Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Exodus 15:23, “And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.”
Consider the experience of the children of Israel in the wilderness.
God arranged everything.
He brought them to Marah, where there was bitter water (Exo. 15:23).
That means God’s ways came in.
God showed His acts to the children of Israel, but His ways to Moses (Psa. 103:7).
Moses knew God’s ways.
God’s ways with me are how He treats me.
He treats me with my spouse.
He treats me with my children.
He treats me with in-laws.
He treats me with a family.
This is how God has treated me.
These are God’s ways in my life.
For me to murmur when God is treating me a certain way is an outright rebellion against God and His ways with me.
To do or say things expressing my dissatisfaction, expressing what I do not like, is murmuring.
Murmuring is just expressing my complaint, maybe even under my breath.
Speaking in this way is rebellion.
We have to realize that every murmur is a rebellion and also an escape from the cross.
Reasoning is intellectual rebellion, the rebellion in our mind.
God does not give reasons.
God just does what He wants to.
In the book of Job, Job eventually saw that God is God, and He does what He wants to do in the way He wants to do it, and there is nothing to say.
So when we begin to reason and question why an environment is happening, why something is the way it is, that is rebellion in our mind toward the Lord.
We have to see that to live a life inwardly applying the cross, you just do not rebel.
To not rebel means to do everything without murmuring and without reasoning.
You lose your speaking, you lose your reasoning mind, and you are left with your spirit.
Praise the Lord!
By applying the cross, you are left with your spirit to enjoy God and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
TUESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Maureen Brown – Lite Stroke
Nancy Proudfit in passing of her brother
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Daniel Cooper
Darlene Thaxton
David Burnette
David Harrison
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Dwight Byrd
Easton Fielder
Eric Ward
Erik Magusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Jillian Gray
Jim Mabe
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Karen Slane
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lamar Knight
Larry Barker
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Alexander
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lorraine Elliott
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Ricky Stubbs
Rose Fuller
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Sandy Paschal
Scott Lanier
Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove