Without Delay

“Be the Change” Sermon Series
Sermon: “Without Delay” -- Text: Acts 9:36-43
So much is life is about ‘timing’…Peter went without delay to Tabitha…when he got there, he prayed (without delay)…What are the truly urgent things that God calls us to?
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Many years ago the great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick told of a teenage girl stricken with polio.
As he visited with her, she told him about a conversation she'd had with one of her friends, who told her, "Affliction does so color life."
To which this courageous young girl agreed, but said that she would choose which color. (Quoted by Lee Griess, Taking The Risk Out Of Dying)
At her young age she had already discovered one of life's great secrets:
It's not what happens to you that matters as much as what happens in you and how you live it out.
WE have to have to choose to take the time and commitment to do that which God has called us no matter the circumstances we are in.
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Great things don’t happen without a sense of urgency –
--and all things that we do with God are great,

So, WITHOUT DELAY, may we take the time needed to make a difference through the life Christ has called us to live. Amen.