Good morning FWC family today is Two for Tuesday prayer day (two or more people praying together). The following was my devotional from CBN yesterday, it really spoke to my heart: We like to look our best. If we share our shortcomings, we might ruin our reputation. We could be misunderstood, or rejected. If others knew our hidden sins, it could cause them to stumble. Instead of risking vulnerability and getting help, we put on a false front. We play a game of Chistianese with others, with ourselves—and even with God. There are times we need to be discreet, but it’s never healthy to play games with the Lord. If we want to be more Christ-like, we need to confess our sins. He already knows our transgressions, but He likes for us to bring them to Him, being open and honest. God’s instructions for Old Testament sacrifices reveal God’s view of our confessions. The Lord gave Moses specific instructions for how priests were to make peace and sin offerings. He said for the priest to kill an animal, and from the sacrifice “he shall present an offering by fire to the Lord, the fat that covers the entrails [bowels], and all the fat that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, . . . and the lobe of the liver” (Lev. 3:3-4). We try to give our best to God, but He clearly instructs Moses to sacrifice the worst parts of the animals. Why would the Lord want trash pieces—the kidneys, the liver, and the fat around the bowels? Why not the filet mignon and T-bones? The kidneys and liver both filter toxins from the blood so they can be flushed from the body as waste. When poisons are too concentrated to filter out quickly, they are stored in the fat until a later day. The kidneys, liver, and fat are the body’s toxic waste disposal system. After they cut out the parts that rid the body of poisons, “the priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing [sweet] aroma; all fat is the Lord’s. (Lev. 3:16). Likewise, all our sin is to be offered up to God. It is the Lord’s. It is a sweet, soothing aroma in His nostrils. Hidden sins are toxic. If we hold back the fat, liver, or kidneys in an effort to hide our sins and give God only our best, the toxins will remain in our lives and contaminate us. They will harm our relationships with others as well as with God, leading to bitterness, murmuring, gossip, strife, divisions, and more. God made provision for us to not be sickened by poisons. If we give them to Him, He‘ll flush our systems with Christ’s blood, washing us completely clean. Filet mignon and T-bone may seem better to us, but what brings the Lord the most joy is cleansing us of toxins that separate us from fellowship with Him. In the days of Moses, the people had only one opportunity a year to be fully cleansed of their sins. However, because of Jesus’ blood we can be washed daily. We don’t have to let poisoned fat accumulate. We can freely offer our toxins up to God. They are not offensive to Him. They are a sweet, soothing aroma, well-pleasing to the Lord. My prayer: Abba today is a new day, a clean slate, thank you for opening my eyes to look deep within myself and see the hidden areas I have tried to keep tucked away from the public. I now offer them up to you as sweet, soothing aroma to Your nostrils. I want 2015 to be a year increase for me, my natural family and church family. I want everything the devil has stolen over the years to be given back to us. Abba I also want to “BRING THEM BACK”, this was Pastor’s proclamation for 2015 and I agree 100%! FWC Church and Seymour area Prayer List: 1. Pastor Bill and Kay Combs Enfinger 2. Youth Pastor David and Lisa Parks-Tosado 3. Praise team, Tanya, Shayne, Amanda, Ashton, Marty and Chris 4. Grace House Barbara Shoemaker Mitchell 5. Government officials and schools of Blount and Sevier Counties 6. Churches and Pastors in Seymour area 7. Tanya Rains - WILD (Women Inspired to Love & Disciple) have a meeting tonight at 7:00pm 8. Sandy Topping and Sherry Hopkins Sleeping Mats for the Homeless. 9. REVIVAL! Start a revival of Jesus Christ in each one of us. 10. Sandy Clark and her daughter Chantal Mom’s Day Out 11. David Tosado, MM (Mens Ministry) 12. Pray for peace in Israel. Missionaries: 1. Justin, Jessica, Savanna and McCoy Lattus, missionaries to Liberia, West Africa 2. Bryan and Dana McKnight 3. Adam and Melissa Tvedt missionaries to Dominican Republic 4. Keith Hall family missionaries to Hancock County 5. Gary and Rhonda Peacock, The Chop House on UT Campus 6. Tim and Lynn Tuggle 7. Theresa, Bledsoe Women’s Correctional Facility Praise report: 2 Weeks ago Steve Taylor was on a respirator and the Doctors were telling his family there wasn’t much hope of him living; after being adding to prayer list he recovered enough to have bypass surgery on his heart on Monday 1/4. Then the Doctors said he would probably have brain damage, on 1/7 they took him off the respirator; he knew all his family members, responded correctly to all questions asked him. Now they are having a time trying to get him to stop talking, praise God no brain damage! Prayer for healing and special request: Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. NIV 1. Louise Enfinger (Pastors Mother) she has cancer in her foot 2. Margaret Combs (Kay’s Mother) dementia, she is out of the hospital. 3. Margie and Karl please pray that relationship will be healed and restored. 4. Lisa Tosado diabetic 5. Sandy Weaver Topping headaches. 6. Terry Freese shoulder 7. Alice Breeding headaches and pinched nerve in her lower back, she had her surgery and is doing very well. She is continuing to improve. 8. Amanda Blackshirer Weight lost program she is doing great and looks so good. 9. Terry, Marty’s brother in law, has a heart condition 10. Mary Campbell continue to pray for her heart condition 11 Kayleigh has a friend Kendra West who is in the process of adopting a little girl that was born with a cleft pallet and is also hearing impaired. 12. Laura Williams mother is in the hospital and had to receive some blood, not sure what is wrong with her, pray for her and her husband. 13. Janet, (a friend of Alice) had cancer of the uterus and liver, she is in treatment in Texas. Her cancer is responding to the chemo. 14. Mr. Light, he has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. 15. Blake, Pastor and Kay’s grandson, is still having stomach pain after he eats, Dr’s now think it may be related to his gallbladder. 16. Garry Freese’s brother in law Ray has stage 4 cancer in his right lung, lymph nodes and liver. The cancer is very aggressive they have started chemo, please be in prayer that he will tolerate the chemo and that it will kill the cancer cells. Update his cancer is responding to the chemo and the doctors are very pleased, but he how has C-dif. 17. My friend James has leukemia, it has been dormant for a while, but now is becoming active and he is in poor health right now. He is a Christian and he needs a healing touch from the Lord. 18. Steve Hall has cancer in his jaw. 19. Rhonda and Jerry friends of Sandy O, she’s having test for MS and he has a heart condition. 20. Martha and Eddie neighbors of Sandy O, he has prostate cancer. He told Sandy he is ready whenever the Lord gets ready to take him, pray that God will give Sandy the wisdom and knowledge to speak the right words that will lead Martha to a closer relationship with God. 21. My nephew John, is battling with depression. He needs a healing touch from God and a personal relationship with Him. 22. Shane Welch knows a family that are in desperate need of pray for their baby. 23. Rachel Thompson, cancer of the thyroid, we are believing God for complete healing. 24. My cousin Melissa got a stomach flu back in the late summer. All the good bacteria in her colon was washed out with all the vomiting and diarrhea and when she went to the Dr. they put her on an antibiotic it completely destroyed her colon and she had to have surgery to get a colostomy. Now they are telling her they don’t think the colostomy can be reversed, but we know God can create a good colon and let the colostomy be removed. 25. Terri Gookenbarger’s daughter Jessica Derryberry she is pregnant and on anti-seizure medication, cover her and the baby with your prayers, that there will be no ill side effects for either of them from the medication. 26. Danny and Christy are having problems in their marriage and both of them need God in their lives. 26. Sandy Topping’s dads wife Linda needs our prayer. She is starting chemo for the lumps found in her breast. 27. Mary Hodge has stage 4 colon cancer, I’m not sure of her relationship with God, just pray that she comes out of this with a deep personal relationship with Him. 28. Continue to pray for Christopher Tosado that God will place him in the perfect College and provide a scholarship. 29. Adam is 10 years old and loves the Lord, but he does have some physical problems. Pray for his complete healing and God’s blessings and favor on his life. 30. Janice Jarnigan has cancer and the doctors have given her 6 months to live, but God hasn’t, he is still in control. Pray for her complete healing in the name of Jesus. 31. Pray for all the people suffering from the flu, there were several church members absent again this Sunday due to this bug. 32. The Ellis family has lost 3 members of their family in the last month and are in need of our prayers to help them cope with all of this. 33. I got a message from Melanie Davis she told me about Willie a 17 year old in Alabama he has a cyst in his brain and it’s causing real bad headaches. They are waiting to get the final diagnosis from Children Hospital, his mother Susanna is really stressed out and needs our prayers as well. 34. Rodney and Laura need to find a place to live in the Seymour area. 35. A friend of Tina Marie has a stepson that is in need of prayer, his name is Max, and he is 17. He needs the Lord 1st and foremost, He is in a juvenile detention center and has a grim future without Jesus totally transforming his life. 36. Taylor is having her tonsils removed 1/21/15, praying that all goes well and she heals quickly, in Jesus name. 37. Mary Beal is going back to the doctor about her lungs this week, please pray for her to have ears to hear what God says and not what the doctors and nurses say. 38. George and Elizabeth need a healing touch in their marriage. 39. Margie and Karl is a mother and son that needs healing in their relationship. Karl needs a close personal relationship with God; pray that God will place someone in his life he will listen to, that will lead him to a closer walk with God. 40. Sandy Topping’s Aunt Ruth is in the hospital with pneumonia. 41. Patty Crowdus is in the hospital with C-dif and pneumonia. Pray for her complete healing in Jesus name. Scripture for today is from Palms 8 (MSG) 1 God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name. 2 Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs that drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble. 3-4 I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way? 5-8 Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden’s dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps. 9 God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world. Remember to call a friend and that person call another friend until all of us are praying together. I love you, but more importantly God loves you.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:54:15 +0000
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