Whom Do You Serve

In today’s world the hustle and bustle of everyday life can seem like a rat race. We go to our jobs, we pay our bills, and we support our family and we even contribute to our community. Most people will also have hobbies that help them to relax, or possibly to even make us happy. With all this together it can make for a full plate, and often with no room for anything else. As Christians this can be a serious situation needing great attention. As Christian we love the Lord, and we would want to live as he would wish. Though often we get so tied up in the “gotta do” list that we forget what we are doing it for. Perhaps even who for. Without necessarily meaning to we place things higher in priority and without thinking, place those that should be held high, towards the back of our list. In Exodus 20:3 we read "You shall have no other gods before me” Before we know it, we can find ourselves worshiping another god entirely. Our jobs, our homes, perhaps even our own personal glory, can find its way to the top of our list and finding ourselves without much and any time for the Savior we say we truly serve and worship.

The Word of God reads that we are to give our life to him entirely. Much of the problems come from the teaching that to be successful, you must have wealth and popularity, and to gain that, we strive with all we have to obtain it. But in the strive to gain, we loose sight of the promise we made for the redemption of our souls. We as Christians have not only given our hearts to God, but have also vowed to serve him thru the life we have been given. It is not that we love the Lord any less, but rather simply loosing focus due to placing items on our plates that distract us, and therefore lead us off track. The enemy is a skilled opponent, so do not underestimate him. If you can not be tempted with sinful pleasures, often good hearted people find themselves lost to the overwhelming list of their personal wants. They may find themselves not necessarily living in sin, but rather simply serving neither God, nor the enemy, but rather serving themselves. This in itself is a sin.

The Bible reads in Revelations 3:16, so then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, will I spew you out of my mouth. We know that if we are cold, this means we simply do not serve God at all. If we are hot then we serve him with everything. But God also states here that if we are found somewhere in the middle, then that is the same as not serving him at all. The Bible also reads in Luke 16:13, 13 “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. Let everyone that claims to love Christ, examine themselves today. Asking ourselves, where God is on our list, and if we find anything that we have placed before it then that has been our God. But having it revealed to us now, May we make a choice to change our list of priority to better fit our promise to God. So that we may truly say we are servants of the Most High God, and Jesus Christ is our Savior

God bless

Pastor phyllis

Wishing all of my American friends a wonderful Thanksgiving . God is our provider and so we need to praise Him for all the good thiings He gives to us that so often we take for granted like our food, homes we live in, air the breath, our freedom to worship the Lord and so much more . Enjoy and offer up thanks to our blessed Savior for without Him we have nothing God bless

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the
throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction
of sinner against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds. (Hebrews 12:1-3, KJV)


I'd like to start this mornings' devotional with a parable. Long

ago God had a great many burdens which He wished to have

carried from one place to another on earth, so He asked the ani-

mals to lend a hand. But all of them began to make excuses for

not helping. The elephant, was too dignified...the lion, too proud

and so on. Finally, the birds came to God and said..."If you tie

the burdens into small bundles, we'll be glad to carry them for

you. We are small, but we would like to help."



So, God fastened upon the back of each one small bundles and

they all set out walking across the plain to their destination.

They sang as they went, and did not seem to feel the weight of

their burdens at all. Every day, the burden seems lighter, until

the load seem to be lifting the birds, instead of the birds carry-

ing the burdens.



When they arrived at their destination, they discovered that

when they removed their loads, there were wings in their place,

wings which enabled them to fly to the sky and tree tops. They

had learned how to carry their burdens, and their loads had be-

come wings to carry them nearer to God.



Moral of the parable: The burdens we carry for others may be-

come wings of the spirit to lift us into happiness such as we

have never known.



Brothers and sisters...We should always bear in mind that the

struggles we face will be used to make us stronger, wiser, and

more capable than we were before. When we go through diffe-

rent hardships we should remember that God is able to bring

great results from the hardest of our struggles. We shouldn't

face the obstacles ahead of us with murmuring or complaining,

but rather we should stand tall and know that we are well equip-

ped to handle every trial that comes our way. The Lord first e-

quips us to handle the problem before it is brought before us.

Psalm 138:8 says..."The Lord will perfect that which concerneth

me" (KJV).



Dearly beloved...The Lord does not wish for us to fail, but ra-

ther He wishes for us to triumph and succeed in every area of

our lives. Be encouraged and know that the trials we face today

do serve a purpose for our tomorrow. Never think of giving up

simply because the weight seem too heavy for you right now.

Stand firm and let God know that your eyes are focused on

Him and not on the burdens that you carry today. The Lord

will be faithful to show you how strong you have become be-

cause of the trials that you were triumphant over.



My beloved in the Lord...I hope this mornings' devotional en-

courage you to never think of giving up or giving in. Make up

your mind to stand strong in the Lord and in the power of His

might. The Lord who brought you to it has promised to also

bring you through it. Trust Him!



Prayer: Lord, thank you for guiding the circumstances of my

life so that Your plan and purpose has been accomplished,

even when I was unaware. Do whatever You need to do in my

life to bring about Your plans and purposes for me, now and

always. In Jesus' name I pray...Amen!



Rev. Nick Dais O.D. M.C.L. D.D.

Senior Pastor, FCPSGM

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