Pastor Odie Kennedy's Pearls

We are living in dangerous times.  When people are afraid to go to church because they might get shot down in worship, these are dangerous times.  Children are reported missing and we have wonder if they have been taken for sex trafficking.  People are looking for ways to fill the void of love, and drugs are being legalized and sanctioned as a remedy.  There is so much going on around us, but the believers have hope.  We have the answer to the problems of today.  We have a God that will bring us through.  All we have to do is keep on pressing.   In Luke 13:10-15, we find a woman that has suffered with an infirmity in her body for eighteen years.  She was bent over and unable to function normally.  She entered the  synagogue where Jesus was teaching, and he healed her.  The religious leaders were upset because Jesus healed on the sabbath day.  Can you imagine coming to church, but you can't receive healin...

Habakkuk 3:17-19 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet will I rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.  The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.  To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. No matter how hard things may get around us or what may be happening in our lives, we have a God that will get us through.  It may seem like at times that God is not answering our prayers, but we have to know that God has been good to us.  God is listening. I was raised that it was wrong to question to God, but I've come to find out that God wants relationship with us, and with that comes communication. It's hard to look at the cruelty of humanity and our political...