Weekend Review

This week finds me in Summerville,SC with Pastor JR and Shirley Martin at Summerville Family Worship Center. The Martin's as well as the local church offered me a warm welcome of Christian fellowship and spiritual anticipation. This is my second opportunity to minister in this local body and I anticipate a mighty outpouring of the Spirit this week. The presence of the Lord was awesome in the two services on Sunday. Each of the meetings concluded with many people in the altar crying out for more of God. We were able to see people receive Christ as their personal Savior as well as being filled with the Spirit. We also witnessed people receiving strength as they face the daily struggles of life; many of us carry heavy burdens from those challenges but it is wonderful when we realize that God never intended for us to walk the road alone. These are very challenging times for many of us yet we sense the Spirit calling us to a deeper level of faith and trust. The Spirit is leading us to a deeper commitment of our heart to God as well as a stronger desire to take a stand for the truth of God's Word. This is a day of deceit and deception. We must know Christ as our Savior and we must allow Him to be Lord of our life. God is calling all of us out of the practice of religion into a strong developing relationship with the True and Living God. The spirit of the culture is seeking to influence our decision making process when it comes to our understanding of God. We must not back down from the teaching of the Bible; Jesus Christ is still the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Christ is the source of our hope and the source of our salvation. Many of us in America are feeling the pressure to just go through the motions of Christianity; we must refuse this tactic of the enemy. God is calling us to passion, desire, and the pursuit of His presence. Do we truly hunger and thirst for the presence of God or will we be content with just the normal activities of church? I hunger for more than the normal. I seek to see God reveal Himself among the people who have gathered to celebrate His greatness. Do we gather to celebrate His greatness or do we gather to celebrate our greatness? The answer to that question will either lead us to repentance or to a deeper revelation of the heart of God. I choose to celebrate the greatness of God. Want you join me in celebrating the greatness of God this day and walk in the strength of His love?