This morning my friends I come to you in continued AWE of GOD! I am sure as you awoke this morning you thanked the Lord for His blessings. I am also sure that many of us if not all of us face some type of challenge this day and all days. Yes! We do have a couple things nipping at our heels! BUT WE HAVE GOD! We are still in AWE of GOD in the gift of the ministry car by Pastor Ruben and Lucy Gomez! A 2006 Buick LaCrosse with 73,000 miles on it! Its like brand new..floats on air! Amen! It has a gas gage that works! Even a CD player! It’s like a dream of glory! Amen! A dream of heaven! Amen! I hardly can beleive it is our car in the garage! I hardly feel worthy to receive such a gift! Amen! Well, it really is not our car, it is God’s car……given to do HIS work! John Wesley had a horse we have a Buick! LOL! We thank all of you who support FGGAM! For God’s Glory Alone! By the way, the hat I am wearing in the picture was given to me by Ruben! New car, new drivers hat! Amen! The AWE of GOD! Psalm 33:8 teaches us…….Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him.
I share this story as encouragement to all of us…God is still in the miracle making business! Amen! As I tell this story as I travel around..people are so encouraged! Thank you Lord! Let us all humble ourselves before the Lord! Amen!
My life verse is……….My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. Acts 20:24 Ruben and Lucy, Sharon and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us to continue our work for God.
Please listen to my latest sermon on PRAYER, by clicking on the headline. I pray you will be as blessed as I was giving the Words God gave me! Amen!
I posted this several months ago……
Paul Tripp wrote this:
What is the overriding worldview of Psalm 145? It is that every human being has been hardwired by God to live in daily awe of him. This means the deepest, most life-shaping, practical daily motivation of every human being was designed to be the awe of God. This is the calling of every person. This is the umbrella of protection over every person. This is the reality that is to define and give shape to every other reality in a person’s life.
Now, what does this functionally look like for me? Well, it should be the thing that in some way motivates everything I do and say.
Awe of God is meant to rule every domain of my existence.
Awe of God should be the reason I do what I do with my thoughts. It should be the reason I desire what I desire.
Awe of God should be the reason I treat my wife the way I do and parent my children in the manner I do. It should shape and motivate my relationship with my extended family and neighbors
Awe of God should be the reason I function the way I do at my job or handle my finances the way I do. It should structure the way I think about physical possession and personal position and power.
Awe of God should give direction to the way I live as a citizen of the wider community. It should form the way that I think about myself and my expectations of others.
Awe of God should lift me out of my darkest moments of discouragement and be the source of my most exuberant celebrations.
Awe of God should make me more self-aware and more mournful of my sin while it makes me more patient with and tender toward the weaknesses of others. It should give me courage I would have no other way and wisdom to know when I am out of my league.
Awe of God is meant to rule every domain of my existence.
When awe of God is absent, it is quickly replaced by our awe of ourselves.
But there is more. Awe of God must dominate my ministry, because one of the central missional gifts of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to give people back their awe of God. A human being who is not living in a functional awe of God is a profoundly disadvantaged human being. He is off the rails, trying to propel the train of his life in a meadow, and he may not even know it.
The spiritual danger here is that, when awe of God is absent, it is quickly replaced by our awe of ourselves. If you are not living for God, the only alternative is to live for yourself. So a central ministry of the church must be to do anything it can to be used of God to turn people back to the one thing for which they were created: to live in a sturdy, joyful, faithful awe of God.
