This week we will be in Matthew 14: 22-23

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This week we will be in Matthew 14: 22-23

We will be talking about Fear and the hold it has over us.

The very first sermon I ever preached was on this Chapter and Peter walking on the water.  Believe me I was as afraid as Peter to go out into that auditorium and preach to a congregation full of preachers.  I stayed in the Pastor study waiting for them to come get me while they waited for me to come in.  Finally the pastor came and got me and said they had sung all the songs they knew and I needed to get in there.  I will never forget that feeling or that sermon.

I have overcome my fear of standing up in front of a congregation but I am still in awe of how God will give me new insights into scripture even in the middle of my sermon.  I hope you have felt the power of the Lord as you were praying or reading your Bible and you have had this same feeling.

As we talk about fear and the disciples on that boat I remember a story I heard about a man while sports fishing off the Florida coast, capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.
Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted, “Are there any gators around here?!”
“Naw,” the man hollered back, “they ain’t been around for years!”
“Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy, “How’d you get rid of the gators?”
We didn’t do nothin’,” the beachcomber said. “The sharks got ’em. The lesson be careful what you ask for.

I hope you have a great week and do something good for somebody and I will see you on Sunday!!

David Whitmore

This Sunday

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This week we will be in Luke 15 vs 1-10.

We will be talking about how God never gives up on us.

I hope you were able to attend last Sunday when the ministry of Summitt Church blessed us.  We were challenged to allow the Holy Spirit to indwell us and go out and make a difference in the world.  We can’t do that if we are afraid to allow God to use us.  Let’s make the commitment this week to pray for someone that God puts on our heart, to go where he leads us to go and to read our Bible every day.  Listen God fed the multitudes with a few loaves of bread and few fish and he can also use a little Church in Pleasant Grove to reach out and touch this city.  We just need to make ourselves available.  Invite someone to Church with you on Sunday and remember to pray for those on our prayer list.