Making a Differencewith Pastor Phil Erickson

Mar 1st, 2014 Thou Hast Lacked Nothing – The Saturday Morning Post

Today’s Passage – Deuteronomy 1 – 2 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click here to view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)

(Second Milers also read – 1 Corinthians 9 – 12; Proverbs 1; Psalms 1 – 5

Scripture Memorization for March – 1 Corinthians 6:9 – 20

Listen to this morning’s Scripture song – Joshua 1:8

Read the “0301 Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

“For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.” (Deuteronomy 2:7)

“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5)

Someone posted a picture on Facebook of an Exxon sign with gas priced at $1.84/gallon. Underneath the sign, in the billboard portion was something to the effect:”ONLY JOKING THIS WAS THE PRICE WHEN OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT.”

Last time I looked, gas at my local station was around $3.34/gallon. That’s the way it is with a Socialistic government as apposed to a Free government. Just as the devil wants to play god, the government wants to supply your every need.

Who are you relying on, God, or a government that works hard at taking God out of everything it can? As Christians, we can claim the promises that God has made, like Hebrews 13:5, “…I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

Now re-read what God told Israel in Deuteronomy 2:7…

“For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.” (Deuteronomy 2:7)

There is a great wilderness that we are now walking through which may not end for us until the Rapture, or the Lord calls us home. But the Lord is with us, and if we take a step back, and look at our lives so far, we can see that in reality we lack nothing. As long as our nation turns their back on God, God will turn His back on our nation. There is one thing that God says we can do to save our nation…

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (2Chronicles 7:14)

Our nation needs healing which the government has proven that it cannot supply. The only thing that can heal this nation is the power of the one who created it…

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

…the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let’s seek God to heal our nation, and turn it back into the Christian nation it once was.

Peace. (Revelation 22:20-21)