This is the sixth Sunday built around our 40 days of prayer and fasting.
Week 1- Wayne Propst urged us in our transition time to recognize The Blessing of God that can occur while we pray and fast. Especially in the fast paced world we live in, we should be still and wait before our God and know He is with us.
Week 2- Dewayne Manning urged us to let our time of approaching Gods be without any agenda and to sincerely seek The Voice of God
Week 3- Reggie Howell asked us as the People of God to put away our frantic busyness of schedules and empty ourselves so we can be truly be God’s people.
Week 4- Gregg Grubb reminded us that God’s Spirit is poured out on all of His people and throughout history it is God’s Spirit that enters our lives and when that happens everything changes.
Week 5- Wayne helped us to look at the kind of leadership that we seek is one that reflects the one true and living God.
You know the ONE
The same God that delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage. The One and only God that stayed the hand of Abraham from sacrificing his son because Our God had a plan and was willing to ask his perfect son Jesus to die once and for all to reconcile us to him.
You know the ONE- They call him Jesus, his name is the name above every name, and His name is wonderful, counselor, Prince of Peace.
As of this Thursday we will have had 40 days to ponder our wonderful creator. So today, let us recognize the Blessing of God and like David praise our God today and every day.
Listen to Psalm 103:
1 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits- 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: 8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. 9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; 10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; 14 for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. 17 But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children- 18 with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. 19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all. 20 Praise the LORD, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word. 21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will. 22 Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
There is nothing left for us to do but to worship Our God as it is His Blessing.
Bill Chambers
For the Elders
