How is your soul?
Verse 1 --- When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul:
Verse 2 --- Though Satan should buffet, tho' trials come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, and hath shed His own blood for my soul.
Verse 3 --- My sin --- oh, the bliss of this glorious tho't--- My sin --- not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord O my soul!
Verse 4 --- And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, That clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall re-sound and the Lord shall de-send, "Even so" it is well with my soul,
Chorus: It is well ..... with my soul ...... It is well, it is well with my soul.
Today I want to talk to you and ask you, is it well with your soul? All of us go through hard times or have gone through hard times in our lives:
We, many times, because of the way we see things with our natural eyes, or hear things with our natural ears, we get side tracked from the word of God and let negative words or things disturb us instead of immediately taking time to find scripture in the word and standing on it for the answer:
I have found myself saying, “well I will get into the word later and all will be well:” Getting into the word quickly, will slow the enemy down quicker and will quicken the peace:
Now I say we because it happens to me as well. When this happens, I go to the word first and find scriptures that bring me peace, then I tell the turmoil to leave me and never return, because Jesus took upon himself all of my cares and worries: Sometimes I add prayer and worship to the mix and when I do, the struggles leave quickly:
Worship will get us into the presence of God the Father and when in that presence, our answer come quicker than normal:
We must get to the point that we fully trust God and his word, to be able to do this.
I will add this, it is hard sometimes to release the torment and voices of the enemy, but putting ourselves in the hands of our Lord and Savior does take care of it: God did not create us to carry our concerns, the negative pressures, the problems of the world or the negative issues that bombard us:
Because we live in a negative world and especially now with the turmoil going on in the cities and states along with the virus, shut-downs, lay-offs etc. We tend to look at those things more than the word and because we do, the negative seems to be stronger and more powerful than the positive:
It is very true, that we live in a negative world, with our leaders coming against Christians, taking action in their own hand against the police departments, wanting to de-fund them etc.
Those who run for President are putting their opponents down worse than ever before. Lies from those you should be able to trust, unrest in almost every where you turn:
As these things may and are true, we still must turn our faces to God and his word in order to keep peace in our lives.
I have lived through a lot of world upheaval in my 68 years of life and as bad as it was then, it seems like the early days were a lot easier, especially with the turmoil trying to stop churches and those coming against Christians, than it is now:
This is the more reason, for us to turn ourselves to God and his word. It is a more reason to spend more time in prayer for our nation, our government, our police departments etc.
I mean the fact that they are wanting to get rid of the American flag which is the symbol of freedom. This action is saying that those who died for this freedom done it in vain:
Now as never before is very critical for us to be spending more time in prayer and the word: Spending more time in hearing from God on who should be our president:
We should be spending more time praying for our country and the leaders there of so we can enjoy a peaceable life while we are here on this earth:
The enemy is very concerned about this as well, he wants this United States of America to go down the tubes and be destroyed as well as to see those who stand up for Jesus go down that same path, he wants this country to go:
Our place is to stand on the word of God and stand between the enemy and this country as well as our lives:
Again, I cannot express myself more how critical it is to pray for God’s will to be done on this nation as well as on our own lives:
Matthew 6:10 says --- Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven:
Matthew 18:19 --- Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven:
Luke 11: 2 says --- And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth:
All of these scriptures tell us how God wants us to live like on this earth: We need to live in peace, joy and in abundance as well:
Let us take time out of our lives to pray that it is not just Well with our souls, but well in our nation as well:
Are you with me? Are you with Christ? Then let us put aside our differences and agree on the word of God:
REMEMBER: JESUS IS LORD!
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