CHRISTMAS CHOIR PRACTICE TONIGHT AT 7:45
EVERYONE WELCOME!!
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 result is 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 Jackson
WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Kailey Bateman
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Andrew Halevi & Daughter
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggins
David Burnette
David Harrison – Riverside
Deanna Fowler
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Donnie Butler’s Dad
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Easton Fielder
Ed Mays
Eric Ward
Erik Magnusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
Heather May
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Janie Roberts
Jillian Gray
JOANIE & JEANIE
Joanie/Jeanie Mom
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Kathy Mabe
Kim McClain’s Mother
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Marlon Cook
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Nancy Proudfit – Home
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
PAT CHUPP
Ricky Gipson
Ricky Stubbs
Rose Fuller – Rehab
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Susan & Alexis Tesone
Tom Witcher