Convention Gems

*God gave a message to the seven churches. He didn't speak about their natural, economic conditions, but their spiritual condition. We should pay attention to the message God will speak to us.

*Change of love is a change of life.

*Sometimes we just see the hardness of the experience because we are looking thru it with our human eye. Obstacles are seen if we keep our eyes on the goal.

*Pray harder when it is the hardest time to pray. When it's hard to pray, it's the time we need prayer the most.

*When Goliath was killed, the enemies went fleeing. Sometimes, the enemy is not that great at all. What is really causing the problem or our struggle is not so great after all. We need to focus on what is really
causing the problem and deal with it.

*We receive help from God according to the measure of willingness we have to what God teach us.

*A sculptor made a beautiful lamb carving out of a rock. The people were awed by the beauty of it. They asked the sculptor, 'what did you do, how did you do it?' He replied, 'I did not do anything. The lamb was inside the rock. I just chipped away what doesn't belong to the lamb!'

*How do you show your love for God? If I allow God to work in me, this proves that I love God.

*Message of hope to the Church in Sardis... 'Thou liveth and art dead. Strengthen things which remain, that are ready to die.' Jairus came to Jesus and said, 'My little child is at the point of death'. A centurion's
servant is sick and at the point of death. Only Jesus can heal them.

*Sometimes the spirit of a little child in us is at the point of death. Saul felt he was very small and God was able to use him. Then he grew in disobedience, he grew in dishonesty. He lost the spirit of a little child
and he lost everything.

*How do we know if the little child in us is healthy? If someone corrects us and we accept and change, the spirit of a little child in us is healthy. If we are offended, the spirit of a little child in us is at the point of death.

If they do us wrong and we want to take revenge, the spirit of a little child in us is at the point of death ... If we bear patiently, the spirit of a little child in us is healthy.