Friday, December 11, 2009

Closer Than A Brother

You, GOD, prescribed the right way to live; now you expect us to live it. Psalm 119:4 MSG



What an expectation. God gave us the blueprint for our lives, the provision for the building and then He expects us to follow it to the letter. If we seek Him, really seek Him, He will always meet us – He is never far from us – HE STICKS CLOSER THAN A BROTHER.

Pastor Winston

Thursday, December 10, 2009

All Sufficient Grace

You're blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him. 3 That's right — you don't go off on your own; you walk straight along the road he set. Psalm 119:2-3 MSG


As wayward children, and sometimes well meaning – we take detours from the God ordained road of life and encounter the potholes and roadblocks that inevitably meet us on our journey.

Life is never without it’s challenges but why create those for which we are unprepared. On His road for us, we are well equipped to deal with the obstacles that lay before us … the equipment - HIS ALL SUFFICIENT GRACE.

Pastor Winston

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Follow After God

You're blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him.  [Psalm 119:2 MSG]

God's best comes to us as we live based on His revealed will for your lives.  How do we find His will? We must read His Word, meditate His Word and do our very best to understand his desire for us to be like Him.  After all, He made us in His own image and after His own likeness.

Pastor Winston

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Walk Steadily

You're blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by GOD.  [Psalm 119:1 MSG]


It is our Lord's desire to order our steps and bring us to success in this life.   Many challenges that we face are realized because we fail to walk steadily and surely on the road that God has already mapped for our lives.  
 
Pastor Winston

Monday, December 7, 2009

An Empowered Life

"God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life." [1 Corinthians 4:20 MSG]

When we are living out our faith with integrity and compassion in the world, God can use us to let others see His love and character.

Pastor Winston

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Called To Serve

What’s our responsibility? A gospel that is focused on just our own, our person, our family is missing an integral component. We are, as our Lord Jesus said, to serve the poor … poverty of material things and poverty of the spirit.

As citizens of the household of faith, we are called to serve. Our foremost mandate is not to assess what we don’t have, or what we can receive it must be “what can I give.” I must learn to serve by:

1. Lifting up the poor and marginalized
2. Challenging injustice
3. Rejecting the worldly values found in our culture
4. Love our neighbors as ourselves.

“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.” Psalm 82:3 KJV

Pastor Winston

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Sanctify Us, Lord ...

Father,

“OH, THAT You would rend the heavens and that You would come down , that the mountains might quake and flow down at Your presence — … to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!” Isaiah 64:1-2 AMP

We open our hearts to you today, sanctify us by your Word O Lord, for your Word is truth.  Let your glory fill the earth as the water covers the sea.

Your humble servant