MOTHER’S DAY SUNDAY AT 10:00 AM INVITE FAMILY & FRIENDS TO HONOR HER ON THIS SPECIAL DAY!
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Daily Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 2:17, “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”
Here the apostle Paul gives us a practical example of a person living out of God as his source.
The three special phrases in this verse–out of God, in the sight of[or, before] God, and speak we in Christ–are all ways of describing how Paul’s speaking was out of the source of God, and not out of himself.
His ministry was proceeding out of God, before God, and in Christ.
When we are redeemed and regenerated, we are ushered into the realm of the new creation, where God begins a process in which experientially the old things start to pass out of our lives.
The old things are related to our self as our point of reference.
We lived out of our own impulses, our own choices, our own thoughts.
But now we begin to live by revelation, that is, by what God has revealed to us in His Word.
It is when we live by revelation that God becomes our source.
He reveals to us the purpose of our human life.
We no longer take man’s views and concepts as the basis of our human existence.
Revelation unveils to us God’s eternal purpose, which is the purpose behind the created universe.
This revelation causes me to be a person who is living to be conformed to the image of God’s Son, with the many brothers in the church (Rom. 8:28-29).
Thus, we are squarely planted in the church life, with Christ as the focus and reality of our daily life.
We do not live by our own thoughts–what we think we should do.
We live by the unveiling of God’s heart’s desire for His Body, the church, where Christ is all and in all.
It is by this unveiling that God becomes our source.
The Spirit teaches us, through the Word, to be persons who are living a life in complete accord with God’s heart’s desire.
Our daily life begins to proceed out of God as we learn to live out of Him as our source.
Until Tomorrow,
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
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TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Don Slate – Angela Bryan’s Dad – Hospice
Debra Roberts – Home in need of prayer
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Lawhead – Prayer Needed
Bill Moody
Charlie Sessom –Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Doug Fritzel
Greg & Keith Payne – Lisa’s Brother
James Garner – Home
James Garner’s G’Son
John Burnette
Joyceann – James Garner’s Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker – Hip Replacement
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
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 – Lisa’s Cousin
Sharon Blalock
Sherry Yoachum – Recovering
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Todd Bailey
Todd Roberts
Tom Witcher
Wanda Galanti