NEXT SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
WILL BE BAPTISM & LORD’S SUPPER SUNDAY!
DR. DON DAVIS WILL SPEAK!
PLEASE BE IN PRAYER & PREPARATION
FOR THIS SPECIAL DAY!
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Ephesians 3:17-18, “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;”
When we have a genuine experience of Christ making home in our heart, we will discover that there is a disposition to live a church life.
We are strengthened into our inner man, and the results that we are “full of strength to apprehend with all the saints . . .”
We receive an infused disposition.
This disposition is wrought into us to live out a practical church life in which there is the need to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. 3:20-4:3).
To meet together with all different kinds of believers at different stages of growth in the Lord goes beyond the capacity of our natural disposition.
It requires a supernatural disposition.
By this infused disposition we can be built up together in the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ.
If we really see by revelation the kind of church that is revealed in the book of Ephesians, we will realize that our natural disposition could never make it.
We need divine enablement.
It is only by Christ making home in our heart that we could be rooted and grounded in love to the extent that we have supernatural ability to apprehend the vast dimensions of Christ’s love in the church.
For the Lord to gain the church as His Bride, there is the need of an infusion of the divine disposition into our disposition (Eph. 5).
To live the church life together requires the divine nature and disposition.
No one is naturally born “cut out” for the church life.
The church life demands Another life.
This is why the Lord told Nicodemus in John 3 that in order to see the kingdom of God, as well as to enter it, it is necessary to be born again.
Seeing and entering the kingdom is virtually the same as seeing and entering the church life (Rom. 14:17).
The church life is altogether a matter of Another life coming into us through regeneration, and then of our being constantly infused with the disposition that is in that life.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
Dr. Don Davis – Home
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hicks
Jim Mabe
Joan Cronan’s Sister
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
John McClain
Ronnie Palmer
Linda Lanier
Melisa Smith’s G’Father
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
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
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad