|
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Dear Friends,
I do pray that you will have much success in all that you do from this day forward for your life is hid with Christ in God for
God loves you and is not mad at you. The focus we have has to be on what God did for us at Calvary and when we read
the Bible it has to be with a post- Calvary persepctive. God did so much for us and it is all wrapped up in the cross
of Jesus Christ and his resurrection. All we have is because of Him and what He did for us. The weapons we have and
the victory we have is because of Him going to hell and beating the devil and raising again with our justification so we
can be made God's righteousness. If He did not rise from the dead then Paul said our faith is in vain. God had to raise
Jesus from the dead to show that the victory had occurred and that Jesus was not just a man but he was God Most High. The Father
raised the Son to show us we too can believe in Him and trust Him! We
are beginning our look at the weapons we have and I encourage you to study not just what I say but to search them out. I
could spend a long time looking at each weapon but I am just giving an overview of these weapons and letting you look
at it. Do not let this be all you know about each one but let it be a guide and help you see it as a springboard to
desiring to know more about each one! Blessings and peace to each of
you!
Pastor Don Carson
Word of Grace Fellowship
Sunday, February 20, 2011
My friends,
Today we look at how to obey Christ and there is so much out there about it. We obey Christ by our doings. We obey by keeping
a set of commands that no man could keep, but we told we must keep them. They were not given to be our salvation but we
feel we must keep them. We must keep them out of a sense of obligation even though in reality it is really religious
thinking! We need to separate religion from relationship for our obedience must be out of our desire to obey and not out
of obligation. You are a human BE-ing not a human DO-ing
and too often we focus on our doings and not on simply BE-ing. Our obedience is in letting Jesus be our Christ and not in making
us our own salvation. When we focus on being our salvation then we miss the point of salvation. The point of salvation
is to have God reproduce Himself in us so we can reproduce him in others. That is why it is called the new birth. We grow
in grace and let that grace give his power and love to others so they in turn can see what God did manifest in others. The
weapons are to demonstrate that power fearlessly in the face of our enemies. God wants you to use what you have to change
others. As I am writing this I am speaking to ministers from Pakistan
and they want to know more. They want to have what I have. Go and tell it is a simple command and it is so hard to do.
How can I go and tell - who am I! I cannot I am not a minister! We have so many excuses to not going but we must go
and tell. I read those who have died and have not found one name I know of those that have suffered. Go and tell! I encourage
you to go and tell all that you know to reach others so together we can fulfill the great commission!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, February 14, 2011
This Sunday our church did not hold our service at the YMCA at our usual hour due to
circumstances beyond our control. Subsequently our Pastor did not post a new sermon. Our Associate Pastor,
did, however, post a new sermon for Valentines Day. Hope you enjoy it . This is
a good week to read over the Newsletter and past postings .
We also
ask you all to take the time to write your own Testamony and send it to us. We are
interested in hearing from you. Happy Valentines Day!
9:54 am est
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Dear Ministers,
Feb 6, 2011
You are the ones entusted with the ministry and it does not matter what that ministry is. Some have told me it is to care
for children and some believe that it is to go and evangelize others. You are given a gift that is to share what God
has put in you, not what you have put in yourself. God gave us all a task, we are first to go and share with our
local area, then our country and then teh world. God put you in my path and you are reading this letter for God wants to
bless you and we have met and God showed that within us He wants to use us together. You know that God desires to share
with others what he put in me so that you might be edified. We each have
a task to do and mine is to teach the gospel of grace to whoever will listen and to tell them they too can be healed
and to minister it with gladness and joy for God is with me. You have sensed that and want to be a part of that. I want
you to be blessed and to flow in the grace of God and to know what I know about grace but I also want to recieve from you
what you were given. We were given to be parts of one body and to edify one another. That means no one person has the
answers but we all learn from each other and bless one another. Receive from
me and as you are feed from me then communicate to me what you have. Feed those who bless you by suppprting them with your
gifts and bless their ministry as you also need to be blessed for in your giving you are able to recieve from others .
Give and it is given. You cannot be poor when you give to those that God gives to you to bless you!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
|
