Prayer List
Frank Rhodens tests results were good.
Gary Counts surgery has been delayed until Nov.
30th.
Bobbi King is doing well.
Alex Miller’s girlfriend Haley's, grandmother needs
our prayers. .
Ron Hunter is home from the hospital..
Eddie Rollins is having problems with his knee.
Eddie Hickerson needs our prayers.
Eddie and Tabitha Griffin, Florene and Jimmy
Griffin, Jerry and Betty Harris, Billie Phillips, Billie Bradford,
Betty Clark, Carl Hall, Jim Hallman, Gary Hickerson, 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 Item: Chicken Broth
November 26- Prayers: Morning: Robert Embry – Don
Harrington
Evening: Robert
Courtney – Kerry King
Scriptures: Greg Counts
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Paul
And The Sinner’s PrayerBy
Ron
Boatwright
In Acts
chapter 9, Saul of Tarsus, who later was named Paul, was struck blind
when he met the Lord on the road to Damascus . Then we read in Acts
9:6 about Paul, “So he, trembling and astonished said, ‘Lord,
what do you want me to do?’ Then the Lord said, ‘Arise and go
into the city and you will be told what
you must do’”.
Notice, Paul would be told “what
you must do”. Then
we read “But they led him by the hand and brought him into
Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor
drank” (Acts 9:8-9). Did Paul have faith in the Lord? Yes. Was
Paul saved by “faith only” at this point? No; as we will see,
Paul still needed to be baptized to wash away his sins.
The Lord
sent a man, named Ananias, to tell Paul what
he must do. The Lord
told Ananias to “Arise and go to the street called Straight and
inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for
behold, he is praying” (Acts 9:11). Paul had been praying, but he
did not receive forgiveness of his sins through praying. Paul still
had all of his sins. Paul was told by Ananias “And now why are you
waiting? Arise and be
baptized and wash away your sins,
calling on the name of the Lord” (Acts 22:16). Paul was not saved
and his sins were not forgiven until Paul did what he was told he
must do; that is to “arise
and be baptized and wash away your sins.”
Today
men have come up with the idea of “accepting Jesus as your personal
Saviour” and saying the “sinner’s prayer” in order to be
saved. This is a ploy of Satan which will cause many people to be
eternally lost by not obeying what the Lord says that we must do in
order to have our sins forgiven and to be saved. Satan knows people
are not saved by saying the “sinner’s prayer”. “Accepting
Jesus as your personal Saviour” and saying the “sinner’s
prayer” in order to be saved is foreign to the Bible. Why wasn’t
Paul’s sins forgiven by his praying before he was baptized? Paul’s
sins were not washed away until after he was baptized. Paul was not
told to pray the “sinner’s prayer”, but to “Arise and be
baptized and wash away your sins”. I cannot think of a more
flagrant crime against God and man, than to tell lost sinners who
want to be saved something different than what God
says in the
Bible.