Posted On: Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Pastor Dorai spoke in church today. He’s my favorite speaker and I always look forward to his preaching. He preached the other Sunday and I was surprised he did again today. They usually take turns and he speaks like 3-4 times in a year. I found out that the guy who’s supposed to speak today had sore throat and he asked Dorai to speak for him.
And so he did. Pastor Dorai uses a lot of personal illustrations which makes the message more effective. I like the way he presents the message. He’s my favorite in short. What was his topic for today? He talked about standing firm in our faith.
He described faith not as something you do which you cannot see… or plunging into the unknown. It’s believing in God who sees everything. He differentiated the faith from the grace of God although there’s a distinct difference in it already.
He said grace is God reaching out to us, inspite of our unworthiness.
Faith is us reaching out for God’s hand in times of unworthiness.
He said, to stand in your faith is in the context of discipleship. Meaning, we cannot have faith in the One if we don’t follow or obey Him. We must be able to hear him and obey Him when He tells us something.
How do we know when He speaks? He does in a small still voice. Not a tangible kind of voice – well, some actually claims to hear one. But here, he said a small still voice could be one thing you hear from your heart. But of course, we must be able to differentiate between His voice and our own desires. We may desire deep in our hearts something and yet it’s not God’s will.
We may hear Him when our friends, pastors or Godly people around (or could be strangers) tell us something. He does have a lot of representatives. He speaks to us through His word, the Bible, too.
What happens when we don’t obey Him? Sometimes, we harden our hearts and not listen to anybody because we are already set in our own mindset. But if we claim to be His disciples, He does the disciplining part. He breaks our hardened hearts. Whatever way He breaks us, it sure does hurt.
However, God, being compassionate as He is, is always ready to forgive us if we show real repentance. He will erase away our sins and we will be able to experience a breakthrough in our relationship with Him and our relationship with others.
Obey Him and stand firm in your faith.
Categories: reflections
Just stopping by for BYBS. Will come again.
That was a beautiful message!
Happy BYB Sunday and have a great week ahead!