Dear Calvary Christian Church Family and Friends, Yesterday (Tuesday) we had a wonderful Cultural Impact Team Conference; Well attended, see the pictures in the new album. Special thanks to Kittrell’s Chicken and Ribs for the best catering in Virginia! Thanks to all of our presenters, Randy Wilson National Field Director for the Family Research Council, Victoria Cobb President of The Family Foundation of Virginia, Don Blake President of The Virginia Christian Alliance, Terry Beatley Hosea Initiative, Apostle John Bibbens, Pastor of Zion Lottsburg and Fredericksburg and Travis Witt for a special reenactment appearance by Rev. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg! Special thanks to the Fredericksburg Rappahannock Evangelical Alliance for hosting this great event! Today (Wednesday morning) we will travel to Northumberland County with Apostle Bibbens for another CIT conference and appreciate your prayers! CONTINUING IN THE WORD BIBLE STUDY – Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, WEDNESDAY PRAYER GUIDE - PRAY FOR OUR LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL LEADERS ASKING GOD TO GRANT THEM WISDOM, DISCERNEMENT, AND HEARTS THAT ARE OPEN TO HIS LEADING. PRAY FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND ADVISORS. OSWALD CHAMBERS DEVOTIONAL - Getting There (2) They said to Him, ’Rabbi . . . where are You staying?’ He said to them, ’Come and see’ —John 1:38-39 Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. “They . . . remained with Him that day . . . .” That is about all some of us ever do. We stay with Him a short time, only to wake up to our own realities of life. Our self-interest rises up and our abiding with Him is past. Yet there is no circumstance of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. “You are Simon . . . . You shall be called Cephas” (John 1:42). God writes our new name only on those places in our lives where He has erased our pride, self-sufficiency, and self-interest. Some of us have our new name written only in certain spots, like spiritual measles. And in those areas of our lives we look all right. When we are in our best spiritual mood, you would think we were the highest quality saints. But don’t dare look at us when we are not in that mood. A true disciple is one who has his new name written all over him— self-interest, pride, and self-sufficiency have been completely erased. Pride is the sin of making “self” our god. And some of us today do this, not like the Pharisee, but like the tax collector (see Luke 18:9-14). For you to say, “Oh, I’m no saint,” is acceptable by human standards of pride, but it is unconscious blasphemy against God. You defy God to make you a saint, as if to say, “I am too weak and hopeless and outside the reach of the atonement by the Cross of Christ.” Why aren’t you a saint? It is either that you do not want to be a saint, or that you do not believe that God can make you into one. You say it would be all right if God saved you and took you straight to heaven. That is exactly what He will do! And not only do we make our home with Him, but Jesus said of His Father and Himself, “. . . We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23). Put no conditions on your life— let Jesus be everything to you, and He will take you home with Him not only for a day, but for eternity. Bible in One Year: Ezra 3-5; John 20 Have a great prayer time and a Wonderful Wednesday! Pastor MichaEl
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:40:00 +0000
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