Happy Saturday, church family!
What a beautiful Oklahoma day we have before us. While any day is a wonderful day to celebrate the Lord, may this gorgeous weather spark a release of praise in our hearts to our glorious Creator, who gives us all good things. He alone is worthy of all our praise.
I look forward to gathering with you tomorrow on the Lord’s Day. The Lord summons us to His holy mountain each Sunday to meet with Him. Friends, Sundays are anything but ordinary days for Christians. Let me encourage you not to neglect the call of the Lord, but to make every effort to gather with God’s people. It is for your good and the good of the entire body that you come to the gathering. God has promised to build His church; when we assemble, He builds us up by His grace.
Our focus passage for tomorrow is Ephesians 4 as we look at the battle for unity. The last thing the enemy wants to see is a united church, because a united church is a powerful weapon against the kingdom of darkness. Unity subverts Satan’s power and strips away the primary tools he uses to disrupt God’s plans. Join us for Fellowship Groups at 9:30 AM and for our Worship Service at 10:45 AM.
Lastly, I want to share something that has been on my heart. I often find myself identifying with the prophet Jeremiah, and many of you may feel the same way. As Christians, we speak truth about the moral direction of our nation, yet so often it seems people aren’t listening. Even many who profess Christ seem indifferent to Scripture, the Holy Spirit, or historical church tradition. It is just as Jesus said: “If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead” (Luke 16:31).
Human hearts are naturally hard, and only the illumination of the Holy Spirit can open eyes to unrighteousness and the need for redemption. So, we pray. We pray even more diligently, and we continue preaching in hope that God will open the hearts of the obstinate and blind. I have faith that Jesus is saving people. He is supernaturally changing hearts and minds, bringing dead souls to life. We cannot allow the cultural headwinds we face to dissuade us from fulfilling the mandate Christ commissioned us to carry out in His authority. My encouragement to us is simply this: let us press on with even greater resolve.
Don’t forget to pray for one another as the Lord brings brothers and sisters to your mind as that is often a gentle prompt from the Spirit to intercede. See you tomorrow!
In His steps,
Pastor Nick
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
— Ephesians 4:1-3
Thank you so much Pastor Nick. God bless our church as we learn from our leaders and God bless all our church, national leaders!!!
Patti