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TOMORROW AT 8:00 AM
CHRISTIAN DOCUMENTARY
SHOW ME THE FATHER
FROM PRODUCER OF FIREPROOF & WAR ROOM
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR GLENDA BATEMAN
SUNDAY, 2:00 PM
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
1 John 2:26-27, “These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce (deceive) 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.
In verse 26 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
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Ashton Bateman & Family
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Charlie Sessom – Much Prayer Needed
Brandon’s Dad
Dan Haines
Dr. Don Davis
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hick’ Mom
Jim Mabe – Surgery Today
Joan Cronan’s Sister
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
John McClain
Ronnie Palmer
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Tom Witcher
Ann Sullivan – Paula’s Friend
Bentley Smith
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Bill Moody
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
Kenny & Nora Allison
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad