A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Friday, March 11th 2016. Today is the 71st Day of 2016.
There are only 295 days left in this year; and, there are only 30 Days Left until Our Spring Revival Meetings Begin!
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!
Joel was a Prophet to Israel just after the end of the Babylonian-Media-Persian Captivity that ended around 516 BC. The people had not completely turned back to Jehovah and HE responded to their continuing rebellion with continuing judgments – primarily through a devastating plague of Locusts. (Joel 1:1-2:11)
Here is God’s inspired action-plan for revival:
15 “Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;
16 gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Joel 2:12-15
(1) “Blow the trumpet in Zion!”
(2) “Consecrate a Fast!”
(3) “Call a Solemn Assembly!”
(4) “Gather the People!”
(5) “Consecrate the Congregation!”
(6) “Assemble the Elders!”
(7) “Gather the Children, even Nursing Infants!”
(8) “Bring the Newlyweds!”
(9) “Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Let us commit ourselves to doing all 9 of these preparatory steps; for today, I want to focus on Step #4 – “Gather the People!”
We have already seen in our Ephesians study last week that there is a manifestation of the presence of God in HIS assembled people!
We have called for a series of meetings to praise, pray, and hear the Word of God together for four consecutive days. There is no more important thing in which we can take part than seeking to hear God speak through HIS Word; to sense HIS presence; and, to be transformed more and more into the likeness of Jesus.
Gathering people together for Church is hard enough on Sunday Mornings. We have about 160 different people (counting children) who attend Morning Worship here at least two times per month.
But, like the average Southern Baptist Church, we have a weekly absentee rate of about 20%.
That means that on just about any LORD’s Day we will have 25 to 30 people absent from the services and about 130 people in attendance.
Certainly, from time to time almost everyone will be absent from Church, including me…
But, over the past several years we have an average attendance to “Revival Services” (excluding Sunday Mornings) of between 40 and 50 people.
That means that we have an absentee rate at these services of about 115 people, or about 70%.
Certainly, no one needs to be here “just to be here.” You need to be here because God speaks to HIS people and works in our life through the work of HIS Word.
1st Thessalonians 2:13
“And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.”
The Word of God works in those who believe it. But, you cannot believe it if you do not hear it…
Remember this…
Our Revival Meetings begin in only thirty days!
Get ready now… set aside the time now… Start praying now… DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY to experience a great moving of God!
Revival CAN happen, it really CAN happen!
Will we really have revival?
Carpe Diem!
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