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If we tend to God's business, he will take care of ours. Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching. So, for those of you tonight either here in the building or watching from home, and you feel like everything in your world is shaking, I understand what you're going through, but I can tell you that many of those things that are shaking are things that you don't really need in your life anyway. They're not stable things, and God's going to give you something that is stable, which is more of him. Do you know the less of other stuff you have, the more of God there's room for in your life? I remember one time, Mom, you know, God, I just don't have anybody but you. Poor Joyce just stuck with God. Isn't that terrible? All right, verse 26, then at Mount Sinai, his voice shook the earth. But now he has given a promise. Yet once more, I will shake and make tremble not only the earth, but also the story heavens. Now, this expression, yet once more indicates the final removal and transformation of all that can be shaken. That is what has been created in order that that which cannot be shaken may remain and continue. I wonder how many people would have the courage to praise sincerely. God, I invite you to shake everything in my life that can be shaken. I didn't see too many hands up. So that only those things that cannot be shaken remain. How many of you want a better life? You know what? You got to go through to get there. Let us therefore receive a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken. Let us offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship with modesty and pious care and godly fear and all, for our God is indeed a consuming fire. I'm getting ready. I've already started putting together the notes. I'm going to I'm going to teach a message on the fire of God coming up here sometime. Real soon, you know, the Bible talks a lot about fire. Fire is a purifying agent. And I believe the baptism of fire, which the Bible talks about. John said, I baptize you in water, but one will come after me, who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. We don't hear enough about the baptism of fire. But I've had that in my life and many of you have had that in your life. And it wasn't pleasant, but I'll tell you what it amounts to. God comes in and he burns up everything in your life that is useless. And what's worth keeping, he sets on fire for his glory. I'm going to say that one more time because you're looking at me kind of bug-eyed. Why do we want to hang on to useless stuff? I don't know. Do you have any bad attitudes that could be burned out of you? No, not you, I'm sure. When the fire of God comes in our life, we sing songs like, Oh, God, send your fire. When the fire of God comes into our life, it's going to be painful before it's pleasant. Amen. You know, we're so afraid of pain, but a lot of times pain makes things better. It does. Sometimes you can have eternal pain that's getting you nowhere, but if you have the right kind of pain or if you embrace the right kind of pain for a short period of time, it will bring you into a much better place. I can use the example of the knee replacements. I mean, the gosh, I hope I don't have to have a knee replaced. The hip replacement surgery that I had. I put up with back pain for 20 plus years. Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain. How many of you have had pain long enough in your life? And I'm not just talking physical pain. I'm talking emotional pain or any other kind of pain. Is anybody tired of being upset all the time? Tired of being mad at people because you, you choose bad friends that you won't let go of and then you don't understand. When I just pray, God get every person out of my life that is not good for me. And even if I'm lonely for a long time, give me people in my life that are right, Godly people I can count on and trust. Well, I'll tell you what, if I can get you to pray some specific ways, we can get some of God's business done in this place tonight. I'm not just, oh God bless me. Bless me Lord. Now how about senior fire? Shake everything in my life that can be, can be shaken. And it may not be pleasant for a while, but honey, later on, later on is such an anointed time in our lives. You see now I'm living in later on. But it wasn't easy to get here. It was worth it. I finally got fed up with going around and around the same stupid mountains over and over and over. Oh God, I don't understand what you're talking about. Oh God. I hope somebody in the building is at that place tonight and my message can do you some kind of good. So we at least pray, God, you do what you want to do in my life. I have a little prayer that I pray, God, if you have to tie me to the altar, that's why if you have to tie me to the altar and don't let me get away, but do what you want to do in my life. Now our God is indeed a consuming fire. You know, sometimes people have everything in your life, in their life, shaken in reality. In Nepal, not very long ago, there was a sudden and a terrible earthquake. I mean, have you heard about that? You know, we hear about things like that and sadly we forget them about as quick as we hear about them. And we're sorry for the people and their lives are left in devastation. But these are times when the body of Christ needs to rise up and at least pray, God, is there something I can do? So I can't even just imagine if that was you. If you are having a cup of tea and all of a sudden, a few minutes later, your house is in shambles around you. You can't find some of your children. Perhaps your parents have been killed or many other terrible, terrible things. And you know, when people are in situations like that, they tend to think that life is over. But I want to tell you something. No matter what condition your life is in right now, no matter how many pieces it's in, with God's help, you can rebuild. You can rebuild. And the people in Nepal can rebuild. And this will be on television there. And I'm purposely trying to use a little bit of this to encourage them that they can rebuild. Their lives can be rebuilt. And no matter how far you think you are away from God, He knows where you're at. And God will go to any links to get to you and to help you. God will find somebody that He can love you through and He will love you back into wholeness and He will meet your needs if you trust Him. We just sent a team of people to Nepal because we want to see what we can do. We can't fix the whole problem, but we can do something. And so we picked a village that we want to do some work in. And our team got there and the roads were washed out. They had to walk into the village, which was mostly downhill. And some of the equipment got dropped and got damaged. And it was just, I mean, they said it was absolutely the most difficult missions trip that they had ever been on. But it's good for us sometimes to do something that's hard if we're doing it to help somebody else. Because that says to them, somebody does care about me. Amen. And I want you to know that God cares about you. And God will find you no matter where you're at and He'll send you the help that you need. Isaiah 40, 29 through 31 are wonderful scriptures that we should take a look at right now. You know them. He gives power to the faint and the weary. And to Him who has no might, He increases strength, causing it to multiply and making it abound. Even young people shall faint and be weary. And selected young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted. But they that wait upon the Lord. See, I knew you'd like that, but they that wait upon the Lord, who expect, look far and hope in Him shall change and renew their strength. Through the strength of God, you can rise up and rebuild. You can run and not be weary. You can walk and you shall not faint. When I asked how many of you felt like everything in your life was shaking, I spotted a few people, not everybody, but I could tell from looking at you that there's some really major things going on in your life right now. Well, you know what? Congratulations to you for being in the house of God to get the help that you need. And they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and they shall not faint. You can rebuild. Everybody say I can rebuild. Except the Lord builds the house. They labor in vain that build it. And maybe your house fell down because you were trying to build it before. How about this go around? Let's let God build the house. Let's let Him be the one that builds it. Well, what do you do when things are happening in your life and you just don't understand? Psalm 37.3 trust in the Lord and do good. Trust, lean on, rely on and be confident in the Lord and do good. Very simple. It's a two step plan to success when everything in your life is falling apart. Trust God and do good. Now, I did this in detail this morning, but let me quickly say that whatever ails us, God's word is medicine for our soul. You know, like for example, if I sin and I'm miserable with guilt because I've sinned, I can take a good dose of God forgives me. I can take a good dose of the mercy of God and be healed in my soul. If I'm mad at somebody else because they've hurt me, I can take a good dose of I forgive you and be completely healed. If I'm sick with jealousy because somebody else is getting what I want, I can take a great big dose of contentment. My soul can be healed. But there's one thing that is the answer to every problem that ails us and it's called trust God and do good. If you have a nice big bottle of both of these things in your house, I don't care what ails you, you've got what you need to always be well. Now look, this is a prescription for trust. Comes from Dr. Jesus. The patient is prescribed far as whosoever. Take as many as you need for as long as you need. Refills are endless. But you have to be careful. This stuff has side effects. I mean, when you start taking trust, well, you have a side effect of peace, joy, stability, confidence. Thanks for listening. Trials and tribulations are part of life. But if we handle it God's way, he will bless us in the middle of the mess. God uses hard times to strengthen our faith and teach us important lessons. Remember, we gain experience to our challenges, which qualify and equip us for God to use us to help others. Looking for more? You got it. 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