In today’s churches and homes we strive to carry the title of a “Christian”, we do the same routine things...
Go to church and home, we get our small little worship in church and praise in church yet there are those who are so far from God and yet they lie and tell God they love him. How can we truly love God when we can’t even allow him in our home, lives or our work life? (Mark 8:38) ”Whosoever therefore shall BE ASHAMED OF ME and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. “We have given God enough lip service, it’s time to drop the front, lose the mask, and understand that God knows your heart. When you say that you LOVE your Wife/Husband the other knows it but can’t really see if you’re truthful. When YOU tell GOD that you LOVE him he knows if you are telling the truth or not (you can’t fool God), with people love comes and goes, because we search for someone who can share our life with and who understands us. GOD is here simply saying (Matthew 11:28)"Come unto me, all [ye] that labor and are heavy laden, and I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
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you see, Just Come to Him. He Loves you More Than You'll Ever Know.
Why have you lost your compassion?
1. You don’t pray
2. You don’t fast
3. Your heart is far from God that it sickens him
Some may say those are harsh words, but they are true words, we can’t please God when we playing hellish games with the devil and trying to mask them with a simple smile. When it comes to souls I’m serious and passionate and will do what it takes to pull one, yes just one out of hells grip.
Christ showed compassion so many times in the Bible, we associate compassion with weakness; nothing could be further from the truth. When you show the love of God you will grab the attention of others and they will wander “what happen to them” I know this Man who is a rough cut haggardly and drove an old log truck for a living, he would do his own thing and live a sinful life.
His wife went church every time the doors were open and tried to stay in the presents of God as much as she could. One night this man showed up and he sat on the last pew, as he watched the service take place a single tear rolled down his rough leathery skin and into his beard.
As the pastor made the alter call people began to make their way up to the front and kneel and pray. The pastor noticing this kept on pushing the issue of salvation, then the man made his way up the side isle and fell at the alter and broke!
His sinful ways were being cleansed and purified. As he stood up and lifted his hands to heaven I placed my hand in the pit of his stomach and began to really press in and pray for him and figured why not get healed on the same of his salvation! He began to weep uncontrollably; it was the most powerful move ever. Later I seen him in town and he was so soft spoken, to where before he was rough and loud and raspy sounding.
You see, God took what
everyone else seen as a waste and used it for the glory of God.
(Luke 7:36-48) talks about the time when woman came to Christ and anointed him and cried and washed the feet of Christ with her tears, then dried them with her hair. This was a harlot off the street probably had everything and every sign of a homeless, dirty, disgusting, vile specimen of human but Christ seen her potential and in the (Luke 7:48 Wherefore I say unto thee Her sins, which are many are forgiven)
When Christ seen her he seen a willing and broken vessel and had compassion, as he forgave her. You’ll read several accounts where Christ was full of compassion when he healed, raised the dead ECT. We need not lose the compassion for the lost and broken. When I think about the night I got saved for real! Save! It was the best night ever. But up to that point I was living a life of confusion and deceit. Let me take you there so you understand better.
I had a pastor’s wife who was compassionate about her call and for people. As I walked into the church on a cloud of deceit and blinded by the devil and a so called good friend of mine at the time I just slipped in and sat on the left back pew. The service was great but I didn’t feel compelled to move, as the alter call took place I had that tug but refused to go because I thought why go and change when I can live my life how I want to.
I sat there dazed out thinking about my job and looking for a girlfriend in the church which by the way she wasn’t there that night! As I sat there this pastors wife came to me and said “Bud God is about to do something in your life so fast the you will have no choice but to come to him” I just smiled and hugged her neck and played the role of religious person, but how many knows that when you have a praying woman of God on the scenes things happen.
Getting back to my story,
I walked out that night with heaviness and went home and slept not knowing what lie ahead. The next morning I got up around four thirty, made coffee and my “friend” and I went on our way to word which was about an hour from the house. He had been nagging almost the whole way to drive, I repeatedly said NO! Until I had enough and let him drive. As he drove I slept and suddenly was
awakened by a Huge bus pushing My beautiful white Dodge truck, he had pushed us into the grassy median. I quickly swapped sides with this “friend “and pilled grass up for twenty yards to get to the highway. I pull onto the highway and jump out made and very fleshly, to be greeted with pump 12gauge shotguns. At this point salvation didn’t seem half bad
especially when you have a shotgun in your face.
Come to find out, out of all the vehicles to pull out in front of he had to choose a State prison bus! After swapping insurance I hobbled my poor truck to a store and got some coffee and called in to report to my boss, he said “ a wreck isn’t any good excuse” so, not only did I lose my truck , I lost my job and what salvation I had left. My trucks damage was a warped frame and the whole front was just hanging by a thread. I went into a depression for a about a week and it was horrible, until the word came to reminding me what the pastors wife had said “Bud God is about to do something in your life so fast the you will have no choice but to come to him”.
At that moment I went and walked into the woods and prayed and asked Christ into my life again. I called my friend and they took me to church that Thursday night, that night as the pastor gave the alter call I think I was the first one up there at that alter. I cried snotted, lost my breath and began to be purged, because one Woman of God, one person showed compassion and obeyed the Holy Spirit.
“To say one thing and live something else”.We can’t be in one day and out the next, it is up to you! Do you want change in your life; do you want change in your family? You have to be a full time man and woman of God. The Bible says “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the church” (Rev.3:22)
You must have compassion on the ones who are weak just as I was when the pastor’s wife came to me. God sees you and knows what you can do in life; he is just waiting on you to fully commit to him. He will give you passion for him and compassion for them that need it.
You Aren’t Too Big To Correct When you enter into a call you have
to keep the one most horrible killer of
most ministries out of your life (Pride)
when that creeps into your life you
better find your prayer closet fast!
There is no room in the ministry for
prideful people, when you lose
compassion you have lost it all.
Never forget how you came to meet your savior, who stepped out for you? Who made that leap for you? Who cried night after night for you? But above all that my question is who went to the cross and bore your sins, giving you an opportunity for
forgiveness and purity, Jesus Christ! And to think it all started when he seen someone weak, he didn’t shun anyone, he loved them.
When you are being corrected by God you will know it! When you make a mistake your pastor will correct you, you have to receive it and not wear the cloak of feelings. Do you think when Timothy was corrected by the apostle Paul; timothy was all broken hearted and saying things like “woe unto me I’m such a failure?” I don’t think so; you see it takes correction to build character. If was young man doesn’t have correction he will find himself in trouble and possibly in jail. I found at an early age that I couldn’t wear my feelings on my shoulder, in order to operate in ministry you have to learn first to take correction and be
mentored.
I was mentored for two years by my pastor and he taught me a lot through the leading of the Holy Spirit in the next chapter you will read about how words that was spoken promoted me into who I am today.