Church at the Orchard was launched today. I got up around 6:00a.m., took a shower, prayed, prayed some more, spoke to my wife, then we headed to the where we planted the church. We are inside of an AMC theatre inside what is called, "The Orchard Town Center Mall." I was excited, but there were a lot of emotions that were going on inside of me. Happy, sad, amazement, awe, upset, joy, and so many more. I wanted to be open to God's voice this morning and finding out that I'm going to have to be in tune more often. I don't take being a pastor lightly. It is a BIG job! Those who do take it lightly need to be out of the pulpit. I'm touchy on that subject, because too many pastors (and no, I don't think I'm perfect) have let the "fear of God" go in their lives.
God brought me to lead the church into the book of Deuteronomy. To teach what a covenant means. A covenant is not meant to be broken. Think about if God failed at everything He has said in your life; it would leave you infuriated! Deuteronomy is a covenant made by God to the people of Israel. Although Jesus has came and a new covenant has birthed...He didn't come to ABOLISH the law but to fulfill it. So I am teaching about the lives of the Israelites and their leaders, and how we can learn from them through the journey we take the moment we step out of bed. This is the time for, "new beginnings."
Read Deuteronomy 1:1-29
Look at the path they chose, the distrust they had in God, the fear they had in a people and a battle that God had already taken care of. But one thing is for sure; that in Deut. 32:10 God found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland, He surrounded them and watched over them; He gaurded them as His most precious possession.
Can I tell you that YOU are God's most precious posession! He loves you like crazy! He will take care of you, if you will just LET GO of what SLOWS YOU DOWN in your walk with Him. He doesn't care what you've done in the past, He is ready to forgive you, ready to love on you, ready to see you prosper!
TRUST GOD!
Let us keep our eyes on Jesus and never sway too far to the left or to the right, but let us run the race on a narrow path that God has prepared for us! (Hebrews 12:1, 2)
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