
Just came up with the skeleton for my sermon.
This calls for a post on my blog for memories' sake. :)
Earlier in the day I found 2 short texts that I already found interesting/suitable for a short sermon, both from Philippians. But I found them by merely flipping the pages in the bible back and forth so I thought I should at least pray first before embarking on writing a verbatim that preaches His word.
While praying and asking God what my sermon should be on, the word "Joy" struck me the most (besides "love"). So anyway, I was really clueless about what text to select because God only gave me the words "Joy" and "Love". I actually stopped praying and asked myself, Is God really telling me those two words, and WHY can't He give me nicer words that will lead me to a more specific text. Love and Joy would lead to soooooo many verses in the bible!
I decided to just read up more on the 2 short texts that I found from the Book of Philippians to see if I can really form a sermon from them.
(Lol no choice. Gotta do a 15 min-long verbatim and present it on Thursday morning! Eeeeps.)
Then I, was so delighted, when I found out that the Book of Philippians was the
happiest epistle that Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians while he was in jail.
One of the text that I was considering (Phi 2:1-4) also, in verse 2, mentioned about both joy and love.
"then make my
joy complete by being like-minded, having the same
love, being one in spirit and of one mind."
Thank God for helping me complete the most challenging part of writing a sermon,
selecting the text.
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Enjoying LEADS more each day!
Learning more about God and experiencing Him in my life. :)
Getting really excited about the mission trip to West Kalimantan as well.
Two weeks more!! Wow.
Still afraid of dogs though. Dang.
Wonder how I'll survive over there.
But the Lord is my God, of whom shall I fear???
Dogs maybe. Hahahaha. Okay joking. Must not be scared of them.
I will overcome my fear! LORD YOU HAVE TO HELP ME.
Just when I typed this, 2 dogs just started some barking war downstairs. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.