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:
Galatians 4:19, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”
To understand the exact sense of this verse, it is important to see its context.
The Galatian believers had fallen into a state of legality.
The words “again” and “until” tell us something.
At one point in the believers’ experience, Christ had already been formed in them.
Then they lost Christ as the One who was everything in their hearts.
Now Paul is travailing again until Christ is formed in them.
This substantiates the truth that Christ being formed in them was not a process; otherwise, they would be waiting indefinitely for this to take place and would not need Paul’s “again” prayer.
Christ “formed” is Christ restored instantly in our hearts as our center, our focus, our point of reference for relating to all things.
Paul was travailing again until this would happen in the believers.
To know the meaning of Galatians 4:19, it is also important to understand the significance of the verb “formed” as it was used by Paul.
In elementary school, we all learned that verbs are action words.
In our English language, verbs emphasize the time in which the action takes place, whether past, present, or future.
Thus, in English the time of the action is what is important.
However, in the Greek language, the emphasis with the verb is on the kind of action taking place, rather than the time of the action.
The action takes place either in an instantaneous way or in a progressive way.
Instantaneous action is called punctiliar, and progressive action is called linear.
For Christ to be formed in us means that He is instantly poured out into our hearts, so that He becomes our relationship with everything from that moment on.
He is now our continuous point of reference.
He is the source from which we live. He is the way we handle everything in our lives.
He is the way we relate to ourselves.
He is the One in whom we constantly abide. He is the Christian life living His life in us.
In short, He is our life.
Christ formed in us means that He is formed within our hearts as our all in all!
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Charles Ward – Heart Surgery 2/15
James Garner’s Friend
Jim Mabe – Heart Surgery Yesterday
John McClain
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Randy Bond’s Son In Law
Russell Paschal – Heart Surgery 2/18
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