Monday, January 27, 2014

Blessings in the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ!

This month we have been focusing on prayer, how important it is to the life and vitality of the body of Christ.  It was with-out a doubt foundational in the early church and needs to be just as important in these last days in which we live.

"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." (2 Chron.7:14)

The Church needs revival and it begins with prevailing prayer...

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer – of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wresting in the stillness of the night. Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observations and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. (Samuel Chadwick)

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.” (Guy H. King)

Until next time,
God's Grace and Peace!

Friday, April 12, 2013

Blessings in His wonderful Name!

Friends I had posted last year this scripture from 2 Timothy and shared how we need to be ready for the 2nd coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... so, brothers and sisters let us remember that the coming of our Lord is nearer than ever...  The Apostle Paul writes,  "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!"  (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
This description fits today's society with-out a doubt,... violence, death, sexual perversion, immorality, homosexuality to name a few... are promoted by the music industry, Hollywood and the culture of our day...
So my brethren, "let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrews 10:22-25)

Until next time,
   
                     God's Grace and Peace!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Blessings in Jesus Name!

Our first Service of the year in our little Chapel in Waquoit was filled with vision for 2013 and most importantly the presence of God!

Peggy lead us in Worship and ushered in the Spirit of God into our meeting... we opened the Word of God to Acts 2:36-46 and got a good view of what God wants His Church to look like...  Verse 42 says, "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.  We focused on these 4 points and believe we as a Church are not only to reach the lost, but make disciples according to the Word the Lord gave us...  That means everyone one of us in the body of Christ are to be making disciples!

Peggy again lead us in a chores at the close of Service and the Spirit of God fell upon us once again... the Word of the Lord came forth for those who needed victory in their lives or over a particular situation... to those who cried out to Lord - God would meet them...  it was awesome to hear the voices of those in the congregation crying out to God!!!  I know there will be some testimonies soon coming.

Until next time,

God's Grace and Peace!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Wish we'd all been ready!

Blessing to All,
The Apostle Paul when writing to Timothy says, "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:  For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,  traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  having a form of godliness but denying its power..." 2 Tim 3:1-5
Paul is not talking about the those in the world...for these ungodly character traits have always been part of those who don't know Christ, but he is speeking to us with-in the Body of Christ.
Friends look around you, we are in the last days!  And we need to be ready for the return of our Lord and Savior.
There was this song we used to sing years ago, maybe some of you remember it, it goes like this,


Life was filled with guns and war
And all of us got trampled on the floor
I wish we'd all been ready

Children died the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

A man and wife asleep in bed
She hears a noise and turns her head he's gone
I wish we'd all been ready

Two men walking up a hill
One disappears and one's left standing still
I wish we'd all been ready

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

The Father spoke the demons died
How could you have been so blind

There's no time to change your mind
The Son has come and you've been left behind

Friends I said it before and will say it again, look around you, we are in the last days!  And we need to be ready for the return of our Lord and Savior.

Until next time, God's Grace and Peace

Sunday, August 14, 2011

The New Testament Church

My wife Peggy and I were talking the other day about the Church of this Century compared to the New Testament Church of the First Century. One of the differences we discussed was that people were coming to Christ daily, as we read in the book of Acts.  "And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved." (Acts 2:47b)
Over the last year, we have had the privilege of leading about one person per month to the Lord through our ministry.  We praise the Lord and rejoice over each one!  And yet, our hope is that soon we will see even more come into the family of God, not just monthly but weekly... and then daily...We have a lot of work, prayer and fasting ahead of us...but with God all things are possible!
New Testament Church or Church of the 21st Century?  Which one do you want to resemble?
Until next time,
        God's Grace and Peace

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Just One More Day


Blessings Friends! Read this very interesting story today and wanted to share it with you...

In October 1850, gold was discovered in the district of Grass
Valley, California. Over the next 91 years, at least one million
dollars in gold was produced annually from the mines in
that area.
Michael Brennan, a 36-year-old journalist with the New York Herald, heard about the mining claims at a place called Massachusetts Hill, overlooking Grass Valley. He had no experience in
mining, but a group of Irish New York investors bought the mine
and chose Brennan to go west and supervise it.
He sailed from New York with his beautiful wife, Dorinda, and
their three children, crossed over the Panama Isthmus (before
the canal was built), and then again by ship until they reached
northern California.
He built a large comfortable home atop Massachusetts Hill,
fully expecting that gold-bearing quartz would flow out from his
mine below.
Everything went well for a while and within a few months a
sizeable dividend was declared. Convinced that an even richer
vein of gold lay further along the shaft, Brennan had his men attack
the mine with all the equipment and vigor they could bring
to bear. Every dollar he could raise went into the mining operation,
but all the effort produced nothing.
Deeper and deeper his men dug the shaft, looking for the
precious gold-bearing quartz. But the gold had vanished. Brennan
was advised by others to give up the quest, but he soldiered
on. W hen his company could no longer finance his work, he
spent his own money and used up every cent. Finally, no creditor
would back him and he had to lay off all his men.
He continued on, digging by himself. His health and that of his
family began to decline. After two years, Michael Brennan realized
his Massachusetts Hill had become Heartbreak Hill. One of
his friends, Old Charley, found him one morning slumped down
at the entrance to his mine. “Charley,” he said, “my dream is
over. This mine has beaten me.”
The next Sunday the Brennan family missed church in Grass
Valley. Alarmed at the silence around the home, the neighbors
went to check. They broke into the house and found the whole
family dead, evidently of poison. Dorinda and the children were
sitting up in their beds, Michael was sitting almost upright in his
easy chair in the parlor, as if he had just fallen asleep. The family
was buried nearby in the city cemetery on a small rise just
across from Massachusetts Hill.
New owners purchased the mine. At the very spot where Michael
Brennan had put in his last day of digging, the new owners
set off a blast that uncovered the rich ledge of gold Brennan had
sought. One day more and his dreams would have come true!
He quit too soon!
As I read this story by Charles Crowder, “The Saga of Heartbreak
Hill,” in an airline magazine years ago, I thought of the
admonitions and encouragement of Scripture that we are to
endure. Jesus said to His disciples, “he who stands firm to the
end will be saved” (Mark 13:13). The apostle Paul said: “Run in
such a way as to get the prize” (1 Corinthians 9:24) and affirms
in his last letter that indeed, “I have finished the race” (2 Timothy
4:7). The writer of Hebrews urges discouraged and persecuted
believers not to drop out, but to “run with perseverance the race
marked out for us” (12:1).
George O. Wood is general superintendent of the
Assemblies of God (USA).

Until Next time! God's Grace and Peace!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Blessings My Brothers and Sisters!

I am presently redesigning my blogg spot.

Gods Grace and peace!