January 4, 2012
Prayer House News!
How you doing with the new reading plan? We are reading the first four chapter of John this week. Aimee Robinson found an excellent internet commentary that guides the reader to make their own conclusions. Click on the link below and see if you like it.
http://www.freebiblecommentary.org/pdf/EN/VOL04.pdf
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If you have a membership series of CD’s your booklets will need to be filled out and turned in at our membership class on January 11th.
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No Mid-week service this week because of Family Week. Next week we launch RPM (Revival Prayer Meeting) our all church prayer meeting. It’s going to be great.
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Pray for Don Smith. We will be having Kidney Stone surgery on Thursday.
Diane McGahan’s wake will be Friday at Proko Funeral Home from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. The funeral will be at our church at noon on Saturday.
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Devotional!
Psalms 119:157 Many are the foes who persecute me,
but I have not turned from your statutes.
“Statutes” are explicit laws. They distinctly mean laws that God has laid down and to which He expects obedience under any and all circumstances. This is especially important in light of what David is facing. He is being persecuted, yet he has not turned from God’s statutes. In 1 Samuel 24:4-6 we read, “Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Afterward . . . He said to his men, ‘The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.’ ” David knew that even if it meant his own life, he could not turn from God’s statutes.
When we are persecuted, we feel quite justified in turning from God’s way of doing things. After all, we are being persecuted. This will always be a problem for the person who thinks his life is more important than God’s life. David loved his Lord more than he loved himself. Therefore, he could remain obedient even in the face of persecution.
In Communist China an elderly man was persecuted for being a Christian. Since he was also a musician, they took his fingers and sliced them with a razor blade. Then they held them in a fire so he would never be able to play the cello again. In our way of thinking, that would be grounds for retaliation. Listen to the words of this old man: “If I had a thousand hands with a thousand fingers on each hand, I would gladly do it all over again for Jesus. I once used these fingers to bring music. Now I have Jesus and I am music.”7 His life has become a song that all should sing.
Taken from “The Heart of the King”
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Medication: A Merry Heart
Three Texans
Three Texans go down to Mexico and through a strange turn of events find themselves on death row
though none of them can remember
what they did to deserve this punishment.
The first one is strapped into the electric chair and is
asked if he has any last words.
He says, "I am from the Baylor School of Divinity, and I
believe in the almighty power of God to intervene on behalf
of the innocent."
They throw the switch and nothing happens, so they figure
God must not want this guy to die and they let him go.
The second one is strapped in and gives his last words: "I
am from the University of Texas School of Law, and I believe
in the power of justice to intervene on the part of the
innocent."
They throw the switch and again nothing happens. They figure
that the law is on this guy's side, so they let him go too.
The last one is strapped in and says, "Well, I'm a Texas
Aggie Electrical Engineer, and I'll tell you right now you
ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't connect them two
wires."
Prayer House News!
How you doing with the new reading plan? We are reading the first four chapter of John this week. Aimee Robinson found an excellent internet commentary that guides the reader to make their own conclusions. Click on the link below and see if you like it.
http://www.freebiblecommentary.org/pdf/EN/VOL04.pdf
-----------------------------------------------------------
If you have a membership series of CD’s your booklets will need to be filled out and turned in at our membership class on January 11th.
------------------------------------------------------------
No Mid-week service this week because of Family Week. Next week we launch RPM (Revival Prayer Meeting) our all church prayer meeting. It’s going to be great.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Pray for Don Smith. We will be having Kidney Stone surgery on Thursday.
Diane McGahan’s wake will be Friday at Proko Funeral Home from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. The funeral will be at our church at noon on Saturday.
==================================
Devotional!
Psalms 119:157 Many are the foes who persecute me,
but I have not turned from your statutes.
“Statutes” are explicit laws. They distinctly mean laws that God has laid down and to which He expects obedience under any and all circumstances. This is especially important in light of what David is facing. He is being persecuted, yet he has not turned from God’s statutes. In 1 Samuel 24:4-6 we read, “Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Afterward . . . He said to his men, ‘The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lift my hand against him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.’ ” David knew that even if it meant his own life, he could not turn from God’s statutes.
When we are persecuted, we feel quite justified in turning from God’s way of doing things. After all, we are being persecuted. This will always be a problem for the person who thinks his life is more important than God’s life. David loved his Lord more than he loved himself. Therefore, he could remain obedient even in the face of persecution.
In Communist China an elderly man was persecuted for being a Christian. Since he was also a musician, they took his fingers and sliced them with a razor blade. Then they held them in a fire so he would never be able to play the cello again. In our way of thinking, that would be grounds for retaliation. Listen to the words of this old man: “If I had a thousand hands with a thousand fingers on each hand, I would gladly do it all over again for Jesus. I once used these fingers to bring music. Now I have Jesus and I am music.”7 His life has become a song that all should sing.
Taken from “The Heart of the King”
=====================================
Medication: A Merry Heart
Three Texans
Three Texans go down to Mexico and through a strange turn of events find themselves on death row
though none of them can remember
what they did to deserve this punishment.
The first one is strapped into the electric chair and is
asked if he has any last words.
He says, "I am from the Baylor School of Divinity, and I
believe in the almighty power of God to intervene on behalf
of the innocent."
They throw the switch and nothing happens, so they figure
God must not want this guy to die and they let him go.
The second one is strapped in and gives his last words: "I
am from the University of Texas School of Law, and I believe
in the power of justice to intervene on the part of the
innocent."
They throw the switch and again nothing happens. They figure
that the law is on this guy's side, so they let him go too.
The last one is strapped in and says, "Well, I'm a Texas
Aggie Electrical Engineer, and I'll tell you right now you
ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't connect them two
wires."
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