WOW! What a great 11am service today at Upper Room! I have been out of church for 7 weeks due to my appendectomy. I went to my first service back on Friday night and then again this morning. It feels so good to be back in church.
We had a guest minister from Oklahoma with us for the weekend. His name is Pastor Gordon Chirillo. He spoke to us about staying the course and fulfilling our destiny as an assembly. The Bible says in Heb 10:25, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."
It is in the assembly that God speaks and directs us as a people. God has not saved us as individuals only. Ps 68:6 says, "God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land." Your local assembly is your spiritual family.
The sensing of God's presence is different and His anointing is special in the midst of the congregation. "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
The Holy Bible : King James Version Mt 18:19-20.
The Holy Bible : King James Version Mt 18:19-20.
While we are individuals in His sight we must always remember that we are also a part of the family of God. God is gathering us together to Him. He is raising up a people that know their God and walk in Covenant Love together.
It feels great to be back in church again! Find your local assembly and get in it. Give of your time and resources. In so doing both God and you will be blessed! "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." The Holy Bible : King James Version, Eph 3:14-21
Grace and Peace,
Ed
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