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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Dear Friends,
Some of you have responded and told us how involved you are with us and some have not. I would like to know from the Pastors
out there how many of you are using our resources to help your church. Do you download and use our materials to help your
minstry and distribute them to your members? IF you do then will you email us and let us know so that we can make a list of
the ones that are more involved with us. We know some are more involved then others. Some of you will read this site and say
Oh that is nice or you perhaps you will disagree with us. Paul went so many places and started so many churches and some he
never wrote. Others he wrote letters to but they never made it to the Bible ( Laodicea)
I want to see this church grow and want to see you grow with us. I want to see you grow in faith and want to see you grow
in the spirit. I want to see us grow in the money we receive not because of what I get ( right now I get nothing) but so that
we can increase in what we can do for others. Ministry is in helping others and we want to see how many people we are helping.
It helps us to see how many are being helped. Some of the people we help we may never know, but we need to ask the question.
The more people that give to us indicates to us the more that are receiving from us.
Soon we will be starting the voluteer part of the offices of the church. The ones that people do not usually call ministers.
Today we are lookiing at the ministry of the evangelist and the more I look into these offices the more I find which I only
find by digging into God's Word and these sermons take more time then most do to prepare, because of the handouts I prepare
with them that are given to those that come. I cannot put everything on the internet and I find that when I preach other
things are added that are not in the original sermon. I pray you will come out and join us and tell your friends about us.
Tell them of our website at www.wordofgracefellowship.com and come visit one of our services at the Springfield YMCA Sundays @ 11 AM.
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
12:25 pm est
Monday, February 16, 2009
I promised to put in one of John's teachings every month for you and I have not put one up
this month. This is a short teaching but it speaks volumes Pastor John Hogan 2002
Col 3:3 you are dead and revealed in Christ. He did it all so that you have nothing left to do,
it is paid in full. Eph 2:8-10 By grace you are saved and that is not of yourself. You cannot even say that it is by your
faith for you have no leg to stand on, if you try to earn the gift of salvation. He did it all so the load is off of you.
He took the load off your back so the work is done. I have been in this church for
a number of years so my mindset is based on comments such as what Pastor John said in 2002. I have heard that over and over
again so I see myself according to the revelation of Pastor John and the Apostle Paul and cannot see myself any other way.
You cannot convince me that I am under the law for I am grounded in the truth that Grace is what keeps me and Grace is what
saved me. I know beyond a shadow of the doubt that it is none of me. I pray that you will have this same confidence when you
go to the teachings on this page and hear this truth. When you listen to a
preacher you will hear what their bread and butter is in every sermon. If they preach faith then every time they preach you
will hear some truth about faith no matter what the topic is on. When you hear me preach you will hear me preach on grace
in some way no matter what the topic is on, for it is in me. Let the word get within you and you will see that God will give
to you the focus you are to have. There are a number of ministries that are being blessed by us by this website. I want to
thank Rev Dr Natalie Marino for nudging me to get on the Internet for it has been a Godsend. Sometimes you are nudged and
God directs you through people. It has been so important for us to be on the Internet and it has given us a great blessing.
It has provided to us an audience that we did not have but now we need the finances to go with that audience.
Pray with me: Lord,
you do not provide people to listen without the funds to support it. SO thank you LORD for providing our needs and providing
the funding to reach out to all these people and to bless us.Send in more people and open doors that so far have been closed
to us. We pray you will bless us individually and as a church. Enable us to be in a position where we can also bless others.
Move in their hearts and move in ours. Thank you Lord for giving to us more then you have put in our imagination and hearts
for we know all our needs are met by the blood that was shed on Calvary and we praise you for it- IN Jesus Name Amen
If God moves on you to do something then respond to his leading or his nudging as the case
may be.
Pastor
Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
5:00 pm est
Sunday, February 8, 2009
I want to put out a couple of things for us to consider in this blog over the next couple of weeks.
There are 2 things that the Lord has been dealing with me and I want to pass it on to you. 1) that we do limit Jesus from
working the way he wants to in our lives 2) in what way is your heart hardened to me We
do not let God do the things that he wants to in our lives and that needs to change. God wants to do so much more then what
we see in our lives. God wants to do so much and some time we are more focused on what we need then on what He desires to
do through us. The disciples were participating in miracles with Jesus and still they missed many things. They did not see
even though Jesus was right in front of them and they saw miracles - they missed it with the eyes of the spirit.God did not
give you the talents you have so that you can earn a living. God gave you the talents you have so that you can minister to
him and that is primary. I have found that there are other talents I had once
I started focusing on serving Him which I did not realize that were there. I ask you Lord that you open doors that I have
not seen and bring in people to meet the needs of this ministry. Expand my vision and expand the amount of people that are
in this ministry. Help us to reach out to our community and to reach out to the people in the world. Everything God gave you is so that you can use it for His glory. Too often we try to justify ourselves
by saying I need this or that. God wants to do so much more then we can imagine but we are limited by our thinking. I want
to encourage you to take the blinders off and do not let your imagination prevent you from doing what God puts in your heart.
When God gives you an idea go with it and let him bring it to pass just listen and say Yes to His spirit and trust Him to
do the work within you. I want to share
with you something one of the Pastors from Kenya wrote me. I am writing this with his permission and this is what He sent
to me Pastor Jackton Arija of Dayspring Gospel Tabernacle Church wrote this and they have a website at http://www.dayspringgtc.com/
In our Church we have prayer team who prays for Church a ctivities,needs,Minisries who are
connected with us and friends.Your name and your Ministry are in our Items and always as we fast every saturday we prays for
your and others.
I have shared some of the teaching in your website with them last sunday morning whe I was
teaching and they loved the teaching from your website.I have also gave them your website so that any body who is have any
questions and any prayer needs should also share with you. Pastor you and a blessing to us and we love you. People in other countries are receiving what we are saying and sharing it with others for they are
starved for the Word. However we have churches on every corner in the US so we are not as starved as they are so they see
more miracles then we do. Open your mind so that you can see God in a new way Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Today you are here not by chance but by divine origin. You are here because God sent you here so
that you can be blessed. You came here to be blessed and to receive of God's grace so that you can be ministered to and
so that we can share with you what we have recieved. You came so that God can bless you and so that we can have an opportunity
to share with you all that we have been given. Each of us have a part of the puzzle. Some understand better how
to be healed, some how to deal with others, some understand God's grace. We all have a piece of the puzzle
so we all need each other. No one has it all so we all need to have others in our lives. God put you in our life
and us in your life; God puts different people in our lives so that we can grow and so that we can instruct others.
They are not here by accident. So I ask you to let us help you and I also
ask that you will also be willing to help us. We want to minister to you but we also want to be ministered to by you.
We want what God has given to you and we want to share with you what God has given to us. We need each other. We
are perfect in Christ but we need people. We need one another so help us as we fulfill the calling God gave
to us for it is also the calling that God gave you. God gave us all a calling to reach the world so help us fulfill the great Commission
and make disciples of all that come to us. We are here for each other. Share with us what God has given to you so that we
can share with you that which God has given to us.
Pastor Don Carson Word
of Grace Fellowship
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