How To Be Addicted.to Jesus.......part 2 Hebrews 13:1-8

How to be addicted, Part 2

Good Morning

Stand with me and lift up your bible and repeat after me.

This is my Bible.

I am what it says I am.

I can do what it says I can do.

I am going to learn how to be what it says I can be.

Today I will learn more of the word of God.

The indestructible, never ending, living word Of God.

I will never be the same.

I will never be the same.

In Jesus Name

God is good and His word is true. God is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19)

So I encourage you to lay hold of all the promises God has made to His children. Even though the enemy is fighting you and you may feel defeated and discouraged, I have good news for you; Victory comes in the morning. (Psalm 30:5)

This is a good story that encouraged me in knowing that God is always close by, but wants us to be submitted to Him and follow His leading. We can't do anything successful if we do not allow God to lead us in the paths that He sees fit. Always remember that God's ways are better than our ways. (Isaiah 55:8)

I hope you enjoy the story.

HEARING GOD

The young man had lost his job and didn't know which way to turn.

So, he went to see the older pastor at his church.

The pastor asked him what was wrong.

Pacing about the preacher's study, the young man ranted about his

problem. Finally, he clenched his fist and shouted, "I've begged

God to say something to help me. Tell me, Pastor, why doesn't

God answer?"

The old pastor, who sat across the room at his desk, spoke something in

reply -- something so hushed it was indistinguishable. The young

man stepped across the room. "What did you say?" he asked.

The pastor repeated himself, but again in a tone as soft as a

whisper. So, the young man moved closer until he was leaning on

the pastor's chair. "Sorry," he said. "I still didn't hear you."

With their heads bent together, the old pastor spoke once

more. "God sometimes whispers," he said, "so when we realize that, we will move closer to hear Him."

This time the young man heard and he understood.

We all want God's voice to thunder through the air with the

answer to our problem. But God's is the still, small voice. . .

the gentle whisper.

Perhaps there's a reason. Nothing draws human focus quite like

a whisper. God's whisper means I must stop my ranting and move

close to Him, until my head is bent together with His. And then,

as I listen, I will find my answer. Better still, I find myself closer

to God.

Turn with me to the book of Hebrews.

Let us go to chapter 13 and say, “Amen” when you are there.

Let us read starting at verse 1 and continue to verse 8.

1. Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.

2. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

3. Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.

4. Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

5. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;

never will I forsake you.”[a]

6. So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.

What can mere mortals do to me?”[b]

7. Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and intimidate their faith.

8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Things have changed in the world we live in and in our lives over the years and we may not be following any or all of the things that we have just read.

Why?

We become addicted to things of the world.

I hope the second part of this series and this message encourages and inspires your heart to become addicted to the ways of God and to take life one day at a time doing the right things that will elevate your life and bring blessings that will make you glad that you stayed faithful no matter what.

As we spoke in part one of this series, we learned that so many times, because of the trials and tribulations of life we think that we can’t make our life useful again.