Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Isaiah 50:4-5, “The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.”
According to this Old Testament prophecy about the Lord’s life, the Father woke Him morning by morning and opened His ear to hear His voice.
Then in the Gospels we observe the way He lived His life from morning to night–where He went, those He saw, those He prayed for, those He related to–how He went about His daily life.
He always did the things that pleased the Father.
His intimacy with the Father was the factor that supplied the ability to live a compatible life with the Father.
By observing the Lord’s life of intimacy and compatibility with the Father in the Gospels, we discover the nature of the life that is now dwelling in us.
It is a life that thrives on intimacy with the Father (Gal. 4:6; Rom. 8:15).
It is a life that always desires to prove, by testing, what is well pleasing to the Lord (Rom. 12:2; Eph. 5:10).
It is a life that knows compatibility with the Father’s life-voice in all the details of daily life (Eph. 4:20-21).
Now this life is living in us.
May the Lord grant to us multiplied grace in our spirit, so that the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit would be our daily portion (2 Cor. 13:14).
As we inwardly merge with the intimacy in the Triune God, we will not only abide in His love, but we will develop a finer and more delicate sensitivity to the consciousness of life within us.
It is by the love of God and the grace of Christ flowing in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that we can be a person that is compatible with the Lord’s voice. Amen!
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
WEDNESDAY’S PRAYER REQUESTS
Pastor Jackson
Marlon Cook
Jim Mabe
June Cronan
Amy Garner
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Ashely Burn’s Sisters
Brandon’s Dad
Charlene Palmer
Coly/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Dan Haines
Darlene Thaxton
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David Burnette
David Harrison
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George & Linda Alexander
James Burnette
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Jillian Gray
Jodi Bateman
John Austin
John McClain
June Cronan
June Cronan’s Sister
Karen Slane
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lamar Knight
Larry Barker
Lee Cronan
Lillanna Magnusson’s Mom
Linda Alexander
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Lonzo Christin
Lori Blount’s Mother
Mary Sims
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Maureen Brown
Michael Stanley
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Rose Fuller
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Scott Lanier
Soso Nzolo – 17 Yr. Old South African Pastor’s Daughter
Jayne Hammond
Terrell Loyd
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