As an action point, I encourage you to embark on a simple yet profound exercise. Go through the alphabet from A to Z & find something to be thankful for with each letter. This exercise not only cultivates an attitude of gratitude but also opens our eyes to the everyday blessings we often overlook. From Sunday’s Sermon
Thankful For Christ’s Gifts
A – Atonement: For His sacrifice for our sins.
B – Birth: For His coming into the world to be among us.
C – Compassion: For His deep empathy and understanding.
D – Divinity: For His divine nature and eternal presence.
E – Example: For the perfect example He set in life.
F – Forgiveness: For His willingness to forgive our transgressions.
G – Grace: For His unmerited favor and love.
H – Healing: For His miraculous power to heal both body and spirit.
I – Intercession: For His role as an intercessor with the Father.
J – Joy: For the profound joy He brings into our lives.
K – Kingship: For His reign as the King of Kings.
L – Love: For His boundless, unconditional love.
M – Ministry: For His teachings and service to humanity.
N – New Covenant: For establishing a new covenant through His sacrifice.
O – Obedience: For His perfect obedience to the Father’s will.
P – Peace: For the peace He offers that surpasses understanding.
Q – Quiet Strength: For His gentle yet powerful approach.
R – Resurrection: For His victory over death and promise of eternal life.
S – Salvation: For His role in offering salvation to all.
T – Teachings: For His profound and life-changing teachings.
U – Understanding: For His insight into human nature and suffering.
V – Victory: For His triumph over sin and death.
W – Wisdom: For His profound and divine wisdom.
X – eXample of Humility: For His humble life and service.
Y – Yearning: For His desire to gather all people to Him.
Z – Zeal: For His passion for God’s house and God’s will.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Romans 8:3, “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”
Whether or not we understand all that is in the law of the Spirit, when we touch this law we get all that is in God.
So it is a great matter to be a person oriented to the Spirit, to be according to the Spirit.
It is not a small thing to wake up in the morning and find your orientation to yourself by contacting the Lord–by fellowshipping with Him, opening to Him, interacting with Him, surrendering afresh to Him, that His life could be lived out.
This means stopping yourself and taking every problem–whether at the start of it, in the middle of it, or near the end of it–wherever you find yourself, and bringing yourself to the Spirit.
It is in the realm of the law of the Spirit that everything has been accomplished and all our problems are solved.
It is a marvelous thing to interact with the realm of the Spirit.
This realm is not just a feeling, not just our emotion.
We are interacting with the Father’s sending of the Son and with the Person of the Son and His full accomplishment.
This includes everything that is incorporated into Him.
Christ has become a life-giving Spirit to give us His kind of life.
He is giving us His own incarnated life, His human life, His crucified life, His resurrected life, and His ascended life.
This is the kind of life He is giving.
This is the only kind of life He gives.
He does not give any other kind of life.
Thus, the life we experience in Him will be conformable to His human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
TUESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Andrew Halevi & Daughter
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Wiggins
David Burnette
David Harrison – Riverside
Deanna Fowler
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’mother
Donnie Butler’s Dad
Doris Loyd
Dr. and Mrs. Davis
Easton Fielder
Ed Mays
Eric Ward
Erik Magnusson
Freddie May’s Mom
George & Linda Alexander
Heather May
James Burnette
James Garner’s Friend
Janie Roberts
Jillian Gray
JOANIE & JEANIE
Joanie/Jeanie Mom
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Kathy Mabe
Kim McClain’s Mother
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Marlon Cook
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
Nancy Proudfit – Home
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
PAT CHUPP
Ricky Gipson
Ricky Stubbs
Rose Fuller – Rehab
Roseleigh Osborn
Sandra Graham
Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Susan & Alexis Tesone
Tom Witcher