Prayer
List
Faith Balzen
is recovering from foot surgery.
Mark Morris
will have an MRI this week.
Mary Jean
Turner needs our prayers.
Don Boyd’s
cancer has returned. Doctors have not determined a treatment plan.
Mike
Dickerson is recovering from kidney surgery.
Don
Hickerson’s brother-in-law Louis Horn is having seizures.
Kathy Hill’s
friend Gary Hodges needs our prayers.
Andy LeDane,
Eddie Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and Betty
Harris, Don Hickerson, Billie Phillips, Mary Jean Turner, Armanda
family, Jack and Diane Arnold, Ronnie Brown, Billie Bradford, Betty
Clark, Doris James, Gary Hickerson, Bobbie King, Dan LeDane, Carol
Moore, Beryl Miller, and Della Price.
Serving in
the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody Blomstedt,
Travis Counts, and
Dakota
Smitherman all are in the U.S...
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…
Fellowship
is today after morning services. Everyone is invited and encouraged
to attend.
Pantry
Item:
May
Announcements: Robert Courtney
Lord Supper:
Greg Counts, Don Harrington and Kerry King
May 7
Prayers: Morning: Don Harrington – Butch Balzen
Evening: Greg Counts - Kerry King
Scriptures: Robert Courtney
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“I
will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; My heart also instructs
me in the night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not ne moved.” Psalm 16:7-8
HEARING
BUT NOT LISTENING
By
Robert Courtney
The Greek word for “hear” is “akouo”
pronounced “ak-oo –o.
It means
“audience of, come to the ears, shall hear, be reported, and
understand.
As
children and as parents, we have been told and have said; “pay
attention to what I am saying! Can’t you hear what I am saying?”
Sometimes to get a child’s attention and for them not only to
listen to what is being said, but to also understand and do it. How
many times have we become frustrated when attempting to teach our
children what is right and wrong? We feel sometimes that we are
butting our heads against a wall.
How many
times have we read how God instructed the people of Israel to hear
and pay attention to what He is saying only to see them turn away?
Our Lord and his servant Paul both referred to prophecy of Esaias:
(Matt. 13:14; Acts 28:26-27)
“Go to
this people and say:
Hearing
you will hear, And shall not understand;
And seeing
you will see, and not perceive;
For hearts
of this people have grown dull.
Their ears
are hard of hearing, And their eyes have closed,
Least they
should see with their eyes and hear with ears,
Least they
should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I
should heal them.”
(Isaiah
6:9-10)
Just with
Israel, God has told us time and time again to do as He instructed.
Are we hearing but not listening; or are we hearing and listening.
Remember, God has called us to Him and told us how to come to Him.
“Do not harden you hearts….” (Heb. 3:15)
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“Walk
prudently when you go to the house of the God; and draw near to hear
rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that
they do evil.” Ecc. 5:1