FEBRUARY IS MISSION’S MONTH
Our Joash (Sacrificial) Offering may be given at any time during the month. This annual offering is used for unexpected needs that arise for our missionaries on their field of service throughout the year.
Our Faith Promise Mission’s Offering enables us to support
3 Children’s Home
2 Crisis Pregnancy Centers
1 Men’s Homeless Shelter
3 Bible Printing/Distribution Ministries.
7 Missionary Families From Our Church
Bibles For Free The Burnettes
Daniel And Emily Ford In Moldova
David & Gerry Smith In Brazil
Eli & Katie Guiltner In Japan
Eric & Lilianna Magnuson in Panama
Jeffery & Lydia Wacharia in Kenya
Marli Page Medical Mission’s Outreach
22 Foreign Missionaries Around The World
14 Local Missionaries in U.S.
Your monthly gift enables us to support these Missionaries in amounts from $100 to $2000 each month. The total amount needed each week is $2000. With each member giving an amount that God’s directs them, we give approximately $100,000 annually. Pray that others will join us in Faith Promise Giving above their Tithe to spread the Gospel around the world.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Comprehension is a vehicle of the Lord’s voice.
Because of this, it is important to know what it means to “comprehend” in the biblical sense.
The Greek word for comprehend is a compound word that means “putting things together in a way that causes you to grasp or understand something.”
For example, the disciples did not understand the Scriptures until the Lord opened their mind to comprehend them (Luke 24:27-32).
It was when He opened up the Old Testament, book by book, and unveiled Himself as its focus that they were able to comprehend the Scriptures.
At that point, they could put everything together.
They understood and comprehended the central meaning of the Scriptures.
To be able to put everything together and properly comprehend the Scriptures, we need to know that the focus of God’s speaking is Christ (Heb. 1:1-2).
Christ is the Word, the logos, God’s unique utterance embodied in one Person (John 1:1).
When we see Christ as all in all, then we truly begin to comprehend the Scriptures.
Furthermore, with this comprehension we are able to know the Lord’s speaking.
Our comprehension of the proper focus of the Scriptures becomes the factor of the Lord’s speaking, and this speaking automatically gives us discernment concerning all other voices and speakings which are not the Lord’s.
In Ephesians 3:2-11 the apostle Paul unveils that God’s speaking comes through the proper comprehension of His eternal purpose.
In verses 3-4 he says, “How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)”
Paul had a comprehension of the mystery of Christ, which is the central focus of God’s heart’s desire.
This was one of the main reasons that he had so much of the Lord’s speaking.
God’s desire, as Paul unfolds it in Ephesians 3, is centered in Christ being expressed through the church to display God’s manifold wisdom to the universe.
In verse 11 this is called “the eternal purpose,” or “the purpose of the ages.”
Comprehending or understanding this purpose constitutes the main subject of all the Lord’s speaking
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Charles Ward – Heart Surgery 2/23
James Garner’s Friend
Jim Mabe
John McClain
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
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