We started out the week going to church where we had the most wonderful sermon and program. Our fill pastor played the organ to open the morning, then during his sermon he sang a wonderful song he had written which so beautifully demonstrated his topic on how we are to worship our precious Lord and Savior! We then, as a church, enjoyed wonderful fellowship on the mountain at a delicious ice cream social. It was a birthday celebration for our fill pastor to to let him know how very much he has been appreciated. He finishes his call this week then he will continue his teaching at Liberty University!
This week has been rather dull after the last two weeks when we enjoyed the visit of our daughter and grands!! Lynn and I knew on Monday that the prayer meeting would be slightly attended, but, alas, it was just the two of us. But we had so much to pray for, Afghanistan, our nation, Haiti, the flood in Tennessee, and our church that following this Sunday will have no pastor! it is enough to almost lose hope when you string it all together, but God is still in control, and our faith and trust is in Him! So we persevere in our calling and do our best.
On Wednesday, we attended our Bible study on Joel. Joel lays out a scenario that is almost exactly what we as a nation are enduring, at this time, which is concerning because Joel is about national judgement that comes on nations that have turned their back on God. We can look to the book of Amos to see just how His judgment was called out on Israel. Joel is written to unspecified nations who refuse to repent. It is difficult to even get the church to repent in these days. Oh, we say we are sorry, and ask for God's forgiveness but the problem is we do not turn to God and stay focused on our turn.. therefore IIChronicles 7:14 is not working! The church in America has become too worldly in many aspects. To many people live like they believe that gender issues are this generations manner of showing love, that much of God's Word is obsolete, and must be understood in the worldly way we see in our culture. We have lost sight of the truth that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. His truths are immutable. We have been given chances to turn to Him, but stiff necked people only respond to severe repercussions. A reading of the book of Joel will reveal His judgment... We are almost at the point of Preparing to Meet our God!!! Dear Lord, have mercy and withhold your judgment., help your people and the nation to see the error of their thinking and come back to you and your truth!
Many pastors are understanding the above situation. I see James Robinson on the floor wailing to God for the sake of His people.. He is preparing the church... I really enjoy Pastor Allen Jackson, not the country singer, who is sermonizing several times a week since 2020 to prepare his people and all who tune in to prepare for what is coming.. prepare their heart, build up the faith, share the gospel, be strong in the Lord, Study the Word, and so much more... I really love this clip of him teaching how we much we need to get the name and word of God out into the world so people can see God in action... only 7 minutes long and he is very entertaining. please watch.. it is so needed in the world today!!!!
Tonight we will go to Intercessors for America.. a local prayer group.. only one of its kind in our city where about 10 people come together to pray for major situations in our nation and world. I highly recommend that if you are a person of prayer that you would look up and see if your community has IFA prayer meetings /
Once you are inside the site, you can scroll about to find a map of places where people are praying and you can click in to dive right into your section of the map to your city and neighborhood. Also, you can see the prayer concerns about which people are praying... these change daily as this site is very up to date on what is transpiring in our nation! If you are a prayer warrior a daily search of this site would be a very welcome thing .. we need to stay focused on what is happening and joining with God in the battle for His will to be done!
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