A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Monday, March 14th 2016. Today is the 74th Day of 2016.
There are only 292 days left in this year; and, there are only 27 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 #6 – “Assemble the Elders”
Dr. Lee Roberson was Senior Pastor of the Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee for 43 years. During those 43 years, there was never a year that he did not baptize at least 1,000 people. There were some years where he baptized over 4,000 in one year.
While there, he founded and led Tennessee Temple to an average attendance of over 5,000 students per year with over 100,000 graduates during his lifetime.
He is surely famous for all of that; but, that is not what he is most famous for… Dr. Lee Roberson is most famous for saying, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
I think he said that multiple times every week of his life. I have seen that sentence quoted by hundreds of people over the years.
And, of course, it is absolutely true.
The Prophet Joel continues his call for a “Solemn Assembly” by admonishing the people to “assemble the Elders.”
Anyone would know that if a people are going to experience a great revival, the leaders of the Church must be involved.
I want you to know that your Elders are praying for and will fully participate in these upcoming Revival Meetings.
It is an honor beyond words that you have entrusted us with the leadership of the Church; and, we intend to faithfully pray for revival and fully participate in these meetings.
We are praying for Bobby and Sandra Boyles; for each of you; and, we are praying for the marvelous moving of the Holy Spirit of God upon HIS people over these upcoming four days.
By the way, I think it is way cool that in the providence of God the devotional on revival that covers the command to, “assemble the Elders” is being typed a half hour after I get home from our monthly Elders meeting.
I thank God for the men you have elected to serve as our Elders; and, I thank God to be the servant of our Church.
Your Elders will assemble together for the revival meetings… I hope that we will see you there.
REMEMBER: Our Revival Meetings begin in only twenty-seven 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?
Will we?
Carpe Diem!
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