Message from Pastor’s desk January 2010
How To Respond In Troubled Times 2010-2015
The foundations of this world are trembling and almost in every nation on the earth, so many are living in panic. Jesus has encouraged us over 2000 years ago that in the middle of a troubled world, “Let not your heart be troubled,” and He also said” see that ye be not troubled,” …(John14:1, Matthew 24:6)
The people of the world are asking, “what are we going to do in these troubled times?” We are going to look to the Lord God to intervene in the midst of the famine like He did for Joseph (Genesis 41-47). We are going to believe the Lord God to intervene for us like He did for Esther and the Jewish people who were facing annihilation and they fasted for three days and three nights for divine intervention (Esther 1-8).
Recently our son was sharing a message at his school during chapel service and he said something under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that caught our attention. He said to the student body: think of anything you need right now. It doesn’t matter what is going on in your world, the Word of God has an answer for everyone of our situations if anyone of us would truly look to the Word of God. He was sharing from Psalms 119 that day.
I’m reminded of Philippians 4:19, “My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. “What a comparison! all our needs compared to the Lord’s inexhaustible supply of riches in heaven. Our heavenly Father has revealed to us in His Word that he controls all sources of supply, both the expected and the unexpected. There’s no need in anyone of us on this planet that can ever exceed God’s abundant supply. God’s abundant supply is the same even when the world is being shaken up by earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, tornados, etc. Jesus is still God in the bad times and the good times. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.
Father God is saying to Christians all over this troubled world, that though there be wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilence and earthquakes in various places, you can still look to the Lord and rejoice for your redemption is drawing near. If we are truly looking unto Jesus who is our strength and our source, we can go through all without fear of things to come, without losing our faith, and without being denied the presence of God, peace of God, the provision of God, the protection of God, and the promotion of God. Father God is going to take care of us far beyond whatever we can think or imagine according to His unlimited miracle working power expressed through the life, death, burial, ressurection, ascension, glorification, and return of the Lord Jesus Christ” …Behold, the Lord comes with thousands of His saints to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds….(Jude 1:14-15).