Prayer
List
Nell Hall is
recovering from foot surgery.
Ben
Harrington is still having medical problems.
Leta Embry
is schedule to have surgery Oct. 9th.
Sue Morgan
is still needs our prayers.
Charles
Counts’ sister Wanda Peterson is in the hospital with fluid on the
lungs.
Carla King’s
uncle Jo Walker’s girlfriend is having problems with her legs.
Kathy Hill’s
friend Terry Turner has asked for our prayers.
Jerry and
Betty Harris, James and Florene Griffin, Don Hickerson, Lester and
Billie Phillips, Shirley Quinn, Jack and Diane Arnold, Betty Clark,
Dale Counts, Jerry Foster, Debbie Kluge, Sonny and Doris James, Beryl
Miller, and Dean and Della Price.
Serving in
the military: Travis Counts Cody Blomstedt Dakota Smitherman
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
The Elders
would like to thank everyone for their help in preparing the church
building and grounds for our meeting.
Our Fall
Meeting begins today and will go through Wednesday. Services begin
7:00pm each night except for Sunday which will be at 2:00pm. Let us
all attend and invite others.
The Men’s
Business Meeting is next Sunday Oct. 11 after evening worship
services. All men are encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Ranch Style Beans
Tipton Homes
will be here Oct. 13-14.
Oct. 11 Prayers
Morning: Robert Embry – Greg Counts
Evening: Jerry Harris - Charles Counts
Scriptures:
Robert Courtney
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Keeping
God Before Us
By
Robert Courtney
In
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 we read where God instructed the people of Israel
to listen to Him and follow His commandments. The people were to
place His commandments in their heart and to diligently teach them
their children when they talked to them, sit, walk, when you lie
down, and rise up. They were to bind them on their hand as a sign
and on their frontlets, and doorpost of their house as well as their
gates.
Why did
God want the people to teach their children all the time concerning
God? Would not once or twice a day or even twice a week, as we do
today be sufficient? Paul told us to study in
2 Timothy
2:15; but yet he did not specifically say how much.
Many
today do not study the Bible at all but rather find it more
convenient for others to teach it to them in class or worship
service. But yet, this presents a problem. They fail to come to
class or worship service therefore, they are not taught anything.
Hence, they do not know what is being taught comes from God or man.
If they do not God’s commandments, how can they live them or teach
others?
We are
told in both Deuteronomy 6 and 2 Timothy 2 why it is critical that we
know God’s commandments. Verse 12 of Deuteronomy 6 says, “…least
you forget the Lord…”; and 2 Timothy 2:15, “present yourself
approved of God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.”
Unless we
study God’s Word, we will forget Him. The more one is
absent from class and worship the harder it is to return…we forget
the Lord! How can you teach if you do not know what to teach. A
child is sent to school to learn. If the child does not attend, what
do they learn? Nothing! If one does not study what does one learn?
Nothing! DO YOU STUDY? Good! Study more. If you don’t, YOU
SHOULD!