Title Because of You (December 28)
Content span id="writeContents">◆ Text: Psalm 91:1~16
This is the last Sunday of the year.
During this week, the most greetings I have ever heard were, “Thank you so much.”
We will greet the person next to us together. “Thank you so much.”
“The reversal of drama in my life started with meeting God.” This is the story of someone who grew up with faith as a daughter of an elder. It has been several years since he got married and left the church. Problems began to arise in the smooth family life. Her husband's business began to falter, and the child born was a mentally retarded child.
When people don't work, why do things that don't work come together.... I couldn't handle it too much. Later, he says that he even thought about dying with his young daughter.
The moment someone introduced me to our church and started worshiping, the chapel, which had been in for the first time in several years, was not unfamiliar at all. The same chapel he had attended with his father and mother as a child, and the God he had left for several years, welcomed him as he was that day.
"Do not worry about it. Don't worry. Don’t be afraid.”
It's a story I've heard often, but I don't know why those words made him cry that day. It was not the words of comfort given by man, but the words of comfort from God. Those words gave me great strength. I didn't think I'd ever get up again...
It was the moment when the drama of the reversal of his life began again for him, who he thought was a story about happiness. I regained the smile I had lost, and realized how much joy it is to love her, even though she is a daughter of a mentally retarded child. Every time I fell on my face and prayed, tears flowed and my thanks poured out.
Someone said that he can't forget a hymn that he hummed, but when I heard it, it was probably a song we sang often.
"Love it. my jesus
Love it. very much
Love it. my jesus
Love it. That's it.
I love you, son (my daughter), I know you well.
I love you, son (my daughter), I will give you more blessings.”
Son, I know you well. I will bless you. Daughter, I know you well and I will bless you. It is said that this hymn did not leave the mouth.
“Pastor, I have failed because of myself, but I am starting a new life because of God.”
According to the Bible, many people who lived their lives because of them ended up with regrets in their lives. Politicians who were confident, countless people who were confident, but in the end, life ended in failure. But the story of successful people in the Bible says, “It is because of you, God, that I have this happiness in my life.” We can discover what we are confessing through the Bible.
Guys, how have you been in the past year?
David was one of the most successful men of all, but he also lived a very broad life, even down to the depths of unhappiness. He confesses the words of today's psalm in his most difficult time.
“Even though the world has abandoned me, because you love me, because you protect me, my life is made up of myself.” It's a confession.
When we were successful and ahead of others, God seemed less. However, when the tears of failure were shed, the image of God seemed too large.
He was a man who saw God greatly. When we couldn't live on our own, that God seemed so great, and we can see that God took hold of him and made him live a new life.
A man named David was the eighth son of the family of Jesse. When Samuel came to see the prophecy that a king would come to Jesse's family, even his father saw David, the youngest of eight sons, that he had no qualifications to become a king. After all, the seven sons were clothed in fine clothes and prepared to be part of the time when the prophet Samuel came and anointed the king, but not the eighth son, David. He wasn't that kind of person. I didn't deserve it.
“You are not like that.”
Judging from the judgment of people, those who are not good enough, those who are terribly unhappy, those who cannot do everything they do, those who will not sleep well even after they die.
All ten people say that. No, everyone talks like that. But in the kingdom of God, it is said that it is God's work to completely overturn this kind of human thinking. Even if a hundred people say no, God says, “You can do it.” Then you will. Isn't this how we live a life of faith? Even if it doesn't work out, God is telling you today.
“You can.”
In times like these, if you raise your hands and say Amen, you will receive more blessings...
To all of you who attended this last Sunday today, God said, “You are doing well in 2004.”
All you have to do is become God.
No one knows a child as well as a parent. No one else knows, but my parents know. In the eyes of his father Jesse, David was not a king. But God says that he has chosen to be king.
“No matter how you look at it, this is not my seller. Pastor, my circumstances, because the pastor doesn’t know, because people don’t know, it can’t happen again.”
Each time I tell the story of David. David himself could not even think of being called such a king, and he had already thought in his heart that he was not. But God said to David, “You are the king,” who gave up on himself after people made the same judgment.
Let's share this blessing with the person next to us. “You are the king.”
In the new year, let's not live like beggars, but live like a king according to God's choice. Doesn't God want that? God's children must live like kings.
My husband's business went down, he became an alcoholic, and his life became so miserable that he couldn't live. I had to take my daughter to the hospital, but I didn't have the money to take her to the hospital. Have you ever thought of dying? However, the many comforting words he had heard so far were not the words of life to him, but he said, “Don’t worry. Don't worry. Don’t be afraid.”
He said he didn't know why the words being preached from the pulpit captured him so much.
Gentlemen, this is God's love and God's choice. For the man of God, words are not an expression of emotions, but words have life. Those who hold on to the life force from those words are supposed to pick the fruit.
Second, after David was chosen by God, he took the name of Jehovah God and went out and proclaimed it everywhere. The fight with Goliath is one-to-one. But David said, “You came out with a spear and a sword, but I came out with the name of Jehovah God.” I did.
God's name is great.
The name of God is the most powerful name of any power.
Gentlemen, proclaim this power from the mouths of those who are loved by God. Even before the devil, boldly, in the name of God, “Go away, Satan.” shout out
Whatever the circumstances, whatever the problem, don't be discouraged.
He who keeps me, who is with me, has not promised that if he only proclaims it with his mouth, he will fulfill what is proclaimed.
“If you know me, if you love me, I will love you; if you know me, I will help you, protect you, protect you, and give you victory.”
This is God. David did not become a great man because of his brilliance, but he became a great man because he was loved by God, chosen by God, and proclaimed the name of God in his mouth.
The third thing is that even people who live by faith like this sometimes get discouraged and sometimes they can't get out of trouble. David later found himself unable to conduct himself, so he fled to the enemy Philistines and pretended to be a madman. Because you have to imitate a crazy person to live... How humble you were...
The reason why God gave us the command to keep this temple and not leave it is because if we bow down in the temple and pray, He will give us the power to work again, to gain strength again, and to get up again.
When it is difficult, some people move away from the church, and when it is difficult, there are people who become closer to the church. But the person who gets closer will gain strength again and get up. Difficulties come to everyone. Hard work comes.
I have had a very difficult year too. One year after surgery, it was a really difficult year during this recovery period. But today, I am thankful to God and also to you. As I said last time.... When I asked you to express my feelings to you all for loving me, praying for me, helping me, maybe for one year, I became a person who felt sorry for you because you were so grateful.
Last Friday, when I went into the nursery at the united class meeting, a three-year-old boy from a house that had only been enrolled in our church for two months looked at me and said that to his mother.
“Mom, who is that person?”
With a slightly apologetic face, the mother said, “You are the pastor.”
A three-year-old said, “Why is the pastor playing?”
Ladies and gentlemen, even if it is difficult, difficult, sometimes lagging behind others, having to leave the job due to social structure, and even if the business fails, our Christianity is not the end, but God is the One who starts over at the time I always think is the end. . Please hold onto the God who makes you start again.
The God who appeared in David's life, a God who chooses once and loves him once, loves him to the end. Declare God's name in your mouth with confidence and dignity as if you were loved by that God. Overcome any situation in the name of God. And even if difficulties sometimes come in our lives, never give up. Just as David came back to the temple and prayed earnestly before God to receive power and a new drama began in his life, in 2004, there will be a successful drama in our lives. I sincerely wish you a blessed year in your life. We will pray together.
“Thank you, Father God, for the grace of God who is with us. On the Sunday at the end of this year, I stood before God with an apologetic heart because I was so grateful. I became a person who was sorry because I was also grateful to people. But God, the God who chose David and loved me to the end, the God who chose us, I believe that you will love us to the end. As David proclaimed the name of the LORD with his lips, help us to be victorious saints in your name in any situation, in any problem, in your name. God, we are ending a difficult and difficult year. Their lives were exhausting, disappointing, and difficult, but they begin by praying at the altar before God who makes them start again. Please raise up the people of prayer again. I earnestly pray in the name of Jesus. Amen."