Bummer Buster Friday - Our Voices For Jesus

GOOD MORNING!

HAVING THE RIGHT ATTITUDE AS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST PLACES US IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.

I THINK IT APPLIES TODAY.  I AM GREATLY GRIEVED BY THE EVENTS OF THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS AND MOURN - THE DEATH OF CHILDREN IN AN EVIL ACT AND THE DEATH - ANOTHER EVIL ACT - OF A PEACEFUL, FAITHFUL FOLLOWER OF JESUS, CHARLIE KIRK, WHO I BELIEVE USED HIS VOICE WELL TO SHARE HIS FAITH IN LOVE AND TRUTH, IN A WAY WE WHO ARE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS SHOULD LOOK TO AS AN EXAMPLE.

PONDERING MY WALK WITH GOD AS A CHRIST FOLLOWER IN THIS DAY AND AGE I WAS REMINDED OF THIS WHICH CAME TO ME IN PRAYER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO…

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN SERVICE TO OTHERS
(PHILIPPIANS 2:3-7)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN PROCLAIMING JESUS CHRIST
(ROMANS 10:8-10)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN SHARING THE GOOD NEWS
(ACTS 1:8, MARK 16:15-16, MATTHEW 28::18-19)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN SUBMITTING MY LIFE TO KING JESUS
(LUKE 9:23-24, MATTHEW 16:24-25)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS
(1 JOHN 1:9, MATTHEW 5:23-24)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN OFFERING FORGIVENESS
(JOHN 20:23, MATTHEW 6:14-15)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN BOLDLY SHARING TRUTH AND LOVE WITH NEIGHBORS AND ENEMIES ALIKE
(LUKE 10:26-28, MATTHEW 5:43-44, LUKE 6:27-28,  1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN PRAYER TO MY GOD AND SAVIOR
(1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-18, JAMES 5:16, LUKE 18:1)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN EXPRESSING MY HEARTS LOVE FOR GOD
(MATTHEW 22:37)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD…
EXCEPT IN PRAISING AND GLORIFYING GOD IN WORSHIP
(PSALM 150:1-3, ROMANS 15:5-7, 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20, AND MANY MORE)

I AM NOT A VOICE TO BE HEARD...
EXCEPT IN ....<fill in the blank> 

IN WHAT WAYS WOULD YOU HAVE GOD'S WORD SHAPE YOUR  VOICE AND ACTIONS IN THE WORLD?

READ THE REFERENCED SCRIPTURE OR DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

THE HOLY SPIRIT OFTEN CONVICTS ME THAT I CAN BE AT TIMES A NOISY GONG AND CLANGING CYMBAL (1 CORINTHIANS 13:1).

AS I LOOK INTO THE WORLD THESE DAYS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT MANY HAVE GIVEN INTO THE TEMPTATION OF RAISING THEIR VOICES TO BE HEARD ABOVE ALL OTHERS, EVEN THAT OF GOD’S VOICE, HIS WORD.

LORD JESUS, MY PRAYER FOR EACH OF US AS WE ENTER THIS WEEKEND IS THAT WE FIND WAYS TO BE QUIET AND TRUE TO YOU, LORD JESUS, IN OUR WALK WITH YOU, EXCEPT AS YOU CALL US OTHERWISE! AMEN! 
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HAVE A WEEKEND FILLED WITH THE PEACE THAT COMES FROM KNOWING OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, 
 
PATRICK
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