Friday
PRaP 10/20/06
“Hope”
I heard a message yesterday that really
opened my eyes and my heart. As most of you know that Mary
has been stuck over in Ireland for more then a year now. When
we talk at times we are sometimes at our wits end waiting for this stuff to be
over so she can get back here to the U.S.. But I heard a
great analogy about a baseball team that had been waiting many years to win a
pennant race and get to the World
Series. For years the fans would come out to the
games and put up the signs and posters of hope in winning this year.
But as the years went by those signs and posters of hope began to
disappear. The fans gave up the hope of their team ever
winning. After all hope was gone the team began to win.
Finally they won the pennant and went to the World
Series. Let’s look at Abraham and Sarah.
God promised Abraham that his descendants would be like the sand of the
Earth in numbers. They waited years for this promise to be
fulfilled. Sarah and Abraham had lost hope of the promise
and Abraham united to Sarah’s handmaiden and they had a son. They
thought that this was the promised child but they were wrong. When
Sarah was 99 she gave birth to a son, Isaac, (Genesis 21) who was the child
that God promised. So when you think there is no hope then
think again because if God said it is so then it will be so. If
it is God’s plan then you must wait on His timing and not try and mess with
it on your own. As soon as you try and force the hand of
God the blessing will be no more. Read the story of Abraham
and Sarah and get your hope back in God’s plan for your life. I
know we have and we know that in God’s time we will be united. Speaking
too of hope my mom and I will be walking in the American
Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. This
is a 5 mile walk tomorrow. Please if you can make a
donation click on the link or copy and paste the web address in your browser. Click
here to visit my personal page.
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1761993&pg=personal&fr_id=2070&et=bpRVRSpzJlDZ9CXF6H7LUg..&s_tafId=4471
PRaP Genesis 17
Key Verse:
Genesis
17:17
Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will
a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age
of ninety?"
PEACE and AGAPE LOVE, Pastor,
Dad, DJ Dude
From The Desk Of:
Pastor Stephen Eldridge
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Matthew 7:7-8
"Ask and it will be given
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For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who
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