Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
3/23/2021
Pastor Dale Cancel Update – Casting All Your Cares Upon Him
Pastor Dale Brooks, started radiation last Tuesday, and it will continue every day – Monday-Friday @ 2:45 pm, the last one is April 8th. Then they’ll take another scan to see how it has affected the Mantle Cell behind his knee.
(We are believing in his healing and that will be the end of it!)
He also has chemo the first week of April for the Non-Hodgkins, after the radiation is finished the chemo will continue every other month for two years. The pastor is very tired after the radiation treatments but is walking in faith and his spirits are high. Pastor Dale and Kaye are so appreciative of your prayers and continued commitment it seeing Pastor healed. It is humbling to see someone walk through a crucible with such courage and stamina.
I would say to each of you today. Whatever your crucible is, no matter how long it has been nagging at you or how daunting the prognosis…Take everything you’re going through and throw it on the fire. Take your trials and worries and fears and pour hope all over them. Pour God’s promises all over it. Turn that mountain into a spewing volcano of Holy Ghost Fire and redemption. Burn up that fear and doubt with the fire of his word. God’s promises cannot change even though we do. Even though we fall down, get tired, or quit sometimes.
1 Peter 5:7 Cast Your Cares on Him …6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you. 7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” You don’t have to let that be you. Be encouraged by Pastor Dale and don’t carry what isn’t yours! Instead, humble yourself, ..Why? so He can exalt you! Cast ALL your cares at the foot of the cross.
“Our Lord’s love is absolutely unrelenting. Nothing can hinder or diminish his loving pursuit of both sinners and saints. David, the psalmist, expressed it this way: “Thou hast beset me behind and before… Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there” (Psalm 139:5,7-8).”
David Wilkerson said it well. David is speaking of the great highs and lows we face in life. He’s saying, “There are times when I’m so blessed, I feel lifted with joy. At other times, I feel like I’m in a living hell, condemned and unworthy. But no matter where I am, Lord – no matter how blessed I feel, or how low my condition is – you’re there. I can’t get away from your unrelenting love. And I can’t chase it away. You never accept my arguments about how unworthy I am. Even when I’m disobedient – sinning against your truth, taking your grace for granted – you never stop loving me. Your love for me is relentless!”
Beloved, any believer can become as much like Jesus as he or she desires.
If you can just say, “I believe God truly loves me,” you’re confessing that he has offered you the power to be changed.
Scripture says we all have been given a measure of faith. Therefore, we all have the capacity to believe the Lord for this infusion of his nature.
Make this your prayer today: “Holy Spirit, I know I don’t have much of the grace Paul is talking about. Show me where I need to change. I believe my Father loves me unrelentingly. And that love has made provision for me to take on his nature. I know I’ve been given the power to be changed by you.
Give me your nature, Jesus.”
Will you not stop and pray with us and your family for one hour this week?
He listens!
There’s Nothing That Our God Can’t Do – Passion Lyric Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI8ji2EjGE4
