Hello, dear family and precious friends. This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. We are blessed. Thank you for stopping by our website to be encouraged in your faith.
It is good to be back in Arkansas after a few days in Louisville, Kentucky. The wedding on Saturday (13th) was beautiful. Congratulations to Michael and Amanda Benham. The Gospel Meeting with the Watterson Trail congregation was a great encouragement to me, and I hope to every Christian brother and sister there. Cindi and I appreciate our hosts, Dan and Laurie Dexter for your wonderful love and care. Thank you to Brothers Charlie and Geoffrey for preaching while I was away, to Stephen Bonds for facilitating the Young Adult class last Sunday, and to Brother Reynolds for teaching on Wednesday evening. We had our newest member here with us last weekend, J.B. (Boone) Anderson with his parents. What a beautiful baby. God continues to bless us with every good and perfect gift. We are small. He is BIG.
God loves us. Let that sink in. He created everything and saw that indeed “it was very good.” Even though we cannot “see” God through our human eyes, He still has shown Himself to us. Paul wrote to our Christian brethren (and to us) in Romans 1:19-20 this very fact. “…For what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they (we) are without excuse.” We can “see” God with the rising and the setting of the sun. We can “see” Him in the changing of the seasons. We can “see” Him in the still of the night? We can “see” Him in the waves of the sea and in the mist of the mountains? We can “see” Him in the faces of those we love? We just need to open our eyes and look. Open your heart to “see” the Lord today as we sing, pray, give, share in the Lord’s Supper, and hear the message from His word. You will when you do.
Sunday was a little different: Worship at 9:00, Bible class at 10:00…THEN we celebrated May Birthdays and Anniversaries AND honored our two graduating seniors, Titus and Emily along with our two boys, Ollie and Lucas who are moving to kindergarten with a POTLUCK lunch together up in the Annex Building. We had an afternoon service at 12:30, took a break and then visited with the brethren at Greenbrier for their Gospel Meeting. We had a full day for sure.
What does the Lord say? “Whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight” – 1 John 3:22
“Yet, you do not have because you do not ask” – James 4:2
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ to all generations, forever and ever. Amen” – Ephesians 3:20-21
Leave a Reply