WHEN TROUBLE TROUBLES YOU... DO A DEFRAG...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
I use three items: BUTTER... A HARD BOILED EGG... BAG OF COFFEE...
I bring out one at a time... We discuss what heat does to each
BEWARE: SLOW SMOTHERING... a slow threat to our enviromental threat
KUDZU: is native to China and Japan... it has been used in the southern USA as a vine to
stop erosion... when introduced in the south it was a miracle...
Then the night mare began... 70 TO 100 FEET TALL OAK TREES and kill them...
Kudzu has covered parking lots and barns and cabins...Kudzu can grow 1 foot a day,
60 feet a year...
I. EVERY ONE THAT KNOWS MUCH ABOUT A COMPUTER KNOWS YOU NEED TO
TO DO A DEFRAGMENTATION FROM TIME TO TIME...
Psalm 55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
[6] And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
A. Your computer is a wonderful tool to use to help you in many ways.
It can keep good records, it can help you communicate with friends and family.
B. After using the computer it becomes SLOW & SLUGGISH...
C. Frequent use of MANY OF THE COMPUTER PROGRAMS and PERSONAL DOCMENTS
CAN CAUSE PIECES OF INFORMATION TO BECOME SCATTERED...
D. THE SCATTERED PIECES OF INFORMATION MEANS THE COMPUTER MUST SEARCH
HERE AND THERE TO FIND THE PIECES AND MAKE THEM USABLE...
E. This problem has to be fixed... the computer will become so SLOW...
So you run a PROGRAM THAT RETRIEVES ALL THE PIECES OF INFORMATION...
THE DEFRAGMENTATION... OR DEFRAG RETRIEVES THE PIECES OF INFORMATION
AND PLACES THEM TOGETHER FOR QUICK EASY ACCESS...
F. WE NEED A SPIRITUAL DEFRAG...
DEVOTIONS,PRAYER & THE BIBLE CAN HELP US DEFRAGMENT OUR DAILY LIFE...
II. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED HOW MANY THINGS THERE ARE IN LIFE TO DRAIN YOUR
ENERGY AND SLOW YOU DOWN? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HOW YOUR EMOTIONS
CAN PLAY GAMES WITH YOUR HEART?
Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.
A. Have you ever tried to FOCUS YOUR MIND...
Have you ever tried to CONCENTRATE ON SOMETHING?
B. Have you ever tried to GO TO SLEEP AND YOUR MIND IS RACING 200 MPH,
and you can not find sleep?
C. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN FISHING?
Any good fisher-person knows: A BIG PART OF FISHING IS LEARNING THE PROPER
TECHIQUES OF CASTING... and reeling the line in...
D. THE WORD SAYS: CAST YOUR CARES UPON UPON ON THE LORD...
IF YOU CAST YOUR BURDEN, HE WILL SUSTAIN YOU...
E. WHEN YOU NEED PRAYER THE MOST IS PROBABLY WHEN YOU HAVE THE LEAST
TIME TO REALLY PRAY...
When you find it hard to pray... PRAY HARD...
III. HAVE YOU EVER HAD LIFE JUST GET TO PAINFUL... ???
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN LIFE GETS TO PAINFUL?
A. Psalms 73 is not written by David...
It was written by a PRAISER AND GREAT MUSICAN/SINGER...
Psalm 73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
B. We live in a day that instead of GETTING TO THE ROOT of the problem ...
WE TRY MOOD ALTERING TOOLS:
1. ANGER
2. BITTERNESS
3. ALCOHOL
4. PILLS, ILLEGAL... PRESCRIPTION...
5. SOMEONE ELSES ARMS...
6. GO IN BUY, BUY, BUY... THEN THE DEBT... BILLS...
C. WHY ASAPH HAS LIFE GOT SO BITTER AND ANGRY THAT THE PAIN IS
UNBEARABLE?
Psalm 73:1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
[2] But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
D. WHY ARE YOU WANTING TO FLY AWAY...
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
D. WHEN LIFE GETS TOOOOO PAINFUL WHAT DO YOU DO...???
Psalm 73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that
I may declare all thy works.
IV. WHAT HAPPENED MIGHTY GENERAL? WHEN TROUBLE TROUBLES YOU...
ONE OF THE GREATEST ARMY GENERALS THAT EVER GAVE ORDERS...
THIS GENERAL HAD VICTORY ON EVERY SIDE...
THIS GENERAL HAD THE GREATEST TRAINED HORSES, CHARIOTS,
THEY WERE UNDEFEATABLE... A MULTITUDE...
Judges 4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and
all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
A. THE MIGHTY GENERAL'S NAME WAS SISERA...
B. THE VERY NAME OF SISERA PUT FEAR IN EVERY ENEMY...
C. Seems like Sisera was THE VICTORY MAN...
D. ONE DAY THE MIGHTY GENERAL SEES TROUBLE...
THE TROUBLE TROUBLED HIM...
E. SISERA RIDES HIS CHARIOT AND HE HAS THE FASTEST HORSES OF HIS DAY...
SISERA'S CHARIOT CAN NOT OUT RUN HIS TROUBLES...
F. WHEN SISERA'S CHARIOT FAILS HIM...
HE JUMPS DOWN AND RUNS AS FAST AND AS FAR AS HIS FEET WILL CARRY HIM...
Judges 4:17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite:
for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
V. YOU THINK YOU CAN SLEEP AWAY YOUR TROUBLES? DEPRESSION?
NOW WHAT YOU GOING TO DO MIGHTY GENERAL...
DID YOU OUT RUN GOD? IS YOUR WEARINESS CURED?
A. WE LIVE IN A DAY WE THINK WE CAN RUN AWAY FROM OUR TROUBLES...
Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and
went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was
fast asleep and weary. So he died.
B. WHILE THE MIGHTY MAN SLEPT HIS TROUBLES REALLY CAVED IN...
C. A SISSY LADY NAMED JAEL... DEFEATED THE UNDEFEATABLE...
VI. 38 YEARS... I HAVE BEEN TRAPPED 38 YEARS...
I AM DOOMED AND TRAPPED IN MY TROUBLES?
JESUS KNEW HIS TROUBLED TROUBLES...
A. JESUS I HAVE NO ONE TO HELP ME...
THIS TROUBLE HAS BEEN A LONG TIME...
John 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
[6] When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he
saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
[7] The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put
me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
[8] Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
[9] And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the
same day was the sabbath.
B. SON, IT IS TIME TO GET UP... ARISE...
YEARS AGO I HEARD A TERRIBLE SAD STORY... FROM THE SOVIET UNION...
A forest fire had burned hundreds of acres of trees.
A fire had KILLED A BABY CUB'S MOTHER... and the cub made it out of the woods.
He was burned but survived...
A man rescued the BROWN BEAR CUB...
They built a 12 by 12 cage for the BABY BROWN BEAR.
The man sold the baby cub to a small traveling circus.
The baby cub lived his whole live in a METAL CAGE ON WHEELS...
The little bear paced 12 feet and turned around and walked 12 feet back.
That is all he ever knew... walk 12 feet, return 12 feet.
The little bear was treated cruelly. People screamed and mocked the bear going 12 by 12.
People burned him with cigarettes.
One time people feed the bear a hamburger with glass in it... the bear got deadly sick.
THE BEAR GREW AND GREW... HE WALKED 12x12 and WAGGED HIS HEAD
BACK AND FORTH... for many years this now huge bear walked 12 x 12 and wagged his head.
A person from the famous HIDLEBURG ZOO in Germany offered the owner money and
he purchased the bear and took to the ZOO... there were trees, pools of water, and other
bears there... THEY OPENED THE DOOR TO THE LIFE LONG CAGE AND THE BROWN
BEAR JUST WALKED 12 x 12 feet. He would have nothing to do with the other bears...
SEE THE BEAR WAS NOT TRAPPED BY METAL BARS...
HE WAS TRAPPED BY MENTAL BARS...
A rich traveler was at the HIDLEBURG ZOO and saw this sad bear walking 12 x 12?
The rich person offered to buy the scarred brown bear... He talked to the zoo keepers and
told them his plans... HE WOULD FLY THE BROWN BEAR TO ALASKA WHERE THE
LARGEST GROUP OF BROWN BEARS LIVE FREE.
The millionaire arranged a flight in a huge jet. The put the brown bear to sleep and flew him
to ALASKA... The bear had a medical examine and taken to the wild.
OBSERVERS were placed to watch the BROWN BEAR A FEW DAYS...
THE BROWN BEAR COULD NOT ACCEPT HIS FREEDOM...
HE WALKED 12 X 12, HIS WHOLE LIVE WAS LIVED IN 12 X 12...
HIS REALITY OF LIFE WAS 12 X 12...
HE WAS WORRIED, LIVED IF FEAR, FELT WORTHLESS, INFERIOR...
FINALLY THE MILLIONAIRE HAD TO AUTHORIZE... PUT THE BEAR DOWN...
A LIFE OF CRUEL ACTIONS HAD THE BEAR TRAPPED...
38 YEARS... TRAPPED... JESUS IS COMING BY...
Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
trusteth in thee.
HERE LORD... HERE... PLEASE HERE...
2 Chron. 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
