Let me first tell you what a joy and honor it is to be your Pastor! God has truly blessed my family with a loving church. God is good! And by the time you read this we will have moved into our new home here in Russellville. If you didn’t get a chance to view it during our recent open house you sure missed a great opportunity to see what a wonderful home Second Baptist has provided for my family and me. Thank you!
It has been remodeled, refurbished, renovated, renewed, and restored (am I missing any words to describe it that begin with ‘R’). It is beautiful, clean, smells new, with no clutter or dirt anywhere! The contractors moved some walls, stripped the floors, refinished some of the beautiful wood floors, and recovered some rooms with brand new carpet. If you didn’t or haven’t had a chance to see it yet come knock on our door, we would love to show it off.
All of this reminds me that we personally need to be refurbished, remodeled, and renovated sometimes. We call it being revived in the church. Corporately we hold revival services from time to time in our church so that everyone can experience a renewal with God. We will be having a spring revival from April 15th through the 18th. Would you and I start now preparing our hearts for the Lord to do a ‘new’ work in us? Let me give you some things to pray about as we approach this time together.
Ask Jesus to expose and remove the clutter in our lives that keep us from allowing Him to reside freely in our hearts. Are there some rooms that you have closed off to Him because there are things that you don’t want Him to see. Trust me, He already knows about them.
Ask Jesus to strip us of all the old habits and sins that dirty our hearts and hide the true beauty He created us to have. Let’s ask Him to strip us of all that doesn’t glorify Him.
Ask Jesus to renew our minds to His truth (Romans 12:2). How easily we are lulled into believing what the world tells us. Our Lord will have a Word for each of us. Let’s not let the evil one blind us to God’s truth.
Ask Jesus to expose and remove the clutter in our lives that keep us from allowing Him to reside freely in our hearts. Are there some rooms that you have closed off to Him because there are things that you don’t want Him to see. Trust me, He already knows about them.
Ask Jesus to strip us of all the old habits and sins that dirty our hearts and hide the true beauty He created us to have. Let’s ask Him to strip us of all that doesn’t glorify Him.
Ask Jesus to renew our minds to His truth (Romans 12:2). How easily we are lulled into believing what the world tells us. Our Lord will have a Word for each of us. Let’s not let the evil one blind us to God’s truth.
The Parsonage may look pretty much the same on the outside, but believe me, it’s all brand new inside and that reminds me too that Jesus does His best work on the inside. We just have to be willing to let Him. Let’s pray for all that to happen.
No comments:
Post a Comment