A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Wednesday, March 16th 2016. Today is the 76th Day of 2016.
There are only 290 days left in this year; and, there are only 25 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 #8 – “Bring the Newlyweds”
The point here is simple. Just as HE did with Mothers and Nursing Infants, God commands that EVERYONE participate in HIS call for renewal and worship.
Here HE calls even the most intimate and private of all groups… Newlyweds.
Honeymooners; yes, even honeymooners.
Be clear here. If God does not exempt Newlyweds from attendance, HE is not going to exempt anyone.
What you and I NEED to see is the importance that God places on these solemn assemblies. And – of course – these meetings are important to God because the spiritual health of HIS people is important.
God is not impressed with crowds. (OK, I am; but HE is not.) HE is worshiped every day by all of the saints of all the ages and by the multitude of Holy Angels HE has created.
No crowd we get together is going to impress HIM.
But, HE has chosen to work in HIS people through the means of HIS Word. And HE has chosen to minister through HIS Word through HIS servants.
Bobby Boyles is obviously a man through whom HE has worked for many years… and is still working through today.
I often marvel at the rapid and sustained growth of The Lost Cowboy Church; but, it was only recently that I realized that this new church is being planted and led by a man who is working 60 hours a week or more at a Guitar Store and Museum.
A word of caution: neither Dr. Boyles nor anyone else carries “revival” around in his briefcase.
If we do indeed experience revival, God (and only God) will bring it.
AND, as I have said over and over again, you will not be revived if you do not participate in these meetings.
I want the very best for all of the members of our Church. I do not want you here just to have you here. I want you to set aside these dates and times so that you and your family will personally and profoundly experience a genuine move of God.
REMEMBER: Our Revival Meetings begin in only twenty-five 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 you?
Carpe Diem!
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