Dearest Saints,
We approach the Lord’s Day with much anticipation. I have had the pleasure to talk to many of the saints this week and there is an expectancy in the air! Many of you are going hard after the things of the kingdom and the Lord is showing Himself faithful.
Elsie B. shared how the Lord brought some members of Calvary’s past together recently, some who haven’t seen each other in decades, and of the rich fellowship that has come. And much is still being declared from the recent women’s meeting. The men’s Monday meeting this week was rich and I feel that if we men continue in seeking the Lord for this church that we will see those things which are even beyond our imagination!
I couldn’t meet face to face with Gary this week because I have had a little cold or sinus thing, but we had good fellowship and cousel on the phone. And speaking of the phone, lets use it and the computer, and Myspace, facebook, IM, and everything else available to us to saturate the air(waves) and atmosphere extolling the praises of God. He is worthy!
Thanks goes out to Joshua Holder and the worship team for leading us into refreshing worship. Saints, enter in to the time of worship and praise on Sunday. You’re not required to dance or clap or even sing, but isn’t He worthy of all of that and much more? If for some reason you do not choose to enter in with the others then please meditate on the Lord within yourself. Do not destract others by drawing them into conversation or some other hindrance. This time is for the Lord and His people to commune in a corporate way. Let us take full advantage of the time He has given us.
Bless His Name with me now:
We joyfully give thanks to You Father, who have qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For You have rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son You love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Lord we thank You that You said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” and made Your light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
So then, just as we received Christ Jesus as Lord, we continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as we were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
We declare that we are not taken captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Cycles of death of human striving based on fear and drivenness to perform to earn love or acceptance are broken. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and we have been given fullness in Christ, who is the Head over every power and authority. In Him we were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him through faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.
We thank You Father that by Your circumcision You have cut off every lying voice of the enemy – voices of fear, of despair, of rejection, of discouragement and made them strange and unfamiliar voices to us. You are the Good Shepherd and You call Your own sheep by name and lead them out. We follow You alone because we know Your voice and we will never follow a stranger, in fact we will run away from Him, because we do not recognize the voice of a stranger.
Thank you for freeing us God! Whom the Son has set free is free indeed!
Colossians 1:11-14, Colossians 2:6-12, John 10:14-16, John 8:36
Wow, I feel washed by those words! Let us enter His courts with thanksging and praise! See you Sunday! In His Love… parke <><
