE will direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6
This is what it means to be held. That we know that in every situation, in every circumstance in our lives, our good, good FATHER holds us in the palm of HIS hand. We are loved and we are held.
HELD
(This Is What It Means Held
by Natalie Grant)
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