Monday, March 18, 2013

God's Love Never Fails!

Have you ever been awaken by a song that just played over and over in your head? What a blessing it is to be reminded of the words to a song that goes like this...

Your love never fails, never gives up, never runs out on me...One thing remains...

HIS PROMISES NEVER CHANGE!

He is the same yesterday, today and forever! So worthy to be praised! So, Ladies get your praise on for The King of Kings and Lord of Lords...Daughters of the King , He loves You UNCONDITIONALLY!!!

Monday, September 26, 2011

Sisterhood Updates!

  • October 21, 2011 - 7pm Sisterhood Meeting (Friday Night)
  • October 30, 2011 - Fall Festival @ Silver Run Baptist... Ladies, please provide cakes, cookies, candies, etc. for the Cake Walk and please make plans to help for this. (Items can be homemade or store bought). Thank you for your participation!
  • November 14th-21st, 2011 - Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week
  • Sisterhood will be sponsoring a Shoebox Packing Party... More information will be coming later!
For more information, please contact Mrs. Linda Norris, Sisterhood Director

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sisterhood Meeting

Friday Night, August 12th @ 7pm! Please come and join us! Bring your favorite dish! Hope to see you there! We will be talking about a Labor Day Yard Sale!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Flood Damage

I thought you would enjoy this from Women of Faith's Patsy Clairmont...

“I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,” says the Lord. —Jeremiah 30:17


After Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast, officials warned that it would take a lot of time, money, and cooperation to restore people’s lives to anything resembling normal. New Orleans experienced not only damage caused by rain and wind but also from cracks in the levies, which caused severe flooding.

At one time, my life was a wash with emotional whirlpools, I felt hopeless. I didn’t want to pray. . . . I felt like my power lines were down and fear rampaged its windy way through my life, leaving a swath of instability. I could feel my life cracking apart—my emotions were erratic, my relationships were troubling, I was flooded with regret, and my future was dim.

That is, until I committed to rolling up my sleeves and doing the hard work of recovery. That meant I had to begin hauling away the debris of anger and fear, repairing the wind-damaged roof of my mind, and become willing to receive outside assistance from wise counselors.

Waiting for all the broken pieces of a life to be reworked is neither fast nor easy, but the end result is transformation. Nothing is more satisfying than to see God’s light peering through. It changes everything.

—Patsy Clairmont

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Stop and Listen

I thought you would enjoy this from Women of Faith:

Jesus said, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” —John 10:27 NIV


You say you have questions? That’s okay. My plea to you even in the midst of the questions is simple: talk to God and take time to listen. No matter how “vertically challenged” we may believe ourselves to be, God is listening and talking to us all the time. We only need to learn to stop and listen.

We are living in difficult times. War and terrorism are no longer a million miles away from home. Cancer and heart disease are waging an unprecedented battle against younger and younger people. The financial “golden days” of the 1980s are long gone. People worry if they will have enough savings to help their children through college or if they themselves will have enough to retire on. The bottom line is, life is hard.

God knows all about it. And more than that, right in the center of the tornado of our lives, he offers a quiet place, a shelter where he waits with open arms and an open heart to embrace any of us who will come. Whether you are young or old, full of hope or full of fear, angry or excited, bitter or grateful, this remains my conviction: God is listening.

— Sheila Walsh

For more information visit their blog at:
http://blogs.womenoffaith.com/blog/2010/10/stop-and-listen/

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Planning Funerals that Won't Happen Today

I thought you might like this devotional from Mrs. Gail McCants by: Lysa TerKeurst

"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?"

Matthew 6:27 (NIV)

Devotion:

A couple of years ago my teenage son came to me and asked if he could take his brother and sisters to go get ice cream. How fun! How thoughtful! "Sure," I said, "Let me grab my keys and we'll go."

"No, Mom ... we sort of want to go just us kids," he quickly replied.

"Oh," and that's about all I could get my mouth to say as my brain started racing and reeling. In my mind's eye pictures started flashing of a terrible accident, a phone call from the police, planning a funeral, and then thinking back to this moment when I could have said no.

And it was that strange sense that everything depended on me and my decisions that made me want to say no. Absolutely not. You will stay home today. You will all stay home forever. I have to keep you safe.

Why do we moms do that? Most of us live with this gnawing, aching, terrifying fear that something will happen to one of our children. We carry the pressure that ultimately everything rises and falls on whether or not we can control things. And mentally, too often we plan funerals that won't happen today.

We do it because we know the realities of living in a broken world where car accidents do happen. Tragedy strikes old and young alike. We have no guarantees for tomorrow. And that's really hard on a mama's heart.

I stood at the front window of my house chewing my nails and watching as the entire contents of my mama heart piled into one car.

And I realized I had a choice.

I could run myself ragged creating a false sense of control that can't really protect them. Or, I could ask God to help me make wise decisions and choose to park my mind on the truth.

The truth is:

God has assigned each of my kids a certain number of days.

My choices can add to the quality of their life, but not the quantity. They could be at home tucked underneath my wings and if it's their day to go be with Jesus, they will go.

"When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." (Psalm 139:15-16)

Jesus conquered death so we don't have to be afraid of it any longer.

Of course, the death of anyone I love would make me incredibly sad, heart-broken and dazed with grief. But I don't have to be held captive by the fear of death.

"Since the children have flesh and blood, he (Jesus) too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." (Hebrews 2:14-15).

Death is only a temporary separation. We will be reunited again.

In 2 Samuel 12, when David's infant child died, he confidently said, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me" (v. 23). David knew he would see his child again--not just a faceless soul without an identity, but this child for whom he was longing. He would know him, hold him, kiss him, and the separation death caused would be over.

I know these are heavy things to process on a Thursday morning. And I certainly don't claim that these truths will help you never ever fear again. But I do hope these truths will settle your heart into a better place.

And the next time my kids go get ice cream together, instead of chewing my nails I'll only pick at them while awaiting their return. See progress? It's good.


Dear Lord, the fear of something happening to one of my children is so raw. And I guess the thing that makes it so hard is I know we live in a broken world and awful things happen to kids. But if I focus on this fear, it will consume me. Instead help me focus on You so I'll only be consumed with Your truth, Your love, Your insights, and Your power. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Sisterhood Updates

Friday, May 14th-- Sisterhood meets tonight @ 7pm, instead of May 21st.