Senior Citizen Meeting: Tuesday, 10:30 A.M.
Wednesday Summer Classes 6:30
The 4th of July celebration is Sunday from 5 until dark.
Invite your family and friends.
Bring your lounge chairs.
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Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Jeremiah 17:10, “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”
I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Who do we live to?
Our orientation in our fallen nature is to live to ourselves–to our own reasoning mind, to our feelings, to our reactions, to our own analysis of ourselves.
In the past the self has been our point of reference.
When the self is our point of reference, we really do not know ourselves as we should in God’s light.
In fact, according to the Scriptures, apart from Him we are prone to being deceived about ourselves.
The self cannot accurately know the self.
No one really knows himself without God’s light.
Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Who can know their own heart properly?
We may think we are fine, when we are totally off.
Or we may think we are off, when we are fine.
We are unable to know our hearts.
God says that our hearts are desperately wicked, whether or notwe agree with His diagnosis.
It is God who asks the question, “Who can know the heart?”
In Jeremiah 17:10 the Lord answers His own question.
It is the Lord who knows and searches our hearts.
He is even identified by a compound title in Greek–“the Heart-Knower” (Acts 1:24; 15:8).
Thus, to know ourselves we must first come to know God.
We may think we know ourselves by introspection, or by analyzing our own heart.
We may imagine that we know ourselves rightly.
But apart from being in fellowship with the Heart-Knower, we are prone to deception.
Until Tomorrow,
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Bill Lawhead – Bad Fall
Brandon Black
Brandon’s Dad & Grandmother – Home
Debra Roberts – Much Prayer Needed
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
Joe Johnson’s Mom – Broken Hip
Don Slate – Angela Bryan’s Dad – Hospice
Marynell Ford – Pray For Guidance For Next Move
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom –Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Donna Gourley
Doug Fritzel
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
James Garner’s G’Son
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Mary Williams Son – Mike – Accident
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s G’Daughter
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Lisa’s Cousin
Sharon Blalock
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher
Wanda Galanti