You have got to help me. Mae doesn’t like my new personality. She says I’m silly and say things I would normally not say. Lol. Well, tomorrow in church I have a message straight from Heaven. I hope you will be there to encourage everyone with how good God is and has been. Remember, Service & Children’s Church start at 10:00 AM.
Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
Hebrews 9:14, “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
It is the pollution within that turns me in on myself.
It is the pollution that makes me feel that I have to do something more.
It is the inward contamination that causes a conscience to be uneasy.
But how much more shall the blood of Christ cleanse my conscience from all those dead works to serve the living God!
This means that there is a contamination in my being whenever I try to work out something religiously before God.
But the blood cleanses my conscience from that.
Here, it does not say “from sin.”
It says “from dead works.”
Because of this cleansing, we have instant, constant access to participate in God Himself.
What blood!
It has done a work in the heavens to cleanse the heavens, and it has done a work in my heart to give me a true heart, so that I might be a participator in God Himself.
The value of the blood is beyond our comprehension.
To God it means so much.
To the heavens it is the gathering factor of all the multitudes of saints through the ages.
That is why, in the book of Revelation, those who are “out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation” are singing, “It’s the blood!”
My Father’s dear friend, J.B. Phillips, knew the Lord in a real way.
When he was over ninety years old, he became ill and was confined to his bed.
My father took me to visit him when he was just before going to heaven.
At that time, some of the family members wondered if the great author was getting a little senile because he kept repeating a phrase–“It’s the blood.”
These words just kept coming out of him–“It’s the blood.
It’s the blood.”
When I heard that some of the relatives were wondering if Bro. Phillips was losing his keenness of mind, I thought to myself, “No, I think he has one foot in the glory and one foot on the earth, and he sees that it’s the blood.
It’s the precious blood of Jesus.”
And, no doubt, when we are in the heavens with that multitude in the festal gathering, we are all going to say, “It’s the blood!
You have redeemed us to God by Your blood.”
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Ashley & Jason’s Friend
Bill Lawhead
Doris Strickland – Better
Jeff & Kristen Fowler – Kristen Passed
Johnny Page – Better
Nathan McKean – Phyllis’ Grandson
Richard Blount – Soon Home
Tyler Welborn – Home
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 G’Son
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford – Pray For Guidance
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s G’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