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Will Graham
July 6, 2014
Harvest
He is telling a story of heading
home from his grandparents on Easter several years ago.
Says how The Lord talked to him
about hearing someone say, "nothing in the world is free." The Lord
wanted him to let the people know that He is free.
He did not tell the people and to
this day he regrets it.
Talking about how blessed David
was. How Saul is jealous of David and then David flees.
1 Samuel 21:10-15 NIV
[10] That day David fled from
Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. [11] But the servants of Achish said to
him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about
in their dances: “ ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of
thousands’?” [12] David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of
Achish king of Gath. [13] So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and
while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors
of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard. [14] Achish said to his
servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? [15] Am I so
short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this
in front of me? Must this man come into my house?”
David was promised to be king by
God.
When David became afraid, he
forgot the promises of The Lord.
David pretended to be a madman
just to try and protect himself, not trusting the promise of God.
Do we live, as we believe in the
promises of God? Are we questioning things of God?
Genesis 12:1-4,7 NIV
[1] The Lord had said to Abram,
“Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I
will show you. [2] “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. [3] I will bless those
who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you. ” [4] So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and
Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from
Harran. [7] The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give
this land. ” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Those verses show what God
promised Abram.
We today are blessed through the
lineage of Abram. Yet, when God had said this Abram didn't have any children.
Genesis 12:10-20 NIV
[10] Now there was a famine in
the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the
famine was severe. [11] As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife
Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. [12] When the Egyptians see you,
they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you
live. [13] Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake
and my life will be spared because of you.” [14] When Abram came to Egypt, the
Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. [15] And when Pharaoh’s
officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his
palace. [16] He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and
cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. [17] But
the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of
Abram’s wife Sarai. [18] So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?”
he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? [19] Why did you say, ‘She
is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife.
Take her and go!” [20] Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and
they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
In these verses Abram was not acting,
as he knew the promises of God. He decided to lie; his mind and fear took over.
He failed to live according to the promises of God.
That is where so many of us fall
short. We know the promises yet we don't live as we do. We are failing there.
Mark 4:35-41 NIV
[35] That day when evening came,
he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” [36] Leaving the
crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also
other boats with him. [37] A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over
the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. [38] Jesus was in the stern, sleeping
on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care
if we drown?” [39] He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet!
Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. [40] He said to
his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” [41] They
were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves
obey him!”
Here the people closest to Jesus,
His disciples, have become scared. They say Mark 4:38 NIV
[38] Jesus was in the stern,
sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t
you care if we drown?”
How many of us say those words to
Jesus?
Do you really think that God has
forgotten you?
He's telling a story about
visiting Australia and doing an interview in a little town called Broken Hill.
How an Italian girl traveling through the town while traveling the world came
to Christ that day. It reminded him of God's word and how the "harvest is
ready and ripe."
It was the word of Jesus that
spoke to that girl and it just reminded him of how simple it is just to share
the words of Christ.
That is why it is so important to
live on the promises of God, not on fear.
God sees you, He knows you and He
loves you.
