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Sunday Review: What a day!

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What a great day at church!

  1. Great morning services! We had people come forward to make decisions and one dear lady join our church’
  2. Tonight WE DOUBLED (or close to doubled) our normal Sunday night attendance!
  3. The choir sang today and did a great job! So excited to grow with them and improve our music ministry!
  4. Good meetings with our officers, teachers and care group leaders.
  5. We had teens helping to run our brand new kids choirs.  The kids seemed to have a good time as well!
  6. We had several VISITORS come ON A SUNDAY NIGHT!!!!  HOW COOL IS THAT!

It seems like Sunday nights are going to really help us to equip our people to unleash a lot of ministry that needs to be done in our church and community!

Tonight wasn’t without glitches- there were several, but I’m pumped about our direction!  God really blessed so much!  What a great night!

    Loving my Brother…Part 4

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     10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

    Collosians 1:10

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    “It’s a dangerous business going out your front door.  You step onto the road and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    I know I go a little bit into potential nerd territory to quote Lord of the Rings on my blog, but I love this quote.  I think it portrays the idea that Paul gave in Colossians 1:10, todays verse.

    We’ve been talking about loving our brother, and specifically praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ.  In our verse today Paul uses a metaphor that he uses quite often in the new testament.  He said that he prayed that they would “walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.

    Those of us who want to “walk worthy of the Lord” and please him must understand that to do so will take some diligence.  There are so many traps that we could fall in.  Everywhere we turn is an opportunity to walk in some very unworthy places.

    This is true for you as well as the people who we’ve been called to love and pray for.  Today- someone you know will encounter a trap.  Either they’ll step into it, or avoid it and walk worthy of Jesus Christ.  We’ve got to pray for them.

    Today,

    1. Pray for yourself- that you’ll walk worthy of the Lord today.

    2. Love your brother or sister in Christ by praying for their walk today.  Pray that they’ll avoid the traps.

    3.  Email them, call them, write them a note and let them know that you prayed for them.  You might be a real encouragement!

    Leading When You’re Young

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    Leading When You’re Young

    Are you in a position where you must lead people older than you? Check out this great artical.

    Loving my Brother…Part 3

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    Colossians 1:9
    9    For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

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    One of the most important things that I can do in my life, and that I can teach other people to do, is to ask the right questions.  So many times in life the difference between success and failure is asking the right questions.  When the right question is asked it leads to the best answers.  Finding answers leads to direction for our lives and that’s a great thing to have, as long as it’s the right direction.

    As we said yesterday, Paul prays for his fellow believers, and in this way he is showing them love.  Part of loving our brother and sister in Christ is praying for them.  But what did Paul pray for them…

    Paul prayed that the Colossians “might be filled with the knowledge of his will…”  That means that he was praying that the Colossians would know what God wants for them.  What a great thing to pray for the people we should love.   “God would you help __________ to know what direction they need to take.  Help them understand what you want for their marriage/job/future/morality/kids etc etc?”  
    Part of knowing God’s will is asking that question in the first place!  God what do you want?  What is your will?!  Of course, God’s will is revealed in his Word.  

    To pray that prayer for someone else, you have to be praying it for yourself too!  What does God want for you to do?