Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
The mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
The Lord is not speaking to us with a loudspeaker out of the heavens.
Rather, He manifests His voice to us by the feeling or registration of His life.
The Lord feels a certain way within us, producing either the sense of “life and peace,” which tells us that we are compatible with His life, or a sense of “death,” which tells us that something in our talking, our attitude, or our behavior does not match the nature of His life.
In our experience, the mind of the flesh is the consciousness of death, and the mind of the Spirit is the consciousness of life and peace.
Of course, the more we drink of the Lord as the Spirit dayby day, the richer and deeper will be our fellowship with Him, and the richer and deeper will be our sensitivity to the consciousness of His life.
This means we will be His sheep that are compatible with His life-voice (John 10:27).
Being compatible with the Lord’s voice and life simply means being agreeable with Him on His terms.
It means always being harmonious with His registrations of life and peace within us in our daily life.
It is by living compatibly with Him that we grow in life, spontaneously being changed and transformed into His image.
So not only do we enjoy Him in a general way, but as we enjoy Him, we grow rich in the consciousness of that life.
We learn to specifically recognize His inner approval or disapproval in our walk.
In other words, we seek to make that life happy and satisfied all day long.
Whenever that life is not happy and satisfied, we quickly care for it to make it happy again.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Bill Lawhead’s Memorial Service is March 26 @ 11 AM
Charles Ward – Home
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Marli Page – Mission Trip
Randy Bond’s Son In Law
Russell Paschal – Critical Condition
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother
Terrell Loyd
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Kenny & Nora Allison
Pastor Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tom Witcher