Standing in the Gap...

Since Sunday is the busiest day of my week, my Sunday posts are going to be my thoughts on the sermon I heard in church.

Today is kind of difficult to choose which sermon to write about they were both extremely thought provoking. We had a missionary speak, on Sunday morning at our church; he and his family are going to Greenland. And our Youth Pastor spoke tonight, at our VBS Kick off, it was amazing.

But I think I'm going to write about the missionary's sermon, his message was on Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

His key points were:

God is looking for someone
• who is growing and learning
• from among them – not higher or lower than anyone else

God doesn’t need our help, but he wants us to help. Like we want our children to help us, not so much because we need their help, but because we want to teach them and communicate with them.

We need men to stand for truth and in service.
Service starts with one person standing up and saying “I’ll do it”. Service means surrender, and compassion. We need to have the right kind of compassion. Many people will weep over a hole in the sole of a child’s shoe, but do not cry over their lost souls.Others will send money to get drinking water to those in third world countries, but do not care enough to give to send someone to tell them about the Living Water. Though it is good to care about their physical needs we need to have the same concern for theire spiritual needs as well.

Truth does no good unless you know it and apply it to your life

• if they never hear it
• and if we don’t obey it
IT DOES NO GOOD!

Then he asked the question “Will God be able to find someone today?”


I was moved by the sermon, there has been a lot of growth in our church in the past few months and it is exciting to see people surrender their lives to the Lord, allow Him to lead them in His Will. My Prayer is that we will continue to see growth and draw closer to God over the coming months. I want to be someone that will stand in the gap and do whatever it is that God want’s me to do.