"I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you really knew Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on, you know Him and have seen Him." John 14: 6-7 |
| The Way Of The Lord Ministries |
| Reverend Noreen T. Kevern 520-665-2345 |
| Please take a moment and go to our Prayer Requests and pray for those listed. If you would like to post a prayer request for yourself or another please do so. God Bless |
| The Way of The Lord Ministries - Tucson Arizona - Funerals, Baptisms, Christening, Prayer Services, Spiritual Needs, & Wedding Services. |
| IF you are ready to take the first step in believing in God, or to come back to God, or if you have decided to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, please click here. |
| Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27 Is your heart troubled, do you worry about if your faith is enough, or do you feel that there is not much use to even follow the way of the Lord? Do you question yourself about your life, if you are following God or following the devil? Do circumstances overwhelm you and you find yourself angry, confused, numb, or worse yet, giving up on your life? Do you feel afraid, scared to step out and live life, or afraid to see things from the Lord’s perspective? Sometimes life just seems to overwhelm people that they get to the point of wanting to give up, to say forget it, what’s the use, God probably doesn’t even know I exist. When things get so out of hand, when a job’s lost, a husband or wife or child gets sick, or dies, when you don’t know how you are going to pay your bills, you struggle to raise a child by yourself, your child has grown up and you don’t know who they have become, the phone calls keep coming in and you don’t want to answer them because you don’t have the money to pay them. Are you afraid of losing your home, car, of becoming sick and you have no insurance? There are so many things that we worry over. We get up, go to work, come home, eat and go to bed. We become couch potatoes, sitting in front of the TV because it takes us away from the realities that surround us. What happened to reading, writing real letters, calling friends (not texting as people do now), finding a hobby, playing card or board games, sitting on a porch and watching the sun set? What happened to real conversation, and meaningful ideals? We take pills for depression, addiction, we immerse ourselves in things that are so far from God that we grow sick, we are tired all the time, and we feel like we are in a rut. What can we do, to get out of this pit we are in? Should we run? Sleepless nights, thoughtless words, careless actions, we become cold toward each other for fear that someone will hurt us, or worse. What do we do? When all us fails, it’s time to let go of it all and let God take over. But that’s a lot harder than it sounds, isn’t it? Seems smug of me to say that, “Oh, just let it go and give it to God, He will take care of everything.” I’ve struggled with letting go all my life. I seem to drift along, doing so well at not worrying, letting God handles things, and then Bam! Something that I’m not willing to let go of happens. I think, “I can handle that,” and in reality, I really can make a mess of things. We talk a lot about taking responsibility for ourselves, and sometimes we just get caught up in all sorts of things, and before you know it, you have decided that you don’t need help, that you can do it all alone. And problems keep on arising. Nothing seems to be going right. You have been struggling along on the pay that you have been getting, but now the gas prices are so high, you have begun using your credit card and you are getting farther and farther into debt. Food prices have been going up and you’ve been trying to eat healthier, but you have a family to feed and Hamburger Helper is so much cheaper and easier. After all, in most families, both mom and dad work. So convenience foods become a quick and easy solution for families. I’ve been talking about a lot of negative things, things that I am sure that most of you have felt. Is it ever going to get any better you may wonder? It’s hard to think that all of this is good for us. My husband always says, “If it don’t kill you, it will make you stronger.” But are we getting any stronger with all that we are going through? Believe it or not, we are. Changing our thought processes from a negative to a positive attitude takes time. Most of us don’t realize it, but God wants us to come to Him as a child so that He can teach us what we need to know to have the best life that He wants for us. We tend to not want to accept that God is our Creator and as such, He has the right to mold us into the way that He wants us to be. When we take control away from God and try to make things work, and then things go wrong, we tend to blame God. “Why, God, is this happening to me? The prophet Isaiah says: “You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘He did not make me’? Can the pot say to the potter, ‘He knows nothing’? (29:16) “Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ (45:9) “Yet, O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand. (65:8) We tend to forget that God is the Creator and that He is making us into a vessel that will best use the gifts that God has given to each of us. But we tend to want to do that ourselves and sometimes we destroy what God has created. We waste our gifts for one reason or another, and we tend to not go to God and ask Him for His plans for our lives. And there are times when we don’t like God’s answer and so we try to make the solution that we want. It’s then we really fall in problems. So, what do we do? Are we to sit there, like lumps on a log and do nothing? That wouldn’t be a good use of our gifts either. I come back to this all the time. It’s important that we spend time, asking the Holy Spirit to fill us and to read and study God’s Word. We need to come together in good Bible based churches, meeting together on days that are not Sunday, and talk and study together, because someone may be able to explain better or have an insight to what is written in the Bible. The Bible is the single most important instruction book that we have for our lives. The people in it have been in similar situations. Each time Israel fell away, they repented and came back to God. And God always forgives us when we come to Him and ask Him to forgive us. It’s part of the relationship building between God and yourself. “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness, and in trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” (Isaiah 30:15) God calls out to us, bringing into our lives things that we need to mold us into the pot that He is creating us to be. He has the right, as He is our Creator, but at times we don’t want Him in our lives. When we come to God and ask Him to forgive us for taking charge of our lives and leaving Him out of it, He forgives us. We have to start over, becoming like a child, opening our minds to let Him guide us in His ways. “Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, ‘Away with you!’” (Isaiah 30:20-22) Throw away all the things that are not of God. We have freedom to choose when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, the freedom to chose right from wrong. The commandments are not dead, but they are the guidelines to teach us what is right and wrong in God’s eyes. They are there to mold us into His likeness, by teaching us what God considers right and what God considers wrong. Too many people think that we can do whatever we want, and just go to God and ask forgiveness and then do the same thing over and over again. That’s not repentance, that’s taking advantage of God. And we will be judged by what we say and by what we do. Jesus said: “I AM the true vine, and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” John 15:1-2 When you do not bear fruit that is of God and you go off and do things, God will let you. But if you remain faithful, trusting in God even when all seems lost, know that He is pruning you so that you will be even better than you were before. “Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I AM the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:4-5 |
 | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  |