Quote of the Day

A heart for others and their actual needs should be what stirs us 'to the heart' - we are to look on others, not for how they can encourage us, but how we may encourage the. The potential of lives forever changed should drive us, fulfill us, as it did our Lord - many did not respond as this group (later in Jesus' ministry), but it did not change His 'fulfilling sustenance' (doing the will of God and not allowing predictable norms to dictate the possibilities we look for) Our focus is to be looking for God's working (readiness for harvest) realizing He may have been "working on" someone long before we met them. 

- Don Lambert 

excerpts from his studies on John 6

You may listen to the sermon here: http://dbc.sermon.net/main/main/21629112

Quote of the Day

What is it to wait on the Lord?

June 7, 2017

By: Rick Lambert

(When I was going through some of the most difficult trials I have ever experienced)

Is it a blessing or is it berating?

I'm talking about the trial of waiting;

That heavy weight of God's neglect that is ever-stating,

And the purposeless days that are so devastating.

The endurance it demands is perplexing,

And the energy it consumes is distressing.

The long days and lonely nights that keep me guessing

As I search and ponder what happened to God's blessing.

Each day, joy crumbles and is replaced with mourning,

And peace disappears into forlorning.

But such an event must become the loud warning

That my heart is being deceived into scorning.

Is waiting really as bad as I am thinking?

Perhaps it is a wonderful tool to stop me from shrinking

As it stares in silence at me without blinking.

Surely it cannot be present for my sinking.

Waiting actually seems painless in the scheme of its framing,

And maybe with God's good intentions are aiming.

However, it does hurt somewhere in my soul I keep exclaiming,

But one thing is for sure, it works toward my taming.

Why does it hurt; this great hour of testing,

That steals away my precious hours of resting?

Maybe it's my need for growth, God's Word keeps suggesting,

And the fruit of righteousness it is investing.

So, let's examine this unusual work in our seeking,

With hope that we'll see God's clear speaking.

For I'll see that it accomplishes a great work worth keeping,

And without this view, what will I do but continue weeping.

I can now see that waiting is the sound of patience preaching,

And clears away life's distractions so I can perceive God's teaching.

It can become the gracious renewal in the morn's beseeching,

And must be evening's consoling mercy that's far-reaching.

The Word tells me that waiting is good for those in God's making,

For it generously energizes me and protects me from breaking.

With precision and wilful intention I find it is a divine undertaking,

And accompanying it is grace to keep me from aching.

Waiting on God requires more than human coping,

For God's will and ways require great scoping,

Without this insight I am bound to keep moping,

But by looking deeper than how I feel, I can continue hoping.

To those who are waiting, God keeps you from fainting,

And with His finger, a beautiful vista is painting.

For this is His way with those whom he is sainting,

With the end result showing no signs of tainting.

Those who persist in their trust of him, he keeps us running

In order to show the glory of what we are becoming.

For waiting on God, we find he is not shunning,

But rather reveals wonderful blessings forthcoming.

With renewed strength we keep plotting,

And with the vigor of young eagles the prize we keep spotting.

For with life and growth comes trials and training for allotting.

Revealing a testament of God's faithfulness for our heart's jotting.

Is it a blessing or is it berating?

I'm talking about the trial of waiting;

It is a blessing God is creating,

Preparing us for eternity with him in our ultimate awaiting.