Sunday at School 9:30 Am

Worship Service at 10:30 Am

Mission’s Month Begins Next Sunday, February 6, with Brian Busby from Calvary Children’s Home.

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Luke 5:15-16, “But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.  And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.”

A marked feature of how the Lord spent time with the Father was that He practiced withdrawing into the wilderness to pray. 

The Lord not only rose up early in the morning to be with the Father, but also on many occasions during the day and night He withdrew from the crowds privately to pray. 

Luke 5:16-17 says, “So He Himself often was withdrawing into the wilderness and was praying. . . . And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” 

The repetition of the Greek imperfect tense (continuous action in past time), translated as “was,” clearly shows that the Lord’s power to heal was in direct proportion to the time He was spending withdrawing to pray. 

A paraphrase might help to grasp the sense of this passage: “He Himself was continuously withdrawing in the wilderness and was continuously praying,                         . . . and as a result, the power of the Lord was continuously with Him to heal.”

The Lord’s practice of withdrawing reveals how much He was actually dependent upon continuous supply to meet His present needs. 

Even the Lord Jesus Himself needed fresh supply, fresh infusion, and fresh energy imparted into His humanity in order to live a life expressing God. 

The way He received these fresh supplies was by His practice of withdrawing to spend time with the Father in prayer. 

By this we can see that the Lord did not live trusting in His divinity to carry Him through His human existence. 

In His humanity, He needed to withdraw to spend time with the Father for His daily life. 

If He as the very Son of God depended upon this time, how much more do we need to practice withdrawing in order to be continuously supplied by the divine life!

Until Tomorrow 

With a Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Dr. Davis 

Jill Haines

John McClain

Katie Torbich

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Randy Bond’s Son in Law

Russell Paschal

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