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    SunSundayJanJanuary31st2010 Amazing Worship Service today!
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    I'm so thankful to the Lord for our church. We had an amazing worship service today. Praise God! He is so good to meet with us the way that He does.

    In His presence there is fullness of joy! (Psalm 16:11). I'm so thankful for His presence in our service this Sunday! I'm filled with joy as this day winds down, because I truly believe we met with the Lord today.
    ThuThursdayJanJanuary28th2010 5 Passages that Encourage Me in My Prayer Life
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    It was great to meet together on Tuesday night to seek the Lord together in prayer. Let's continue this week to develop the discipline of prayer in our lives.

    Here are 5 passages from scripture that God uses regulary to encourage me to seek Him in prayer. I hope they encourage you. 

    Psalm 17:6 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words.

     

    Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

     

    Philippians 4:6  do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

     

    Hebrews 4:15-16  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.  Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

     

    James 5:16-17  Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

    WedWednesdayJanJanuary27th2010 2 Sermons You Need to Hear This Week


    This Sunday James Macdonald and Mark Driscoll returned to their pulpits at their home churches in Chicago and Seatle respectively, after their trip to Haiti. Check out what they had to say about what they saw.

        

    James MacDonald's Sermon from Sunday January 24th, 2010


    Mark Driscoll's Sermon from Sunday January 24th, 2010


    Visit the Churches Helping Churches website.
    TueTuesdayJanJanuary26th2010 No Man is Greater Than His Prayer Life
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    Why Revival Taries by Leonard Ravenhill

    Here's the full quotation on prayer that I referenced in my sermon this Sunday. I hope this challenges you, like it did me, to get on your knees and seek God's face with more fervency and more frequency.

    "No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

    Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of praver. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

    The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer-the highest ministry of all human offices-is open to all. Spiritual adolescents say, "I'll not go tonight, it's only the prayer meeting." It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying. Modern Christians know little of "binding and loosing," though the onus is on us-"Whatsoever ye shall bind...” Have you done any of this lately? God is not prodigal with His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.

    This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mistake the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals.

    The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.

    Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try," and yet so sublime that it outranges all speech and exhausts man's vocabulary. A Niagara of burning words does not mean that God is either impressed or moved. One of the most profound of Old Testament intercessors had no language "Her lips moved, but her voice was not heard." No linguist here! There are groanings which cannot be uttered."

    Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications and operations), but only the hysterical faith of our fellows? Prayer is to the believer what capital is to the business man.

    Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

    In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it--or die!

    Taken from Why Revival Tarries, by Leonard Ravenhill. Copyright 1959, Leonard Ravenhill. Published by Bethany House Publishers.

    http://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/Ravenhill-Revival.html

    I hope to see you at our prayer meeting tonight. 7:00 at John Knox Christian School.

    SunSundayJanJanuary17th2010 HAITI: Churches Helping Churches Here's a brief video from Pastor James MacDonald regarding the Haiti Relief effort we're participating in with Harvest Bible Fellowship.


    Harvest Bible Chapels Helping Haiti from HBF Church Plants on Vimeo.



    Go the churches helping churches website to learn more.


    FriFridayJanJanuary15th2010 HAITI

    Titus 3:14, “And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.”

    On Tuesday afternoon the impoverished Haitian Capital city of Port-Au-Prince was devastated by a terrible earthquake. Heart-wrenching images have been flooding our TV and computer screens along with reports of governments and organizations committing money and resources to meet the immediate needs in Haiti.

    Our fellowship of churches is praying fervently and working hard to find ways to support local churches in Haiti in making a significant difference in the rescue, recovery and restoration efforts and to bring the hope of the gospel to those who are suffering.

    This Sunday we will have a special opportunity to pray and to give to this relief effort during our worship service.

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