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Good morning. Many of us don’t like going through trials. In fact, when they come upon us we say; Lord why me? When trials come, we get to see what God has placed on the inside of us, we get to learn, we get to exercise our faith and most of all, we get to see God work. So, let’s stop complaining about what we’re going through and let’s start saying; class is in session. The Lord is teaching me some things about myself I didn’t even realize was in me. The Lord is working on my behalf, so I’ll just go through this and get out of it everything God has for me. Cursing and complaining just shows how immature we still are and our lack of spiritual growth.

James 1:2-4
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. It’s nothing like making a plan and your plan fails. When our plans fail, do we ever stop and think what went wrong? Do we see if we ran our plans by God to see what He thought? Many times our plans fail because we neglect to include God. We think we can just make a plan and God is supposed to follow our lead. In actuality, we are supposed to consult with God before we even start making our plans. Let’s stop failing at stuff we know we can succeed in. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto us.

Proverbs 16:3 Commit your actions to the LORD,
and your plans will succeed.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Whether good or bad, we all have motives for why we do things. We reason and justify in our minds the actions we take. We reason and justify in our minds the behavior we display. It doesn’t matter how much reasoning and justifying we do, God examines our heart and He will expose if we’re acting out of a pure or deceitful heart.

Proverbs 16:2
People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Why are we in a hurry to get places and complete tasks? Why don’t we slow down and enjoy the view from where we’re at? What’s wrong with taking the long way around sometimes? When we take shortcuts in life we can count on it coming back on us. If we take shortcuts in building something, we can look for it to crumble at some point and time. If we take shortcuts in the instructions God gave us, surely destruction will follow at some point and time. Let’s not be so in a rush, that we overlook a detail, go the wrong way or worse, bring calamity upon ourselves and our family all because we wanted to take a shortcut.

Proverbs 21:5
Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. There’s only one way to heaven and one way to get to God and that’s through Jesus Christ. We can’t go to God for ourselves, for He does not have an open door policy. We can go to Jesus and he’ll make intercession for us. God likes order and we can’t buck the order He’s put in place just to please ourselves. Therefore, we should get to know Jesus, for in knowing Jesus; we will know God.

John 14:6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. The Lord has a way of humbling us and bringing us back to earth. We can think we’re all that, but truly we’re nothing without Christ. None of us can brag or boast because it is He that has made us and not we ourselves. In all of our righteousness we’re as filthy rags. So, instead of thinking we’re all that and a bag of chips we need to get in the face of the Lord and hear what the spirit is saying to the church; he that hath an ear let him hear.

Romans 3:10-11
As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous— not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. We are not to seek glory or fame for doing the work of the Lord. When we see people trying to put us on a pedestal and trying to make us something we’re not, we need to stop them immediately and point them to God. We are God’s mouthpiece and that’s all. It’s a privilege and honor to be used by God. We are not God, we can’t take the place of God and we better not make people think we’re bigger than God. We have to lift up the name of the Lord and not our own names. For there is no power in our names, but at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Acts 14:11-15
When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in their local dialect, “These men are gods in human form!” They decided that Barnabas was the Greek god Zeus and that Paul was Hermes, since he was the chief speaker. Now the temple of Zeus was located just outside the town. So the priest of the temple and the crowd brought bulls and wreaths of flowers to the town gates, and they prepared to offer sacrifices to the apostles. But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard what was happening, they tore their clothing in dismay and ran out among the people, shouting, “Friends, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings—just like you! We have come to bring you the Good News that you should turn from these worthless things and turn to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. We cannot afford to take advice from ungodly people when we find ourselves in God situations. If they have no relationship with our Father, how can they direct us on the path of righteousness? We have to be careful who we turn to for advice. We should turn to God at the beginning of every situation in our lives. He’s not our last resort, He’s our only option.

Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. We don’t serve a deaf or blind God. We can try and run but we can’t hide. We can act like God don’t see us doing everything we’re doing and it just makes the punishment worse. God doesn’t miss anything that’s taking place in the earth. While he’s giving us space to repent, I just we do it because there will come a time when it’s too late.

Jeremiah 23:24
Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. We don’t have to be busybodies in the body of Christ. We can do a work for the Lord, but we don’t have to run ourselves ragged, for there’s plenty of work to be done. We don’t have to beat people upside the head with the word, all we have to do is live it and lead people to Christ. One things for sure, God will be glorified and high and lifted up above all the earth. For the Bible declares; every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Therefore, don’t get bent out of shape when people are not serving Him. We just have to make sure our souls are prepared to meet Him.

Psalms 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”

Be blessed and continue to be a blessing

Pastor Brown