“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the Lord of Armies, and I will accept no offering from your hands.” Mal 1:10 HSCB

The prophet Malachi, called for the people of God to return to Him! Today our nation is troubled and the only one that has the answer is God! I want to ask you as a church leader to join me in asking the people of God to return to God! To shut the doors of your prayer closet and ask God to intervene on our behalf.

Our focus as an Association of Churches in the months to come in our communication and our meetings will be to return to God and to pray! I encourage you to join me!

My dear friend, Hal Seed, founding Pastor of New Song Church in San Diego, CA posted the following on Facebook earlier today and I concur! Read on…..

“Bad news fatigue has been around since humans have been around. It will return again before Jesus returns.

This is why God directed Paul to tell us that, instead of focusing on the awful news of the day, we should think about …whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8
 
When God designed the human heart, He created it for life in a harmonious world. We have trouble finding our footing in a world of disunity, pain, and sorrow.

So I want to make a sincere suggestion to you today:
Turn off the news. Take a break from the sorrow. It will still be there tomorrow.

Unless you’re watching to find a peaceful place to protest, your dwelling on it won’t improve any of it. And I guarantee, if something good happens, you won’t miss it. Someone will fill you in.


You cannot focus on these types of good news if your brain is brimming over with bad news. Conversely, you cannot have the news blues if you fill your mind with true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy thoughts.

Listen, if you spend your day thinking positive thoughts, you’re likely to do some positive things. And if you do some positive things, the world will be a better place! And isn’t that what you were hoping to find by watching the news?

Instead of watching the news, let’s make the news today! Let’s let good thoughts generate some good deeds. That will make it a good day. Amen?”
Instead of dwelling on the pain, spend today thinking about eight, and only eight, types of things.

1. True things. Like the fact that God loves you, and has given you a great gift, called “life.”

2. Noble things. Like saying things respectfully to your elders, and finding words that compliment your children’s accomplishments.

3. Right things. Like doing the right thing, even when you feel like doing something you know would hurt someone else.

4. Pure things. Which means, examining your motives and doing things without a personal or hidden agenda.

5. Lovely things. As in, “things that promote brotherly love.”

6. Admirable things. The word here means, “Things that will cause others to say, ‘that was so well-said!’”

7 . Excellent things. Things that reflect virtue.

8. Praiseworthy things. Things people will praise.
You cannot focus on these types of good news if your brain is brimming over with bad news. Conversely, you cannot have the news blues if you fill your mind with true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy thoughts.

Listen, if you spend your day thinking positive thoughts, you’re likely to do some positive things. And if you do some positive things, the world will be a better place! And isn’t that what you were hoping to find by watching the news?

Instead of watching the news, let’s make the news today! Let’s let good thoughts generate some good deeds. That will make it a good day. Amen?”