Belmont Kids (AWANA),  
Youth Classes,
Wednesday Night In The Auditorium
With Pastor
At 6:30

Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, “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. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

When the Lord said, “to humble you and test you,” He meant “to measure you.” 

When He said, “to know what was in your heart,” He meant that in their hearts, the children of Israel would discover murmuring and rebellion manifesting itself. 

They would find themselves coming short of God’s standard. 

In other words, all their negative reactions to their environment were allowed by God to escort them to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

The fact that the Lord allowed them to hunger and then fed them with manna signifies that they were pushed beyond their capacity in order that they would be escorted to eat divine food. 

Not to “live by bread alone” meant not to live by the natural life, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. 

In the wilderness, God was seeking to escort them to Himself, to learn to live by Him as their source and supply.

In the same way, God humbles us through environments that we cannot cope with. 

It is at those junctures that we need to quickly recognize our escort! 

The feelings of not being able to cope are the escort. 

Our escorts leading us to Christ come in the form of frustration, desperate feelings, and failure. 

We need to recognize these escorts and allow them to guide us to live by manna, by Christ as our bread!

Until Tomorrow 

With a Shepherd’s Love

Pastor

TODAY’S PRAYER LIST

Dr. Davis 

Jill Haines

John & Kim McClain

Katie Torbich

Kim McClain’s Mother 

Randy Bond’s Son in Law

Russell Paschal

Terrell Loyd

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 

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 

Kenny & Nora Allison  

Pastor Driskell 

Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend 

Ricky Stubbs  

Rod Gustafson – Cancer

Roseleigh Osborn  

Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son 

Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend

Sheila Simmon’s Cousin  

Tom Witcher