A The Baptist Deacon

Random thoughts and important prayer requests

deaconfarley | March 03, 2008 10:48

Good morning all. I hope and pray everyone had a good weekend and great services on Sunday.

I just have some random scattered thoughts today and a couple of prayer request.

First of all God is good. Just look at the beauty he created, yes God created it (see my last post as well as a future post hopefully later this week).

Yesterday during our church service a sister requested prayer for a young child 2 years old who has a disease that will eventually rob him of his eye site.  One of the fastest way to get me worked up is children especially children who are suffering. I know that it makes us want to question. I don’t understand why something so pure would have to go through any type of suffering or get any dreaded disease. Now don’t send me comments saying that maybe the mother or dad have sin in there life’s and are paying for it through there child. This may be the case but sometimes we just have to accept bad things happen to good people. It just fits into God’s plan. We have to trust him that it is for the best even though we can’t see the whole plan. Help me by praying for this family, I don’t know there name but I do realize that there is a need and as a parent myself I have a soft spot for children and if I were in there situation I would want each child of God to be in prayer.

As long as I am making request this morning I ask that you pray for my daughter. I think she may have the flu. My wife has taken her to the doctor and as I sit here and write this morning they are still waiting, so I don’t know for sure what she has. My youngest son had something similar last week, but he bounced back after a day and only had a fever for a little while. My daughter on the other hand has had a fever for over a day now. Help me by praying she shakes this bug or whatever it is quickly.

Let’s be in prayer for our country. This is an election year so pray that the people God wants in office get in. Pray for our troops that are fighting for our country whether we agree with the situation or not. Pray for the sick, the bereaved, the homeless, the hurting, and the helpless.

Most importantly pray for the lost. I can think of nothing worse even sick and hurting children than for any man woman boy or girl to die in a lost and undone state. We need to pray that God will extend his grace and people will be saved, that they will be able to work out there salvation on gospel terms without interference of man, even if we have the best of intentions. We don’t want to be guilty of deceiving someone.

In John Chapter 3 Jesus tells Nicodemus that you must be borne again. I may be paraphrasing but that is the meaning. You must be borne again. That is for each one of us. There will be no exception to this.

My Pastor made a statement yesterday and he said something that made a lot of sense. He said there are only two kinds of people; those that are saved and those that are lost. It is a true statement. From conception until the age of accountability you are saved. From the age of accountability until you are saved you are lost.

How sad it is that people are turning God away and dieing in a lost and undone state. It’s too late then. You are lost for eternity you will go to a devils hell which will be poured into the lake of fire. Judgment day will be sad when our Lord and our Savior looks at the lost and says “Department from me ye workers of iniquity for I never knew you”.

We need to be about our Fathers business spreading the good news which is the gospel of Jesus Christ and that there is a way to go to heaven and miss a devil’s hell.

I wasn’t quite sure where this post was going but I believe it has been directed by the inspiration of God.

I pray you get a blessing just for reading this.

Later this week I plan to post the second in my series on creation. Help me to pray about that as well.

Until next time may God Bless You!Smile

   

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