When I was growing up like clockwork every Sunday morning, we would head to the church at 9:30 AM to be there for Sunday school at 10:30. My mom would get us up at 7 AM. The five of us (three girls and two boys) would get up and have breakfast while my mom put our clothes on our beds for church. Like clockwork because my dad had to be on the road by 9:30 all of us would be in the station wagon, I can still hear my mom saying “the station wagon will be leaving without you” { Which never ever happen) you also never wanted to be the last person in the car that was holding us up because my dad we give you that’s stare. We grew up in southern Baptist Church called Oak Grove Baptist Church in Herndon Virginia. The pastor was Rev. Hennie Brown in our congregation was about 200 people in all of them family. I don’t mean church family, I mean actual family everybody seems to be a cousin, sister or brother of someone. My brother, sister and I were foster kids but everyone at Oak Grove Baptist Church treated us like we were family. And since my mom and dad helped build the church our roots were strong.
What I remember now is my dad testimony’s, my parents were strong believer in the power of prayer and one of my dad’s favorite hymns was “What a friend we have in Jesus “to this day that’s song sticks in my heart it has carried me through the good and the bad times. The first verse starts like this:
What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and griefs to bear what a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer, O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.
That song’s first verse has carried me through the loss of my daughter engage in three, the many times I struggled that marriage at work and in life in general has been my saving grace. Until I learned the true meaning of that verse, that all the burdens I was trying to carry were too much for me but never too much for my Lord and Savior Jesus who died on the cross for you and I, I was never going to find peace and comfort.
Matthew 11:28-30 NIV
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
The moment I truly believed in that verse and took to heart is the moment I truly found peace. None of us need to carry these heavy burden Jesus our Lord and Savior who died on the cross for us for all persons made perfectly clear that he alone can carry any burdens that we have, and in him we can find peace, comfort, & joy. Are you caring burdens that you should bring to the Lord in prayer. Then take this moment and read Matthew’s 11: 28-30 out loud and confess “Lord that I can carry these burdens alone, so I put them at your feet, and I truly ask you to be my Lord and Savior. Leave me to the path of salvation, please forgive me for all my sins in Jesus’ name I pray. Amen
I hope this message help someone shows them the way to salvation and remember all the burdens you caring are because you do not bring the Lord in prayer.
Where two or three are gathered together in my Name 