With Little or NO Warning!

If you think about events that has taken place in our history more so in the last 20 years, we all have witnessed events of human tragedy and devastation that have come with little or no warning

Here was one event that came, Sept 11, 2001… People went about their daily lives just like any other day, but then suddenly “without warning” The First Jet Crashed into one of the Twin Towers, shockwaves were sent across the globe as we watched in horror as thousands died and our nation grieved….

Then came another event that many had never even heard of “a Tsunami?” “what’s that …a type of Pizza?” But in 2004 ….With Little or No Warning an earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean With a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a seismo … triggered a Tsunami that ended up killing over 230,000 people in 14 countries

Then not near as large in its scope came the Hurricanes of the Gulf, most notable…Hurricane Katrina. Though there were warnings blared preceding this event..there were thousands who decided to “take on the storm” and found themselves at loss

Here was another, The People of Haiti ..dealing with the daily human struggle …found themselves in one of the worst earthquakes in modern history…With Little or NO WARNING!! (The January 12th earthquake in Haiti is the most lethal natural disaster of the past 20 years. On February 12th, the Associated Press reported that official Haitian government estimates of the dead had been revised upwards, now reaching 230,000 dead.)

Then came Chile, Seismologists estimate that the Chilean earthquake was so powerful that it may have shortened the length of the day by 1.26 microseconds and moved the Earth’s figure axis by 8 cm or 2.7 milliarcseconds.

Again, all of this happened With Little or No Warning! Then there was Japan,…..an Earthquake + Tsunami + Nuclear Disaster, …thousands died, again with “with little or No Warning”

How about Alabama Tornado’s, hundreds of people died “with little or no warning” ….”Joplin Missouri” “One of the deadliest tornado’s in US HISTORY ….With Little or No Warning!!

How about August 2023 the wildfire in Maui. The wildfire on the Hawaiian Island killed 102 people and destroyed more than 2,200 structures, causing more than $5 billion in damages. Came with no warning….. These were just a few that I have listed all came with Little or No Warning.

So now you’re thinking, where am I going with all this, The Word of God says “it’s appointed unto man once to die and THEN Judgement”

In just a few examples that I have listed above… hundreds of thousands of people were going through their daily routines…when suddenly “their appointed TIME” came …again… most with little or NO warning and every single one of those people who died without Christ.

Many of you will be taken to an eternal courtroom and stand before Almighty God as Judge of the life that they lived that had rejected every opportunity given to accept a Free Gift (eternal life), but instead now face eternal punishment with no hope for escape.

Will you please stop and take time to read this and think for real? I mean IF that was YOU, IF tonight a tornado goes up and heads toward your house, if an earthquake rumbles, if a car crosses a median….IF!!!!! ….IF!!!!! ….IF!!!!!

Now you might be here reading this and have this mindset THAT YOU are immune…that you are invincible…But YOU ARE NOT!!! NONE OF US ARE!!! You might say, I’m a fear mongerer …trying to manipulate you by using fear by saying all this…

Truth of the matter, I am not, as I read this morning in his words Our Lord told us to REPENT OR Perish, Repentance begins with a change of mind that leads to a change in direction in one’s life, in other words…to “Stop and Think” and then react to what You hear by believing the message and it’s NOT just the thought that counts…

What Lesson Do We Learn from This or better yet. What is the Heart of this message? It’s simple to make sure that when your “appointed time” comes…It hasn’t been “without warning” and that you would “stop and think” When is my time coming?

Don’t ask me why that God, has put on my heart to warn you to “Flee the Wrath” to come, yes, his words do say, He’s not willing that any should perish, He’s offering You a way of escape… Before you were even born, while You have Yet been living as if there is No God and there is No Judgement Day…

He has already sent His Son Jesus Christ to Die on the cross in Your Place ….2,000 years ago Jesus Died because of You and the laws that You have personally broken, all the sins you are now in, He was taking your place, he has paid the price and why?

Because He created You in Love and for a purpose of which was and is ..for you to Know Him by entering into an eternal covenant relationship …graced to You by The Heart of Almighty God.

Please Hear, Please Stop and think and Please Believe there is an EMPTY TOMB that Shouts to the Whole World That Jesus Christ Is the Way, The Truth and the Life and He’s Your Only REAL Hope for today, and for all eternity

Call Upon Jesus while You still have TIME!! Before IT’s Really Too Late, because when your time comes and you stand before God, don’t Yell these words at him and say “Well No One Has Warned Me”, if you made it to this point of my posting, then you have been warned just now by reading this. Think about it before it’s really too late will you.

Amen

God’s Way Is The Best Way

Author: BrotherJim

If we think were controlling our emotions our and doing things our way and not God’s way, then that forum of control my friends is nothing more than a illusion and were only kidding ourselves. In this message we learn why doing things God’s way is the best way for us.

Psalms 37:5

Who Does The Leading

Author: BrotherJim

A real conversion only comes when we are born again and if we are for real, then the Father will send us his Holy Spirit, the helper, the guide, the teacher, and if needed a corrector. The fact here if we change it must be under his authority and not of ourselves and the main fact must be, he must be the one who is leading, not the other way around.

In this message we learn some faulty assumptions about the Holy Spirit and how this world has it wrong of who he really is.

John 14:16-17

Making A Decision

Author: BrotherJim

Every once in a while, we’re faced with making a decision… and we know what we should decide. We know what the right choice should be. BUT we realize that – if we make that choice – it could ultimately cost us something we hold dear. When faced with a Decision, will you make the right one or the wrong one?

Matthew 19:16-22

Imperfections Used By God

Author: BrotherJim

When I woke up this morning I had a sort of dreaded feeling of a spirit upon me and thinking in a way nothing I did or I was trying to do did not matter to no one. Most in part to the past hurts in the ministry. Some called me hard and brutal or rough at times, well those who did say these things have forgotten one important thing.

God uses all of our imperfections in his way to bring him Glory and all things works for the Good in God even in our faults he uses that and it does matters to him. This story reminded me of this.

One day, an old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.

Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing. Without looking up from his task, the boy simply replied, “I’m saving these starfish, Sir”.

The old man chuckled aloud, “Son, there are thousands of starfish and only one of you. What difference can you make?”

The boy picked up a starfish, gently tossed it into the water and turning to the man, said, “I made a difference to that one!”

With that my heart was low and my thoughts were on those of the past that were looking at my imperfections did not even think that it matters to God and not what we see in a person.

But we all forgot one important lesson in that, We all need to learn to look past those faults, those imperfections and even the mistakes and take what we are to make a difference rather than trying to point them out. Jesus did this a lot and even with their flaws he loved them. We somehow we have forgotten this.

A dear lady friend who attend our friday night sermons remind me this morning that God can use me or us to make a difference even with my imperfections.

Why, because it made a difference to her and it made a difference to the other 3 who keeps showing up to fellowship and listen to the sermons and she said for those who did not want to overlook my faults and just let God be the one to use these traits in me has missed the whole point of the real power of God.

Folks We are not God, we cannot make people change or we cannot point out all the faults in them. What we need to do is let God handle that and let him love us for what we are, his creation and love us for the way he created us even with our faults and allow that to be used to bring him the glory and not worry about what you or I think or what others may think of us.

All of us even with our faults and bad habits does make a difference to God and not to men. So when we are dealing with people remember that first, instead of pointing out faults.

Love them for what they are and let them be used by God to make a difference, and remember we are not like you, so don’t expect us to be like you, let us be how we were created, let God be the one to change us not you and let God use us his way to make a difference in someone’s life today.

Amen

Making A Different Turn

Author: BrotherJim

Remember the day when you were lead to Christ, I mean the exact time when you were faced with the decision to say yes to him or reject him. Did you at first hesitated to say yes, or did you have some sort of doubts running in your mind. Were your emotions running high.

But what would had happen if you decided to make a different turn from the truth, rejected Jesus and decided to on and live the life you wanted instead.

In this message, we will cover the question on what would had happen if you decided to say no and rejected what God offered to you on that day and time when you were presented with decision to turn from your sinful ways.

Isaiah 30:15