Following a Sustainable Pattern 11-18-2020

we are in the house of the lord so let us worship god i'm so glad [Music] i'm jesus [Music] jesus lifted me when i was in trouble jesus lifted me when i was in trouble jesus lifted me [Music] jesus jesus [Music] jesus me i'm so glad yes i'm glad that jesus jesus [Music] glory glory and do you feel better i feel better so [Music] much [Music] friends don't treat me like they used to since i laid my burdens down [Music] i'm going home [Music] since i laid [Music] hallelujah glory glory hallelujah [Music] since i laid my burdens i pray that you feel better since your burden has been laid down we are grateful for another wednesday evening as we gather together as the saints of god what a wonderful opportunity we have because of technology that even though we're in our own homes or wherever we find ourselves we can come together because of the spirit of god who unites our hearts and minds together and so tonight we are going to jump right into our bible study i would that you would turn in your bibles to the book the book of philippians chapter 3 and then put a bookmark in genesis chapters 1 and chapters 2. that's where we're going to be tonight i believe it's going to be an exciting study for us it's just going to connect some dots to some things that we already know and we're going to look a little bit at our theology here from the heart as it relates to our doctrine and what we believe so philippians chapter 3 genesis chapters 1 and 2 is where we will be tonight let's go on and pray and we'll get right into the word of god father we are grateful for this evening we're thankful for the opportunity to come to receive to believe and to be changed we pray that your holy spirit would rise up inside of us and teach us those things through your word that we need to know to be and to do so that in our lives father you will continue to be glorified the body will be built up and those who don't know you would come to know you in the pardon of their sins may your word fall upon good ground bring forth much fruit in our lives and cause others to know that the god they cannot see does exist as they see our substance and evidence may your word continue dear father to do what you've accomplished it to do in the earth and we give you the glory and the praise in jesus name amen tonight we are in our second lesson on our series following a sustainable pattern we began this series on last week and i shared with us the importance of understanding that a sustainable pattern is what we need in the earth and what i have said about a sustainable pattern it's that that is able to be maintained at a certain rate or level our lives as christians need to be maintained at a certain rate or level and so we are using philippians chapter 3 as our foundational text so let's look at that beginning with verse 17. paul is writing to the church in philippi and he's encouraging them because of their generosity because of their steadfastness and he gives some instructions here as we look at this 17th verse listen to what paul says brethren join in following my example and note those who so walk as you have us for a pattern for many walk of whom i have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are enemies of the cross of christ whose end is destruction whose god is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who set their mind on earthly things for our citizenship is in heaven from which from which we also eagerly wait for our savior the lord jesus christ who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself from this passage of scripture we have titled this series following a sustainable pattern and here in philippians 3 paul is challenging the church there the believers and notice again verse 17 he says this is a corporate effort this is what must be done by all of us together he says let's all participate but it's in following his example paul recognized that if the church of philippi was going to carry out its assignment they needed first of all an example to follow and that's what we're talking about tonight all of us as believers of jesus christ even though we're born of god's spirit we're filled with god's spirit we're being led by god's spirit we need an example to follow as we continue in our christian walk paul says in following my example he says i also want you to note those who so walk as you have us for a pattern so patterns are important in life and that's what we're looking at in this series i shared with us on last time that if we're going to be everything that god has called us to be then we need an example to follow and shared with us why it's important for us to have a godly example to follow because paul says here there are many who are enemies of the cross there are a lot of false teachers out there who want to hoodwink and bamboozle and and just trick people into following them instead of following god but i gave us a couple of takeaways from last week's lesson and i want to remind us of that as we jump into the new information i shared with us from this the first thing that we must do is not allow our earthly experiences to crowd out the reality of our heavenly citizenship see we are citizens in heaven heaven is our ultimate home and we must not allow the experiences of this earth to crowd out the reality that one day we will all forever be in the presence of the lord the second thing i shared with us is that we must look forward to the return of jesus christ that's the christian hope it's not hoping for a better job a better car it's hope the hope which is a great anticipa anticipation of what we fully expect to receive and that is one day the lord jesus christ is coming to receive us all and so we recognize that as we look at these things we can live in this world but not be of the world because we have a pattern to follow we have a sustainable pattern that has proven and been tested through all of time to help us to know that our god is god so with that in mind i want to once again review our intent our purpose goal and objectives for this series and you can go on over to genesis chapter one and that's where we're going to be for the rest of the evening chapters one and two now what i'm going to do tonight is to connect a lot of knowledge that many of us already know and for those of you who are joining us for the first time we welcome you and we're going to give you some information and uh we're going to give you the opportunity to continue to stream in with us and you're going to hear some things and hopefully it will be able to connect with what you already know but the intent always answers the question why are we studying this particular topic or series so the intent for following a sustainable pattern is so that we can make the rest of our days the best of our days see where we are right now doesn't have to be the worst of our days i've been hearing many people say oh i'll be so glad when 2020 is over because this has been a horrible year this has been a time of testing but listen when 2020 is over we don't know what's going to happen in 2021 so what we want to do rather than waiting on the days to get better because truth pattern if we don't study it if we don't understand it once we study that pattern then we're going to use our second objective which is the then which is then rather to pattern our lives according to the original pattern god established so we can't pattern what we don't know so first we're going to study it then we're going to pattern our lives thirdly we're going to stay in line and rank with the established pattern and then finally we're going to enjoy the process along the way we're not going to fight it we're not going to become irritated by it but we're going to enjoy it the rest of our days so with that in mind let's dive right into this on tonight now there is a uh there is a way of studying the scriptures that's called the first law or law of first mentions so what i'm saying here is that whatever subject or topic you want to find in the word of god or that you're wrestling with in your life you always want to go and look at the law of first mentions in other words when was the first time this particular topic was mentioned in the scripture and the reason we studied the law of first mention is because it helps us to see the purpose as to why god established it in the earth so if we're going to follow a sustainable pattern when was this pattern first mentioned in the scriptures and when we go all the way back to genesis that's where we find it everything for life and living we can find in the book of genesis and so i want to encourage you the rest of this week and next week is to just walk through the book of genesis and you will see the hand of god and it'll help you to better understand what the meaning of life is and how we're to live so as we look at the original pattern that god established i want to remind us from the heart of our seven spiritual principles of god now i'm not going to teach them tonight i'm just going to share them but i want you to go back and meditate on them study them because this is the pattern that god has given us to follow and then what we're going to do tonight after i just mention the seven spiritual principles we're going to see how those principles unfolded in the lives of adam and eve so let's just review real quickly the seven spiritual principles of god these are principles that are to govern our lives these are principles that help us to understand the consistent nature of our god it's important for us to understand god's consistent nature because he's the same yesterday today and you know the rest of it forevermore right so since god is the same we need to understand his consistent nature because he's not going to change just because 2020 has been a very interesting year for us he's not going to change just because we've elected a new president in the united states of america he's not going to change because a pandemic has literally taken over the world god is consistent that's why he's god and it becomes ours to understand his nature so what helps us to understand the nature are what we call the seven spiritual principles of god these principles as you know were given to us through our founding pastor dr john a chairman and he has shared with us these principles over the years and i just want to remind us of these because this pattern will give us a sustainable future for our lives it has sustained it from the heart since its inception and in 2021 we're going to be celebrating 40 years of ministry through from the heart church ministries so let's look at this we have seven spiritual principles we know that the first spiritual principle is that of organization now i want you all to rehearse this with me because you already know it we know that organization is god's plan to what simplify our lives in order for our lives to be simple we need organization now it is also god's plan to keep his will in perfect order as we simplify our lives god's will is kept in perfect order in our lives now there are three objectives or three points of organization it helps us to develop a consistent godly lifestyle it helps us to learn how to organize our organism and it helps us how to become effective witnesses for the lord jesus christ so the first sustainable pattern for us is the spiritual principle of organization if my life is going to be sustained i've got to get organized i've got to make sure that my life is simple simple is not easy but it puts things in order so that we can live a consistent godly lifestyle so that the organism is organized and we then become effective witnesses for the lord jesus christ now that leads us to our second spiritual principles which we see all here in genesis the first thing god did with creation and notice with me genesis 1 he organized it look at it with me if you were genesis 1 verse 1 in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of god was hovering over the face of the waters then god said let there be light and what happened there was light as you continue to read we see god organizing the earth the second spiritual principle is that of sowing and reaping sowing and reaping is god's plan to provide for our lives once we are organized then god's provisions can be a part of our lives again this is a sustainable pattern that god has put in the earth sowing reap is not only god's plan to provide for our lives but it is god's plan to cause his will to reproduce after his kind so the pattern that we're seeing is something that god does for us as well as what god desires to do through us see for us he wants us to live simple lives through us he wants his will to be kept in perfect order when we look at sow and reap for us he provides for our lives through us he wants us to reproduce after his kind or his will rather which leads us to recognizing that when we allow this principle of sow and reap to operate in our lives it builds us in our most holy faith we learn how to receive the provisions of god and we're able to super abound having our needs met now i'm going quickly through this but as members you have this in your perfecting class those of you who are not members join the church tonight we'll make sure you get all the information through our new member orientation because these principles will guide us and give us a sustainable pattern to follow now let me keep going because i want to get to show you how all of this unfolds the third spiritual principle that we have is what we call stewardship let's look at how god did this in genesis he organized the earth then he put sowing and reaping in the earth then he placed man and gave him stewardship over his creation stewardship is god's plan to fulfill our lives and to cause his will to produce an abundance now i hope i'm not going too fast for you but i hope that you're able to connect the dots once we're organized once sowing and reaping is taking effect now we can live a fulfilled life but it's only through stewardship listen to what i'm saying it's not about ownership it's about stewardship because we can own a lot of things but if we're not good stewards of it it's not going to fulfill our lives that's why we have to get the latest and greatest every other year that's why people trade in their families to get other families because they're not good stewards of the families they have but what i'm learning is that when we become good stewards then we can live a fulfilled life and take care of what god has entrusted unto us stewardship is god's plan to fulfill our lives and god's plan to cause his will to produce an abundance through stewardship it builds character and that's what we need to be in the earth we need a sustainable pattern that whereby character can be built in us we learn how to be wide stewards over the provisions of god and then we're able to super abound so that we can then meet the needs of others that's the spiritual principle of stewardship so once god organizes the earth he puts sowing and reaping in the earth then we become good stewards the fourth principle is that of authority authority is god's plan to protect our lives and to protect the integrity of his will through authority we build discipline through authority we learn how to stay in position with god the father and we're able to actualize concepts for successful christian living now stay with me because you're going to see all of this unfold in just a minute so now that authority is in our lives now that we understand authority we have protection and god's will the integrity of his will is protected through us again this is a sustainable pattern that we are to follow because any of these principles if we don't follow the pattern then we're not going to reap the benefits of what god desires to do for us and in us now once he organized the earth he placed sowing and reaping in the earth stewardship then became our responsibility authority is what we're to submit under the fifth spiritual principle is unconditional love and the reason we have this as the fifth principle is because man did not stay under the authority of god's word but god's love which is unconditional had to be in the earth so that man wouldn't just be wiped out unconditional love is god's plan to keep our lives from failing love is what never fails and god does not want us to fail so he had to place this principle of unconditional love in the earth so that our lives would not fail and so that his will would not return unto him void through unconditional love we build a proper attitude so if people have attitude issues they need to understand the unconditional love of god we need to submit to the unconditional love of god we learn how to have good success with god and with man through unconditional love here's a a note i want to give you if you're not having good success with man it's because you're not having good success with god and you need to go back and look at this spiritual principle of unconditional love god wants us to have good success we have to want it through unconditional love through unconditional love we've learned that we have victory over every evil circumstance so whatever the circumstances that come we can have victory through unconditional love why because love never fails that leads us to our sixth spiritual principle which is obedience it is god's plan to reward our lives and to show forth the excellency of his will if you want a reward in your life it comes through obedience obedience is a sustainable pattern that if we follow we'll be rewarded for it many people are struggling in life today because they're not being obedient to the things of god but if we would just submit to him we would experience all that god has for us through obedience we build righteousness through obedience we learn how to live in the blessed state and through obedience we're able to put our faith into action we must be people of obedience which leads us to our last spiritual principle and i hear some of you saying ooh this is a whole lot it is but remember it's a sustainable pattern for us to follow and you have all of this information if you don't have it join the church we'll make sure you get it amen i just want to remind us of it so that we can see it lived out the last spiritual principle that we have is agreement agreement is god's plan to crown our lives with peace and to be at a oneness with his will see what the world needs today more than anything else is the peace of god and when we agree with god our lives are crowned with peace now through the spiritual of a spiritual principle of agreement we're able to communicate make decisions and solve problems all according to god's will through agreement we learn how to rest in god the father and what we need today is to learn how to rest in god the father the issues of our lives should not be wearing us out if we're resting in god the father and the only way we can rest is to agree with god through agreement we learn to rest in god the father and we are also able to achieve the peace that jesus christ the son promised so the seven spiritual principles of god is a sustainable pattern that all of us are to follow now for those of us who are members of the church you've probably said well pastor we've been hearing this for years well it's time to just stop to stop hearing and to start doing hearing is not enough we've got to be doers of what we've been taught again if you go back to philippians paul said you have us for an example and i want you to note those who so walk because we're a pattern for you so let's go back to the pattern that god has established let's stop looking for new revelation and new opportunities and let's just say i'm gonna stick with what has worked we have over 40 years of history of these seven spiritual principles now having said all of that let's jump into the three points for tonight notice genesis chapter one i'm going to start at verse 26 and we're going to look at a couple of things for tonight so knowing the seven spiritual principles let's see how they unfolded in the lives of adam and eve in genesis 1 verse 26 it says then god said now this then is here because god for five days has established the heavens and the earth has separated the land from the sea has divided the light from darkness and all of these other things that we see happening and so now he comes to the sixth day it says and god said let us make man in our image according to our likeness and let them have dominion let's stop right there as we talk about the sustainable pattern that we must learn that we must study and make sure we understand so that we can then follow it the first thing i want you to get is that god made man that's our first point for tonight god made man man did not come from a tadpole or a gorilla or evolution god made man now i'm slowing down and i know it sounds simple because i want us to get this god made man okay man did not make himself god made man and this is important because when we look at this word man it has to do with all of mankind god made mankind and god did not create all of what we call races in mankind see god only made one race and that's called the human race we may have different cultures we may have different skin colors but god made man so that tells us then that man came from one being and that being is god so i'm not sure why we have all of these differentiations where some of us think that we're better than others because of our skin color because of our educational upbringing or because of our culture that has nothing to do with who man is that god made so let's go back because if we're going to follow this sustainable pattern the first thing we have to understand is that god made man and notice it says god made man letter a in he said let us make man in our image so when we look at this hour we see god the father we see god the son and we see god the holy spirit because god was talking to himself but he was talking to the trinity of his being now i want you to get that god the father who is our creator and sustainer jesus christ who is our access to god the father and the holy spirit who illuminates everything that god the father and jesus has said they are in concert they are in union when in unison rather when they are making and creating man and man is made in the image of god that's why i said a few weeks ago that we are a trichotomy we are three-dimensional we are spirit we have a soul and we live in this body god the father god the son and god the holy spirit is one and we are in the same image of god that means beloved that we have to understand all three dimensions of mankind and none of it has to do with the color of our skin none of it has to do with the culture and the way that we were brought up in the earth we have to go back to the beginning and see for a sustainable pattern we've got to see that god made us in his image that's why we're reimagining because we have to go back to the image as to how god made us and i think when we look at other men when we look at other people if we recognize that god made man we won't be so quick to judge them or to criticize them just because of how they were made we were all made by god we are all the human race all of this other stuff that we consider so important it's not important so god made man letter a in our image let her be according to his likeness now i like that because what it helped me to do many many years ago is just to kind of settle down because there were some things about me that i didn't like but when i recognize that i made after the likeness of god i got to start liking it because god likes it see god likes man god likes the way that we were created in the earth and so if god likes it why do we dislike it why do we complain about how some people look and how some people act we've got to like the creation of god here's the thing god created man in his own image but the other thing that it says here let me go back to genesis 1 26 uh no i'm going to drop all the way down because i don't want to go get too far ahead of myself but when god made man it says he created them male and female so mankind is the creation and out of mankind came male and female i hope that you're getting this today he made man in his likeness and image according to his likeness and image and in making man he made them male and female he created them so he made them first and then he created them in other words the spiritual part of who we are that's who god made and then he created us by when you go into genesis 2 taking the the dust of the earth and forming it and shaping it then he breathed into mankind's nostrils the breath of life so from that all of mankind came of the dust of the earth but god took that dust and as he breathed himself into it we became a living soul so point number one we've got to recognize that god made man that is so important now i know it just sounds like pastor you sound like a broken record you're saying it over and over and over yes and the reason i am is because since god made man man is responsible to god not man we're responsible to god so god established a pattern that if we just follow we'll be able to to function much better in the earth here's your point too before my time runs out once god made man god blessed man that's our second point god bless man let's see go back to genesis 1. we're still in genesis 1. and i want you to drop down to verse 20 let's see that was 26. now what i want you to do is drop down to verse 28. it says then god blessed them okay or verse 27. so god created man in his own image in the image of god he created him male and female he created them then god blessed them and god said to them their male and them female be fruitful multiply fill the earth subdue it have dominion so once god made man the second thing we see as we follow this sustainable pattern is that god blessed them he blessed the male and the female and he supplied everything that they need now in his blessing he blessed us to do five things this is the sustainable pattern this is what we must govern our lives accordingly he blessed us to number one be fruitful now that doesn't mean go out and have a whole bunch of children bless the name of the lord because fruitful here in hebrew means be productive now part of the production may be having children but before you have children you got to have a job you got to have something going for you that's what god did with adam before gay before god gave adam a wife he gave him a job so god said be fruitful that's to be productive let it be he told them to multiply multiply here is raise the productivity of those around you your life should inspire others to be productive what you do every day ought to cause somebody to say i'm going to get up i'm not going to be lazy and i'm going to be productive so we're to be fruitful god blessed us to multiply thirdly god blessed us to fill the earth fill the earth means replenish it it means be a good steward if you use something put it back if you take something use it so that it can multiply and be re and the earth be replenished see we should not live to where we're consuming everything and there's nothing left for the next generation that's what replenish the earth means god says fill the earth make sure that when in your life whatever you use you're able to replenish it you're able to put something back in its place so that the next person coming along will have what they need all right god made man secondly god bless man he blessed us to be fruitful he blessed us to multiply he blessed us to fill the earth fourthly he blessed us to subdue the earth subduing the earth means god blessed us to control our environment i like this because we should not allow the environment to control us we should control the environment and what better message we need than today because there are things floating around the environment that's deadly but we need to take control of the environment by stopping that that's harmful to man so see wearing a mass distancing ourselves washing our hands is a way we can control the environment the problem we have today is that people are not taking control they're letting the environment control them thus we have this spread that's continuing throughout the world so what do we have to do let's recognize god bless us to control our environment i heard someone say this i'm gonna give this to you for free then get to our third and final point listen stay at home orders first came out in the book of genesis when god had the children of israel in egypt and he commanded them to stay in their houses because the death angel was going to pass over he you got to stay so if you wanted to live you had to stay in your house you had to put the blood over the doorpost listen that's all that's happening today we need to stay and protect ourselves so that this death angel called covet 19 would pass over and pass out but it's not going to happen if we're not subduing the earth controlling our environment and then the fifth thing that god blessed us to do was to have dominion in other words we are to rule and reign over god's creation we may not be the strongest animals on the earth because gazelles run faster than us uh apes are much stronger than us but we have the dominion because god gave that to us and so i want to encourage us as we look at this sustainable pattern first and foremost god made man secondly god bless man to be fruitful to multiply to fuel the earth to subdue it and to have dominion and our third and final point for tonight is that god commanded man god commanded man look at the pattern he made us he blessed us then he gave us a command see god will never command anything from us that he has not first blessed us to be able to do good god almighty i like that god will not command us to do anything that he has not already blessed us to be able to do now go to chapter 2 verse 15 as we close out real quickly genesis 2 15. it says then the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to tend and keep it so the first commandment god gave man was i need you to be responsible i need you to be responsible for your environment i'm putting you in this garden that belongs to me but i want you to be good a good steward tend it and keep it see that's why people of god we have to take serious our responsibilities and roles god doesn't expect us just to sit up and consume everything that we have we must tend where god has placed us all right so we're to ten and keep the garden let's keep going verse 16. this is genesis 2 verse 16. and the lord god commanded man saying of every tree of the garden you may freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die look at this last thing that we see here the tree of the knowledge of good and evil god said do not eat or you will surely die so what's the takeaway from this the command that god gave us is to tend the garden and to be obedient so when you think back and the reason i started with the seven spiritual principles because we see all of this happening we see organization we see sow and reap we see stewardship we see authority we see unconditional love we see obedience and we see agreement if man adam and eve at this time had stayed under the principles the seven spiritual principles of god life would be totally different than it is right now but god says to us today if we would recognize that he made us if we would understand that he blessed us then we can follow the commands of god and live a productive and fulfilling life this is the pattern so from the rest of the bible from genesis all the way through revelation we're going to see this pattern fold and unfold we're going to see how it worked in some lives and how it didn't work in others but it's not because god the pattern doesn't work it's because man chooses to do what man wants to do rather than what god wants us to do so i'm closing tonight out just by telling us this the sustainable pattern from life is god's word the sustainable pattern for life is the correct interpretation of what god said we have a method here called the seven spiritual principles of god that helps us to understand the consistent nature of god and as i just walked you through the first two chapters of genesis we see that it can work and it will work even when we fail the pattern can work so what we have to do is just get back to the pattern erase whatever is wrong pray and ask god to forgive us wherever we've missed the mark and strayed from the pattern and let's just get back on pattern it really is that simple let's stop complicating life and let's keep it simple because god made us god blessed us and god commanded us if we follow the commands based on how god has blessed us and made us we'll experience a successful christian life amen praise the lord i want to pray for you tonight maybe you're listening and watching and you're saying well pastor my life is too complicated and i i just i i messed up listen we've all messed up we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of god but the good news is is that if we confess our sins god is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness that's for the believer so even as a believer if you've messed up this is your opportunity to be restored this is your opportunity to be made right with god once again if you're not a believer this is your opportunity to accept the lord jesus christ because the bible also says that whosoever shall confess with your mouth the lord jesus and believe in your heart that god raised you from the raised him from the dead you shall be saved so if you are here to make a first-time confession of jesus christ or if you're here to confess your sins because you want to get back to the pattern that god has established i'm going to pray for you and with you and you can pray the same prayer with me and god will hear your heart and he'll save and he'll restore let's pray just repeat after me heavenly father i come to you now in the name of jesus lord i believe that jesus is the christ that he died for my sins was buried and rose again on the third day lord jesus come into my heart save me from my sins restore my life now i trust you i pray that you fill me afresh with your holy spirit so that i can live a godly and righteous life i thank you tonight that i'm saved in jesus name amen praise the lord for those of you who prayed that prayer out of the sincerity of your heart i want to say welcome to the kingdom of 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ready for membership give us your information we're going to contact you and we're going to let you know what the next steps are for that we want you to continue to have a wonderful wonderful life in god and we want to be used by god as examples and as patterns so that then you can become an example and a pattern for your family and more and more people will come out of darkness and into the marvelous light of god we bless god for you and we thank god for you and we pray that you continue your walk with god amen praise the lord well from the heart that's the end of this message for tonight but before we sign off we're going to worship god in our giving amen because we know that uh it is more blessed to give than to receive and i want to thank all of you who have been such a blessing to this church you are giving of your substance you are making sure that this church continues to stay alive and well and functioning in the earth and we are grateful for that so we're going to pause now and we want you to go to our website there you'll find the give button it's a secure site and so you can give knowing that your tithes your offerings and all of that will be done securely and it's going to allow us to continue to advance in the things of god let's pray as we receive the offering father we are grateful as we continue in this worship that we have the opportunity to give it's not grudging lure of necessity because we know that you love a cheerful giver and so it's with cheerfulness in our hearts that we pay tithes to support the church we give offerings to bless the church and we sow alms to demonstrate the mercy of the church may these gifts continue to be used so that an infrastructure will be in place to whereby families will be built through hope through help and through healing this we pray father in jesus name amen all right while you are giving i have just a few announcements that i want to share with you and then we'll be ready for our final prayer song and prayer uh that we do take prayer requests so if you are in need of prayer you know others who are in need of prayer we would that you would call the church line at 713-939-0300 and there you can text prayers you can leave messages with prayers if you talk to someone live you can share with them we delight and we honor to pray for you and with you and i've got a group of men and women who are just excited about that so let us know those requests and then as god begins to answer the prayers let us know also because what we do is we keep everything confidential but we want to be able to rejoice when we know god has answered those prayers so keep us in contact and let us know what's going on there just an announcement and we need your prayers church members because the board is going to meet tomorrow night at 6 30 p.m online so all board members i look forward to meeting with you and we're going to have a very productive meeting as we begin to close out 2020 and as we prepare for 2021 a lot of things need to happen so we solicit your prayers so that we would use our godly judgment to make those decisions that's going to advance this church and keep everyone connected and doing the things that god would have us to do again i want to announce our non-suffra lack food pantry i'm excited about that because men are leading this effort and they are excited and we have those of you who have gave your donations those of you who have actually brought foods and things by we are grateful for that and we are ready now to be a blessing to as many families as need be our responsibility first and foremost is to take care of our members and i'm going to be talking about that over the next few weeks because membership has its privileges and for those of you who are members if you are in need contact us because your church wants to help you we have items that will bless your family we have items that will sustain your family in a natural way and so if you are lacking in any area please contact us so that we can get the necessary foods and things to you so the we've established our food pantry to help our members we are requesting contributions of non-perishable foods like canned vegetables canned soups dry pasta dry rice cereal etc suggested donation items and drop-off times are posted in realm in the announcements monetary contributions can be made using the giving code food pantry so for those who are not able to come by and drop off if you want to donate money above and beyond your regular tides and offerings look for that click on that says food pantry and we'll make sure that the funds you give go toward the food pantry amen so we thank you for that if you are in need or you know a family who's a member of the church that's in need contact us it will remain confidential we'll make sure that the families get what they need and god will be glorified all right this saturday is super saturday fellowships so we're looking forward to it this saturday november the 21st at 9 00 a.m faithful men listen i want to see every man of the church and visitors and all so men you have between now and saturday morning to get to work and call your daddies call your uncles call your sons call your nephews let's get men on the line this saturday as we have our men's fellowship and uh there have been a number of men that i haven't heard from in a while so let's make sure that we get everybody online for saturday morning at 9 00 a.m when i send the link out you can forward that link to others so that they can join in and be a part of what we're going to do this saturday at 9 00 a.m and the women of god life givers the same announcement goes for them there are a number of women that we want to make sure you are well and all is well so join us saturday morning at 11 o'clock a.m and then there are none like us children same thing we want to see our children online saturday at 12 30 p.m so parents make sure that you get the link and if you don't get the link let me know and we'll make sure it gets out but we want to see the men the women and the children this saturday nine o'clock 11 a.m and 12 30 noon online as we have our super saturday then on sunday we're going to have our regular 10 30 worship service amen but this sunday at 4 o'clock p.m we are having thanksgiving praise on the parking lot so we're excited about that it's an opportunity for us to come together in a safe manner it's an opportunity for us to worship together to play together and so we're looking forward to that happening it will begin at five o'clock p.m i'm sorry four o'clock p.m short we're asking if a face mask and face coverings are required we will have our children's hour from four to four thirty and then we will begin properly at 4 30 ish with our praise and worship and we're going to go until the sun comes down and then we're just going to worship the lord from there so we do have a contingency plan in the event of rain there will be overflow rooms available to maintain physical distancing but uh the weather forecast says it's going to be sunny it's going to be clear and so we're going to have a great time this sunday we're looking forward to seeing you so come on you can stay either in your car or if you get out we're going to have chairs and things arranged to where you can physically distance yourselves and it'll be a safe environment so i want you to to mark your calendars and let's come out and have truly thanksgiving praise on the parking lot okay during the week of thanksgiving november 23rd through 27th no services will be conducted except corporate prayer services will commence on saturday november the 28th when i meet with a young adult so please mark that and uh make let that be made known uh one of the reasons i'm doing this is because usually thanksgiving week is a time of um uh pulling some things together and i'll just be honest i'm tired i i need a break i need a mental break and so i'm gonna use that week my wife is off from work and so we're going to do some things uh as husband and wife and uh that we need to do because she's been working hard and mildly not only on her own job but also with me and the things that we're doing and so we just need some some honeydew time amen so give us that that week and we're grateful for that and then we're going to come back together so young adults i'm looking for you november the 28th 1 o'clock p.m either physically be here or make sure that you're ready to go online with us register now in realm so that i know who's going to be here physically and who's going to join us online and it's open to all young adults you don't have to be a member of the church to participate so we're looking forward to that and then a reminder of our annual members meeting december the 9th we say this in advance because the constitution requires that we give a 30-day advance notice and we did that when we started announcing it so you have noticed that we are meeting it's going to be an online meeting as well as in person if you would like to come in person you have to register in advance and it's only a few slots left so if you want to physically be here please register soon so that your presence can be here and the rest we're looking forward to you joining us online a private link is going to be giving out at that time because it's the meeting for our members and it's not something that we want to broadcast to all of the world and not that we're hiding anything but it's just information members need to know so we look forward to that on december 9th 7 o'clock p.m okay remember there are still invitations to worship we have plenty of room on wednesday nights amen so you can come out not next wednesday because we're not going to be here but after that and come worship us be a part of the live studio audience it's a wonderful experience and we know that you'll enjoy it it's a safe experience we've not had any issues or anything that have popped up so you can uh come and rest assured and know that everything is well amen all right so these are our announcements for the evening we want you to have a wonderful week take some time to stay safe and stay with god a lot of plans have to change because we know that the numbers are rising here in our area and we don't want to alarm anyone but at the same time we want to take those measures that's going to keep us safe so that as we get through this period then we'll be able to gather again real soon and just really enjoy each other but in the meantime make the short-term sacrifices for long-term gain amen that's what we want to do so i think that's all that i have thanks to our wonderful volunteers once again who faithfully serve and continue and uh we're grateful for that thank all of you for streaming in tonight uh that's all i have i think we have a closing song this time so it's gonna work for us so let's all stand together in your homes where you are and let's raise our voices together [Music] all right here we go we are one we [Music] we are [Music] jesus christ [Music] [Music] lord thank you for making us one thank you for giving us a sustainable pattern in the earth as we follow it may you continue to lead us and guide us so that we can be examples for others so that they can come to know the true and savior of jesus christ now unto him who's able to keep us from falling afield to present us fathers at the appearing of our lord and savior jesus christ to the only wise god the majesty glory dominion and power both henceforth and forevermore may we all together sing [Music] we love you and we'll see you saturday

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Published: Wed Nov 18 2020