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Monday, January 26, 2009
I want to help focus you on change. This week we had a big change in our goverment a new president took charge. I am
sure all of you have big changes that take place in your life. However, those changes are not done by electing to do it. Someone
makes the choice and it is done. There are many changes that take palce in your life from time to time. You may lose a job
or you may lose a loved one and they hurt. The changes that take place may be for the good or they may be for the worse. God
wants to make changes in your life too. HE wants to come in and live within you and change you not from the outside in as
most religions teach but from the inside out. God wants to make changes in your life through his Word. He wants to make changes
in your life through his Word. He loves you and wants to show his power in you and through you. He sent
Jesus to die in your place so that He might show forth His grace to you. He came to give to so that you might be able to take
from from Him. God loves you and wants to share with you all that He has. He is your Daddy and wants to open to you the Kingdom.
He wants you to be able to receive all that Jesus earned. You are given the kingdom for you are heirs of the kingdom. YOU
are children of the king. HE is the king and you and you are Princes to go forth and share that peace with others. Give what
you have been given. As you have been given go forth and give it others. The change that God made in you
is by putting himself in you and then sharing Himself through you. YOU are to give God's power, love, grace, healing,
and show his peace to the world. Give all you have from Jesus so that others can also recieve and share it and so on and so
on and so on. That is the way it works in God's kingdom. He shares his disciples in his miracles. So walk in miracles
and walk in grace today!
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, January 18, 2009
This week we will start looking at the different positions in the church and they are important to look at. Since I have become
Pastor I have worked on teaching one series but it encompassed so much. The series is about the gifts that God gave to the
church. We celebrate Christmas and sometimes a person will give you more then one gift. We think it is great if we get 2 or
more gifts from one person. We like to get gifts from someone who gives to us so much. God gave to us and
He gave and gave. He gives to us so much that we cannot even proclaim all that he gave us in our lifetime. God gave to us
many gifts and some of the gifts that He gave are people. He gave gifts of ministry to the church. He gave motivational gifts.
He gave fruit from His spirit in us. He gave us his love, righteousness, grace, redemption, salvation and many other gifts.
The best thing about these gifts is that they are all eternal and they last forever. The gift of God is without repentance.
No matter what you do God does not take back your gift. He does say you were too bad so you do not get this gift like men
teach. His gifts is not based on your obedience; his gifts is based on his love for you. So as we look at these special ministry
gifts and the different positions in the church then know they are also God's gifts to you so treat these men and
women as special servants of God for God put them in your life for a reason- to educate and uplift you in the grace of God
so you can see how you have been made obedient so that you can share with others the blessing of having a covenant with Jesus
Christ
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, January 12, 2009
DO you like getting gifts? I do! I like it when someone buys me something and when someone buys me a meal then that meal
tastes better for there is an aroma of love surrounding that meal that does not exist when I buy it for me. Do you know that
you are a gift of God and that God's gifts are not just salvation and righteousness and grace but they are people he puts
in your life. We are continuing this series on gifts and today we will start an introduction and the Sermon is called Establishing
Grace in your life. This is the result of these gifts being in your life. These gifts give to you an aroma of grace around
you and a feeling of joy for you know that one gives gifts then they are happy with you. Will you give a gift to someone you
are mad at? Will you give to an organization that does horrible things knowingly? Will you bless someone who is stealing from
you? Then Know that because God is giving to you that he is pleased with you or he could not give to you.
God cannot give his presence to those who reject him. I encourage you to receive Jesus and let us know so we can help you
in this walk. I encourage you if you have been blessed to let us know so that we can continue to pour out a knowledge of grace
and to tell you what God has given to you in the form of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Don Carson
Dear Friends,
I do not recall whether i sent this to you or not but I wanted to share this with you and pray that God will use you to help
us bless others and that God will use us to be a blessing also to you! Pray how you can help! End
of Year Update 2008 This past year we spent the year studying what our inheritance is in Jesus Christ. We will
be moving on to the 3rd phase of this series in 2009 when we will look at 1) Favored Positions and Time Tested
Fruit and God willing we will begin the final part of the study of gifts on the Study of Godʼs Character. During
the past year we have started the following: Pastor wrote courses for overseas Bible schools. We are working with several
overseas ministers in teaching grace to their congregations. We are working on Podcasts for the internet. I am really excited
about this because it will enable us to reach homes in places we cannot presently reach and it will enable us to expand our
outreach into new areas. We need help with the following: 1) we need to pay off our credit card which is about
$900 so that we can operate debt free 2) we need to increase our monthly contributions so that we can pay our bills and hopefully
give our staff something. Pastor John believed that a laborer was worthy of his hire and practiced that. We came out of a
church that had people volunteer and never reimbursed them anything for their time and he did not want to do that here. So
until his death we always paid our volunteers something. However, our income has decreased so we are not able to do that,
however, I would like to be able to go back to that. The amount is not the issue but the concept of giving to them is. We
need your help 3) we have come in contact with many that are in legitimate need that it would be great to help but we need
a stronger financial base to be able to help them. 4) I believe that a church should give to other ministries and I have found
one that teaches almost exactly like us and would like to help them. Many of you give to many other ministries
and helping us out would mean only one less cup of coffee or to do without some item, but it is doable for you. You were here
in the beginning when John started this church and you are a part of this vision. You helped us start this church now help
us to see this through. Finally pray that God will send in laborers to the harvest. We need people to come in to
help us accomplish the many things that God has put before us. We need you to help us pray for this ministry and to encourage
us. Keep in contact with us. Last year we needed to grow in our minds and hearts this year prayerfully we will grow in our
numbers and finances and ministries. Pastor
Don Carson
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Happy New Year 2009! I want to ask
all of you what do you expect from the year that just arrived? There are so many things that seem so good when they are new
but they are enjoyed less and less after we have had them for a while. The year is like that. We are happy when the year begins
and the old ends looking forward to a new beginning but the anticipation of what will happen for us wanes and the things do
not look good or the anticipation increases as what happens to us gets better and better. Our feeling of the year is based
on what happens to us. I want to give you a different way of looking at the year.
What did God for me this year. How was I used to bless others? Let us look at the year as a chance to give not a chance to
recieve. We were created to give but we have become so focuses on what we get. God loves us and wants to us to give. Giving
is the basis of love, for love does not profit if it is kept inside someone. We signify love by acts or symbols such as a
wedding ring or expressions of affection such as a hug or kiss. Love by giving to others when you cannot afford to do
so. Love the unloveable and bless the ones who curse you! I also want to add
this one thing: God provides more then you can imagine. I know someone who made more in 2006 then he recieved in 2007-2008
but is still here. God provides in ways we do not imagine.God's provision is usually not in ways we think so do not consider
the negative instead know that God will keep you despite your finances, health or any other reason you are convinced you will
not make it. God is greater so trust Him. Bless Him and worship Him not for what you need from Him but from how He wants to
use you to give!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
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