….Fellow goodbyes to brother Josh

How great it is to see God’s creation. To see his mighty works, and power of the holy spirit. I praise God for our brother Josh. Through him God has sent many life changing sermons, memories, experiences, and convictions. He’s been a real blessing to the youth  group at friendship baptist. To see his walk of faith grow over the time he has been with us is even more of a blessing. As josh says his leaving is ”bitter sweet” Bitter because he is leaving Friendship Baptist Church, leaving family, and friends. Yet sweet because he has been seeking God’s word and has laid it on his heart the new calling of seminary…..praise God. and what’s even more of an encouragment is that our brother josh has felt the tug of God and has accecpted it and answered back by obeying it. Just letting God lead and him being a follower, and its all done by FAITH….

as I think back on all of the memories we’ve had: the fun times, the sad times, the hardships and the times where it just seems where we just get together and just pray for what seems like for hours and just pooring it all out to God together. Im gunna miss all that. the fun times: where we would just get together for Gods sake and just worship, and read and just to have sweet fellowship that’s a christian’s fun time. The sad times: the disagreements that would bring us to tears yet closer together the dealing with death as we’ve had a few this past year. The hardships: where we would just get agverated with each other wile in the mean time leaning patients just as GOD IS LONG-SUFFERING. and how I cherish the times of prayer where it seemed to last forever. Just being able to see some of the things others struggles with or to hear glory being given to God, or just praying for each other in general for God to help us with the hardships and struggles weather it be worldly or Godly. That is a christians love  for GOD and for each other and no matter what we will be there together untill the end….together we stand for GOD by GRACE Boldly will we enter the kingdom of heaven.

So as we say our fellow goodbyes to our brother Josh keep him in our prayer that he may continue to seek the kingdom of God 1st. Seeking scripture and waiting until he maks his answer clear to him where he’ll be heading next. Praise God for you.

you’ve been more  of a blessing than I can begin to explain, praise and Glory be to God our father for you. Amen

G–God’s

R–Riches

A–At

C–Christ’s

E–Expenses

INTERDUCTION

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is our God Almighty. He spoke The world into existence. He performed many miracles: through faith he blessed the blind so that they my see, he blessed the lame that they may walk, and still to this day he preforms miracles by saving us worthless sinners that deserves his wrath. Not one of us deserves to be saved. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of GOD. you must be born again, born of the spirit. those who are in the flesh CANNOT please GOD (Rom. 8:8). We must have obedient faith, and GODLY sorrow over sin with leads to repentance, which we are commanded to do. “REPENT, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Matt. 3:2) he gives us an unmerited favor: HIS GRACE. His grace that was giving so undeservingly allows us to have where it says: ” if we confess our sins he is loving and just to for give our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1john 1:10), and to have the grace where it say” there’s no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom: 8:1), but that don’t give us the right to go on sinning. We are to walk in the light as Jesus did.

See God gives SOOO much: his GRACE, LOVE, MERCY, and greates of all: ETERNAL LIFE!!! AND IT’S ALLL FREE…., and it all started when God himself took human form, stepped off his thrown, and in humiliation stepped into this sinful world, to willingly be the propitiation of our sins. Through his blood shedding do we have forgiveness of sins and to be received by faith, and to know it was all done for his name sake so that when we have come to repentance, and true obedient faith we will give him all the glory only BECAUSE HE IS WORTHY OF IT.