Courage in making the righteous decision isn’t always the right decision. We always need to start at the place of being people of courage who start towards the righteous decision and as we seek the Lord we discover what is the right righteous decision to make.
There is no greater sense of unity than we come and
pray together and ask the Lord to put us on the same page! Have you
experienced some of those moments. Oh that Petal FBC would be
like the early church and pray together in unity! And because of
their prayer and the unity of their prayer – the Lord was pleased to
answer it and does so in a powerful way! Division hinders the church
and robs us of the spiritual power we so desperately need!
Toni Marino is a precious young lady who is battling Leukemia for the 4th time. She recently made the decision to ask Jesus into her heart, so we wanted to celebrate with her! This video shows her baptism and a little one-on-one with Toni and Brother Brad. We are asking everyone to please fast at least one meal a week to pray and plead with God for Toni's healing! If you would like to help the Marino family, please visit our Facebook page or contact us at the Church Office 601.545.3198
They returned to their fellowship (perhaps they had already been praying
for them and their release – How do we know that? Acts 12:5
What do men of courage do after facing difficult moments – run and
hide? No way – they go back to their Church Family and do what they
had always done. This is why they were men of courage.
The context from last week, Peter’s response to the question, really
finishes his sermon the next day to the Sanhedrin council.
This was in response to what Peter had been sharing with them in a
sense of presenting the message to the council. Luke 21:15 We see this
coming true right before our very eyes.
We start a new section today of Acts and we have focused on the early days of the Church and the launch of the Church, and the mission control and their leaving earth and now this morning we turn our attention to how the Lord works through specific individuals in the life of the Church and how they displayed incredible courage as they relied on the Holy Spirit to embolden them.
Our challenge is to understand that the “rediscovery” of the gospel should
be a lifelong process that never ends. We began our Christian life by
drinking from Christ’s everlasting water. We don’t grow in Christ by
enlarging the circumference of our well; we grow in Christ by digging
deeper into it.
As You have been to me, so I will be to others.
We turned that corner last week and began to work our way to letting
this Gospel spill out of our lives into the lives of others. We love others
in response to the love we’ve experienced in the Gospel – we’ve
experienced the extravagant generosity of God and so therefore we
understand we extend that same generosity others. God’s Great
Abundance & Our Allocation of those Resources
The Gospel motivates us to generosity not by Guilt (we never give
enough) or Greed (We give so we can get) but by Grace (we give
because we have received). The bottom line is that it is impossible to
believe the gospel and not become like the gospel!
