Sunday, February 25, 2007

Prayer - Do we believe?

The Lord has brought the subject of prayer to our church family mind quite a bit lately. From Pastor David’s School of Prayer, the Andrew Murray “God’s Best Secret” prayer devotional, our study last week of 1 John 5:14-15, and finally our study last night on Deuteronomy 9. Do you get the idea God sending us a message? I do!

I believe God is challenging us – all of us – to join Him in what He wants to do in and through this church body. I Believe God has great things planned for us, to be a light in the community, to reach people for Christ, but even more specifically and personal – to change lives and set people free!

And the fact is, we cannot do this on our own power. It is too great for us. It is a task too large. Just like when Moses told the Israelites “You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven” (Deut 9:1), we are being told to go and do things that are mightier and greater than what we can accomplish on our own.

God is putting several things in our path this year

  • Expanding into the space next door
  • Opening a coffee shop in that space
  • Holding outreaches in the city
  • Starting a recovery ministry
  • Planting a church in the republic of Georgia
  • Sending a team to India to minister

All of this is simply too much for us to do in our own strength, but not God’s!

For who is God, except the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our God?
It is God who arms me with strength,
And makes my way perfect.
He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high places.
Ps 18:31-33

So we as individuals and as a church must press in, and lift up our prayers to the Lord, that He might arm us with strength, and go before us and prepare the path that He has set.

Mark 11:22 "Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

Pastor Clay