What to Do When Waiting on God

3 Things to Do When You Are Waiting on God. 

I received the following from a friend in Evangelism, Reverend George MacGregor. I pray God’s blessings on him and you as read. 

As a church leader, your work is…interesting.

You have feet in two different worlds:

1. Administrative

2. Spiritual

How you measure the effectiveness of your work in these areas couldn’t be further apart.

Think about it.

One part of your work is administrative.

You have to prepare for your worship service.

You have to organize events, arrange counseling sessions, and manage your volunteers and staff.

You also have to respond to emails, texts and calls, and make sure everything else is being taken care of.

Your administrative work is something you can measure.

You have projects to manage, deadlines to meet, and tasks to accomplish. For better or worse, with your administrative work, you can experience tangible results—the sense of checking off something from your to-do list.

But this isn’t the case at all for your spiritual work.

You preach the gospel.

You teach the Bible.

You help people to live and love like Jesus.

The spiritual side of your work isn’t like your administrative tasks. Sure, you can check off of your to-do list certain things like “Preach this Sunday,” “Meet with a church member,” or “Spend one hour praying for my community and church.”

But here’s the deal about your spiritual work:

You can’t control the results.

The more you do doesn’t necessarily result in more “accomplishments.”

You can’t force people to accept the gospel, apply a lesson from the Bible, or instantaneously live more like Jesus. In other words, the results of your spiritual work are in the hands of God—not yours.

Waiting for God to work in the life of your church can be challenging, and it’s easy to be discouraged. As you work, and work, and work with your people, you may not observe any tangible results (fruit) for months, years, or ever.

What do you do in the meantime?

There’s only one thing you can do, and that’s to wait.

Waiting on God isn’t the same thing as not doing anything.

It’s quite the opposite.

There are three core things you should do as you wait on God, and I’d like to share them with you now.

#1 – Trust in God

Do you preach the gospel?

Do you teach or preach the Bible?

Do you help people work through their struggles?

Then lean in to hear these words from the Apostle Paul:

“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain” (1 Cor 15:58).

If you are doing God’s work, then your work is not in vain.

The work you do in your church is important in the kingdom of God.

Without someone sharing the gospel, how can anyone believe?

Without someone giving sacrificially, who will support the local church?

Without someone providing food, clothing and shelter, how will those in need be cared for?

While you wait on God, trust that he is working through you to accomplish his plans.

#2 – Continue to pray

God didn’t call you to serve his church alone.

He called you to participate in his work with him.

Practically speaking, there’s no way you can do your spiritual work without God’s strength. Serving the church without God would be like trying to drive a car without gas—it’s not going to work.

Without God’s help, you’ll experience moments of energy, positive momentum and seasons of flourishing. But eventually, you’ll get tired, hit a wall and burn out.

As a church leader, your primary problem won’t be stress—it will be a lack of strength. A lack of fuel to keep doing what you’re doing.

Your lack of strength isn’t physical, and it can’t be replenished by an extra cup of coffee or a four-pack of energy drinks.

The strength you need is spiritual. You can’t buy it online or from a convenience store. The only place—or better yet, Person—you can get spiritual strength from is God.

How do you draw strength from God?

One of the best ways to receive God’s strength is through prayer.

When you pray, you may not experience a booster shot of energy. But that’s not the point.

You’ll receive an inner strength and a renewed commitment to keep pressing on.

Here are several Bible verses about strength you can pray:

• Nehemiah 8:10

• Psalm 22:19

• Psalm 28:7–8

• Psalm 119:28

• Isaiah 40:28–31

• Ephesians 6:10

• 2 Corinthians 12:9–10

#3 – Keep doing good work

There’s one thing you can’t stop doing while you’re waiting: working.

Now isn’t the time to stop preaching the gospel, sharing biblical truths, or spending time with your people. Ceasing from your work as a church leader would be like a farmer not doing two things:

• Protecting their seeds

• Preparing to reap a harvest.

While you wait, you have to protect the seeds you planted in the life of your people. As a church leader, you don’t labor alone. You’re up against spiritual forces. In the words of the Apostle Paul, you’re fighting “against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph 6:12).

The people in your church (members and visitors) are struggling with sin, facing temptations or simply navigating a difficult season. Neglecting your church at these crucial times can set your people up to be overtaken by whatever their facing.

Instead of sitting on your thumbs and watching the weeds grow, prepare to reap a harvest.

Continue to spend time with your people, know what’s going on in their lives, and most importantly of all, continue to share the gospel and point people to Jesus.

Working while you’re waiting isn’t probably what you want to hear.

So let me leave you with these encouraging words from Galatians 6:9:

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Waiting on God

Waiting on God isn’t easy.

If anything, waiting on God is slowly becoming a more significant challenge for people. Whether it’s streaming a video to watch, purchasing a product online, or standing in line at the grocery store, waiting for anything or anyone can be frustrating.

As you wait on God to accomplish his work, take a step back, hit the pause button, and reevaluate your expectations in light of what I just shared.

God is at work in your church.

He’s at work in your community.

And he’s working through you.

As you wait on God, remember to do these three things:

1. Trust in God

2. Continue to pray

3. Keep doing good work

In time, you will enjoy the fruits of your labor. 

“You are Loved!” - Pastor Ron 

Are we living today in the End Times?

 I came across this today on the Facebook page “You are Loved Ministries” which is my personal page and I am assured that God is still speaking and we get to hear Him. 

So I give you a link to the Words God had given me in 2022. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/u8bDL2uXaEdt4VnJ/?

5 ¶ And Jesus, answering them, began to say: “Take heed that no one deceives you.

6 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many.

7 “But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such thingsmust happen, but the end is not yet.

8 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles.fnThese are the beginnings of sorrows.

9 ¶ “But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be broughtfn before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them.

10 “And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

11 “But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditatefn what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. “You are Loved!”

Thoughts- Out loud?

  Do Angels hear your thoughts or do your thoughts need to be spoken out loud?

 I had this question posed earlier this week by a loved one who recently lost her 19 year old son. I tell you this so you may consider the possibility that the question is influenced by the circumstances. 

 I without much hesitation answered that I believed our thoughts are just as loud to God and the Angels. I then had to find evidence that would support my belief. I offer to each of you the same opportunity to have this question answered for you as well. 

 I didn’t look for the answer anywhere but in my spirit where I knew God’s Word was planted in me since I could read and write and listen and understand what He “My God” is saying to us.

 I love how Our Father allows us to be the voice in situations and circumstances that we all find sometimes uncomfortable and difficult. His Word is the only true answer to all our needs. 

 With all this being what it is, I give you this one verse of scripture to answer the aforementioned question:

 “You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.”

Psalm 139:2 NKJV 

“You are Loved!” Pastor Ron

DO NO HARM!!

DO NO HARM!
1 Chronicles 16:22 (NKJV)
Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but sometimes their calamity is a result of the after effects of harmful actions towards God’s anointed ones. Actions that are not always physical, but can also be emotionally harmful words, even if they are based on facts about their past. God will not repeat what has been covered with the Blood of Jesus, only Satan will bring up a person’s past transgressions and failures.

Proverbs 17:9 (NKJV)
He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Micah 7:18 (NKJV)
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

I have been attacked both physically and emotionally while serving God and have seen God turn His wrath upon the persons who were involved.

Romans 12:19 (NKJV)
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

One particular event I was actually beaten by a brother in the church because I would not compromise my belief about allowing The Holy Spirit to be our judge here within the church. I was encouraged to have them convicted, but I could only hear what God was saying about not touching His anointed, and how He would repay. Instead, I chose to love them and place them in God’s hands. I had to stay out of the way and watch God allow brokenness and loss to come over them. Their health and finances suffered, jobs were lost and pain became a part of the normal everyday.

But God is not so far away that we can not be saved. I have always asked this question, “if you were a million steps away from God, how many steps will you have to take to get back to God?” The answer is “just one!” I believe God will instantly make up the difference to receive us back and when repentance came to my brother, I was able to receive him and his family back into the covering of church that is under the covering of Christ.

Romans 10:13 (NKJV)
For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

Repent and call on the Name of the Lord while it is still today.

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️
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God Shows Up! Always!

God Shows Up!! Always!!

Just about the time you are considering throwing in the towel and surrendering to defeat, God shows up and reminds you that He is still in control and you are not a quitter. 

It sometimes appears that everything you have been believing for and hoping for has been firmly placed completely outside your grasp. You have prayed and sought God for answers and direction. You have told God exactly what it is that you need and want for Him to do and you wake up again and everything is still the same. You begin another day allowing yourself to wonder why nothing has changed. You, if you are like me, sometimes begin an argument with God that goes something like this- “Have you not even heard my pleas? Do You even see what I’m going through? Am I not praying loud enough? Are my cries just bouncing off the ceiling and coming back unnoticed?” 

Sound familiar? 

Well, Praise be to God that you and I have not been the first or the last to go through similar things. Even some of The Heroes of Faith in the Bible suffered similar circumstances. We can look to see how God worked in them and the miracles that took place and lay claim to having the same God deliver the same outcome to us. 

Although there are many stories where God has come through, I want to focus on just this one situation. 

Daniel 3 NKJV 

This is the familiar story of three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. When King Nebuchadnezzar had created a golden image that he required all throughout the land would bow and worship or they would be killed. But the three men, who were set over the affairs of the Israelites, refused to worship the idol. The King ordered them bound and thrown into the furnace which burned so hot it killed the men who threw them in. But as we most assuredly know that they were saved because they didn’t surrender to the temptations presented by the world, but continued to believe that God wouldn’t let them down. 

Daniel 3:24-25 (NKJV) 

“Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste [and] spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king." “Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."”

We can be certain that God is with us in the midst of our struggles and suffering. Yes, just about the time we are ready to throw in the towel, God shows up!

2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

“The Lord is not slack concerning His  promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron ❤️

GOD IS NOT HEALING OUR LAND

GOD IS NOT HEALING OUR LAND

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

I have heard this verse quoted quite a lot recently and I believe it to be thoroughly true. During my time of study and prayer I have been concerned about the great travesties that are happening all across our nation. Lies, Hate, Deception, Wickedness, Evil, Murder, Drunkenness, Idolatry and False Prophets on every side.
So I went to God’s Word and seen how we have taken the promise of healing our land out of context. Let’s look together-

12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 "When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
15 "Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer [made] in this place.
16 "For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,
18 "then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail [to have] a man as ruler in Israel.'
19 "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them,
20 "then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21 "And [as for] this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'
22 "Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.' "

Take a good look at the conditions that God places on the healing and health of the land. He calls for us to repent from our wicked ways and follow His statutes and commandments. But we have not only remained connected to our sins in this nation, but we are embracing them in closer and tighter.
Just one example of this is that first we make it legal to murder the unborn child up to a certain amount of time and called it rational instead of sin. It became the standard by which we choose our leaders and judges. It was embraced by generations who saw no wrong in their actions. Instead of turning away from it, we have magnified it and given the abortionist even more power, even now until just before birth. I’m saying that we have possibly murdered the cure for cancer, poverty, diseases of all kinds and lost probably some of the greatest minds and leaders our nation could have known. But because we have not turned away, then I say God is not going to heal our land. Instead He has put us aside, uprooted and cast us out. Conditions have not been met to heal our land.

Although this is true, I will continue to pray and hope for a great deliverance to come. We must repent individually and reach our neighbor first. We have to return to God ourselves and let Him guide our steps.
Remember this one thing-
“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️

DO NO HARM!

1 Chronicles 16:22 (NKJV)
Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but sometimes their calamity is a result of the after effects of harmful actions towards God’s anointed ones. Actions that are not always physical, but can also be emotionally harmful words, even if they are based on facts about their past. God will not repeat what has been covered with the Blood of Jesus, only Satan will bring up a person’s past transgressions and failures.

Proverbs 17:9 (NKJV)
He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Micah 7:18 (NKJV)
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

I have been attacked both physically and emotionally while serving God and have seen God turn His wrath upon the persons who were involved.

Romans 12:19 (NKJV)
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

One particular event I was actually beaten by a brother in the church because I would not compromise my belief about allowing The Holy Spirit to be our judge here within the church. I was encouraged to have them convicted, but I could only hear what God was saying about not touching His anointed, and how He would repay. Instead, I chose to love them and place them in God’s hands. I had to stay out of the way and watch God allow brokenness and loss to come over them. Their health and finances suffered, jobs were lost and pain became a part of the normal everyday.

But God is not so far away that we can not be saved. I have always asked this question, “if you were a million steps away from God, how many steps will you have to take to get back to God?” The answer is “just one!” I believe God will instantly make up the difference to receive us back and when repentance came to my brother, I was able to receive him and his family back into the covering of church that is under the covering of Christ.

Romans 10:13 (NKJV)
For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

Repent and call on the Name of the Lord while it is still today.

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️

Do Not Judge

DO NOT JUDGE!

My favorite story to tell from the teachings of Jesus is when He speaks about the parable of the sower. Jesus only judges the man first by declaring him to be a sower who went out and sowed seed. Never again does Jesus refer to this man again but He begins to judge the seeds that were sown and where they fell and what happened to them. Not once did the sower even observe or describe where the seed had arrived. I believe the sower, like we should be, knew it was not his job to judge it’s outcome, but his only to sow. Jesus is the only righteous Judge and it all needs to be left to Him. Amen..

“But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written:
“As I live, says the LORD, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”
Romans 14:10-11 NKJV

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron ❤️

Faith and Marriage

Faith and Marriage I can say with certainty that God can heal any marriage, any relationship between a man and a woman who have their faith in Christ Jesus. God will honor your devotion to each other and help when the enemy comes in to destroy what He has already blessed. Satan will present every reason and opportunity to destroy the union that God has blessed even before the wedding and after also. “Two are better than one” (Ecclesiastes 4:9) “and a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (v.12). When we make a commitment to God within our relationship of marriage and Christ is the center, then the threefold cord is complete and unbreakable. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24 NKJV It is God’s plan for man to be married or He would not have made Eve to be his wife. He looked at Adam and saw that it wasn’t good for him to be alone. I have discovered that God wants man to have a wife and a woman to have a husband to help them in their work for Him. Trust God and He will give you the strength and power to fulfill your commitment to each other. There is now or ever will be anything that is impossible for God. Never give up, never say never and there is no quit in Him. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Ephesians 5:31 NKJV “You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

“An Heir of God”

“An Heir of God”

We are heirs— heirs of God and co- heirs with Christ. Romans 8:17

You aren’t merely a slave, servant, or saint of God. No, you are a child of God. You have legal right to the family business and fortune of heaven. The will has been executed. The courts have been satisfied. Your spiritual account has been funded. He “has blessed [you] with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ” (Eph. 1:3.)

You have everything you need to be everything God desires. Divine resources have been deposited in you.

Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things” (1 Chron. 29:11).

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

Overcome with Your Testimony

Job stated at the beginning of his trials that “the thing he had feared the most has come upon him.” (Job 3:25)

But you and I must not be overtaken with fear. We must rise up and speak with authority unto victory. We are overcomers by the word of our testimony and our faith.

Remember, God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. (2  Timothy 1:7) Which means to me that I’m not crazy for believing even when everyone else sees it as impossible.
All things are possible with God. But He said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." Luke 18:27 NKJV

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

The Battle is The Lord’s! part 2

Sometimes we as Christians find ourselves in a battle that is trying to steal away our dreams and desires. Satan is not entering the battle as a horned beast with a pitchfork and forked tongue and tail. He most often disguises himself as what you may call a friend or family member that presents themselves as Christians with your best interests as their only concern. Jesus told Satan that God’s Word is all that was needed to live for the Father and faith in Him will bring us to victory! Satan will not cast out Satan, because he is not going to divide what he already has possession of. (Matthew 12:26 (NKJV)”If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?)
Take notice of your battle and choose to follow what leads you into God’s Word and into His presence. Be filled with the Holy Ghost to have the knowledge of discernment among spirits. Jesus is the Captain of our VICTORY! Follow Him!!

Father God, help us to be victorious in the battle. Keep us safe from all harm and guide us into Your Word each day. In Jesus Name, Amen

Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.'”
Matthew 4:10 NKJV

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

Trust only in God

“Trust only in God!”
I was asked why or how can a person trust so heavily upon God providing all their needs. My only answer was sometimes when you step out in faith you are forced to accept that Jesus will be your supplier because you can not do anything yourself. I have taken a path that causes me to daily look towards and lean entirely upon receiving God’s favor and blessings. It is good to be in the House of The Lord and trust in Him. My hope and prayer for you today is that you will be able to look to Jesus also and find Him as your source of everything you need, whatever that may be today. God bless you.
“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, [will He] not much more [clothe] you, O you of little faith. Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day [is] its own trouble.
Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV

The Battle is The Lord’s

Our battles that we must endure are not going to be the same as the last battle. We have a new lesson to learn and a new opportunity for Christ to be exalted in our lives. We begin to win the battle when we understand that it is a Spiritual battle and not ever against the people that are around us. Sometimes it will seem as though you are being overwhelmed and wounded, but remember that Jesus is our Victor! He will bring us through this with Him.
I am reminded of a question:
How far can you go into a forest? The forest could be your trial, your struggle, your heartache, your pain, your past and so on. But the answer is and always will be, only halfway, because you are then on your way out! God is with us and we are in good hands.
“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he [is] Christ's, even so we [are] Christ's.”
2 Corinthians 10:3-7 NKJV

Waiting will bring beauty into your day!!

Today I look around me and I see so many projects that I should have probably completed. But today, I will choose to wait upon God to help me. My strength is lacking and I know that God is my strength. I trust Him to provide all of the things I need and I have seen Him give me more than I asked for and many things I didn’t know I had need of. God is so good to me and I know He wants to bless you and me, so again I know that sometimes we have to wait.

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Psalm 46:10 NKJV

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The Lord is my Shepherd

“The Lord is my Shepherd”

I have not always followed Christ in my life, but that is another story about a man who doesn’t exist anymore. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17). I know that I have been made new because of Jesus and He wants to make all things new in your life. This happens when we confess Him as Savior and repent from sin. (Romans 10:9-10) 

This leads me back to my original statement that Jesus is my Shepherd. I have come to know that He does lead and speak to me and all His children. When He speaks, I am not confused about His voice. I have heard Him very much over the last few years in an encouraging voice that has helped me move forward with His plan. Believe me when I say that God is speaking “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me”(John 10:27). Certainly there is enough evidence that God is working in our lives because people’s lives are being affected by the direction that God has placed us. I hear Him and I will obey Him. I only hope that you will hear Him and we can follow His will together. God has promised me that I would not have to go forward alone and He has never lead me wrong. I hope that you will have the same faith that enables you to follow Jesus and hear His voice today. 

Just so you know, I will serve Him with or without you. “And the people said to Joshua, “The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!"(Joshua 24:24)

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron 

If you need a miracle please tell us so we can pray and believe with you.- You are Loved Ministry

I'm lost for words!

When I try to express what I feel and articulate how I'm doing, I come up just short of brilliance. I've had a great education, read lots of books, taught many classes, prayed many prayers and preached thousands of sermons, but my vocabulary does not have enough words to describe how much I love you Stephanie.

I miss my wife, of nearly 38 years, Stephanie who passed away in February this year. I would like to say to her I'm sorry if she ever doubted that I loved her because I've learned how much I love her now that she's gone. Every night I would say to her "sweet dreams" and she would touch me and say "only of you." It's the hardest part of every day going to sleep and dreaming of her and then not wanting to wake up because she is gone all over again.

God's Promise:

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart."

Jeremiah 29:11-13 NKJV 

"You are Loved!"-Pastor Ron Davis 

God can not Bless you past your last act of disobedience!

Job 42:7-10 (New King James Version)
7 And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has. 8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD commanded them; for the LORD had accepted Job. 10 And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

I start this day with these words about Job and his friends to speak about something that is very dear to me, God's Blessings. Most of the time we decide that God has chosen not to bless us because we are not good or because he possibly just does not care or He just does not know who I am. I believe that this kind of doubt coupled with a lack of understanding of God's word leads us to believe that God will just Bless someone else and not me.
We get angry at God and begin to make an argument that maybe God does not exist. We ask God to help us and nothing happens, which leads us into further doubt and disbelief. We determine within ourselves there is no God. We begin to believe our own Eliphaz's, and Bildad's and Zophar's and reason amongst our friends that there is no hope and we should just give up.
So enough about the problem, let's take a look at the solution. I first want to tell you that the problem is us. We are the ones who live in disobedience and denial. I have stated and believe that "God can not Bless you past your last act of Disobedience." that's right can not. We sometimes confuse this as will not instead of can not. it is totally God' will to bless you, but he can not if we continue to live in disobedience.
Everyone likes to look at Job and see that God considered him a good servant, a just and upright citizen. We believe that these qualities will bring God's blessings and nothing else matters. But, it was not his life that brought the blessing in the end it was ONE act of obedience (v.10) when he prayed that God restored or multiplied or however you would like to consider the increase, He was Blessed because he obeyed.
Now if you have been living in disobedience and God's blessings have been cut off from you, Repent from the disobedience and allow to God to direct your path and instruct you into a course of action that leads to obedience. You are probably right now beginning to see things that you can do. i say do them and stop withholding God's Blessings. Remember it is totally God's will to bless you, but He can not Bless you past your last act of disobedience.
May God Bless,
Pastor Ron

The "Sexperiment" and The Truth!

2 Timothy 4:2-4
New King James Version (NKJV)

2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

The other evening I was watching the local news when I saw a news story about a local church's pastor and his "sexperiment". I thought about the idea of this being used for saving marriages and families by the startling concept that was presented, but I soon began to hear the Word of God speak to my heart about how in the last days, we will seek out teachers who will design their ministries to please men and draw in men to hear their fresh new revelations and directions and inspirations from "God".

I do firmly believe (and I have preached) that God made the marriage bed to bring us closer to Him. The experience of "making love" with your wife or husband is as close as one can get to experiencing the intimacy that God wants for us to experience with Him. My point is that there is no experiment necessary for men and women to find romance in their marriages. The answer to a long and satisfying marriage bed is drawing in close to God and Loving Him with all you heart, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

There is nothing new under the sun. Trying to draw attention to yourself will not glorify God to the point that the lost come to your church to find God. The spectacle of lying in bed with your spouse on top of the church for 24 hours, is not founded in scripture or sound doctrine. This so called "sexperiment" will only cause people to want to see you in bed with your spouse.

So I ask, have we heeped unto ourselves teachers, having itching ears? Have we turned away from The Way, The Truth, and The Life, which is God's Word? I say pointedly, Yes we Have! But I am also saying that I have to preach!

I have to preach the truth! I have to preach Jesus! I have to tell you that only Christ can save you, only the Holy Spirit can draw you in.

I like what the scientist Galileo said "All Truths are easy to understand, once they are discovered. The point is to discover them".

I say discover the truth in God's Word. God does want us to have satisfaction in our marriages. God loves us more than we really know, but you can get a glimpse of His love in your spouses eyes. The Church does not need gimmicks and publicity stunts to reach the lost. The Church just needs to get back to preaching The Truth. Seek men of God who are not afraid to preach the Truth.

I just have to preach!

Loving Others

As a member of the human race, I am always amazed at how hard it is for people to Love each other, especially people who are of the same family. I have one of the most dysfunctional families I know. Some are estranged for reasons only they know, and won't share because they are just not speaking with each other. Some are speaking, but their speech is harsh and full of hate and cruelty. then there are the those who just choose to stand by and wait till the rest of the family self destructs.
I see all this and realize that this is also a pattern found even between countries around the world and neighborhoods everywhere. I do not pretend that I have the answer that will bring Love and Harmony back to all the families, neighbors, and the world's nations, but I do know that Love is the key.
1John Chapter 4 has much to say about this matter.
v. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is Love.

I hear these words in my spirit all day and find that it is really easy to express love to all who come my way. You may say Pastor, that is your job. I would say to you that maybe once upon a time, my expressed love was because of my vocation, but now I know my expressed love is because of who I have become, which is more than just my job. We can all be filled with His Love which can be perfected in us.

v. 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as He is, so are we in this world.

v.20 If someone says, "I love God" and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he he has not seen?

Strong words of truth that will set a man, a neighbor, a nation, and a world free. I will choose to start by loving you. I love my family, my friends, my church, my country and my God. Will you show someone that you may have never showed love to, who you are in Christ. The bible teaches us and I seek to remind all that is by the way that we love one another, is how all men will know that we are His disciples. The Bible tells us to greet each other with an Holy Kiss, here is mine to you 'X'!

God Bless,
Pastor Ron