Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

The mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

The Lord is not speaking to us with a loudspeaker out of the heavens. 

Rather, He manifests His voice to us by the feeling or registration of His life. 

The Lord feels a certain way within us, producing either the sense of “life and peace,” which tells us that we are compatible with His life, or a sense of “death,” which tells us that something in our talking, our attitude, or our behavior does not match the nature of His life. 

In our experience, the mind of the flesh is the consciousness of death, and the mind of the Spirit is the consciousness of life and peace. 

Of course, the more we drink of the Lord as the Spirit dayby day, the richer and deeper will be our fellowship with Him, and the richer and deeper will be our sensitivity to the consciousness of His life. 

This means we will be His sheep that are compatible with His life-voice (John 10:27).

Being compatible with the Lord’s voice and life simply means being agreeable with Him on His terms. 

It means always being harmonious with His registrations of life and peace within us in our daily life. 

It is by living compatibly with Him that we grow in life, spontaneously being changed and transformed into His image. 

So not only do we enjoy Him in a general way, but as we enjoy Him, we grow rich in the consciousness of that life. 

We learn to specifically recognize His inner approval or disapproval in our walk. 

In other words, we seek to make that life happy and satisfied all day long. 

Whenever that life is not happy and satisfied, we quickly care for it to make it happy again. 

Until Tomorrow

With a Shepherd’s Love 

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Bill Lawhead’s Memorial Service is March 26 @ 11 AM

Charles Ward – Home

James Garner’s Friend

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Lonzo Christian 

Marli Page – Mission Trip

Randy Bond’s Son In Law

Russell Paschal – Critical Condition

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother

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