A Word from THE WORD
Good Morning Happy Church,
Today is Saturday, April 9th, 2016. Today is the 100thDay of 2016.
TODAY IS DAVID FLEMING’S BIRTHDAY!
There are only 266 days left in this year; and, Our Spring Revival Meetings Begin Tonight!
We will begin the Revival Meetings TONIGHT with a Banquet and Sermon at 6pm.
TOMORROW, 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!
Romans 10:17
“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
Our Spring Revival begins tonight, but I have nothing “new” for today.
Rather, I want to re-focus on the single most important aspect of these revival meetings… “faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
The single, solitary source of faith is exposure to God’s Word.
I first heard about Bobby Boyles in 1987 when he accepted the call to serve as the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Moore, Oklahoma where Lin’s parents had attended for several years.
Lin’s parents were certainly Christians, but I had never seen any particular excitement about their Church or even the LORD in their life.
Suddenly, the LORD, their Church, and their “young Preacher” were about all of which they could speak.
When Bobby went there, the Church was running about 800 and had just built the first phase of a new facility on the North side of Moore.
Within a couple of years, the Church was running over 2,000 and by the time Bobby had been there four years they were running nearly 4,000 every week; they had built millions of dollars of new facilities; and Bobby was becoming one of the most-used speakers in the Southern Baptist Convention.
I found out later that he had seen similar growth everywhere he had served.
Early in his ministry AT FBC Moore I asked him to come up to Waukegan to help us with a Bible Conference we were putting together. He did so, and he and Dr. “Wild Bill” Oakley did a great job.
Here is my point: On a couple of occasions I asked him to what he attributed such ministry success. I had witnessed a tremendous turn around in the life of Lin’s parents and the tremendous numerical growth of FBC Moore.
His answer surprised me; it should not have; but, it did.
He said, all I do is study and pray and preach the Bible.
That’s it.
The spiritual growth of individual Christians, and the blessings of God upon Churches comes from the Word of God.
For over thirty years, God has used the preaching ministry of Bobby Boyles to grow Christians and Churches. I do not want us to miss this opportunity to grow in the knowledge of God.
I am praying for personal and Church-wide revival. I am praying that you will be part of what God is going to do.
I hope that you will sacrifice whatever it takes to be present at every service.
As Pastor Tom Rains, one of my dearest friends, loves to say… “I hope to see you there with a smile on your face, your Bible in your hand, and your family and friends by your side.”
REMEMBER: Our Revival Meetings begin TONIGHT!
TONIGHT, SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH AT 6PM WE KICK OFF THE MEETINGS WITH “A MEAL AND A MESSAGE”
Revival CAN happen, it really CAN happen!
Will we really have revival?
Will you?
Carpe Diem!
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