RIght now the pit of rage and despair and depression and vengeance are all swirling around me and try as I might to dodge the ones I consider worse than the others they come relentlessly and I am banged up, broken up, shattered, worn down, cursing under breaths and feeling the attack on my physical strength as I wonder how I will even make it.

 

I am asking God for strength, thanking God for blessings, saying the tests shall indeed come and here I am shivering from the coldness of this place where God may not be ready to speak again to me aor this place where God may not be desirous to pull me again out of the fires that burn within and all around meand I am presently asking God why not make me mute because maybe then the hurting folks may not come to me for a reviving word and not receive what they desired deeply to counteract their deep wounding of late. Have you ever asked God why He didn't just decide to make you mute?

 

James speaks of this predicament that we all certainly face. I bring two instances and two portions of scripture vefore you this day.

 

James chapter 3, verses 5 and 6 which reads from the New International Version of the Holy Bible this way:

 

3, verse 5:

 

Likewise the tongue is a smal part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.

 

3, verse 6:

 

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

 

Whoa, James!! Hold on a minute because that simply cannot be true for me. That's what we say when we are faced with the idea, the inkling, the blatant and blunt reality that we have been breaking people with our words; and on top of that we are hearing Smoky the Bear say only you can prevent forest fires and all this time the forest fires have been lit by the flame that came off of our tongues. All of us have a tongue, and this portion of scripture is for those who have tongues in their mouths.

 

Secondly, still on the same topic, James discusses and digs a little deeper into the matter of the tongue in chapter 3, verses 9 12 which say:

 

3, verse 9:

 

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.

 

3, verse 10:

 

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

 

3, verse 11:

 

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

 

3, verse 12:

 

My brothers can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

 

These verses tell a very real and living story of our lives. It says that we are those who ache in the place of speech because we don't know how to correctly use it.

 

Blessing and cursing both come rolling of of our tongues and it is so difficult to decide which is most prominent in our lives as far as  hurting people because people are often hurting around us all of the time.

 

This lesson points the mirror right directly at each of us who don't want a mirror pointing our stuff wrong out before everybody. We hurt someone and that's the bottom line.

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God, please forgive us as we wonder how exactly we can forgive this person that we have hurt with the wagging and usage of or tongues. Hold us close to yourself in this hour God as the emotions have been allowed entrance into this place to protect  us from the mirrors that we shall be brought before by Your purpose at any rate.

 

There are places in us, in each of us, that need to be healed and God we heard that You are a healer, that You can make all things in us new, that Jesus Christ came to set the captives free. Oh to be set free is our desire this hour Lord God, to be made new is our passion and our motivating joy this moment Lord God. Renew us even right  here as we hurt and ache and wonder how to get through this moutnian and through this storm. You said that You are a shelter from the storm Lord God, that we can take refuge in You, beneath Your wings. You said that You longed to gather us together beneath Your wings of healing and shelter and refuge and that You desire to give us peace Lord God.

 

We need You to remove the stripe of sin blotching from us, that is, the stain that keeps resisting every pressure treatment, every smoke out, every prayer session and returning smacks us up primarily and firstly by this tongue that we carry in our mouths both as a tool and a tool.

 

We blow people away, we harm individuals with our tool, yet we also find it so easy to bring people to a huigher place by the presenting of our tool. Give us a hunger and thirst to get it right, to present to You Lord G od our hidden faults that we can't even see right now. Heal us in this place and allow us to carry the victory in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

Walking has never before been much of an issue for me. However, now it is much more of one. We hear the songwriter's words touch into our souls as our lips recall the words without stumbling: Walk it out, uhh walk it out.

 

Can we walk it out and still have our peace? Cna we walk it out and still see God's face and position in our lives as firstly and as most important?

 

The song writer goes on to pen: West Side walk it out, South Side walk it out, East side walk it out, North side walk it out, now walk it out.

 

Oh for the strength to return in fullness to these legs of mine that I might truly walk it out for You God!! Is that what we are saying as we look down at our crumbling frames and at our broken and slightly bent to one side gaits?

 

Walking it out sounds easy, oh it sounds so simple. If asked one might say, Aww that's just a dance.

 

But walking it out is presented here in these pages because there are some spiritual places where we can only make it through by completely walking it out.

 

I know not of your particular situation in this matter nor do I claim that I know of how long each of us shall be required in our individual relationships with God to walk it out. A quickly presented and zealous answer would be always, but sometimes the word always carries too much of a load for us to handle.

 

I offer a continuing discussion here on this page that we might allow God to breathe life into every portion of this balloon of discussion and for His perfecting strength walking.

 

And here I also offer to us some influences from Scripture taken from God's Holy Bible concerning courage. For courage is a cornerstone for even standing up much less walking somewhere. So be blessed in your standing, in your stretching forth legs to take steps and in your journeys. 

 

Blessings And Favors From The One Who Walks Eternity For Our Closeness, we are,

 

Pastors Dorcas and Israel Saunders