WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S IN THE AUDITORIUM WITH PASTOR AT 6:30
Igniting Kingdom Prayer with Dr. Tony Evans
TONIGHT, AT 6:30 in the auditorium with Pastor, we will study with Dr. Tony Evans, Igniting Kingdom Prayer. We will see the connection God has given us to tap into the power He has provided.
Tonight’s lesson is Touching Heaven to Change Earth (2 Chronicles 15:3-6): Many people find themselves attempting to mop up messes in their lives only to find that the source is an endless drain of trials that won’t stop. But instead of trying to clean up the problems in vain, Tony Evans says you first need to deal with the root. Once you discover the spiritual side of how the world works, you’ll find how your approach to challenges will start to change.
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Hebrews 8:10, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:”
To experience Christ is to touch His willingness and zeal for the Father’s house.
Christ is in a perpetual state of building that house.
He must always be about His Father’s business.
This is His nature.
So whenever willingness surfaces in your heart–willingness calibrated to the church, God’s house, His dwelling place–you have met Christ in your mind, emotion, and will.
You meet Him as that disposition of willingness surfacing within you.
The evidence that He is taking you over and possessing your heart is your feeling of willingness to lay down your life for the saints and for His house.
When willingness springs up, you have met Christ.
The Lord Jesus is not just a name on a piece of paper.
The Lord Jesus is a Person, and He feels like willingness.
This is how you know you are touching the real Person and not a mere concept or belief–you find God’s disposition springing up within you.
Our highest privilege and dignity is to participate in this willingness which is Christ Himself.
Christ works His disposition of willingness into us.
He works with the grain of our being, not against the grain.
Living the church life described in the New Testament requires willingness.
Nothing is forced.
Willingness springs up from within us and we pour ourselves out in a spontaneous way to meet the needs.
This is because Christ in us is this way.
Willingness for the Lord, willingness for His interest, is not in you and me.
This should relieve us.
It should relieve the pressure that comes from being in a false position and taking condemnation because we feel unwillingness in us.
Of course we are not willing.
No one is naturally willing for the church life.
This is an impossible life to live.
But God has imparted the Impossible Life into our spirit.
And now this willingness is being written into our disposition.
He is writing His very nature and life into our mind and into our heart.
So willingness is ours in the new covenant as we participate in and enjoy Christ.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Loretta Bailey – Funeral – Saturday at Scott Ward FH
Bill Lawhead – Hospital
Charlene Shiflett
Darlene Thaxton
Richard Blount
Tracy Ballard
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 Brother, G’Son, & Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s 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