This week:
Tue. 10-11 Zoom study group. All welcome
12-12:30 Zoom prayer with Revival Church for Light in the Night
Wed. 10-12 Bread Ministry
6-8 Chosen Dinner Huddles for families and adults.
Sat. 10-1 Clothing Closet
Don't forget to pray for and sign up to help with our Trunk or Treat Fri Oct 25 from 6-8. We are in need of candy or donations for candy to be able to give to those passing through our lot.
Sunday Oct 27th Bishop Sizemore joins us to preach and eat with us at our 2 peas in a Pod brunch. Invite some friends. Sign up with Lori, Sarah or me.
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Good Morning Very Loved, Called By Name, Redeemed of the Lord! We are created in love to receive and give love. Our Creator, Jesus is calling you by name this morning and reminding you that you are His and that He has redeemed you. He is hearings your heart this morning and answering your prayers. He is in the process of working all things together for good for those who believe and are called according to His purposes. (That's us!) He has some great custom made plans for you to discover and step into. His Holy Spirit in you has gifted and empowered you and will go before you to spur each other on, encourage and build His Church. We are His and He is ours. Dwell in Him and His love this day. Receive His healing, stretching, molding and refining love. Allow Him full access as you surrender and offer yourself to Him. He is worthy of all of our being in worship and all praise glory and honor. Amen! Worship with full abandon! Receive His Light and Love. Let go and give all your hurts, anxiety, sickness, addictions to Him who is our Deliverer, Healer and Chain Breaker! He is our Savior! Allow Him to prepare you to go live and love like Jesus. We are all custom made for custom purposes--some big, but most small faithfulness's to go and love like Jesus. Today is the day of the Lord's favor! Receive it and share it boldly. All of this flows through the devotionals I used during my quiet time this morning. Check them out prayerfully below. What's God saying to you? How is He redeeming and wanting to bless you? How will you honor and worship Him? He really does have some amazing things planned just for you. PTL! Step into them as you step more fully into your new nature and your created purposes and potential in Christ.
God continues to minster to me through a full weekend of worship, ministry, study and prayer. Yesterday we discussed Col. 3:1-17. We are called to live Christ as we repent of all sin and unrighteousness and allow God to transform us and move us to live this life earnestly. Why? For in this life Christ is all that matters and He lives in us. He not only lives in us but wants to go love through us and use us as His vessels to redeem the world around us. Amen! My Sat. night worship overflowed into our worship yesterday morning. It's time to praise the Lord for He inhabits our praise. As He comes to us He leads us to go incarnate Christ to the world around us and change the world one step of faith at a time and one soul at a time. God has prepared you for someone and someone for you. Who is your buddy to go with and pray with and encourage? Watch and allow Him to use you, pray through you and transform through you. We are blessed to go be a blessing and then we are blessed back for being faithful. Amen! Then God led me to Revival Church's worship and ministry night last evening. They do this every second Sunday evening from 5-7. All are invited to join the next one. I'd like to encourage you to try it out. Last night the Holy Spirit fell on our sanctuary and brought ministry to many and healing to some. Miracles are coming and God is moving our building to become a house of prayer for the nations. Again several pastors and leaders prayed over me and our church. They prophesied some great things to come to us and through us. Receive these and keep praying for miracles and connections to new people to connect to God's healing redeeming, delivering love. God is on the move! Amen! And He does have great plans just for you and us! PTL! Receive them and release them in prayer and obedience. Amen! Yes God is on the move! Hallelujah! Revival is growing and will come alive in and through us as we surrender and allow God to use us for His glory. That is an act of worship that God finds a sweet aroma. You are loved, redeemed and being prepared to go live and love like Jesus today and for such a time as this. We are made for more and He's not finished with us yet! This is the year of the Lord's favor! Step into it! Amen! PTL! Come Jesus!
Joyce Meyer:
Charles Stanley:
The Word for You Today:
The Upper Room: Just Let Go
Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” - Matthew 11:28 (NIV)
When my sister and I were younger, we were given a zip line for Christmas, which our father installed between two trees. My sister and I loved our zip line and wanted our cousin to join in on the fun. She was a little nervous at first, but after watching us, she decided to try it. She was doing great until she got closer to the tree at the end. We repeatedly yelled at her to let go, but she held on — hitting the tree and falling backward onto the snow. Thankfully, she was not injured.
At the time, I couldn’t understand why she would not simply let go before hitting the tree.
I wonder if God ever wants to yell at us to “just let go” when we try to do everything on our own, carrying things we were never meant to carry alone. God loves us and offers us rest. We can find this rest when we let go of what we’re holding and turn it over to the One who can truly give us peace.
Today's Prayer
Dear Lord, help us turn our burdens over to you. Guide us to the peace that only you can provide. Amen.
Our daily bread:
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When my mom was in hospice and nearing her last days on earth, I was touched by the genuine kindness of a nursing home caregiver. After gently lifting my frail mother from her chair and tucking her into bed, the nursing assistant caressed Mom’s head while leaning over her to say, “You are so sweet.” Then she asked how I was doing. Her kindness moved me to tears then and still does today.
Hers was a simple act of kindness, but it was just what I needed in that moment. It helped me to cope, knowing that in this woman’s eyes my mom wasn’t just a patient. She cared for and saw her as a person of great worth.
When Naomi and Ruth were bereft after the loss of their husbands, Boaz showed kindness to Ruth by allowing her to glean leftover grain behind the harvesters. He even ordered the male harvesters to leave her alone (Ruth 2:8-9). His kindness was prompted by Ruth’s care for Naomi: “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband” (v. 11). He saw her not as a foreigner or widow but as a woman in need.
God wants us to “clothe [ourselves] with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (Colossians 3:12). As God helps us, our simple acts of kindness can cheer hearts, bring hope, and inspire kindness in others.
By Alyson Kieda
REFLECT & PRAY
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When has someone shown you a simple act of kindness? How did it inspire or encourage you?
Dear God, I want to be clothed in kindness. Please give me opportunities to show it to others.
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SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
Israelite landowners were told to intentionally not harvest all the grain so that the poor could glean the leftovers (Leviticus 19:9-10; 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19-22). In obedience, Boaz permitted the poor to glean in his fields (Ruth 2:3). When Boaz found out that Ruth was a close relative, he invited her to get her food from his land exclusively (vv. 8-9). He protected her from harm and provided her with water and food (vv. 9, 14). He even ordered his servants to deliberately “pull out some stalks for [Ruth] from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up” (v. 16).
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Harvest: Thank God for our volunteers and His provision to our care giving ministries, of bread, food, cloths and compassionate prayer.
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October 14 - DAY 18 OF 40 DAYS OF PRAYER FOR OUR NATION
Praying For The Poor, Homeless, Depressed, And Sick In America
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“Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked” (Psalm 82:3-4 NIV).
Jesus was very pointed when He spoke about the “least of these” to His followers. He was also clear (James 2:15-17) that faith without works is dead. We can be concerned for the least and the lost in our nation without actually doing anything for them. But Jesus offers a promise for those who will act in faith: “One who is gracious to a poor person lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his good deed” (Proverbs 19:17).
One incredible truth about prayer is that when we seek God on behalf of others, He gives us a fresh depth of compassion and love for them. The act of prayer is a conduit for the Holy Spirit to speak kindness, generosity, and the desire to care and comfort into our lives. Prayer changes our trajectory of activity to focus on those whom God puts into our lives to bless. Our nation is filled with people who are in desperate need of a touch from Jesus through His people! “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of Mine, you did it for Me’” (Matthew 25:40).
God of comfort, forgive my lack of compassion for the forgotten, the needy, the sick, and the disenfranchised people all around me. Renew my heart to look at people as You see them, and to care for them as You desire me to. Wake up Your church, Lord, to see with fresh eyes the needs before us. May the Holy Spirit prompt and urge us to step up and care for those in need so that more people in our nation will see You at work and put their trust in You.
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- Ask the Holy Spirit to give you a purposeful life of compassion, filled with the joy of giving.
- Pray that you are quickly able to see the needs around you and respond as God leads.
- Ask God to help you encourage people in your family and in your church towards love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24).
- Ask the Father to give creative solutions to His people to meet the needs of their communities with love and compassion so that His glory will be evident to all.
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