Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Colossians 2:20-21, “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,  Touch not; taste not; handle not;”

It is a privilege to experience the cross, because we are ushered into a divine procedure of experiencing both Christ’s feelings of weakness and His actual putting to death.

This experience is all Christ from beginning to end.

It is marvelous to see such a provision.

You never again want to be experientially outside the spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

The experience of the cross is altogether Christ as the Spirit, as it were, reenacting Himself again on the earth through us–the many sons who are being brought into glory.

The way we are being brought into glory is by being led by the Spirit to know the cross operating in our lives.

It is by this that we are the genuine sons of God.

There are some dangers related to this experience of the cross.

One of these is self-introspection, that is, looking at the self with the self.

Self-introspection is the self examining the practices of the body.

It is the self trying to figure out what needs to die in me.

It is the self analyzing my experience.

Here we must realize a divine principle: If you are not in the Spirit, do not analyze, do not introspect about what needs to be put to death in your natural life.

This kind of self-analysis only leads to something that is full of accusation and condemnation.

If we are accused and condemned over this matter of the cross, it is most likely that we are just in self-introspection.

We should not analyze the self by the self or with the self.

The only One qualified to touch the self in any way is the Spirit.

Do not dare to touch the self apart from the Spirit.

Until Tomorrow,

With A Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad

Brandon’s Dad

Dan Haines

Jill Haines

Darlene Thaxton – Breast Cancer 

Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother

Darlene Wiggins & Family

Jim Mabe – Cancer

Ashton Bateman & Family  

Dr. Don Davis

Freddie May’s Mom

George Alexander

Jane Hick’s Mom

Joan Cronan’s Sister

John McClain

Linda Hodges’ Sister

Michael Stanley

Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother

Ronnie Palmer

Scotty Nix – Bladder Cancer

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 

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