Helpless or Needing Help

Psalms 145:14 (KJV)

14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

Jesus loosed a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had so bound that she was “bowed down” and could by no means lift up herself.

Helpless and Needing Help are Two Completely

Different Situations…

*The One (helpless) Means All Hope is Gone…

While the Other Means~

“I could use a helping hand”

Miracles if you need one today are based on this premise!

Miracles happen to the Helpless Who Are Actually Hopeless Too!

The Government Offers a Helping Hand-

But God Offers Miracles…

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Religion in Action

James 1:27 (KJV)

(Pure religion) and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Religion in Action is Much Different

Than in Pronouncement of Religion…

Pure-Religion…

Is Action not words!

Not What You Say But Rather What You Do!

What a Great Revelation- And Check List

⁃ Visit the Fatherless

⁃ Visit the Widow

Remember Now, In Their Affliction…

(the inference is to bring them help)

Actions not Words…

Then….

Keep Yourself (Unspotted) from the World…

A Tall Order Yet as the Scriptures declare-

“Wisdom is known of her children….”

(now go learn what that means)

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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The Royal Law

James 2:8 (KJV)

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Definition: (Royal Law)

the law that is king of all laws…

The Premier Ruling Law of all God’s Laws is this one!

Without This Law All Others are Null and Void…

Ye Do Well!

If You Fulfill This One Singular Law-

This being the 2nd of (Ye Do Well)-

Scripturally…

The 1st is believing in One God…

Which even a devil can do…

I have found that it is easier to Love someone not close to you, than it is Your Neighbor…

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Just Enough

Proverbs 30:8 (KJV)

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

What a Revelation- “Just Enough”

Satisfied With What God Has Handed You…

This is not to be confused with Satisfied

With your own performance…

But Rather-

With What God Handed Us or Given Us…

This Is a Revelation!

Of Unbelievable Proportions…

JUST ENOUGH

Father Let Me Learn to Be Satisfied with

“Just Enough”

"The great tragedy in life is not in failing to get what you go after. The great tragedy in life is in getting it and finding out it wasn't worth the trouble!"

Jeannette Clift George

Just Enough…

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Getting What You Deserve

Jeremiah 17:10 (KJV)

10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even *to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

What if-

You Really Got What You Deserve?

-You May Not Like It…

What if-

You Really Got What You Earned?

-You May Not Appreciate It…

The Problem Is….

We Want Rewarded For Our “Good and Noble” Efforts…

But We Want to Be Overlooked

On All Our Bad and Less Than Reputable Choices and Actions…

This Doesn’t Work Out Well

When It Is “God” Who is Searching Our Heart…

Stop… and Think

Before You Say-

  “I Deserve Better” than this…

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Complaining

Psalms 142:2 (KJV)

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

*We may Complain to God

But not of God…

When we complain, it should not be before men, but before God alone.

*Once Complaining to my wife, fellow passengers and crew on a cruise one time,  of problems with my room,

brought me sympathies and words of condolences…

But-

When I Complained to “Customer Service”

at (HEADQUARTERS) I received a substantial compensation!

If You Just Want Sympathy

Tell Everyone You Know…

If You Want Action-

Complain to Someone Who Can Actually Change Something…

PRAYER WORKS…

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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Self Control

Proverbs 25:28 (KJV)

28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Christians Who Misunderstand

Self-Control

Are Like a Dog Chasing His Own Tail…

Being Born Again Never Eliminates

“Self-Control”

If We Became a Creature With No Choices

and or Without Control-

Then We Are No Longer (human)

When God Saves You He Never Removes the Ability to Change Your Own Destiny!

Good or Bad…

If You Master Many Things and Cannot Master “Yourself” in Self-Control

Then it’s all a waste of time…

⁃ A City Without Protection

⁃ A City Without Walls

⁃ A City Without Defense

You May Be a “New Creature”

Even a “City of God”

But You are vulnerable to attack if you cannot control and protect it’s citizens from (Outside Enemies)

-You May Be New

-Your City May Be New

*But the Enemy of Souls is an Old Dragon

With an Intent to Destroy since the Garden of Eden…

Self-Control is Self Preservation

Against an “Old Enemy”

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牧師 Pastor, R.D. Frazier

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