Good Morning

Good morning fellow lovers of Jesus!

As the Psalmist says;

Psalm 57:7-11 – 7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music. 8 Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. 9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. 10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

As I awakened this morning before dawn, and watched it unfold as I drove in to church, this Psalm came to mind. No matter what the day before brought your way, the dawn in a new day and should be a time of praise to God.

God, we thank you for awakening us this morning and for the opportunity to gather to worship you with other lovers of Jesus!

Good Morning

Good Morning Mt. Oak & Friends,

Today the message will be about intercessory prayer. I want you to know that I have spent time this morning praying for you – in specific ways and in general ways. I hope you will pray for me as well.

This Scripture came to mind - Psalm 17:1 - Hear, O Lord, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer — it does not rise from deceitful lips.

Today I honestly and with a sincere heart pray for the folk of Mt. Oak and our friends. I want God to touch our hearts today in worship and to minister to our hurts and our needs, but mostly, to draw us closer to Him.

As I get to know Mt. Oak more and more I know we have some awesome people with some awesome accomplishments in life. But I pray this morning we would all have the mind of Paul, like the mind of Christ - Philippians 3:7-11 - 7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ — the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

I want to know Jesus more and more and I want that for you as well. See you this morning my friends.