Well I'm quite the speaker if you haven't heard and if you haven't then ask the Speaker of the House of Alabama Seth Hammet, Jay Gouge (AUBURN PRESIDENT), Alabama Senators, Alabama House Members and anyone in SGA at Auburn University. Why am I stroking my ego, you ask. It's because I haven't had a speaking engagement in a long time and I love to speak. I'm pretty scared about not being able to use this talent, because I think the Lord has called me to do this and politics can be scary. Plus I want to do this early in life, really early and I have to get a start somehow, but that doesn't look good since I'm graduating in Decemeber. So while the time drifts slowly towards the stormy ocean of real life and graduation, I'm going speak about the only speech that truely matters in life, the word of GOD.
Isaiah 61
If your heart is broken now, If your heart mourns now, If your heart has been held captive by the sin you've fought all your life now, then turn to Isaiah 61 right now. For the lord has promised! He has promised comfort for the brokenhearted, and has proclaimed the captives held against their will to be FREE. And to those who mourn, his joy has came down from heaven to surround you only as loving father can. Too often we forget that the Lord is the same God who spoke from the burning bush, too often we forget this is the same lord who divinely split a sea to the very bottom for those who are his, to have a passage to freedom and way too often we forget this is the Lord who perfected himself into man to rip the vail that stood in the way of what he created many years ago. Somehow we still believe that our problems are way to big for this God. Many believe that the Lord simply don't perform the miracles he did not too long ago. I tend to disagree because a bunch of settlers lined along the atlantic cost declared independence in 1776 and defeated an empire on which the sun never set, thats nothing short of a miracle. In 1941 a crippled President rose to say that a medicore American work force could produce 50,000 planes,and the whole world laughed at such a preposterous claim. They eventually laughed in the shadows of the Air Force 100,000 planes as they blocked out the sun's light, on their way to defeat the axis of evil. Nothing short of a miracle. How about Pastor Steve Scoggins, traveling to Montgomery to visit a church member in the hosptial, where he fell dead of a heart attack. If it wasn't for Montgomery Hospital having a great cardiology department, Opelika would be lacking one the best pastors they have ever had and Mrs. Scoggins and her family would be lacking a unbelieveable father and a incrible husband. So though they may be hidden from our sight, the Lord's miracles still surrounds us, from the earth not being one mile closer to the sun and being to hot for us to continue, to the miracle of a precious child seeing its mother for the first time. We need to know whenever life is too much for us to handle, when sin has created distance between us and our god, and when life has given us no reason to live.....Remember Isaiah 61 and let your broken heart mention Emmanuel....for it means GOD IS WITH US! God Bless you and God Bless these great States of America.