Richard, Tyler, Me, others on our prayer list are so grateful for your prayers during our hour of great need. If everyone had a prayer team like we have, this virus would flee in despair. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that your prayers don’t change things. We are living proof that your prayers work.
Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Matthew 19:26, “But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”
The highest revelation of the church is to see that the church is Christ (1 Cor. 12:12).
This is how the Father sees the church.
This is how the apostles saw the church, and this is how we should see the church.
The vision of the church as Christ is truly a heavenly vision.
This vision reduces us to Christ and becomes the governing factor controlling our daily life.
By this vision, we will be escorted to Christ over and over again.
We need to see in the Bible the divine principle of measurement that governs God’s relationship with man.
God works with fallen man on the basis of this principle.
First, He measures man according to His standard.
Then this divine measurement becomes a demand upon man.
This demand, in turn, reveals man’s shortness and failure.
Finally, man’s realization of his failure is intended by God to escort him to Christ.
In other words, the measurement and the subsequent demand of God is for one thing–to lead us to Christ to experience Another life.
God desires to be man’s life-supply.
The way He fulfills this desire is by first measuring man to expose his shortness.
By this measuring He escorts man out of his own resources into God Himself as his boundless supply.
Thus, in God’s economy the measuring Word of God is always intended to produce a standard beyond man’s ability and capacity.
Indeed, God’s Word with its divine measurement and high demand, which far exceeds man’s natural capacity, is the same Word that escorts man to God Himself over and over again.
It is this principle that we see governing God’s relationship with fallen man, both in the Old Testament under the law and in the New Testament under the higher demand of the law revealed in Matthew 5-7.
Indeed, man’s extremity becomes God’s opportunity.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Ashley & Jason’s Friend
Bill Lawhead
Doris Strickland
Jeff Fowler
Jill Haines – Covid
Johnny Page – Better
Nathan McKean – Phyllis’ Grandson
Richard Blount – Home Today
Tyler Welborn – Home
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead
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
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
Marynell Ford – Pray For Guidance
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 – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sharon Blalock
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher