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 Pastor's Notes
Greetings and grace to
you in the wonderful name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Church family I love you and praise
the Lord for you. I personally
want to thank Sue Broadway for planning and preparing the wonderful meal for
the Good Shepherd Ministries’ banquet, and also thank Pat Parker and
Suzanne Duggar who helped prepare the meal. These ladies cooked and prepared the
meal all day, and everyone that attended was blessed with a delicious banquet
meal fit for the King’s household!
Please continue to pray for Haiti and the Haitian people. Ask our Father to meet their needs by
His riches in glory by Christ Jesus, because they need Christ to change their
hearts, even more than they need any other relief. May the Lord show His goodness through
the relief effort and may the Church pour out the love of God that has been
shed abroad in her heart. Pray
for Bro. Bill and Sandy Younger as they return to Milot not sure what they
will find or how they will ministry to the injured and the homeless. Thank you for loving on these
missionaries during the banquet and in these days in which we live.
Speaking of the days
in which we live. Wow! Can you believe it is 2010? I know it may seem like it has taken a
month for your pastor to realize it, but where is my jet car? As a kid I thought George
Jetson’s bubble toped jet car was really cool, and I know Pam would
like a Rosie to do our house work.
Honestly, did you think we would be living in the days that we
are? After the prosperity of the
last two decades, did anyone see the financial meltdown of America’s
economy coming? Did you
anticipate the loss of jobs and opportunities? How about the disasters that seems to
almost be one after the other throughout the world since Katrina in
2005? Could it be that we have
had our eyes and desires on a cartoon like life instead of the life of
Christ? Could it be that most
Americans, even Christians, have been too busy playing fantasy life and
watching reality TV shows, instead of living in reality and living faithfully
for the Lord? By now some of you
have almost decided to stop reading, or you have become a little irritated at
me for writing my evaluation of life in America in 2010 and daring to
approach you with the truth. America
is more apt to follow a person of charisma than the person of Christ, Who is
the only One that delivers change you can believe in.
I agree that America
needs change, but not a health care change, not a government style or
philosophy change, nor an economic style change. What America needs is a spiritual
direction change of its heart!
America needs repentance!
A true change of direction; we need to change the nations bent toward
sin, self, secularism and the destructive lies of Satan and return humbly in
brokenness and sincerity to seek the living God through the Lord Jesus Christ
in spirit and truth. I believe
the assault on America is not from the liberal or the political left, those
of socialist or the communistic philosophies of government, but is from Satan
himself. I personally believe the
Devil has stepped up his attacks upon individuals, churches and the nations
of this world, because he knows his time is short. The days in which we live are
critical, probably more critical than ever. We must draw nearer to the Lord and allow
Christ to live His live out moment by moment through us. Richard Own Roberts, a man God has
greatly used to speak truth unto the Church for years, wrote the following,
“Historically, unheeded remedial judgments have turned
into final judgments. America, as
a nation, is ripe for destruction.
The Evangelical Movement in this country is characterized by an
arrogance that is almost beyond belief.
The neglect of prayer, the involvement in Philistine methodology, the
moral evils, and the doctrinal corruptions that characterize the Movement are
sufficient to cause Sodomites to wonder at God’s justice in destroying
their city while sparing the United States.
If the youth of the nation are to live out their lives in a land
of freedom and opportunity, they will do so because their parents had grace
sufficient to humble themselves, pray, repent of their sins, and seek
God’s face in Solemn Assemblies.”
This is the burden of your
pastor’s heart, and one of the reasons we have called for the Solemn
Assembly for Sunday, January 31st. I pray that you have been fasting and
praying, preparing and consecrating yourself unto the Lord this week and that
we will meet with the Lord Sunday, broken over our sins, as well as the sins
of our nation. That we will make
confession and seek God’s face so that we may experience His
everlasting mercy. Obedience is
better than sacrifice!
“Sanctify ye a fast, call a
solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into
the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, … Therefore also
now saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,
and with weeping, and with mourning;
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD
your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil.
Who knoweth if He will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind
Him; even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the LORD your God? Joel 1:14 &
2:12-14
By His
grace,
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