Four Letter Words

I believe There are two four letter words that stops us dead in our tracks. The first word is the word can’t. We have lived with the idea that God has asked too much of us. We say that we can’t spread the gospel through the whole world, we can’t live a holy life, we can’t forgive someone who deeply hurt us, we can’t sacrifice our time to serve someone we can’t part with our money ….we can’t we can’t we can’t! But God says yes you can. In Philippians 4:13 God says we can do All things through him and in Zechariah 4:6 not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord. We CAN do what God wants. The second four letter word that stops us dead in our tracks is is the word Quit. How easily Satan gets us to be discouraged when doors shut and plans don’t come to pass. We just want to give up when God seems to be slow to answer our prayers. Ministry work can often times be disheartening because those of us in ministry often times do not immediately see the fruit of our labor or we minister on our time rather than on the perfect timing of the Lord. We can go for weeks without seeing the harvest of our efforts if we even see them at all. These two words when used alone often times prevents us from finishing the race to which God has called us to. My dear listeners, may we put these two words side by side and see what they tell us. CAN’T QUIT! Can’t Quit! We must not quit. WE can’t quit because the price Jesus paid was too high, the cross, the nails, the thorns. We can’t quit because somewhere someplace, someone needs to know of our Lord’s compassion. We can’t quit because someone out there needs to be offered the same grace that God showed us when he reached so far down to save us. WE can not quit sharing the word of God and the love of Christ with a world that so desperately needs the message. The recent shootings at Virginia tech is a prime example of the tragedy of today’s times. We are trying to fix spiritual problems with worldly things and hearts continue to become so hardened that individuals totally lose all respect for human life. Somewhere, someone needs to hear that Jesus loves them, despite their unbelief. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. We don’t need gun control, we need heart control and it is time foir our hearts to be controlled by Jesus. There is however one one four letter word that we can use that stands alone. That word is HELP!. It is not a sign of weakness to ask for help. WE all need one another. There is power in numbers . We need your help. I can’t do this alone. God asks in Isaiah, Who will go for us? Isaiah responded: Here am I Lord, send me! My prayer is that you will join me in reviving the heart of our nation one heart at a time with the word of God and the love of Christ by saying to the Lord here am I send me!