Nahum 3:19 - "[King of Assyria,] Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?"
So, we're back to the ChikFilA. I have a coupon for a kid's meal and ask if I can use it. They say what they always say, "No problem!" So I look at the menu and order grilled (instead of fried) chicken nuggets with a fruit cup (instead of waffle fries), a cone (instead of a toy), and diet lemonade (instead of soda). They say what they always say, "No problem!"
So, I get my food, and I'm driving away and look in my bag. I have fried (instead of grilled) chicken nuggets with waffle fries (instead of a fruit cup), a toy (in addition to a cone), and, I think, my diet lemonade (but who knows cause it tasted mighty sweet). So, at least half my order was wrong, but I chuckled and said to God what they always say, "No problem!"
Friends, it's Monday. Things are going to go wrong today (like they do everyday). In reply to what goes wrong, we have some choices. We can get all bent out of shape about the problem. Or we can recognize, as in today's Bible verse from Nahum 3:19, that all sources of evil are doomed to defeat by the Sovereign God through Jesus Christ, so being victorious over the problem, we can say to the problem, "No problem!"
But we can do more. 44 people told me they committed to the request a couple weeks ago, but countless people are telling me that they're praising God for ministries and new believers every morning along with singing The Doxology. They're testifying to the victories over problems that they're experiencing when they praise God. It's a testimony to what's true, namely, any problem is no problem when we obey God by praising God as victorious. Try it!!!
And finally a request. A bunch of us stop every Monday at 1 p.m. to pray. Please join us, even if just for a few seconds, to pray for the ministries of God's church in every place to be blessed during the week so that God's ministries through us bear the fruit of people wanting to worship and praise him on the Lord's Day!!!
Let's keep envisioning and praying for a world where all people know that every problem to God is no problem at all so that people can't help but worship and praise him!!!
Happy Monday!
Praise God!!!
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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