God's amazing power over nature!

Brothers and sisters I could use your prayers this week! I have a VERY busy week ahead. We have VBS all week from 9-12 am. I am preparing to preach two sermons on Sunday. I have to teach the youth on Wed. I am fishing in my first bass tourney on Sat. Then on Monday I am leaving on vacation to Myrtle Beach!



So this week I am going to share our VBS lessons with you on a modified Level!



The Bible verse today is Jeremiah 32:17:



Jeremiah 32:17

17 ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.



What an awesome verse to start the week out with. Whatever you are facing this week, give it to God for nothing is too hard for him! Maybe you have a busy week like me, maybe you are having health problems, marriage problems, or maybe no problems at all! Whatever the case praise the Lord for His mighty strength and for the love He has for each one of us!



If you want to join us in our Bible reading today we are reading Joshua chapters 3-4! God made a river stand still for the Israelites to cross! Now that is power!



Have a great day and I love each of you in the Lord!



Tom

God is good!

Our God

Another great song by Chris Tomlin is "Our God". Sit back this morning and worship the King with this song:






This song pretty well sums up everything! Our God is greater, stronger higher, than anything or anyone. And if He is for us who can stand against us? No one! Oh thank you great and mighty God! May your creation give you the worship you deserve this day!



Romans 8:31

[ God’s Everlasting Love ] What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?



1 Chronicles 16:25

For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is also to be feared above all gods.





Deuteronomy 7:21

You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.





Psalm 48:1

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.



Psalm 77:13

Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God?



Psalm 96:4

For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.



1 John 4:4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.



Revelation 11:17

saying: “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.



Tom

My Redeemer Lives!

If you have not heard this song before...hold on because you are going to worship this morning! I have heard it I don't know how many times and it never gets old! "My Redeemer lives" by Nicole C. Mullins:






Can you proclaim this morning your Redeemer lives? I sure can! Creation shouts it! He has been seen by many after conquering death. I talked to Him this morning...oh my Jesus lives! Makes me wanna shout!



Job 19:25

For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;



Psalm 19:14

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.





1 Corinthians 15:54

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”



1 Corinthians 15:3-8



3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.



Romans 1:19-21



19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.



Thank you Jesus, I am so very thankful for all you have done!



Tom

We need each other!

The Bible is pretty clear that we need one another as brother and sisters in Christ...check this song out by Sanctus Real:






I can honestly say I don't know where I would be without my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I know they will be there for me when I need a shoulder to lean on and I will be there for them. The Bible is clear we are bear each others burdens both spiritual and physical!



Romans 15:1

[ Bearing Others’ Burdens ] We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.



Galatians 6:1

[ Bear and Share the Burdens ] Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.



Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.



Are you doing this for others? The Bible also makes it clear we are to pray for each other:



James 5:16

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.



The body of Christ, the church need each other:



Romans 12:4-8



4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.



1 Corinthians 12:12-26



12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.

15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.



If you think you don't need anybody you are sadly mistaken according to the Word of God and the church needs you!



Join a bible believing fellowship today and serve as Christ has commanded! Thank you Jesus for placing brothers and sisters in Christ in my life to be such a blessing to me!!!!



Tom

Thank you Lord!

The two keepers I caught this morning on TN River. What a beautiful day! Thank you Lord!

Word of God speak

Continuing on with songs that speak to my heart. The song today "Word of God speak" by Mercy Me touched me the the first time I ever heard it. Listen and worship this morning.





God's Word is so important. I can't stress enough of how we need to be reading it everyday. God desires fellowship with His children. He wants to speak to us. He wants to here from us. It amazes me how many folks have never completely read their Bibles! The most important book in a believers life. Does that say something about our belief? It should be of no surprise that the longest chapter in the Bible is Psalms 119....guess what the entire chapter is about? Know God's Word and how important it is!



So are you letting God speak to you through His Word....if not start today my friend!



Psalm 119:1-8





119 Blessed are the undefiled in the way,

Who walk in the law of the Lord!

2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,

Who seek Him with the whole heart!

3 They also do no iniquity;

They walk in His ways.

4 You have commanded us

To keep Your precepts diligently.

5 Oh, that my ways were directed

To keep Your statutes!

6 Then I would not be ashamed,

When I look into all Your commandments.

7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart,

When I learn Your righteous judgments.

8 I will keep Your statutes;

Oh, do not forsake me utterly!



Romans 10:17

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.



2 Timothy 2:15

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.



Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.



1 John 2:14

I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one.



Tom