This evening I preached for a very good friend of mine who was celebrating his 19th year of Pastoring. The Lord place on my heart to share from a famous passage of scripture Psalm 23:4 needless to say the Lord blessed. After the service one of the members that I'm please to pastor came up to me and said "You didn't preach that like that a home (referring to the first time I preached the sermon @Bethel) after a brief pause prayerfully considering how I was going to respond the Holy Spirit said "You weren't the same person you were when I first gave it to you"!
Here are a few things that ran through my spirit...
First: the preacher has grown since the first time
Second: the listener has grown since the first time
Third: the word has been manifested or grown since the first time
I later began to appreciate that statement more and more as the evening ran on.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
1 Peter 1:25 but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Psalm 111:8 They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.
Psalm 119:89 Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.
Isaiah 46:10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 59:21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 44:29 "'This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,' declares the LORD, 'so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.'This evening I preached for a very good friend of mine who was celebrating his 19th year of Pastoring. The Lord place on my heart to share from a famous passage of scripture Psalm 23:4 needless to say the Lord blessed. After the service one of the members that I'm please to pastor came up to me and said "You didn't preach that like that a home (referring to the first time I preached the sermon @Bethel) after a brief pause prayerfully considering how I was going to respond the Holy Spirit said "You weren't the same person you were when I first gave it to you"!
Here are a few things that ran through my spirit...
First: the preacher has grown since the first time
Second: the listener has grown since the first time
Third: the word has been manifested or grown since the first time
I later began to appreciate that statement more and more as the evening ran on.
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
Matthew 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
1 Peter 1:25 but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Psalm 111:8 They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.
Psalm 119:89 Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.
Isaiah 46:10 I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 59:21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 44:29 "'This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,' declares the LORD, 'so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.'
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