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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Ephesians 3:17-18, “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;”

When we have a genuine experience of Christ making home in our heart, we will discover that there is a disposition to live a church life.

We are strengthened into our inner man, and the result is that we are “full of strength to apprehend with all the saints . . .”

We receive an infused disposition.

This disposition is wrought into us to live out a practical church life in which there is the need to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph. 3:20-4:3).

To meet together with all different kinds of believers at different stages of growth in the Lord goes beyond the capacity of our natural disposition.

It requires a supernatural disposition.

By this infused disposition we can be built up together in the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ.

If we really see by revelation the kind of church that is revealed in the book of Ephesians, we will realize that our natural disposition could never make it.

We need divine enablement.

It is only by Christ making home in our heart that we could be rooted and grounded in love to the extent that we have supernatural ability to apprehend the vast dimensions of Christ’s love in the church.

For the Lord to gain the church as His Bride, there is the need of an infusion of the divine disposition into our disposition (Eph. 5).

To live the church life together requires the divine nature and disposition.

No one is naturally born “cut out” for the church life.

The church life demands Another life.

This is why the Lord told Nicodemus in John 3 that in order to see the kingdom of God, as well as to enter it, it is necessary to be born again.

Seeing and entering the kingdom is virtually the same as seeing and entering the church life (Rom. 14:17).

The church life is altogether a matter of Another life coming into us through regeneration, and then of our being constantly infused with the disposition that is in that life.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS

Kailey Bateman

Amy Garner

Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad 

Andrew Halevi & Daughter

Ashely Burn’s Sisters 

Brandon’s Dad 

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

Easton Fielder 

Ed Mays

Eric Ward

Erik Magnusson

Freddie May’s Mom 

George & Linda Alexander 

Heather May

James Burnette 

James Garner’s Friend 

Janie Roberts 

Jillian Gray

JOANIE & JEANIE  

Joanie/Jeanie Mom

Jodi Bateman 

John Austin 

John McClain 

June Cronan

June Cronan’s Sister 

Kathy Mabe 

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Larry Barker 

Lee Cronan

Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah 

Linda Hodges’ Sister 

Lonzo Christin 

Lori Blount’s Mother

Marlon Cook

Mary Sims 

Marynell Ford 

Maureen Brown 

Michael Stanley 

Nancy Proudfit – Home

Pastor & Mrs. Driskell 

PAT CHUPP

Ricky Gipson   

Ricky Stubbs 

Rose Fuller –  Rehab

Roseleigh Osborn 

Sandra Graham    

Scott Lanier 

Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter                                                         

Susan & Alexis Tesone

Tom Witcher