New Melody Church

SLEEP We have slept, our minds at peace. Resting in the arms of the Lord unafraid. Now commeth days of worry and fretting when few can sleep without troubled minds. Where did we go wrong? Was it gradual and could not be discerned or were we just too satisfied in the staleness of our religion that we did not perceive the coming darkness? Sleep in the appropriate hour is needful and is for the body. Alert wakefulness of the soul in prayer and supplication is mandatory. We have been told to work and to pray. There is a time for slumber and refreshment, but our work is not finished until God calls us to our promise of rest. Psalms 4:8 “ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.” Most everyone finds the writings in Psalms and Proverbs pleasant and informative reading. Therein we can receive long standing truths; the good and the not so pleasing. Psalms 13:3 “ C onsider and hear me, O LORD my God: ligh

WHAT? What is it that compels those who profess to know God as Lord and Savior to wander away from His truths and to sin? Do those people not know that God is aware of every move that they make. How great would be the destruction of them if God elected to t u rn His wrath toward them. Consider Lot at the hands of Satan by Gods permission and know that the wrath of God in His power far exceeds anything Satan ever dreamed. Know what God can do before you move to violate the least of his commandments. Know that God is a jealous God and He never sleeps nor does He move far from us. Consider what He would have us so and do it! Ezekiel Chapter 3: 16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,... 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require

REVIVED Psalms 85: 3-9 3 “T hou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. 4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. 5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation. 8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.” Somehow our people, who are called by the name of God, have become confused. Like those who have no hope, fear of the unknown has overtaken us. COVID-19 is a force to be reckoned with, but, in a positive way. Know this; we fight not against flesh and blood but against spirits of darkness, powers far beyond our understanding and against the

ENCOURAGEMENT Individual sorrow and tribulation may not be fully understood by onlookers. Job’s friends totally missed the point to his suffering. They could not know. They designed their own interpretation and blasphemed against Job; no help at all. In days of crisis as we are experienc ing with COVID-19 and as witnessed in the 9-11 Twin Towers attack and many other catastrophic happenings, some suffer more than others. There is an increased atmosphere of the stronger uplifting of the weaker. A nd, the weakest becoming national figures and receive national attention. The individual caught on cameras, suffering, may be tough and boasting. But, in bed at night the horrors of death cascades before eyes that will not close to sleep. They know not the promises of Go d or have weak belief in those promises. Jesus said to be strong of heart and fear not the things of this world. The devil would have you not do so. James 4: 7 “ S ubmit yourselves therefo