SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:30 AM

WORSHIP SERVICE 10:30 AM

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Deuteronomy 8:2, “And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”

To know the self is part of knowing the Lord. 

If we do not know the self, we cannot adequately know the Lord. 

And when we adequately know the Lord, we know ourself–we know that we are untrustworthy and that there is nothing good in us. 

So experientially, the more we get to know the Lord, the more we know ourself in God’s light (Psa. 36:9).

The Lord humbled the children of Israel and tested them. 

Their being humbled came about through many testings and failures. 

It was not that the Lord needed to learn more about them, or get to know them; but they needed to get to know themselves. 

It was the same with Peter in the Gospels. 

Obviously, he was a person full of self-confidence, because he had so many opinions. 

So the Lord allowed him to fail the most.

We may express our opinion, living it out toward our husband or wife, or toward the brothers and sisters. 

We are so strong. 

We feel that we are so right. 

We are convinced that the other person is wrong and we are right. 

But then in some area of our personal life, we sin. 

We live in the flesh. 

We fail. 

But we may not connect our opinion with our failure. 

Yet this failure is intended to cause us to open ourself to the Lord and to tell Him, “Lord, I do not know anything. I cannot do anything. I just open to you, Lord, to cast down not only the sin, but all of my opinion.” 

Through dealing with failures in this way, we are brought more and more to the place of having no confidence in ourself but in the Lord Himself.

Until Tomorrow 

With a Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Bill Lawhead – Hospice

Brandon’s Dad

Darlene Thaxton 

Richard Blount 

The Bankston Family 

The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends

Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad  

Ashley Burn’s Sisters

Barbara Shed’s Family 

Bill Moody 

Carol Lawhead’s Brother 

Charles Rambles

Charlie Sessom – Waiting  

Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons 

Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom 

Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother

Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace

Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister  

Larry Barker  

Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah  

Mary Sims  

Marynell Ford 

Michael Stanley 

Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom  

Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 

Ricky Stubbs  

Rod Gustafson – Cancer

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sheila Simmons Cousin  

Tom Witcher