Service on Wednesday evening was once again Women's Missionary Band. We were few in number considering the temperatures and the health of so many of our congregation. We are like the Marines, the few, the proud, the faithful church members! We praise the Lord for those who have decided to follow Jesus, though none go with the, still they will follow.
Thank you Sister Angela for helping us with song service...she is getting rather good at that. We had a good special by Katie and Jamie, thank you girls. We also had a special song leader, Abby, she really enjoys helping us out with a congregational that excited us all.
The service was titled, "Are Your Ears on Straight?". The focus was on listening. We covered how most of us actually HEAR, RECOGNIZE, ACKNOWLEDGE but when it comes to responding...well...
We had a perfect example during service...the gleaners stayed out front this time and I requested that they all come and sit on the front pew. Well, most got up and did so...all but one...so I asked this dear little one if they heard me...yes...did you understand me...yes...did you know that it was me asking you...yes...so what were you listening to in your head...I was thinking...I don't want to...so I didn't. This is exactly how many respond to the call of Christ. We can get it all together and lack making the right response and loose out.
We also had a testimony on Sunday fron one of our teens...yes, we hear what you are saying in classes and bible studies. We just don't look like it.
Here are a couple of scriptures to ponder.
Jeremiah 7:23-24
23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Read: Romans 10:13-21 Faith cometh by hearing
Read: James 1:19-25 Swift to hear....DO
Read: Daniel 12:8 I heard...I did not understand...Sought the LORD!
Gideon was strenghtened when he HEARD the vision while in the camp of the enemy.
Who are you listening to ...?
Psalms 119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
John 15:14 Ye are my friends..If ye do whatsoever I command you.
Do you listen to others rather than those who give wise Godly counsel...?
Discipline yourself...be a friend of Christ...seperate yourself from the world...it is enmity with God. Be a friend of God...don't just talk to him and list your petitions like a letter to Santa Clause...listen to him...and do what he says...
Are you resolved...tho none go with me...still I will follow?
We have all heard...If a child lives with...______then he becomes...________.
We know in the natural we are what we eat...what we hear is our daily bread whether it is heard through reading God's word, through our natural ears, through reading others actions or from our own imaginations...spiritually...we are what we listen to.
Be careful little ears what you hear...you may become the very thing that you hate...in thinking that you are going forward...we deceive ourselves...presuming to speak for God...God said I could...when God didn't say...you are really going backward...listen to him and obey!
Not long ago our theme for the region concerned moving forward...currently the theme is, "That's What This Altar is For". If we are not moving forward then we need to return to the altar...we are still moving...but we are moving backward!
Turn off and tune out the world...don't make your parents take away ungodly music, ungodly tv, ungodly books, ungodly vidio games or ungodly activities...be an adult and discipline yourself...crank up JESUS! Listen to the right voice...and make right choices...
Keep on Preaching! Keep on Teaching! Keep on Sharing the Word of God! They are listening...maybe one day...they will respond with the choice to serve God rather than man. In the mean time, we must be listening and doing our part too!
Pick up STEAM and GET Moving FORWARD!
So...Are YOUR Ears on Straight?
Those who made it to the altar in prayer...I want you to know that I am very proud of you...you keep praying... God see's and answers prayer. Remember prayers is a communication and it is rude to spend all the time talking...spend some time listening!
God loves you and so does the church in Bald Knob, AR
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