Be Back Next Week

Visiting my dad and family this weekend, I'll be back next week. May I recommend www.spurgeon.org for some wonderful reading of the exposition of God's Word.

When God Does Not

Daniel 3.1-18

There are times when God does not do what we think He will.

These three Hebrew men knew He could deliver them and they were fairly certain that He would, make that very sure. They had great faith, but they did not know what the outcome would be.

There are times when we pray and believe and trust and things do not turn out the way we had thought they would.

Perhaps the biggest issue we have to face here is healing, praying for some one to be healed who loves the LORD. When I was a very young pastor, 25 years old to be exact, way back in 1981, I was part of a pastor’s group where a bunch of us just starting out in the ministry would meet and have some breakfast and talk. One day there was an older pastor who came. He was filling in for a few months at a church while they waited for the arrival of the new pastor. He was a mature man. He spoke to us that day from his heart. He spoke about having things firm in our minds. I listened carefully. He spoke about healing and how there are times when God does not heal even after we have prayed very hard with faith. He said “It is important fellows that you know what you believe about this. If you don’t people could get hurt by you.” Then he told us that his wife was terminally ill. He told us they had prayed and believed but she grew worse and was not going to live.

17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.

But even if He does not

Rescue us (Remember Paul’s chains)
Colossians 4.3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

Heal my loved one

Heal me (Remember Paul’s thorn) II Corinthians 12.7

Give me what I think would be good
It might be a snake or a scorpion Luke 11.11-13

Do what I am asking
Remember Paul the Apostle knew what it was to go hungry


Admittedly there have been times when I lacked faith and God honored
someone else’s faith
Ex/ my Dad being healed. My niece had faith.

Likewise there have been times I thought and believed God would do what He is able to do and He did not.


What about this “Even If He Does Not”?

1. Don’t lose your faith (or become bitter ) Genesis 49:22-24

Do not try and figure this out. Don’t theologize. People who do that are not the ones with the questions generally. They are the ones who think they have the answers Be careful around people who never say, “I don’t know.” I remember a time when I had some pretty heavy questions about the future, my future. I went to this pastor, a few years older than me, whom I respected and asked him what he thought. He humbly said, “I don’t know. I’m not God.”

Some, keep their faith but let their fruit become bitter. “I love you, you know ”

Joseph is an example. Bitterness and hostility yet he remained strong and firm.


2. Keep your eyes upon Him and His glory Hebrews 12.1-3

This is given in the context of suffering if your read on.

3. Don’t bow to images or gold or anything else. Exodus 20.4-6

This was a golden image, probably of Nebuchadnezzar himself. We have to be careful not to let the pursuit of riches find its way into our heart.

4. Praise Him
Not easy when He does not do what we hoped for. Or when suffering occurs fro no apparent reason. Job 13.15 Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him

5. Keep Serving Him to the end 1 Corinthians 1:8-9
Offer yourselves as living sacrifices (Romans 12.1-3)
Press on Philippians 3.14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Hope in the LORD
Trust in the LORD with al your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding.
Obey the LORD.

Wait for the LORD, be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

The LORD's Day July 13, 2008

God Can Change Everything in Your Life In a Moment

Daniel 2.46-49

Daniel and the others were doomed. In a few hours they were going to be executed. They were being asked to do the impossible.

Things that were going well now they went south. They had been chosen from the exile to serve before Nebuchadnezzar. Now the king is asking something totally unreasonable and completely impossible... with man.

Remember what is impossible with man, Jesus said, “is possible with God.” All things are possible to him who believes.

It wasn’t fair! These young men had been carried off to Babylon for the sins of their fathers. They had been chosen for service in the king’s court and now he is turning against them and the other wise men and ordering they all be killed. They had purposed in their hearts not defile themselves. They had kept themselves pure and now they are going to die because King Nebuchadnezzar is angry. Why?!

We lean on our own understanding far more than we realize. Every worry, every care comes under this umbrella How many times I have fretted only to find out God was at work in things I was powerless to do anything about!

1. God gave the king this dream.

It was a view of world history and world kingdoms.

It showed how after the four kingdoms had their time the Kingdom of God would emerge.

Think with me about God’s Everlasting kingdom.

Paul said two things:

not a matter of talk II Corinthians 4.20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

not a matter of eating and drinking Romans 14.17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit
All over the world today God’s Kingdom is at work.

2. Daniel and his friends lives were in danger.

God sometimes allows us to be severely tested. The dream set this off.

They were being sought out to be executed.

They had not done anything to bring this on.
There are times when we have obeyed the LORD, kept ourselves pure and war breaks out against us. We cannot stop these things from happening.

We see here.

God allows it.

He doesn’t always stop it immediately. Things can get worse. Doesn’t that encourage you? Sometimes He takes us out of the storm but more often He keeps us through it.

Don’t try and figure out the difficulties in your life is you have been faithful. They will come. Just continue to be faithful and trust in Him.

Daniel didn’t defend himself. He had a case but instead he sought the LORD.

Two of the times in the Paul, the Apostle’s life when he was going through the fire...

* He felt the sentence of death in his heart (II Corinthians 1.9) Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
Amazing how these horrific trials produce in us a dependency upon God. One of the reasons Daniel, Joseph and David suffered so much at a young age could have been to assure this very thing- that they would cry out to God. This could be the purpose of your present trials. With all that the LORD was doing or going to do in these young men’s lives it would have been easy for pride to come in, manifesting itself as self dependency.

Daniel cried out to God. (2.14-18) That is a good thing that usually doesn’t happen until we are in a situation that makes us do it.

* He was abandoned by everyone. II Timothy
1.15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me
4.16 At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength...
Until we face a degree of loneliness, we won’t know how precious fellowship and having Jesus standing with us can be. Most of the Psalms that comfort our hearts were written during David’s pre-king days. These were times when it was just him and the LORD. There he found that when he is alone and he was by himself, the LORD came and comforted his soul.

He listens to our prayers.

Daniel prayed and God answered the impossible God did what no one on earth could do. How we need to remember what he told Nebuchadnezzar, “But there is a God in heaven ” and...


3. Our God Reigns

There is a God in Heaven and He reigns from there

There is a God in Heaven and He cares about His People.

There is a God in Heaven and He can turn things around in your life in a moment if He wills.

Many times we are tested ad we don’t know why
Things turn against us and to God we must cry
Searching for the reasons why we suffer are for us to do
Just trust in the Master. He has promised to bring you through.

Many times He brings us through the storm and not out of them,
But each time He gives us grace and mercy as we look to Him.
So if you today are suffering for things you did not do,
Be of good cheer, Jesus knows just what you are going through.

He died for sins of others so that they may go free
He never became bitter over man’s inhumanity
So keep your eyes on the Master. He’ll fill your heart with a song
He has promised to be with us always until the day we’re home.

The LORD's Day, July 6, 2008, Fourth of July Weekend

Praying For America

Daniel 1


On March 2, 1863, Senator John Harlan of Iowa introduced a resolution in the Senate, asking President Abraham Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The resolution was adopted on March 3 and later signed by President Lincoln on March 30.
At the top of the resolution were these words: A Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in The United States of America on April 30, 1863.

Here are a few sentences from the early part of the resolution:
WHEREAS, the senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution, required the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
...We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has every grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Here we are, on another July 4th weekend. This is our 232nd birthday.

We began Daniel this week. It is a book that testifies to the fact that God does judge nations for disobedience. Israel found out it was no exception and the same will hold true for the United States if we do not listen to God’s Word and learn from both Israel’s history and our own.

One of the themes of the Bible is that during judgment, God’s people are kept by Him, even if they do suffer, Jesus comes and stands with them. From Noah in Genesis to John in Revelation, including Lot and Joseph and Daniel and the prophets. Daniel was in Babylon because of the sins of his fathers. God had warned the nation to turn from their wicked ways. He had given them a solution through Solomon. They did not listen. So they were removed from the land God gave them. This was God’s judgment.



1. Why Exactly Did God Judge Israel?
Hosea 7.1-11
Deceit, crimes of thievery, adultery, arrogance, they never called on God
8.5-6 They were making idols for their people to worship

9.1 They had been unfaithful to God

10.1-4 They were self consumed. The more their riches increased the further from away from God they grew. Lawsuits abounded.


2. Pray that people will cry out to God in repentance.

There are certain things the LORD looks for. He is looking for sincerity. He looks for people whose hearts are towards Him.

He is moved when people call out to Him in humility and desperation.

Exodus 22.22-23
1 Chronicles 16:34-36
II Chronicles 20.9
Isaiah 19.20

3. Join in With Repentance with the national sins. 9.1-19

Daniel did. Look at this prayer It is a model for us.

He started with God’s Word. (vs.1-3) It will keep you from praying for symptoms and take you to the heart of the matter.

He prayed with a heart for his people. (vs.4-6)

He understood the calamity was God’s judgment. (vs.7-14)

He prayed for God’s glory and the honor of the Name of the LORD. (vs.15-19)

We know God heard his prayer and answered it.

Beautiful Clothes

Proverbs 31 (.19-25)

It has always amazed me how you ladies can sew. I definitely do not have that talent. Fortunately Lucy does. My grandmother had that ability.

Can I let you in on a secret? I was a big Superman fan when I was a kid. One time I asked
my Nana to make a Superman costume for me. I had one incredible Nana. What a blessing her memory brings! I tried to explain to her what Superman’s costume looked like. Finally my mom said, “Tell her what time and channel the show is on and she can see what it looks like for herself. “ And so decades before we knew what a DVD was, when we can sit and watch an old show like Superman whenever we wish, my Nana, took time out that week to watch her grandson’s favorite show, not to be entertained by its adventure but to get a pattern in her mind to make a very unique gift given for no other reason but that she loved me.

When it arrived I was the envy of the neighborhood. It even had a cape that was held on by snaps. I was Superman of Martin Avenue in Bellmore for few years all because of a Nana who could work magic with her fingers when she sewed.

I have seen some of you who have sewn your own clothes. I am very impressed. What a wonderful gift.

This lady here whom we read about this week was like that. She could sew.
*She sewed for those in need. (v.19-20)
There is a selflessness about the woman of noble character. Obviously it is from the LORD. Jesus was the most selfless Person Who ever lived. With all that power (all power) He never did a miracle to meet His own needs. We need to use what He has given us to serve others.

* She sewed for her family. (v.21)
We need to take care of our families. This lady did.

* She sewed for herself. (v.22)
She took care of herself. There was a beautiful and spiritual independence about her.

*She sewed for her husband. (v.23)
This is definitely one of the reasons he was respected. She had him in fine clothes. We ought to express appreciation guys for our wives who do that.

* She sewed for a business she had. (v.24)
She was a very industrious woman who knew how to make money.
There is clothing that is spiritual and she had it! Colossians 3.12-14


1. She is clothed with strength

Might- personal, social and political.

She is a woman of influence and she used that influence to bring glory to God by blessing her family.

Her value is far above rubies- you could not buy her out. Oh for people of integrity who do what is right, not to get elected or applauded but simply because it is right.


2. She is clothed with dignity.

Ornament, splendor, honor, majesty, glory

The LORD is clothed in splendor and majesty Psalm 104.1 Hadar= Ornament, splendor, honor, majesty, glory

There is something splendid and majestic about a person who lives for the LORD. They share in His nature. He lifts us up as we walk with Him. He brings us to places we never dreamed of and except for His work in our lives we don’t belong in! David’s words to the LORD in II Samuel 7.18-20

This woman and all who live like this reflect the LORD’s glory and majesty. We are clothed in it!



3.These are the most beautiful clothes of all.

The spiritual clothes are what makes a person beautiful, truly beautiful. All physical beauty is either fading or passing. What you are on the inside will determine your spiritual clothing.

Seek to be clothed with these things we read about in Colossians 3.
Compassion= pity, mercy
Kindness= moral goodness, integrity
Humility= a deep sense of one’s littleness, modesty
Gentleness= gentleness, mildness
Patience= endurance, temper which does easily succumb under suffering, restraint

When people look at you this is what they see? Is this the clothing you wear?
Forbearance - bear
Forgiveness and around all of them Love (binds them together in perfect unity)



Seek to be filled with the Spirit
To be clothed with power from on High (Luke 24.49)
To be clothed with the fruit of the Spirit. Don’t be like the fig tree in Mark 11. Be like the woman here Proverbs 31, full of the fruit of the Spirit.

Final word about fruit. It is not gotten in an ornamental way as you would hang a decoration on it. It is what is happening to the roots and the feeding and the pruning and the care that develops fruit. Sunshine and even rain are necessary to have a harvest. All of this is true in our lives spiritually.

Dig deep into God’s Word.

Submit to His discipline.

Follow Him.

Enjoy the sunshine.

Be thankful for the rain for what it produces:

Makes plants healthy.

Enables them to bear fruit.

Keeps them from drying up.

Extends their lives.

Helps them produce more seed for more plants.

Romans 13.8-14

Two Things I am Asking the LORD For Before I Die

Proverbs 30.7-9

When we are young we talk about things we would like to accomplish in our lives. We dream and plan. As we grow older and we begin to realize we are not going to be on this earth forever we begin to talk about things we want to do before we go. It may be a trip or some adventure or going to see someone we love and live far away from. It could be a book or a set of books we are going to read.

God’s Word as something to say about this. The writer of this chapter of Proverbs speaks of things he wants, actually asks the LORD for. His prayer requests show his heart, as do ours.

These are things that are worthy of our asking of the LORD too!

1. Keep Me Honest

*Put great distance between me and lies. Don’t even let me get close to being dishonest. Keep me as a person of integrity. May all my dealings be above reproach. May my integrity never be questioned, but if I am called into account may everything in my life speak of purity. This is what this man Agur is praying.

We do not realize the inherent blessings in this… sleep, peace, never having to worry about what you said or did. Goodness and integrity have their own rewards.

*Keep me from a meaningless existence.
This isn’t “You need to get a hobby type of thing…” It is being involved in God’s kingdom. It is giving as much of yourself as you can to the LORD Jesus Christ and walking with in the paths He has set out for you.

This is not about being busy. You can wear yourself out with stuff that at the end of time is going to be burned up.

This about giving ourselves to things eternal. For example teaching a Sunday School Class is a wonderful thing. One of the guys who has prayed for my dad and called and encouraged my parents this past year is Dr. Kenny Brown. Kenny is a professor at a Christian University now. He was one of my dad’s Sunday School students in Queens back in the 1950’s. When we give to the kingdom we never know how it will come back to us.

May my life be forever focused on the Kingdom of God.

Another request…

2. Keep Me Depending on You

Jesus has promised His followers that they would have food to eat and clothes to wear. He pointed to the birds and the blooms (flowers-actually lilies) as an illustration of God’s care for His creation and for the care of those who love Him.

We can depend upon the LORD to take care of us if we are seeking His kingdom first. That doesn’t mean we sit around, on the contrary we work but we are ultimately depending on God, as we said last week, even for our strength

The two extremes he prayed to avoid are riches and poverty. We would do well to pray that way. It is wise.

Poverty is not safeguard for sin. It can make a person a thief. The sin of the poor can be envy and jealousy. This is can lead to thievery. As technology has increased so has the ability to steal.

Rich- to have too much, to have all my desires fulfilled, to be satisfied, to have in excess. To glut. Some desires are better left unfulfilled. The history of nations (including Israel) is that the richer they became the less dependent upon God they became and the more independent spiritually from Him they became.

The sobering thing about Israel was that Jesus said they were honoring Him with their lips but their hearts were far from Him. They had the words down. They spoke of the LORD but in their hearts were idols, other gods, their own self interests.

To disown- to grow lean, to be untrue, to be found to be a liar- not living up to a previous commitment of faith. This is the story of Solomon. As wise as he was he went against God’s Word. He didn’t follow the directions for kings. He went and made a deal with the King of Egypt and married his daughter an while this brought him increased favor, military might and wealth an the nation with him, it also brought someone who wasn’t a worshipper of the True and Living God into the life of King Solomon and his heart was eventually turned away from God!

Jesus asked, “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul.” (Mark 8.36)





3. My Life Will Come To an End One Day -Keep Heaven Before Me

Before I Die- all of what we have been speaking about. The LORD gently reminds us that we aren’t here forever but that we will be somewhere in eternity. God has placed eternity in the hearts of men.

Not everyone is going to heaven. Jesus said that not even everyone who says, “LORD. LORD will enter the kingdom of heaven but only those who do the will of the Father Who is in heaven.”

Heaven is described in Revelation 21.1-8, 22.1-6

The past few weeks I have been at a few funerals. I have prayed for people to be healed. I have watched pain in people’s lives, amazing how holidays can bring out pain. Yet there is hope. Mary Butler, my neighbor in Bellmore growing up went to be with the LORD on Monday Morning. I was with her family whom I have known since I was 2 years old. She was a great woman of faith. Just hours before she died she cried out, “Sweet Jesus, take me home.” What a way to go! I love that faith, that blessed assurance!

You can live out your life with Jesus so that death loses its sting and the grave has no power over you. You can be sure where you are going today. Whoever calls upon the Name of the LORD will be saved.

God has made the plan of getting to heaven so simple a child can understand. I know. I was just 7 years old when I asked Jesus to come into my heart and be my Savior. In fact Jesus said we must become like little children in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. We must depend upon God completely. Little Philip is completely dependent upon John and Sophia. Jesus wants us to come to Him like that.

LORD Jesus, please come into my heart, forgive me of my sins,
I believe You died for me on the cross.

Proverbs 30.7-9

The LORD's Day June 15, 2008 Happy Father's Day!

Bring Joy To Your Father

Proverbs 29.3, 4.1-23

June 1968- 40 years ago this past week, Robert Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin, Sirhan Sirhan in California. Just two months earlier Martin Luther King had been killed as well. Those were horrible days for our nation.

I remember June 1968 for another reason, one much more joyful. I graduated from sixth grade from Martin Avenue Elementary School in Bellmore, complete with cap and gown and diploma!

I also had an autograph book. Classmates, teachers and family wished me well in it.

My Sunday School Teacher wrote Proverbs 3.5-6 in it and said to use this as a guide for your life. I have sought to do that.

It was my grandmother who wrote a portion of the scripture we read this morning, Proverbs 4.23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” 40 years ago I received it. 40 years later I am sharing it with you on this Father’s Day. God had this all worked out. This is a moment when we are onto something He lined up from the beginning.

God, the Father, Our Father in Heaven, was obviously speaking to me back then 40 years ago so much that He had my Nana write it down. He is speaking to me and you today. He wants us to walk with Him. He wants us keep guard over our hearts.

It is His design that Proverbs are in the father-son or father-sons dialogue. It was Solomon speaking to his son, but it was and is God the Father speaking to you and I as His children in these Proverbs.

We are told a man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father. He makes him glad. To love wisdom is to have it close as you would a friend, it means to be like it. The man who holds wisdom close, who reflects in his life will bring joy to his father.

On this Father’s Day let’s think about our heavenly Father for a few moments and let’s thinking about making Him glad by the fact that we have embraced wisdom like a close friend and we love it so deeply that our lives reflect that.
First let’s speak of this point of making our Father in Heaven glad. This is definitely something we do not think of enough. We think of what we need and what we are concerned with. We think others needs. We struggle at times with doubts and ask the LORD to help our unbelief but we do not very often think about this matter of making glad the heart of God.


How do we bring joy to our Father in Heaven?


1. We bring joy to Him by obeying Him. Genesis 22.17-18
“Because you have obeyed Me.” First time the word obeyed is mentioned in the Bible is with the father of the faithful, Abraham, and in reference to his obedience.

God has not made it complicated for us to understand obedience. He has wrapped it up into daily living. He has given us basic commandments. Jesus boiled it all down to loving the LORD our God with our all and our neighbor as ourselves.

We know His will by knowing His Word. A great reason for the lack of obedience to God is that many do not know what His Word says. A great deception takes place among believers when they have not become grounded in God’s Word.

All of us Dads know what a joy it is (or was) to have our children obey us. It made our hearts glad. It brought harmony between us. We also know that there is no such thing as a perfect child. We know the pain and struggle there is with disobedience. Bring that to the relationship we have with our Father in Heaven. It is to our advantage, for our good that we obey Him. The motive should be first that we love Him. The whole growth and development of a child is here.

In John 14, after He said that He is in the Father and the Father is in Him, He said “If you love Me, you will obey what I command.”- John 14.15


2. We bring joy to our Father in heaven by keeping in touch with Him regularly.

Prayer is not just asking God for things when we need them, it is having fellowship with Him all the time.

Those of us who are older like to hear from our kids. We love to do things for them but we enjoy just hearing from them for no reason other than wanted to say hi. Unfortunately our high paced world is making that more difficult.

Few of the LORD’s children ever reach the joy of fellowshipping with Him on earth in quiet waiting and wonder in pausing and giving Him thanks and praise. This is not only a wonder filled experience for us it is brings joy to our Father in Heaven.

A Daily Quiet Time is so needed. I know of one couple where the husband would watch the children so his wife could have her time of quiet with Jesus each day. I believe that not only brought joy to the wife but joy to our Father in heaven.

Hang out with the LORD- you will experience joy in your soul while making the LORD glad.

3. We Bring Joy to our Father in Heaven by Lives of Wise Choices Springing from Wisdom

This is one of the purposes of Proverbs. Proverbs 1.1-7

It is not live and learn rather it is learn and live. Many young people today are suffering the consequences of foolish choices. They made bad choices because they lacked wisdom. Had they been taught the Proverbs and become friends with it, become like the book itself in that their lives spoke of the Proverbs by their actions they would have avoided so much pain and suffering and sorrow. If that is your situation this morning, God has grace for you. All is not lost. There is a way out. Make Jesus LORD of your life and begin to read this book and aim to live by it. We can avoid scars through applying wisdom.

4. We Bring Joy to our Father in Heaven by giving gifts to Him.

We are really not giving things that are ours in the first place. God is the giver of all good gifts. They have come down from Him. We are in reality honoring Him by giving and acknowledging that He is the One Who has given these things to us in the first place. You say, “Well I worked hard for what I have.” Oh and Who gave you the strength?


We think God needs us to give. How ludicrous! We need God He does not need us.
In fact I’m at that point now where I have a great deal of stuff- too much! My mother got upset when I told her there was nothing we really needed for Christmas this past year. However I still enjoy getting gifts on Father’s Day from my kids, not because of need but because of it is a way they express their love for dear old dad. It is a personal thing.

Now God has set up the church so that the giving to Him in part supplies the needs of ministry. If everyone gave what God placed in their hearts to give all the needs of the church would be met. I personally do not believe that stewardship campaigns were part of the early church. There were no needy among them because everyone was moved by the Spirit to give out of love for Jesus.

5. We Bring Joy to the Father in Heaven by guarding our hearts and lives. 4.23

We are not home yet. We must be on our guard. If we think it cannot happen to us we are in great danger of falling. We are all tempted. Many have fallen in their last years. What a tragedy! A mature Christian getting caught in a sin is possible and when it happens it is very sad.

Guard you heart.

Two meanings- blockade it- God’s Word and Prayer, Fill it with good things and thoughts
Confine it - Do not let certain things in, Keep it from imaginations that are evil.


Bring Joy to your Father in heaven- guard your heart- out of it are the issues of life. An example: Greed in the heart can result in stealing from someone. Love in the heart will result in giving.

Bring joy to your Father in Heaven:
Obey Him
Talk to Him
Live a life of wise choices
Give gifts to Him
Guard your heart and your life- keep it for Him!