A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Friday, March 4th 2016. Today is the 64th Day of 2016.
There are only 302 days left in this year; and, there are only 37 Days Left until Our Spring Revival Begins!
We will begin the Revival Meetings on Saturday, April 9th with a Banquet and Sermon at 6pm.
Sunday, April 10th, we will hear Bro Bobby at 10am and again at 6pm.
Monday and Tuesday, April 11th and 12, we will hear Bro Bobby at 7pm each night!
Please clear your schedule to attend as many of these meetings as possible.
As I often say, “The two things you have to invest to be blessed are your Attendance and your Attention!”
Please be in prayer for Dr. Bobby and Sandra Boyles as they travel here and back.
Pray that God will pour out HIS SPIRIT on us as never before!
Pray for the salvation of the lost; repentance and renewal in the life of God’s people; new people to become part of our Church Family; the calling out of ministers and missionaries; a spiritual awakening in our area; and, for Jesus Christ to be glorified in all that we do!
Some time ago, the Men’s Bible Class did an extended study of Psalm 1. I heard lots of great things about that study, so, I want to use this passage for a few devotional ideas about revival in general; and, our upcoming revival meetings in particular!
Psalm 1:1-6
1 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”
The Way of the Wicked
The writer now contrasts the way of the wicked as opposed to the way of the righteous.
He simply states that “the wicked are not so.” Everything that the LORD has stated about the righteous is not true of the wicked.
This is one of many places where the Bible gives us this classic juxtaposition between the righteous and the wicked.
After listing all of the blessings of the righteous, God gives another reminder of what it is like to be lost.
Israel around the time of this Psalm (about 1,000 BC) was largely an agrarian society and they would clearly understand the meaning of being “like chaff that the wind drives away.”
A believer living like an unbeliever – living a life made up of chaff – needs one thing immediately… Revival!
Of course this poetic language. Unpleasant poetic language.
All too often, we let our spiritual lives become filled with dust and debris… chaff.
May God blow HIS Holy Spirit across us and our church… may we all experience a “Fresh Moving” of the Spirit of God…
May we all experience Revival!
Revival CAN happen, it really CAN happen!
Will we really have revival?
We will soon see!
Carpe Diem!
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