Weekend Review

This week finds me in Coweta, OK with Pastor Larry & Susan Duncan. The services yesterday were wonderful as we gathered in the house of God to lift our hearts in adoration and praise to our Savior. Yesterday was Palm Sunday; this week begins a time of sincere reflection for the people of God. We are able to remember the price that our King and Saviour paid for our redemption and salvation. I trust and pray that each one of us will spend time this week in prayer and meditation concerning our personal relationship with God. The time in which we are living is demanding that we have a strong, maturing relationship with God. God is prepared to strengthen those followers who are determined to pursue Him at the cost of their comfort and ease. I desire that my heart will be firmly set on a pursuit of a deeper trust and faith in God. People responded to the call of God in each of the altar services on Sunday. As I was praying this morning, the Lord placed this thought in my heart. We must change our mindset when we prepare our hearts for the invitation from the Pastor or visiting Minister. We are not being asked to respond to the "plea of the Preacher" but we are being asked to respond to the "call of the Heavenly Father." We must decide to respond to the call from the Father; the Father has much to offer us if we are willing to listen to His voice. I want to leave this passage with you today; "Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!" Matthew 7:9-11 (NKJV).