Things Don't Always End Up The Way They Started

OUR TEXT: VV. 3-7

PEOPLE/ OFFICIALS KNEW RAHAB AND WHAT SHE WAS UP TO AND WHO HAD KNOCKED UPON HER DOOR! HER LIFE WOULD BE FOREVER CHANGED BY ONE NIGHTS VISIT BY TWO YOUNG ISRAELITE MEN!

THE JOURNEY OF A MOTHER TRANSFORMS THE WHOLE FAMILY VV. 8-16

LIFE THOUGHT: LADIES, MAY I TELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW? YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO TRANSFORM YOUR WHOLE FAMILY! DID YOU KNOW THAT EVERY DECISION YOU HAVE MADE AND WILL MAKE WILL HAVE A HUGE IMPACT, NOT ONLY ON YOU, BUT UPON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY! HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE IMPACT BRITIANY SPEARS HAS HAD UPON HER FAMILY? CELEBRITY AFFECTS AN ENTIRE FAMILY! INFAMY (THE MAKING OF A NAME FOR ONESELF THROUGH NEGETIVE ACTIONS) AFFECTS A WHOLE FAMILY? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE PRIDE OF THE FAMILY OF DR. CONDALEESA RICE?

SCRIPTURE THOUGHT: MARY’S WILLING SPIRIT TRANSFORMED ETERNITY! AND WHAT ABOUT RUTH WHO BLESSED NAOMI AND CONTINUED ONE OF ISRAEL’S LINEAGE? AND WHAT OF MARY MAGDALENE WHO ANNOINTED JESUS FEET WITH HER PERFUME, DID NOT JESUS SAY THAT SHE WAS TO BE REMEMBER?

OUR TEXT: VV. 8-16

DID YOU NOTICE HOW RAHAB RESPONDED TO THE SPIES. SHE TELLS THEM THAT ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF SHITTIM AND JERICHO ARE OVERWHELMED BY FEAR (V. 9), BUT DID SHE ACTED AFRAID? I BELIEVED SHE SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY! I BELIEVE SHE WAS AN INTELLIGENT WOMAN WHOSE EYES WERE WIDE OPEN TO THE REALITY OF HER SITUATION AND OF THAT OF HER FAMILY! I BELIEVE SHE KNEW SHE COULD BLESS OR CURSE HER OWN FAMILY BY THE ACTIONS SHE TOOK! AND GOD BLESSED HER TREATMENT OF HIS SPIES!

THE JOURNEY OF A MOTHER RESTS WITH AN AGREEMENT VV. 17-21/ 6: 16-17; 22-24

LIFE THOUGHT: OFTEN IN LIFE WE TALK THE TALK, BUT STRUGGLE TO WALK THE WALK. LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN, I AM NOT HER TO THROW STONES! BUT, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON, MAYBE NOT A MOTHER, WHO SAID THE RIGHT WORDS, BUT WHOSE WALK DID NOT BLESS THEIR FAMILIES? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A FAMILY RUINED BY THE ACTIONS OF ONE PERSON? THE REALITY IS THAT WE HAVE TO LEARN TO AGREE WITH ONE ANOTHER IN THIS STUGGLE OF LIFE! WE MUST AGREE TO WORK TOGETHER, TO SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER, TO HOLD ONE ANOTHER UP!

SCRIPTURE THOUGHT: JOSHUA 24: 15 “AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE…”

OUR TEXT: VV. 17-21/ CHAPTER 6: 16-17; 22-24

THE REAL STORY OF OUR TEXT IS OF RAHAB AGREEING TO HELP THE SPIES OF ISRAEL. SOME MIGHT HAVE CONCIDERED THIS TREASON. SOME MIGHT THINK THAT RAHAB WAS WEAK AND UNWILLING TO STAND HER GROUND, FOR HER FAMILY AND FOR HER NATION! BUT, TODAY, WE KNOW SHE WAS IN THE CENTER OF GOD’S WILL! WE KNOW THAT HER DECISION TO HELP THE SPIES, LIE TO HER OWN PEOPLE, TO KEEP HER FAMILY IN HER HOUSE AS THE BATTLE BEGAN, AND TO TIE THE SCARLET CORD IN THE WIDOW, WAS AN AGREEMENT WITH GOD TO DO GOD’S WILL! RAHAB AGREED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIFE OF ISREAL AND ULTIMATELY IN HER LIFE AND IN THE LIFE OF HER FAMILY! HEAR NOW THE END OF THE STORY: 6:16-17; 22-24

THE JOURNEY OF A MOTHER ENDS WITH A LABLE

LIFE THOUGHT: WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE, HOW YOU START OR HOW YOU FINISH? YES, HOW YOU START DOES MATTER!! BUT, DOES IT MATTER MORE THAN HOW YOU FINISH? I THINK SOME HOW IN OUR CULTURE WE ARE MORE CONSUMED WITH HOW WE LOOK THAN WE WHO WE ARE? WOULD WE RATHER SAVE OUR MONEY AND LIVE ACCORDING TO OUR MEANS OR WOULD WE RATHER BE IN DEBT OVER OUR HEADS SO WE LOOK LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?? JUST A THOUGHT? WHAT WILL BE SAID OF YOU BY YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN? WHAT WILL BE SAID OF YOU BY THOSE THAT WENT TO CHURCH WITH YOU, WORKED WITH YOU, AND LIVED IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH YOU?