Everytime

This is a sermon i wrote myself when i was 16 and preached on a teen night at my church!!
Don't think I did to bad but its gotta good meanin behind it!

Every time I kneel to pray, I open up my heart to the lord. Those are the open words to my favorite church song entitled Every time which is what I will be talking to you about tonight. Let my ask the audience a question: when you pray do you just go through the motions, or do you come to your father with an open heart and PRAY to God. I find myself 99% percent of the time just going through the motions and never actually talking to my maker until something happens to me or my family that I actually need help with. That time will usually be the only time I’m actually praying to God then I return to my usual routine. In James 5:13 and 14 it says . . . . . . . . . . .
No matter what the circumstances of your day are, you should always come to the lord with an open heart. Even if your day was perfect and nothing happened thank the lord for another day of life he has given you. Just remember this: Pray often and open, its life’s first aid kit.

Every time I close my eyes, I feel the sweet embrace of my lord. God created the universe, and is almighty. God expects us and wants us to fear him and to come to him when we have troubles. 2nd Samuel in chapter 22:3 tells us that . . . . . . . If we were to trust God more often than most of us do than our problems would ALWAYS be solved. With God in our lives we will always be protected, and never have to worry whats going to next because our savior will always be there for us.

Every time I see a child, I see the gentleness of my lord. It amazes me personally that a God so big so vast so powerful is able to give us the most adorable small innocent and beautiful creation of a baby. Our God is a very loving God and we can see that through this. God tells us in Colossians 3:12 that since he choose us to be his holy people that he loves, we must follow his example as tender hearted, merciful, kind, humility, gentle, and patient people. If we were to follow this example, show it to others in our everyday lives, and pass it on to following generations our world would truly change, and not only that we would be able to bring God back as the head power of this country.

Every time I watch a storm, I know the awesome power of my lord. I know that I serve a God that is almighty, and powerful. I know he created the universe, and can see, hear, and know everything all at once. This ties back to the last verse because we know that our God is the most gentle of anything in the universe, but also the most powerful at the same time. God wants us to know this, and fear him for it because that’s how he made us to be. Psalms 2:11 tells us to Serve the lord with reverent fear, and rejoice with trembling. The lord our God is our master, and we are his slaves that he loves, but he expects us to fear him and know that he is the most highest.

I don’t know why so many things seem to get in the way of seeing my God’s glory, but I try everyday to see and to thank him for all the things he’s given me. That was the chorus to this song. All that I want you take away from this part of the song is that no matter what obstacles or challenges may get in your walk with God, he is always ready to take you back as his child because he loves you, he is always ready to forgive you for anything and everything because he loves you, and he is always ready to re-light the fire in your heart and keep it from being extinguished by sin and Satan because no matter what God always always loves you.

The very last part of this amazing song says this. Every time I see the cross.
There is a very good reason to why nothing follows these words. That reason is because when you see the cross you should see Jesus dying for us when it should have been us, you should see him taking a punishment for us that he never ever deserved, but that we all did deserve and then some, you should see Jesus showing more love than any of us could ever dream of showing for anything, and lastly you should see our father giving us a free ticket to heaven when all of us know we deserve to go to hell. We can never repay what Jesus did for us, but the least we could do is devote our lives to him and live for his glory. God loves you no matter what. As(song leader)comes and leads us in this amazing song, I hope that all of you will open up your heart to our gentle, yet powerful God and know that he always has you safely embraced in his protective hand. Jesus loves us; now let’s show him the love back that we all know he deserves. If you wish to be apart of this amazing family, I hope you will make a decision now that will change your life and save your soul as (song leader) now leads us in Every time.