Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 1 Chronicles 19. Our
Fire-starter thought is: Help Wanted!!!!
Attention!!!! Please remember the Fire-starter will be coming out a
little later than normal this week!!! Thank you

I don’t know how it is all over the states I can just say how it is in
North Carolina there are help wanted signs everywhere, yet no one is
taking the opportunity to help.

This morning in our text joab and Abishai are  fighting against the
Syrians and also the Children of Ammon. Verse 12 states that if either
one of them needed help they would come and help each other out.

This is a reminder to me if it’s not to you that there are some things
that I can’t handle by myself and sometimes I have a help wanted sign
written on my heart that others can see yet sometimes they are like the
people in North Carolina that see the help wanted signs yet just pass
right on by.

In Luke ten Jesus tells a story about  a man that was beaten and left
half dead and there happened to come by a priest, a levite, both seeing
the hep wanted sign if you will, and both pass by on the other side.
Then there was this Samaritan that saw the help wanted sign and did
something about it.

Everyone needs help this morning, there are burdens that we can help
bear, there are battles we can help fight, there are victories we can
help win, there are songs we can help sing, there is a message we can
help get out.
He didn’t say, if you are doing good ask for help but if they be too
strong for you…. alot of us need to understand that there are some
things to strong for us. If you asked me to move a refrigerator I would
need some help but if you asked me to move a nightstand I can take care
of it by myself.

Do you have a help wanted sign showing this morning?

Are you in a battle that’s too strong for you? Let someone help you this
morning!!!!!
Hope you have a great day

1 Chronicles 19:1-19 KJV
Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. [2] And David said, I will
shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed
kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his
father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of
Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. [3] But the princes of the children of
Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father,
that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto
thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? [4]
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off
their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
[5] Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And
he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king
said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. [6]
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious
to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of
silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of
Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. [7] So they hired thirty and two
thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and
pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves
together from their cities, and came to battle. [8] And when David heard
of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. [9] And the
children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate
of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the
field. [10] Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before
and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in
array against the Syrians. [11] And the rest of the people he delivered
unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array
against the children of Ammon. [12] And he said, If the Syrians be too
strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be
too strong for thee, then I will help thee. [13] Be of good courage, and
let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of
our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight. [14] So
Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto
the battle; and they fled before him. [15] And when the children of
Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai
his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
[16] And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before
Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were
beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went
before them. [17] And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and
passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array
against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the
Syrians, they fought with him. [18] But the Syrians fled before Israel;
and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in
chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of
the host. [19] And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put
to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his
servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.