Burning Bush

Lord, when the bush is burning, let me not burn lower as the fire does, but let me burn higher and higher


Did You Overlook Your Burning Bush?
Exodus 3:1-5
by Robert L. Cobb
http://www.newsforchristians.com/archive/sermons/ser006.html

The Burning Bush
by George Whitefield (1714-1770)
http://www.newsforchristians.com/clser1/whitefield013.html

He will carry you

C                                        Em             F
Their is no problem too big God cannot solve it
G7                                                          F    C  G7
Their is no mountain too tall He cannot move It
C                             Em                        F
Their is no storm too dark God cannot calm It
G7                                                        F    C  G7
Their is no sorrow too deep He cannot sooth It

      C                                   Em               F   
If He carried the weight of the world up on his shoulders
G7                                                 C    G7
I know my brother that He will carry you
      C                                     Em               F
If He carried the weight of the world up on his shoulders
G7                                              C   Em    
I know my sister that He will carry you, He said

Bridge:
Am         Em  G           D    Dm
Come on to me, all who are weary--y
    F        G7      C   G7
And I will give you rest


 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi8tajO11SM

In the furnace with God we grow in faith

Live by faith, not by sight  2 Cor 5:7

If God sends me harder tasks, I am assured that am growing as God entrust those He trusts with greater things Matt 25:14-30

Sorcery, Satanic or Sin?

Galatians 5:19

 ^19-21It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

How to help such a person?  Who becomes a drain on resouces: emotionally, mentally, financially without a care for others. Just the big I, Myself and Me. A black hole where everything and everyone gets sucked in and gone forever.

Is it a matter of inconvenience?

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." GK Chesterton

OK Let's consider it an adventure.  

Refined by God's fire or be scorched by it

Fall in, therefore with the gracious design of God; follow every affliction with prayer, that God would follow it with his blessing. God kills your comforts, out of no other design but to kill your corruptions with them: wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to pull down ambition: Happy is the man who understands, approves, and heartily sets in with the design of God, in such afflicting providences.



The Method of Grace
by John Flavel
http://www.gracegems.org/27/method_of_grace17.htm

Letting Go

^15-16On the other hand, if the unbelieving spouse walks out, you've got to let him or her go. You don't have to hold on desperately. God has called us to make the best of it, as peacefully as we can. You never know, wife: The way you handle this might bring your husband not only back to you but to God. You never know, husband: The way you handle this might bring your wife not only back to you but to God.

1 Cor 7:15-16 (The Message)

Don't Give Up

 

 2 Cor ^8, 9  We've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but we're not demoralized; we're not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do; we've been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left our side; we've been thrown down, but we haven't broken.

Gal 6 ^9-10 So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don't give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.