Bless the Lord O My Soul

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We had to cancel church today for Olive Tree Church. I am not well and there is not a lot I can do. Other are sick too. Church building is very frustrating while you are still small. However, I am learning to be creative. Even a setback becomes a blessing if you look for what you can make of it. I plan on a bigger service and some events in December. The local shop says I can get some carol singing going outside so I am stocking up on mince pies. I plan to invite people to a get together with a service first. Today I will write a devotional for the Olive Tree blog and do another YouTube sermon. I want to do something for the fearful. A friend has a non Christian wife who suffers from fear and one of my own family lives in a state of perpetual anxiety and fear. Part of the vision is to reach people who cannot get to church. I would also prefer the room filled with people who do not believe rather than getting people from other churches. That is why things take so long. I really need to find a musician and work out legal stuff for music so I can do a whole servicE online. For now links to YouTube will have to do. I thought I would share my favourite chorus with you. Somehow whenever I preach this theme comes in. We all have a message for the world that is particularly what God gave us today and I learned in a very dark place to praise God for even my troubles. I was suicidal. I asked God what to do. He said "Praise Me." I did. Things changed. I used to go and pray looking at a cross at a church in town. Several years later I preached my first sermon. It was in the same church building standing under that same large cross above the pulpit. My friends are amazed. I changed from someone who was completely broken into person who was healed of all sorts of things including the chronic depression I was suffering from in the year 2000. I had many reasons to be depressed. Thanking God for each one was the hardest thing I ever did. I hope you will enjoy the song even if you do not share my faith. It expresses a lot about how God changed my life.