BARACK OBAMA!!!

Praise the Lord for our new president! Yes, praise the Lord. I didn’t vote for him only because I can’t support the Democrat’s stance on the killing of unborn children or legalizing gay marriage.  Otherwise, I do celebrate this historic moment. I look forward to the walls of racism continuing to fall in our nation. He is God’s man for this time and God will use him to fulfill His purposes.  Although, I didn’t support him with my vote, I will support him with my respect and prayers.

This, my friends, is our Biblical obligation. God expects us to submit, honor and pray for those in authority over us. It has nothing to do with whether we voted for them or agree with them. Consider Romans 13: 1-2. “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resists will bring judgment on themselves.”

1 Timothy 2: 1-2 says, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”

The burden and responsibility of our president is great. He will be faced with decisions that affect the moral fiber of our country, our safety and economic well being. We must pledge our prayers and support. He will need it. His family will need it and our great country will need it. Let’s join together and pray, God Bless Barack Obama and God Bless America.

Burn Baby Burn!

Listen to the words of Jesus in the following passage found in Luke 12:49-58. “I’ve come to start a fire on this earth-how I wish it were blazing even right now! I’ve come to change everything, turn everything right side up-how I long for it to be finished! Do you think I came to smooth things over and make everything nice? Not so. I’ve come to disrupt and confront! From now on, when you find five in a house, it will be: Three against two and two against three, Father against son, and son against father, Mother against daughter and daughter against mother, Mother-in-law against bride and bride against mother-in-law. Then he turned to the crowd: When you see clouds coming in from the west, you say, Storms coming- and you’re right. And when the wind comes out of the south, you say, this’ll be a hot one- and you’re right. Frauds! You know how to tell a change in the weather, so don’t tell me you can’t tell a change in the season, the God-season you are in right now. You don’t have to be a genius to understand these things. Just use your common sense, the kind you’d use if, while being taken to court, you decided to settle up with your accuser on the way, knowing that if you went before the judge you’d probably go to jail and pay every last penny of the fine.

THAT’S THE KIND OF DECISION I’M ASKING YOU TO MAKE!

So what is Jesus asking us to do?

1. Expect Him to come into our lives with change.
2. Prepare to live in a constant cycles of change because without it we can’t grow.
3. Don’t be surprised by the disruption to our life.
4. Welcome the confrontation of everything in our life that is keeping us from growing.
5. Understand that there will be friends and family that won’t go where God wants to take us. Move on!
6. Discern the season as a God-season where people, things, attitudes and sins are being removed to move us to the next level. Don’t fight it.
7. Learn to count losses as gains in the kingdom.
8. Make hard decisions in a timely manner. Indecision will cost us more in the long run.
9. Remember, that Jesus started this fire and He will be with us every step of the way.

- Pastor Al Hill