GIVING GOD CONTROL - In my early teens I remember one specific summer when we went on family vacation to Disney World.. My mom, dad, myself & my little sister. While there, the four of us boarded this ride that ran along a track through a building filled with various automated characters, lights and other special effects.
The vehicle we boarded was designed like a small car, complete with a false steering wheel to give the illusion that you were actually driving while in reality it traveled along a track. My little sister, took the driver's seat with my dad to her right, while my mom & I rode in the back seat. After a hysterical ride of many twists and turns through a series of rooms the ride finally approaches a convincing 'train crossing' to play into the narrative of the ride. As the car waits at the train crossing hearing the loud blasts of the train, it suddenly proceeds to ignore the red flashing lights of the crossing and weaves beyond the barricade while turning onto the train tracks, straight into a dark tunnel. As we get well into the tunnel we hear the blaring loud train horn and see what appears to be the forward light of the train now headed right towards us as we sat like deer in headlights, immersed in the illusion. It's at this point that my little sister decides she is no longer having fun in the pretend driver's seat with the steering wheel and with a trembly, sincere voice she points to the steering wheel, saying "here daddy, you drive!"
Sometimes it's this way in our spiritual walk with God... We find ourselves overwhelmed, aimless, as if the direction life has taken us has left our control and becoming more than we can personally handle. This is not always a bad thing. I'm convinced that sometimes God allows circumstances in our life to get beyond what we can handle, and tragedy comes barreling down the track and into the tunnel right towards us so that we arrive at the place that we relinquish control as if saying to God "here daddy, you drive!" No matter what you are facing, surrender to God and stop trying to tackle things you were never meant to lay hold on.. Give it to JESUS and He won't steer you wrong!
-Kenny Griffin
With all the evil things going on in the world lately, let this serve as a reminder that God keeps his covenants and fulfills his promises!! Watch as an ancient river is reborn in about 2 minutes in the heat of a dry, Israel Desert, just as Prophesied in Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert." Trust that a Red Sea moment is just around the bend.. What a Awesome God! (have some more thoughts on this I'll add in comments)
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Footage collected a while ago of a dry riverbed spring back to life after centuries in the Negev Desert of Israel, near the Ramon Crater. The Prophet Isaiah said this in Isaiah 43:19 "Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert."
This site is in the region referred in scripture as Beersheba, which means "Well of Seven." Abraham called the place Beersheba because it was there that he entered a covenant agreement for a well of water for posterity and marked the event by offering seven lambs.
Years later, Philistines buried the well because it was dry but Abraham's son, Isaac, came to reclaim the well and water began to flow for him again. The Philistines wanted the well for themselves once water sprang up for Isaac so they took it and Isaac moved a short distance down and claimed another spot in which a well sprang up. Each time Isaac allowed the Philistines to take possession of a well,...
One day a young man got a letter from an attorney stating his grandmother left an inheritance for him. To his astonishment, it was $50,000 as well as "my Bible & all it contains." He was thrilled to get the $$$, however, he knew what the Bible contained & because he rejected religion he wouldn't open it, but put it up on a high shelf. He lost the money gambling & the next 50 yrs he lived as a beggar, scraping for every meal. Eventually he became so destitute that he had to move out of his house. As he cleaned out his room he reached up to get the old Bible he'd stored away on a high shelf & as he took it down it fell on the floor open, revealing a $100 bill between every page. He'd lived as a beggar all because of his own prejudice & disregard to His Creator.. all while thinking he knew what the Bible "contained." Hosea 4:6 says My people perish for a lack of knowledge.
Keep your head up & your faith strong!
-Pastor Kenny
