Let Him go...

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6

Have you ever felt alone? Like you were doing everything by yourself? Like you were the only person in the world that felt the way you do? Be strong and courageous! What about when people rise against you, even when you are trying to love them? Do not be afraid because of them! Man can not stop what God has ordained! If you have lived this long, you have learned that people will disappoint you and let you down. But God will never leave you nor forsake you! In the trial of your life, friends have the tendency to disappear...Family can even disappear...But God will never leave you. I want to mention to you that God will not place on you what you are not able to handle. When a mother prepares milk for her baby, she tests it to see if it is too hot for the child. She will even taste it and feel it to be assured it is not too hot. As a child of God, He has tested the trials before placing you in them. He even became flesh to experience all the things that you are. He has been where you are. Disrespected. Humiliated. Forgotten. Left alone. And He did all of this to remind us that the Father will never leave you or forsake you. Friends, whatever you are going through, you are not doing it alone, be strong and courageous, it is your duty, but more than that, it is your freedom in Jesus. Maybe God bless every one of you....Shaun William Capps

Bring the Soul Back

Sitting here, I am overwhelmed. Consumed, saturated, and kindled with a fresh passion. Considering all that God is doing in the Church and in my own life lately, I can't help but to be taken back to I Kings 17:17-22 in a story where Elijah was commanded to go to Zarephath where a widow would sustain him. Suddenly, the son of the woman fell sick and Scripture reads of his condition, "there was no breath left in him". Elijah took the boy and he prayed a simple, earnest, but powerful prayer...."Oh Lord my God, let this child's soul come into him again". The next verse says that the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. What we need is a revival. Sinners and ministers alike. Sinners from the guilt and shame that plagues them when Christ is offering them freedom. Ministers from doubt that the same Christ will not perform what He has promised. As a believer, it is easy to feel like "there's no breath left" sometimes. It gets hard to breathe as we are suffocated by schedules and things that are quite frankly, non-eternal. The answer is simple....Call out to God asking Him to bring the soul back into you, and as I Kings 17:22 reads, the soul of the child came back into him again, and he was revived. Let's admit that we get the breath knocked out of us sometimes, let's cry out to God, lets have revival. Brothers and sisters, Let's bring the soul back. God Bless you.....Shaun William Capps