Prayer
List
Frank Rhoden
is going through a series of tests.
Gary Counts
surgery has been delayed until Nov. 30th.
Bobbi King
is recovering from surgery. She is doing well.
Alex
Miller’s girlfriend Haley, grandmother needs our prayers. .
Ron Hunter
is having severe heart problems.
Eddie
Griffin, Tabitha Griffin, Florene Griffin, Jimmy Griffin, Jerry and
Betty Harris, Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford, Betty Clark, Carl
Hall, Jim Hallman, Gary Hickerson, Gary and Dorothy Hodges, Audrey
McKin, Beryl Miller, Corey Miller, Ryan Patti, Della Price, Jessica
and Loretta Rhoden, and Jerry Stice.
Serving in
the military:
Faith Balzen,
Cody Blomstedt,
Travis Counts,
Tyler
Davies,
Josh Van Deren, and
Dakota Smitherman all are in the U.S...
Chris Johnson has been deployed to Kuwait.
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…
Pantry
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November 12-
Prayers: Morning: Robert Courtney – Robert Embry
Evening: Don Harrington – Kerry King
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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What
We Can Learn From Saul
By
Robert Courtney
In the 15th
chapter of 1 Samuel we find the account of Saul’s battle with the
Amalekites. In vs.2 - 3 we find God’s instruction to Saul. God
instructed Saul to utterly destroy the Amalekites for what they did
to Israel coming out of Egypt. Saul destroyed the Amalekites from
Havilah to Shur (vs.7-8) and capturing Agag the King of the
Amalekites. In addition to King Agag Saul and the Israelites kept the
best (vs. 9) of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all
that was good.
When Saul
met Samuel, he informed Samuel he had done as he was instructed; but,
Samuel (vs.14-15) hearing the bleating of the sheep and the lowering
of the oxen knew that Saul had not done what he was instructed to do.
But Saul told Samuel that he had sinned for not following the Lord’s
instructions (vs. 20-21).
Saul’s
failure to obey God and blame it on his people was a sin.
What can we
learn from this event? The first and most important is obedience.
We need to understand what God’s word means and understand that
change of God’s Word is not allowed. If we cannot change God’s
Word what makes us think we can change His commandments (Revelation
22: 18-19). This was Saul’s problem.
We are
responsible for what we do, not what others do
(2 Corinthians
5:10). Saul tried to blame his sins on his people.
The
sacrifice that Saul made at Gilgal was just as sinful. Saul was not
a Priest (Levite). He was from the tribe of Benjamin, therefore was
not authorized to offer a sacrifice to God.
Just as Saul
compound his sins so do we. We often continue to do the same sin
because we believe it is OK. We know something is a sin and continue
in it because we like it just as Saul did thinking God will ignore
it, or convince ourselves it is alright.
Just as
Saul, we want to believe that we can sin and God will not see it
(Mark 4:22). Nothing can be further from the truth. Nothing can be
hidden from God (Luke 16:15). How did Samuel know what Saul did?
God told him. How did God know? He saw what Saul did. This is a
truth we must learn if we are going to be found acceptable to God.
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Reasons To
Remain Faithful
By
Kerry King
- The reward (2 Tim. 4:6-8).
- The example of Christ (1 Pet. 2:21).
- The strength od God’s Word (Acts 20:32).
- The encouragement of others (1 Tim. 4:6).
- Our ability to discern good and evil (Heb. 5:14).
- The desire to prove all things (1 Thess. 5:21).
- The realization that Christ walks with the faithful (Mt. 28:20