Get your worship on! This is the day the Lord has made and we get to gather, worship, learn and grow in Christ and His ways. We get to unite as His Body and do our parts. We get to enter His courts with praise, His gates with . We get to be thankful in all things and draw close and abide in Him. We get to have His presence with us always! Yes rejoice and prepare your hearts to worship and lift some thanksgivings. What are you thankful about! Will you share those things with us and others so God can be glorified? Try it! Get ready and come and see as you dwell in His loving presence with your brothers and sisters who get to gather as St. Matts EC. Come and worship! What has God stirred in you that you get to do? Worship will be at the top of the list! PTL! We get tochoose what we focus on and put first in our lives! PTL for that freedom in Christ and worship Him!
Good Morning Worshipers! Come and worship with us! Prepare your hearts. God is worthy of all glory and honor and praise and we, PTL, live in a country where we are still free to gather and worship, grow and encourage and prepare to go live and love like Jesus. Many people around the world pray and wish for that freedom and we get to do these freely. PTL! Who is hungry, thirsty and searching that you might invite along to experience how we get to be loved by God and get to learn to love like Him as we are? Pray into that and go love and invite someone to come and see.
I'm going to just share Our Daily Bread . Pray into and mediate on what God is saying to you and what you get to do with thankful hearts overflowing with love. Then try it and maybe partner with some friends. That is God's best ways and plans we get to do! Amen! Yes, get your worship on! What a privileges we have been given in Christ in the USA. Thanks Lord!
ODB:
Radical Mission
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19
Diognetus, a second-century pagan, noticed that followers of Christ “day by day increase more and more.” This was despite regular persecution they endured under the hand of the Romans. He asked a believer in Jesus why this was true. In a document we know as the Letter to Diognetus, that early church father replied to him, “Do you not see that the more of them are punished, the greater becomes the number of the rest? This does not seem to be the work of man: this is the power of God.”
As Jesus gave His final words to His disciples before ascending into heaven, they could little imagine the growth the church would experience in the coming centuries. He told them, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). This has become known as the Great Commission, but using this phrase to describe Christ’s final words to His disciples can make it feel burdensome. In reality, this is what He calls all those who follow Him to do: As we go about our day, make disciples. We don’t have to go to the ends of the earth; the message will travel wherever we carry it with us.
Don’t be discouraged by the difficulties of the moment. Jesus also said, “I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (v. 20). We take Him with us everywhere we go.
By Matt Lucas
REFLECT & PRAY
Who are the people in your life who need to hear the gospel? How will you share the good news with them ?
Dear Father, please give me an opportunity to share my story of salvation.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
In the Gospels, Jesus is described as a man who “taught as one who had authority” (Matthew 7:29) and “has authority on earth to forgive sins” (9:6). The Greek word exousia carries the meaning of “authority, power, the right to control or govern; dominion, the area or sphere of jurisdiction.” Christ called twelve men, discipled them, and then “[sent] them out to preach” (Mark 3:14). He “gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases” and instructed them “to proclaim the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:1-2). As the Son of God and Son of Man, Jesus has been given “all authority in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18), for God granted “him authority over all people” (John 17:2). We’re also armed with His authority—although ours is limited—to go into the world and tell others about Him. As believers in Jesus, we can ask God to give us opportunities to share Him with others and disciple them (Matthew 28:19-20).
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