UPCOMING EVENTS

No service TONIGHT! Enjoy Family!

December 25th – Special Christmas Service With Communion 10:30 AM, No SS Or Children’s Church

December 28th – No Service

January 1, 2023 – One service at 10:30 AM, No SS Or Children’s Church                                                                                              

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.”

It is marvelous that when we are regenerated, the Lord Jesus comes into our spirit in such a way that there is a union where He can be the Savior.

We are not the savior.

We do not save ourselves.

Jesus is the One saving us.

This is not just initial salvation, but constant salvation.

He wants to be the Savior in everything.

Because we are in union with Him, we can open to Him, we can turn to Him, we can draw from Him, we can say “Amen” to the inner registrations of His life in us.

It is by those inner registrations, called the anointing, that we can know Christ.

The Greek word for anointing is chrisma, the verbal form of the noun Christos, which means Christ.

Chrisma refers to the movement of the person of the Lord within our spirit.

The word “anointing” tells us the nature of the way Christ is in us–how He is in us.

After you have received the Lord, it is simply a matter of discovering what is happening inside of you.

The anointing is not something external from us.

Knowing the anointing is not a matter of trying to understand with your mind something that is apart from you.

First John 2:27 is a description of what is in me and what is in you.

It is not describing something new that we are going to receive, but what we have already received.

It is describing how Christ is living inside of us.

This verse says, “the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you.”

This means the anointing remains in you.

It does not leave you.

The anointing as the inner movement of Christ is always operating in our being.

It is the inner surveillance of the Lord Himself within us.

When we speak a word with impatience in our tone, immediately the anointing is surveying our inner being.

So the anointing is not merely a positive leading of the Lord.

It is an inner registration of what is compatible with the divine nature.

What we feel or sense is that something is not compatible with the life within us.

Of course, we are not condemned, though these kinds of registrations could be a factor to spiral a person downward.

When your nature rises up in some form or another, if you identify with that and live expecting those risings to change, or think that something better should come out of you, then you are on the road to condemnation.

But thank God, when there is a registration within us, that is the anointing that abides in us.

So whenever we say something that is incompatible with the anointing, there is a registration.

There is a leakage of life and peace.

You can sense it.

That leakage of life and peace is God’s way of saying “no” to what we just said or did.

It is a registration that says, “That is not My nature.”

Obeying the registrations of the anointing is the practical way for us to abide in Christ.

Until Tomorrow,

With A Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Rebecca Lake in passing of her Mom

John McClain

Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad

Brandon’s Dad

Dan Haines  

Dan Wohey

Daniel Ford

Darlene Thaxton  

Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother

Dr. Don Davis

Easton Fielder

Ellen Boyd

Freddie May’s Mom & Friend

George/Linda Alexander

James Burnette

Jim Mabe

Joan Cronan’s Sister

Joel Bateman

Julie Howell’s Family in her death in car accident

Lily Holland

Linda Hodges’ Sister

Michael Stanley

Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother

Ronnie Palmer

Rose Fuller’s Nephew

Rusty Turner

Scott Nix

Terrell Loyd

Tom Witcher

Tony Breedlove

James Garner’s Friend 

Kim McClain’s Mother

Lonzo Christian             

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford

Pastor & Mrs. Driskell 

Ricky Stubbs  

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sandra Graham – Sheila Simmons’ Sister

Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad