Cooper/Blount Wedding Saturday 1:00pm

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

1 John 2:26-27, “These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.  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.”

Our normal living and normal state is to abide in this inner union.

We may not have any high, spiritual sensations.

We are just living normally.

But if you had to read us and describe us, you could put one word over our being from morning to night.

In the kitchen, at work, through the day, when we are tired, coming home–passing through everything–there is one word over us, and that is “peace.”

There is just peace.

I have peace with God.

I do not have any particular feeling.

There is just peace here.

This is normal.

But if we come home and find that the house is not in order and we critically say to our spouse, “What have you been doing all day?” right away we lose something of that peace.

Thank God that we lose our peace in order that we might learn to abide in Him.

“Just as it has taught you” means just as the movement, the registration, has taught you.

What did it teach you?

It did not teach you some Bible knowledge.

It taught you to abide in Him.

Stay in Him.

Remain in Him.

To remain in Christ is the normal state of our being.

It is only when we leave our abiding that we discover something is wrong.

The verses in the New Testament concerning the anointing are written in the context of some being led astray.

When John says, “These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you,” he is saying, “There are some around you who are trying to deceive you.

What they are saying may appeal to your thought life and may agree with some thoughts in your own mind.

But there is something in you that has a repulsion toward these things, and that is the anointing, which is teaching you.

What they are saying is leading you away from the normal, peaceful state of your being.

It is leading you away from abiding in Him.”

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

THURSDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS

PAT CHUPP – Major heart surgery on Friday

Lynn Garner

Robbie Edwards – Pacemaker

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 

Kailey Bateman

Kathy Mabe 

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Krista Hilscher – Improving

Larry Barker 

Lee Cronan – Success

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 

Richard Blount – Doing Well

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