It is Thankful Thursday here at Lillie-Put. What do you thank God for? Write your own post and share with us here or link your favorite worship song to this site. Anything to build a culture of worship!
I am so thankful for the privilege of serving God in a church that is alive with the power of God. I am thankful for my Pastor, Barry Risto, who does so much to move our congregation into the plan of God.
photo courtesy of:Steven Hackett
I am thankful for my fellow staff members Pastor Brad Hackett and Pastor Donna Slocum who work with me and Pastor Risto in the ministry of the gospel. There is nothing better than a good team!
Pastor Brad HAckett
Photo courtesy of Zach Lemieux
Pastor Donna prays freedom over a congregant
Photo courtesy of Zach Lemieux
Sometimes it’s not the miracles that mean the most but the everyday blessings that we come to rely on.
Yesterday the morning Scripture I was sent to was from Psalm 46:10.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Here are some more thoughts from that time of meditation on being still.
The voice of God says, “Be still and know that I am God. Let My heart overcome your heart.
Do not try to still your own emotions.Neither base your life in how you feel. Instead let My heart overcome your heart by just focusing on Me.
A wind is coming that will blow and scatter emotions. Those who try to stand in their feelings will be blown away like the chaff. Those who anchor to ME will not be moved. Their emotions will not move.
Be still. This move of God is not about the stirring of emotions but about the stirring of the spirit.”
We are continuing our study through the Book of Romans. Currently we are in Romans 1:20 speaking to the invisible qualities or attributes of God. If you have missed any of our conversations on this subject you can catch up with them on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Romans 1:20 reads,
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
We have spoken to God’s: Wisdom, Infinitude, Sovereignty, Holiness, Trinity and Omniscience.
Today we are speaking to God’s faithfulness. Watch this.
But where does creation display God’s faithfulness? In lots of places. Faithfulness itself is the idea that God functions according to certain character traits that do not change. These traits make God dependable or faithful. Because God is like this He has set in motion a creation that also operates according to certain “character traits” or laws that do not change. For instance:
The law of gravity is something we can depend on. What goes up must come down.
The law of seed time and harvest is something we can depend on. Summer will follow winter. Winter will follow summer and so on and so on…
The creation reveals to us that the character of the One behind it must be steady and faithful.
It’s Worship Wednesday here at Lillie-put. Will you join me in creating a culture of worship? Write you own Wroship Wednesday post and link to mine here. Let’s build a virtual web of worship!
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Today we are going to pick back up on a thread we dropped a few weeks ago. That is our verse by verse study through the Book of Romans. If you need to refresh on what we were speaking about you can find those conversations on THE ROAD THROUGH ROMANS PAGE.
Today we are dealing once again with one of the invisible qualities of God that are revealed in the creation. As Romans 1:20 says,
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
We have so far spoken about God’s: Holiness, Infinitude, Wisdom, Sovereignty and Trinity.
Today we are going to be speaking about God’s omniscience. That is the fact that God knows everything. Watch this.
The Word of God testifies to God’s all-knowingness in many places. Psalm 139 for instance:
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
Beyond the testimony of the Bible, though, a careful consideration of the creation itself testifies to God’s omniscience.
If we consider that the world and the universe were created by God we must come to the conclusion that He must understand all He has created in order to create it. Creation as an act, in all its wonder, demands not just a superior intellect but nothing short of the knowledge of all that was and is and ever shall be.
On Sunday February 21st during Cornerstone’s second service I received a prophetic word which I shared with our congregation just before the preaching of the word.
“The Lord says I am raising up a generation in these last days and I speak to it. It is not a generation of age or years but a generation of dedication. I speak to it in total not in part, to every age, not a portion or age group.
I speak to you little children for you have just come to know My Son and there is a great journey ahead of you, but I have given you strength for it.
I speak to you young men for you have overcome the evil one but there is much more for you to do. There is much more for you to overcome and you are just coming into your strength.
I speak to you elders and fathers for I am not finished with you yet.
I am about to fall in fire again. Little children you must be clean that my fire does not burn you up. Young men you must prepare that you may harness my fire and use it to light the darkness. Elders you are called to mentor a generation in a Pentecost they have never seen, known or experienced. I summon you to bear witness of the times you recall that a new generation may know the way.
This fire will inconvenience you. It will be uncomfortable. It will be as it was in the past when it cost your forefathers everything to bear the light, but they paid the price so that my Son’s name would be known.
You must not say I am too young or too busy or too old. For I am calling those who are too young and too busy and too old to put aside their youth and their schedules and their age that one last time my Son’s name will be made great in the Earth before the judgment.
Will this be the church? Will this be the generation who answers my call?
A “Tehillah” is a song of praise to God. Today we begin the day here at Lillie-Put by singing our praise to the Lord! Will you join us in creating a culture of worship?
This song was sung at a Gaither Homecoming Concert. For a schedule of Homecoming events in your area check HERE
photo courtesy of:Steven Hackett
