Begin inviting families & friends to be your guest at 10:30!
Dr. Lile & his wife will teach a purity class in Sunday School for 6th grade (with parents consent) through young adults at 9:30 AM in the Fellowship Hall.
Journey Baptist Church will host Dr. Lile at 2:30 PM for a special service for their church at Belmont.
Please be praying & inviting folks for this special day.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
1 John 2:27, “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”
It is marvelous that when we are regenerated, the Lord Jesus comes into our spirit in such a way that there is a union where He can be the Savior.
We are not the savior.
We do not save ourselves.
Jesus is the One saving us.
This is not just initial salvation, but constant salvation.
He wants to be the Savior in everything.
Because we are in union with Him, we can open to Him, we can turn to Him, we can draw from Him, we can say “Amen” to the inner registrations of His life in us.
It is by those inner registrations, called the anointing, that we can know Christ.
The original word used in the Scripture refers to the movement of the person of the Lord within our spirit.
The word “anointing” tells us the nature of the way Christ is in us–how He is in us.
After you have received the Lord, it is simply a matter of discovering what is happening inside of you.
The anointing is not something external from us.
Knowing the anointing is not a matter of trying to understand with your mind something that is apart from you.
First John 2:27 is a description of what is in me and what is in you.
It is not describing something new that we are going to receive, but what we have already received.
It is describing how Christ is living inside of us.
This verse says, “the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you.”
This means the anointing remains in you.
It does not leave you.
The anointing as the inner movement of Christ is always operating in our being.
It is the inner surveillance of the Lord Himself within us.
When we speak a word with impatience in our tone, immediately the anointing is surveying our inner being.
So the anointing is not merely a positive leading of the Lord.
It is an inner registration of what is compatible with the divine nature.
What we feel or sense is that something is not compatible with the life within us.
Of course, we are not condemned, though these kinds of registrations could be a factor to spiral a person downward.
When your nature rises up in some form or another, if you identify with that and live expecting those risings to change, or think that something better should come out of you, then you are on the road to condemnation.
But thank God, when there is a registration within us, that is the anointing that abides in us.
So whenever we say something that is incompatible with the anointing, there is a registration.
There is a leakage of life and peace.
You can sense it.
That leakage of life and peace is God’s way of saying “no” to what we just said or did.
It is a registration that says, “That is not My nature.”
Obeying the registrations of the anointing is the practical way for us to abide in Christ..
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Amy Garner’s Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
David Jarrard
Dr. Don Davis – Home
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Joe Johnson’s Parents
Linda Hodges’ Sister
John McClain
Linda Lanier
Mary Williams
Melisa Smith’s G’father
Tom Witcher
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
Bentley Smith
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kenny & Nora Allison
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. 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
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad