April 10, 2011
The Lord showed up Wednesday night! What a wonderful service we experienced. This was one of the services that you knew you were in the presence of the Lord. We don’t have them all the time, but Praise the Lord he does reveal Himself from time to time with us. I know that it was spring break for our kids and the attendance was not the best we have had, but God was there. Andrew’s testimony was powerful in what the Lord has done for him. You talk about one that went along with the message, his did. We were sharing a message out of Genesis 28: 10-22 where Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, had a dream where he saw Heaven and the Lord. It was the first time that Jacob realized the Lord was there. He had seen the Lord. “He dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place;” well the Lord was there Wednesday.
Jacob built an altar unto the Lord and worshiped the Lord making a vow to the Lord that he would tithe a tenth of all that the Lord would bless him with. This man had hit rock bottom in his life. He had lied to his Father, deceived his father, stole his brother’s birthright, stole his brother’s blessing, and his brother wanted to kill him. He has to leave home with nothing. He was discouraged, disheartened, and seemed doomed until the Lord showed up. The Lord Loved on Him and gave him the promise that he had promised his granddad Abraham, his father Isaac, “the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. “And he called the name of that place Bethel:” which means “The House of God, or the place where God met me!
My prayer is that you and I will again encounter the Presence of the Lord today. When we hit rock bottom God always shows up! I am so glad that He does.
Pastor Tommy
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