SEVEN WORDS
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
SEVEN WORDS HAVE BECOME MY DREAM! SEVEN WORDS ARE DAILY VISION TO FOCUS AND INVEST… 7 WORDS!
DO WE UNDERSTAND VISUAL FIELD…
Many know I have had detached retina’s and many eye surgeries. For years I have been haunted by two words on my folder at the eye doctor. I understand these two words: BLINDNESS CANIDATE. The enemy wakes me up reminding me two words. BLINDNESS CANIDATE. But I have learned 7 words. When my mind focuses on BLINDNESS CANDIDATE, I STAND ON SEVEN WORDS. For in 40 years of full time ministry. There are hours, maybe even weeks and months that depression tries to RULE MY SPIRIT. MY HEART HAS LEARNED I MUST LEAN ON 7 WORDS. I
I have been told better men than me have worked and failed. I knew that with no one telling me. I have no ECCLESIASTICAL SUCCESS SHEETS. My little grandsons have more trophies than I have. I seldom have doubted GOD, but if you listen to the facts I HAVE DOUBTED MYSELF ON A REGULAR BASIS. BUT I KNOW 7 WORDS….
My vision is DISTORTED in dark nights? Fog, fear, worry, negativism and listen to cruel words, at best I CAN NOT SEE THE ETERNAL. My flesh has learned my eye sight makes me a BLINDNESS CANDIDATE. I know this but I stand on 7 words. I UNDERTSAND I CAN’T SEE, I DON’T HAVE MY FATHER’S EYES. Turning the cheek, loving those that despitefully use me. How about walking the second mile when only the FIRST MILE IS MANDATORY? Lord teach me Mandatory --- there is more.
I Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:12 (MSG) We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! 13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
THAT I MAY KNOW HIM…
Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Many years ago there was a writer named HOMER. Homer wrote this story CALLED THE ODYSSEY. There was this island where the SIRENS lived. As men sailed by the island the SIRENS would sing this most beautiful song. The men would crash their ships on the island and the SIRENS were eye candy and their song they sang BEWITCHED MEN to their death. Then the SIRENS KILLED ALL THE MEN.
ULYSSES knew the danger, as a good captain to had the ship’s crew plug their ears. This was not enough. He tied the men to the ship, still not enough. ULLYSSESS taught his men a song that was so powerful. As they sang the song they got louder and louder. THEIR OWN SONG DROWNED OUT THE VOICE OF THE SIRENS and they could not hear the song of the SIRENS. Ulysses taught the words of our song would always drown out the temptation.
SEVEN WORDS HAVE BECOME MY DREAM! SEVEN WORDS ARE DAILY VISION TO FOCUS AND INVEST… 7 WORDS!
Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Philippians 3:10 (MSG) I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself.
*HOW CAN WE CORRECT AND DISICIPLINE MY SELF? WHERE DOES JUDGMENT BEGIN… WHAT CAN 7 WORDS SPEAK?
* No matter how thin the pancake, there will always be two sides. I TRY TO HONESTLY EVALUTE MYSELF, MY WORDS, MY THINKING PATTERNS, MY ATTITIUDES, MY ACTIONS AND MY REACTION ON A REGULAR BASIS. I WANT TO MEASURE MY STRENGTHS AND MY WEAKNESSES… WE KNOW HOW STRONG SAMSON WAS… BUT HE COULD NOT VISUALIZE HIS WEAKNESSES.
* Am I growing? Am I improving? Am I getting better? OR AM I STAYING THE SAME? What am I doing that will help me BECOME A PERSON THAT GOD COUNTS FAITHFUL?
* There is a spirit of GRADUALNESS that would rub our belly and say sleep on! How did I get here? How long will I stay here?
* Have I ever checked my VALUE SYSTEM? Does my value system align THE BIBLE? Am I living with ETERNITIES’ VALUES IN VIEW? Or am I chasing RAINBOWS and a pot of gold? Am I on a rabbit path, just wandering where ever the wind blows?
* ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE? WHO ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO? AM I TRYING TO INVEST AND FERTILIZE PEOPLE WITH LITTLE TO NO HOPE? Our candle has never been about us… OUR CANDLE IS ABOUT THE LIGHT. The darker the night the greater the light.
LET’S GET REAL? WHAT CAN YOU DO? WE HAVE BEEN EMPOWERED AND STRENGHTEN IN THE SUFFICIENCY OF CHRIST JESUS. YOU ARE EQUAL TO ANY PROBLEM THAT OUR ENEMY CAN THROW AT THROW AT YOU!
WHAT HAVE I DREAD, WHAT HAVE I TO FEAR? I AM LEANING ON THE EVER LASTING ARMS.
WHAT TERMINAL CANNOT DO:
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13 (MSG) Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
TERMINAL? WE ALL HAVE A TERMINAL DISEASE… IT IS CALLED LIFE…
TERMINAL? WILL NEVER BRING DEATH TO OUR ETERNAL LIFE.
TERMINAL? IS VERY LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE. TERMINAL? CANNOT KILL LOVE, IT MAKES LOVE STRONGER.
TERMINAL CANNOT HINDER HOPE. TERMINAL? CANNOT WEAKEN FAITH, NEVER… WOW.
TERMINAL? CAN NEVER STEAL YOUR PEACE. TERMINAL CAN NEVER SEPARATE FRIENDSHIPS AND FAMILY.
TERMINAL? CAN NEVER FADE OUR PRECIOUS MEMORIES. TERMINAL MAKES US GROW IN COURAGE.
TERMINAL? CANNOT KNOCK DOWN OUR SPIRIT.
TERMINAL? CAN NEVER WIN!
TERNIMAL ILLINESS TEACHES SO THE GREATEST LESSON: THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIFE… SUFFERING.
SUFFERING? THE CROSS? GREATER IS HE!
7 WORDS? YES, 7 WORDS…
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 (MSG) That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
JIM VALVANO TAUGHT THE WORLD A LESSON ON THE SEVEN MOST IMPORTANT WORDS!
July 13, 2016 while making a speech on ESPN, JIM VALVANO SAID: I KNOW, I HAVE GOTTA TO GO; AND ONE LAST THING, AND I SAID IT BEFORE, AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN. CANCER CAN TAKE AWAYALL MY PHYSICAL ABILITIES. IT CANNOT TOUCHMY MIND, IT CAN NOT TOUCH MY HEART AND IT CANNOT TOUCH MY SOUL. AND THOSE THREE THINGS ARE GOINGTO CARRY ON FOREVER.
The sports world knew him as JIMMY V. Head Coach of North Carolina State. Jimmy V had cancerous tumors all over his body. He said: Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much time I have left. I have somethings I need to say. There are 3 things you should do every day! Everyday of our lifesss. #1. LAUGH, laugh everyday. #2 THINK, spend time in thought. #3 TEARS, you should allow your emotions to move you to tears.
COACH V TAUGHT THE 7 MOST IMPORTANT WORDS TO LIVE BY ARE THESE:
DON’T EVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE UP!
HEAR COACH V’S HEART? Hear my heart friend: KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE. BE A HOPE GIVER…
CONCLUSION: WHEN THE ENEMY HAUNTS ME AND TELLS ME, YOUR NO GOOD, BABY YOUR NO GOOD! When the enemy screams you can’t! When the enemy whispers what a failure I am!
When what I thought was a jet plane flying over my head and I look up and see the belly of a cock roach. When darkness tells me my little light does matter? When I have lost until the point that L is tattooed in my brain … I WILL ARISE AND MAKE A DECLARATION OF FAITH… I HAVE HOPE…. I HAVE HOPE AGAINST HOPE…. HOPE IS MY ANCHOR… If God leads me to it, GOD HAS PROMISE TO LEAD ME THROUGH IT…
Romans 4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16 (MSG) So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.
