Post by 4him on Aug 7, 2010 22:53:59 GMT -7
This sermon is by William Carrol and is titled The Surest Way Through the Darkest Night...
media.tscnyc.org/mp3/20090519T1.mp3
Praise God, for this sermon. It was a great blessing to me ! There are few truths that I have found so precious to me, so life giving, as the truth that as Christians we have the opportunity, the privilege, to praise God….. at 'all times'. As someone whose experienced chronic daily pain over the past 20 years, I can attest to how often this truth has impacted my life and has driven me to the foot of the cross.
I love this portion of scripture that pastor Carrol closed off his message with from 2 Corinthians 4 :
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
13It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”b With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
What an awesome refreshing in the Spirit that was !!!
In Jesus,
John