PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, THOUGHT OF THE DAY: COVID19- AND THOUGHTS
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From Pastor John Collins:
Content from radio broadcast May 24, 2020, posted with permission:
Pastor John Collins ~
“I think we’ve been saying over the past eight years that one day, God is going to get tired of getting slapped across the face by people. We are going to have a wake-up call for something to happen, because He wants us to turn back to God. We need to get rid of politics and get back to the Cross, first and foremost, but that is the problem.
“God didn’t do this. People going out into the public when they weren’t supposed to, not wearing masks when they were supposed to, not social distancing when they were supposed to, that was the problem. This could have been not as deadly as it was, in my opinion, if we would have done these things.”
“You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah” (Deuteronomy 6:16, NKJV).
“Jesus said to him, “it is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God’” (Matthew 4:7, NKJV).
“And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God’” (Luke 4:12, NKJV).
“I think there’s Scripture that says “do not tempt the LORD thy God.” Why would you go out and do things that would harm yourself or harm another person then blame it on an Almighty God? That’s what I don’t understand.
“I’m hoping that people use this time….you know a couple years ago we did a whole Sunday show on pastors in the pulpit and how their egos were dividing churches and people were leaving the churches, and in a lot of cases, God wasn’t even allowed into His own home, because He wouldn’t be affiliated with the doctrines that are being preached. I hope that people are using this time to get their knees dirty, to get their arms heavy from having to lift them to the sky, getting a crick in their neck from bowing their head and closing their eyes. I hope they are using this time to get closer to an all-powerful and just glorious God. I hope people are taking this lull that they have of not being able to go into a building that man built that when they go back in, and give it back to God. He has been merciful to an awful lot of people through this pandemic. There are prayer warriors. We are going to make, it sooner than later, we do make it. Let’s just be faithful.
“Here’s the thing, “where two or more are gathered, I am in the midst” (Matthew 18:20, NKJV, paraphrased). Don’t lose your faith because you can’t walk into that building. Go online and get your GOD on that way, get your Jesus on that way! God hasn’t let us down, and if we are down, He will pick us up, that’s what He does. We have to be faithful to Him. Now is a great time to get into your Bible, now is a great time to pray, more importantly, now is a great time to get a better relationship not only with your family, but…GOD!
“GOD is doing things to empower people to develop a relationship with Him again. And for the people who are church-burned, for the people that stopped believing, now is a great time to get to know Him again because He is a great, almighty, perfect GOD and they should never forget that.”
