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Saturday... This is such a tremendous opportunity.


Saturday... This is such a tremendous opportunity.

Psalm 48:14 (NLT) ends with these words. Words that we have needed and might really need this morning. What we have gone through these past few years and what you might be going through right now has been and is unbelievable. Here is how this Psalm ends, "He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us til we die."

Yes life has been rough but He has been with us. Have you sensed it? Have you followed Him through it all or have you been like those who don't have a relationship with God and have been going it alone?

Listen we have an enemy that is out to destroy us and Satan is using every method he can to get us away from God, to defeat us, to destroy us. Nowhere does God say that life is going to be easy but He did say, "He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us until we die."

Back when I was young my father was a traveling evangelist. I loved it. We would spend 10 days in a church holding meeting, our family would sing and dad would preach and then we would head out in our car to the next church. So we did a lot of traveling. I have been in 49 states. Now in this time of travel when I was not old enough to help dad drive, I would help him by reading the map and giving him directions on where to go. I had a major task at helping to get us where we were going. It didn't matter what time of day, what kind of weather, what kind of road, what kind of county, I had a map and I would tell my dad where to go. Now some of you don't know what a paper map is but you know Waze or Google Maps. 

Well I have a relationship with God. He has a map, and He knows where we are going and He said that he will guide us til we die.

Now here is another point. I had a relationship with my dad, I was his son, and I would be in the car with him in those days of travel. I was with him, I had my map, I knew where we were going but what if someone in another car needed help? I couldn't help them because I wasn't with them Also I could help my dad if he did ask me. And that is the way it is with God. If I don't have a relationship with Him, if I haven't asked Him into my life then it doesn't matter that He knows. But I do have a relationship and it does matter.

I was sitting outside this morning and looking all around and marveling at what God has and is doing in my life and it is not over. The MESSAGE says, "Our God forever, who guides us till the end." What a waste of opportunity to not avail yourself of this fact. Even if you haven't, you still can and it will go til the end. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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