Autor: Marivana Virga | Publicado: 2016-04-07T18:06:00-03:00

Mais uma ideia para culto em Inglês:


 

  
  
The Lord is Good!



 

  
  
Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I adore you. Be exalted, oh, Lord of all nations.
  Thank you for being my Lord, thank you for sending Jesus. Jesus, thank you,
  for dying for me and leaving the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, you are here in
  this place and we love your presence. Please come and fill our hearts with
  your presence and let us learn the English language with your blessings. In
  the name of the Jesus we pray. Amen!



 

  
  
Sermon:

Good evening, church! Peace be with you.

Tonight we have the privilege to participate in a service in English.
  It is quite like the service you will take part in a foreign country, except
  that you do not have a charming translator like this one. 



Let us learn these worship words: Praise the Lord. So during the
  sermon you can say, “Praise the Lord” in English. Make yourself at home.



Let’s open our Bibles on 2 Chronicles 7:3 “The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;is&nbsp;good, and his mercy endures
  forever.”

 

  
  


In this chapter, the king Salomon was dedicating the temple to the
  Lord. The people of Israel was worshiping the Lord because His glory had come
  upon the temple. They could see it. They said, “He is good, and His mercy (some
  versions of the Bible will use the word loving kindness) endures forever”, which
  means it never ends. They were recognizing the never-ending love and mercy of
  the Lord. 



God loves me; He loves you and loves the world. I think we can repeat
  in English: “God loves me”. 



I need to believe that He loves me in any situation. It is hard to
  believe in someone’s love when you are in a difficult situation. When you are sad, heart-broken, see no
  future, depressed and even without a single penny in your pocket. When the
  life has not been good to us, God remains good to us. That is something we
  have to believe! Believe and believe. Why does He love us? Because He decided
  to do so.



In this verse, the Israelites believed because they saw the glory come
  upon the temple. Today, we believe because His glory come upon ourselves and
  we can be sure of His presence in our lives. We are the temple of God.



But, sometimes it seems that
  God is not there, He is not listening. Even Jesus, during his
  crucifixion, asked, “My God, my God,
  why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Jesus, the son of God, felt
  the same way. 



Then I can ask, 

“Where are
  you when it hurts? 

Where are
  you in my suffering?”

Jesus felt the same, too!



However, we can see that right after the suffering at the cross, Jesus
  was glorified and He rose from the dead and he is now seated at the right
  hand of God. He talks to God about you and me all the time.



1 Samuel 15:29 says, “He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie&nbsp;or change&nbsp;his mind; for he is not a human
  being, that he should change his mind.”



Samuel is telling King Saul that the Lord is the glory of Israel and
  that He is not a human being to lie or change His mind. It means we cannot
  limit God because He has no limits. He is God! And God is good! He is so good
  to me. Can you repeat that in English? God is so good to me.



Open your bibles on Psalms 73:1: “God is truly good to Israel, especially to everyone
  with a pure heart”.



We suffer because our
  hearts are not purified every day. However, there is one thing we should
  always remember: only the blood of Jesus will be able to truly purify our
  hearts. That explains why Jesus had to be hung on that cross and pour out all
  his blood in our favor. His precious blood, the price He paid for our
  salvation.

God is good! He knows
  what He is doing. Our job is to trust and believe in his love and mercy. Just
  like Jesus did. Jesus trusted and believed in the Father’s love and mercy,
  because He had a plan of salvation for all humankind and that included Jesus’
  death on the cross. 



God loves me. He has
  plans for me and He has dreams for me. My job is to trust and believe in Him.



I will suffer because
  suffering is part of this life. However, if I trust and believe that God
  loves me and that He is good, I will go through the suffering with peace in
  my heart. 



I would like to tell
  you a short story. A newborn Christian told his pastor that ever since he had
  accepted Jesus as his savior, there had had two ferocious dogs fighting
  inside of himself. One was good and the other was bad. They made him make
  good and bad things. The pastor asked him, “Who has been winning the fight?”.
  He didn’t know the answer. The pastor then replied, “The one you feed more”. &nbsp;



What
  have you been thinking about lately?

What
  have you been reading lately?

What
  have you been seeking lately?



If I think about
  heavenly subjects, read the Bible and seek for the Lord in prayer, I am
  feeding the good dog.



If I think of earthly
  things, text on Whatsapp and Facebook all day long and seek for trouble, I am
  feeding the bad dog.



God loves us. He wants
  us to be in the right path to heaven, where Jesus said He would prepare a
  room for us (John 14:2).



Tonight, God wants you
  to repent from your sins, accept Him as your savior, if you have not done
  that yet. He also wants you to return to him, if you have gone in a different
  direction. God is merciful. God loves me. God is so good to me.



 

  
  
Prayer:

Lord, you are good. Your love
  endures forever. I know I am a sinner, but you love me and have saved me
  through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Please forgive me. I want to love you, too. Please
  help me trust and believe that you are good all the time. Help me think of
  you, read your Holy Word. Jesus, I want you to be my best friend. Lord, I
  give you my heart. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.