Sunday’s service highlighted the transformative power of worship, emphasizing the need to maintain sincere worship regardless of past hindrances. Worship isn’t just a routine but a lifeline that nourishes our spirits and connects us with God. Personal testimonies illustrated how worship can bring healing, strength, and divine provision. The sermon encouraged a deepening commitment to worship, urging everyone to engage fully in a lifestyle of worship that honors God in every aspect of life. The congregation was invited to participate in heartfelt worship, recognizing that true worship draws us closer to God and transforms our lives, offering peace, strength, and resilience. The service concluded with a call to embrace worship wholeheartedly, letting it be a continuous offering of praise, honor, and gratitude to God, who is worthy of all glory and honor.
In the journey of living a life of true worship, we are called to transcend mere rituals and integrate worship into every aspect of our lives, transforming us from within. As we celebrate milestones like Ephraim’s graduation, the challenge is to embody true worship beyond church walls or Sunday songs, reflecting God’s love and truth in our daily actions, relationships, and aspirations. True worship requires intentional and consistent engagement of our hearts, minds, and spirits, exemplified by figures like Daniel and Abraham, who showed steadfast faith and obedience through their worship. It’s about sacrificially offering our praise, even when it requires sacrifice, and embracing the power of corporate worship, not neglecting to gather as believers to encourage one another. Ultimately, our worship should serve as a powerful witness to the world, inspiring others and glorifying God in all that we do, reflecting His greatness and serving Him with joy and gratitude in every aspect of our lives.
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.”
The fact that you do not need anyone to teach you indicates that there is an inward tutor, an inward Person, who is teaching you.
The anointing is teaching us concerning all things.
When we are oriented to the anointing and we touch the Lord by praying and calling on Him and get to God, there is a kind of surveillance going on in our being.
Things get sorted out. You get divided: “That is my mind. That is my flesh. That is coming from my self.”
There is a dividing of soul and spirit.
Then you can side with the Lord and stand with Him, even over against your self.
You can be most objective about your self.
You can so easily look at your wife and say, “Dear, I’m a wretch. I don’t know how you could be married to me. I don’t know how you could live for so many years with such a nature as mine.”
You can talk this way with inner glee because you are not one with that old nature.
You are one with Christ, and you are a partaker of Him.
Consider what would happen on this earth if all of us as believers would live by the anointing.
This does not mean that we would be perfect, in the sense of what we think perfection is.
Perfection in the divine realm is our getting to God.
It means that we touch His life in the midst of all our imperfection.
That is what perfection is.
It is living by the anointing and simply getting to God in the midst of what we pass through, even with our imperfections.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
TUESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Tom Graham (Sandra’s Husband)
John McClain’s Mother
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Andrew Halevi & Daughter
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
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
Drew
Easton Fielder
Ed Mays
Eric Magnusson’s Mother
Eric Ward
Faith Burnette
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Joanie/Jeanie Mom
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
June Cronan’s Sister
Junior Stephens
Kailey Bateman
Kim McClain’s Mother
Krista Hilscher
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Miles Bradshaw
Nora Allison
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Gipson
Rose Fuller – Pruitt-Monroe Nursing Home, Forsyth GA
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Susan & Alexis Tesone
Susan Mosley
Tom Witcher