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It's time out for throwing yourself a pity party just because of friends turning their backs on you. Get revived in King Jesus.
LORD Teach us to............... SEEK YOU...
LORD Help us in................... OUR DAILY walk...
LORD Keep us from............ LYING to ourselves and others...
LORD Keep OUR MOUTHS............ when it seems like we're about to say the wrong
thing(s).....
LORD make...................... US BETTER SERVANTS ..
& LORD ..............Thank you for the covering of your most precious BLOOD.
In JESUS name....
Amen & Amen.....
Praise the LORD & Good Morning...just an old message which is a reminder to us just how
good the LORD is......
And if we take up as much time getting to know the LORD like we do
spending times up in the faces of our friends we have something going
for us Amen...It's tight but it's right.
Because Friends come and friends go...Keep this close to your heart
"loved ones"...A REAL FRIEND DOESN'T betray you and act as though they
never knew you.
THE BIBLE says in PROVERBS 18 VS 24 "A MAN THAT HATH FRIENDS MUST
SHEW HIMSELF FRIENDLY; AND THERE IS A FRIEND THAT STICKETH CLOSER
THAN A BROTHER."
If folks have turned their backs on you and claim to have the love of
the JESUS in them.........All we can say at this point is ........."ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS..." Just PRAY for them.
Note we said "pray" for them. This doesn't mean talk about them behind their backs. This would put you in the same category as them. Practice "Knee-o-logy" Pray that they see the "light" and walk therein.
But, by all means child of God don't U throw yourself a pity party because of it. You lift that head up....put a smile across that face.....take your mind off of your troubles. For trouble don't last always Amen ((smiles))
Say a little prayer before heading out that the door....Grab that bible and head to your church and get REVIVED....
Just remember what the GOOD BOOK said...."SEEK GOD".....
Psalms 14:
"2": The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms 53:"2": God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
2 Chronicles 19:"3": Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 30:"19": That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
Psalms 69: "32": The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Just remember what the GOOD BOOK said also in this passage of scripture in the Book of Matthew...."SEEK YE FIRST"
Matthew 6:"33": But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
So many times we pray and ask God to lead us and direct us then we stop right there with him.
Take matters into our own hands and go about our business not his. Big mistake headed for trouble now.
We get frustrated and just don't won't be bothered by anyone. Sometimes take the phone off of the hook, develop an attitude, face all disfigured by worries that can be squashed under our feet if we have a little talk with Jesus and tell him all about our troubles.
Now help us out family does this sound familiar? ((smiles))
But the bible says ask...seek...knock
We ask and then don't wait for an answer. **Don't get quiet on the truth ((smiles))
Luke 11:"9": And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Have anybody else in this forum been down this road before except us? Have it felt like the walls were closing in on you just to realize ...wait a minute....."I have the Holy Ghost what I am so upset about when I got JESUS down on the inside working his miracles on the outside.
Look at me I AM A LIVING TESTIMONY..... Now, I don't know about you. But, I got people to see so I can tell them about this man named Jesus who's in the saving business."
Now, if you feel like shouting go ahead and shout. ((smiles)) Don't let no devil from hell "stifle" your praise. The word "stifle" means To feel smothered or suffocated by; To keep in or hold back.
There is nothing wrong with going to your Pastor for help or advice
because God uses others to speak a word to us...BUT.........
When you put your trust in ANY and EVERYBODY .....U cause your own CONFUSION and
HEADACHE. Because not everybody is called from God to speak a Word to you. And last time I checked the Word of God said that God is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians 14--"33": For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
THE BIBLE says seek ye first not after you tried everything else...
((Hello)) ((smiles)) By then you'll be a MESS.
GOD is a JEALOUS GOD....
He is not pleased to see us run to this or that ...or to this person
or that person just because they seem to have ALL of the answers and
really they don't....cuz' GOD does Amen.
Especially when He is always there to hear our deepest concerns.
Seek God first and He will answer you how He desires.
So, if your going through something and you don't feel at ease in your
spirit....Maybe it's because you need to stop and listen to what the
Spirit has to say about the matter then fast & pray..
(Go into your secret closet ...a place where U and the LORD can reach
each other FORGET about U and Let the LORD order your steps to HIS
WORD)
PRAY for US that we don't only be a HEARERS of THE WORD but a DOERS as
well..Amen & Amen
**HAVE A BLESSED DAY**
Love Always,
Sis. Nina & Bro. Lyons
****IT'S JUST ANOTHER DAYS JOURNEY AND WE'RE GLAD ABOUT IT..*****
SCRIPTURES SPEAKING ABOUT A "FRIEND"
***(PROVERBS)***
Proverbs 6:"1": My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:"3": Do this now, my son, deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Proverbs 14:"20": The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Proverbs 16:"28": A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs 17:"9": He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 17:"17": A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:"18": A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Proverbs 18:"24": A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:"24": A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:"4": Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Proverbs 19:"6": Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Proverbs 19:"7": All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Proverbs 22:"11": He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Proverbs 22:"24": Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Proverbs 27:"6": Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs 27:"9": Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs 27:"10": Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 27:"14": He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Proverbs 27:"17": Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
***(LUKE)***
Luke 7:"6": Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luke 7:"34": The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luke 11:"5": And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
Luke 11:"6": For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Luke 11:"8": I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke 12:"4": And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luke 14:"10": But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Luke 14:"12": Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke 15:"6": And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Luke 15:"9": And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
Luke 15:"29": And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke 16:"9": And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Luke 21:"16": And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
Luke 23:"12": And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
***(JOB)***
Job 2:"11": Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job 6:"14": To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:"27": Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 16:"20": My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job 17:"5": He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 19:"14": My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:"19": All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:"21": Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 32:"3": Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:"7": And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Job 42:"10": And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
***(2 Samuel)***
2 Samuel 3:"8": Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
2 Samuel 13:"3": But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
2 Samuel 15:"37": So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16:"16": And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.
2 Samuel 16:"17": And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel 19:"6": In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
***(JOHN)***
John 3:"29": He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
John 11:
"11": These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 15:"13": Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:"14": Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John 15:"15": Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
John 19:"12": And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
***(JEREMIAH)***
Jeremiah 6:"21": Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah 19:"9": And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah 20:"4": For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Jeremiah 20:"6": And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah 38:"22": And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
JESUS IS LORD.
"Let The Praise Begin"
Minister Nina L. Clark
Zion Pentecostal Temple Church
3809 Pearl Rd. & West 25th
Cleveland, Ohio 44109
Church # (216) 749-7443
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
Don't miss out on your BLESSING just because it's not in the package you was expecting...
Acts 2:"38": Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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