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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Lately we have not been able to send out the reminders we used to and our email delivery system will prayerfully
soon be replaced. We just went through a period of Thanksgiving where people go over what happened to them this year
and consider the good and bad and decide whether we should be thankful. IF we had a good year then we should thank God
but if we had too much happen to us that was bad then we say why should we be thankful. We reason out whether God should
be thanked, instead of just thanking Him from our heart. Now I am not saying all do this but some
do. Some think that they should not thank God for they compare themselves to other people. They say look at
what my ______ has or what so and so has why shold I thank God for they are evil and they should not be blessed I am so good.
We want to think that our worth determines our blessing. You do not get things from God because of what you have done;
the things you receive from God is based on what HE did. It is about what Jesus did for you not about what you did for
Him. It is all about Jesus. I like the fact that the year ends with Thanksgiving and celebrating the
Birth of Jesus. We end the year wth a spirit of giving and a spirit of thanks. So we start a new year after we spend
time thinking about how we can love people and praise God. Beautiful! The tradition of it is not what is important' what is
important is what is put in your heart and how you give that to others. God puts the love and thanks in your heart and God
uses that, so you can help others and it does not matter if you born again or not. God wants to find ways to bless others through
you. Love one another because of the fact that Christ first loved you. Love because you were loved, not to get love but
to give and in your giving realize you are saying Thank You and I love you to God more then your words ever could.
If you have never come to visit us then visit us this Sun at the Springfield YMCA at 11 AM so we can share with
you the grace of God. Join us and you will be blessed by God's grace!
Pastor Don Carson Word
of Grace Fellow
Saturday, November 14, 2009
I have been teaching on the Eternallness of God . I also want to make you aware that we too have problems and we
need prayer also. Because of the internet we have a much larger ministry then what we see. The ministry is to those that
we cannot see and since we do not ask for things people assume we do not need things. We do not ask for money or send
out prayer requests so people say then they must not need things. We walk knowing that God will supply our needs because
his grace is bigger then our problems but that does not mean we do not have problems. We have prayed for people
for many things and seen people healed from cancer when we prayed and many other things. We have other needs too
and they are financial and I have asked before for money from you and have recieved nothing. God is the one who must
move your heart to give for I cannot. Your giving must come from the heart and not from any obligation that you feel.
I cannot sell you something so you cannot buy something from me. Just know that we need God to move in our minstry
to do something with our webpage. We need God to open something up that at the moment, we are getting conflicting reports.
So pray that God will supply our needs in Jesus name and I pray that God will send in people to support us not
only by prayer but also with their finances.Share with them our website at www.wordofgracefellowship.com and tell them of our Sunday Service at 11 AM. Come and share with us what God has given to you so we can share with you what
God has given to us! Pastor Don
Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Saturday, November 7, 2009
11/8/09 The word of God is nigh thee and even in thy mouth! The word was sent to you because God wants to
show us His love and give to us all that He has. He gave to us so we can give to others. Will you receive the Spirit
who gives Comfort like no one else can! Will you go and comfort the ones that have hurt you! It is not easy to comfort
the ones that caused us trouble. We recall the pain and anguish for it so easy to remember the bad from people instead of
the good. We remember longer the bad people do and it sticks in our memory so we recall it when we are upset with them.
That happens beause of the sin consciousness that we have. It is not because we are bad people or have bad intentions.
Do you need comfort because of the bad tragedies that have happened in your life or in the lives of
people you know? It is so hard when these things happen becuase this life is so real to us that we cannot see anythign
else. We question about the reality of God in ouir life for we see so much tragedy in this realm and so many have
asked is there a God then why do we have so much that is wrong in this realm. We assume that if there is a God then we should
not have all these problems. This is the Devils realm not God's. The Comforter reassures us of what Jesus really did
and the assurance we have from God being. God is and since we see so much wrong we need to know that God is really here
so hear the Comforter and do not focus on the problems here but focus on being in Jesus Christ. So tell others of
His grace and walk in the Comforter's help and help us by telling others about this site and give to them this link-
www.wordofgracefellowship.com and join us for church on Sundays at 11AM at the Springfield YMCA so you can hear more this week about the Holy
Comforter of God Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Nov 1 2009 We are looking at the Spirit and what he does. Sometimes
it is not just giving you words of encouragement or moving on people to do something for you. It can also be in little
gestures of life like giving you a breeze on a hot day or a cloud that looks like a hand or something that reminds you
of God. The Spirit is there to give you comfort and grace and to remind you the truth of what Jesus did say. The
Holy Spirit is eternal and lives within you. You have something that the saints of the OT like Moses, David, Abraham
and others longed for but did not have. David said Take not your Holy Spirit from me. So Christians today pray that,
but it is not a NT prayer. It was prayed by someone in the OT that was not born again in whom the Lord did not live
in. God did not live in the saints of the OT. God lives in you. God loves you and can reside you; He could not live in
the OT saints, but that did not change the fact that HE loved them. God loves you so much that He died for you.
Now I want to share with you a verse that is well known to us here, for we have taught
on this verse often. Heb 9:15 says this - And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means
of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called
might recieve the promise of eternal inheritance. Do you see the statement made in this verse- He died for the sins of
the first testament. We learn that he took the law out of the way so that there was nothing else to judge us by. Where there
is no law there is no transgression. God can now live in you because HE no longer sees your sin instead He sees your
substitute whereas in the OT the payment was not yet made so he saw the sin; that is why they made sacrifices weekly
and on the day of atonement, because of the sin consciousness that led them.
The Spirit tells us what Jesus did so that we might understand the truth of what HE did on Calvary for us. Too often
we let tradition led us in our doctrine instead of letting the Bible speak for itself. Jesus who knew no sin was
made to be sin. He died in your place. God took the law out of the way Col 2 God so loved the world John 3:16 Christ
is the end of the law Rom 10. Now I am not quoting them in their fullness but I challenge you to read these verses in
context and see what God says about you in Christ. God sees you in Jesus not by the deed of your flesh so walk in grace.
This is what the Spirit of grace wants to show you- what you have in Jesus so you can walk in what HE gave you as a gift.
If this blesses you then tell people about our website and share with them how
God blessed us because of what HE did through us in you. Give them our website link- www.wordofgracefellowship.com and write us to tell us how we blessed you or to tell us how we can bless you.
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
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