(November 4, 2009)

Prayer House News!

Since this is Family Week there is not much going on. We are however, gearing up for our Missions Convention this weekend. This is always one of my favorite weekends. I love the way our church responds to the call to support those who are serving him around the world.

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Unshakable Kingdom

Abiding Fellowship

continued from yesterday

Hebrews 5:11-14; Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. (that’s a reference to spiritual intelligence) (12) For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. (13) For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. (14) But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Solid food is for the mature, who because of habitual exercise in the things of God have their senses trained, or you could say, have come into a spiritual enlightenment. The writer of Hebrews begins by saying, "Look, I've got some deep, meaty, things to say to you but it's very hard for me to explain these thing to you because you don't have any spiritual capacity." Another way of saying "dull-of-hearing" could be, "no spiritual enlightenment."

Solid food or "meat" is for the mature. The babe has no capacity for meat. Just think of that little stomach that has never had anything but fluids. It's all shriveled-up, there is nothing in it. You have to introduce meat to it in very small quantities until it finally gets big enough to handle - lots.

Listen to this quote from A.W. Tozer's book, “The Pursuit of God.” I’m going to read a quote from it; “Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know that inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.”

continued tomorrow

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Medication: A Merry Heart

Strange & Unusual Facts

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.

People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ...even your heart. This is why people have always said "God bless you" after a sneeze.

Only 7% of the population are lefties.

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.

The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

The average housefly lives for one month.

40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. Don't ask how.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.

Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.

Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

Humphrey Bogart and Princess Diana were seventh cousins.

If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.