What a privilege to connect with you again. You know, this morning you and I woke up again for another day of life. God's great blessing. Be encouraged, during this #COVID-19 #pandemic, that #God is going to bless you in a marvelous way as we reintegrate into society. As this #coronavirus subsides, God will use you to witness for him in Total Member Involvement. Focus on #Christ and heaven and eternal truths and values, eternal values. "Don't let the world around you," as Romans chapter 12:2 says in Phillips Translation, "don't let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold.” Look to Jesus! Jesus is coming soon! Last week we talked about #Jesus coming and the first part of Matthew 24, and I'd like to look at a second section of Matthew 24, verses 15 to 31. We'll cover a few of those verses. It says sin verse 15-24, great chapter on Christ's second-coming, “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, the prophet standing in the Holy Place (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains." Now, Jesus was speaking specifically about the attack of the Roman army on Jerusalem in 70 a D. But as the chapter continues, it moves into a second phase, an application of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Many of the things that the Christians were to be aware of during this attack on Jerusalem in 70AD, are also things that we can look forward to in terms of God protecting us. It says there, "let him who was on the house stop, not go down to take anything out of his house, don't go back from the field to get your clothes." Those kinds of things tell us of the urgency, the watchfulness, that we must have in looking for the great event of Jesus coming. And of course, this was also applying to those in Jerusalem because they were not to let anything distract them, and that is the main point. Be focused on eternal values. And then it says, “pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.” Pray that God will guide us in all things, he'll protect us regardless of what may happen. Then it says, “don’t believe if people say,” verse 23, “here is the Christ or there, don't believe it for false Christs and false prophets,” verse 24, “will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect.” God wants to protect us from the deception of the devil and all those who are going to try to deceive us in a very terrible way. Even the elect, even those who are connected with the Lord. So stay close to the #Bible and understand what God has in store for you as you read His word. Then it says, “Look in the desert. No, don't go out to see them. Don't believe it. For as the lightening,” this is verse 27, “for as the lightening comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man or will the coming of the Son of Man be.” This is what is going to happen. It's going to be a visible thing. You're going to be able to see Jesus. Everyone will see him at the same time. And then in verse 29 it says, “immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. The stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken and we know that those signs have already taken place. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven,” this is verse 30, “and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will gather together, His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” I want to be there that day. God will help us as we prepare through his grace in sharing with others about Christ’s soon coming. Listen to the Great Controversy, page 640 and going on to 641, “Soon there appears in the East of small black cloud about half the size of a man's hand. It is the cloud which surrounds the Savior in which seems in the distance to be shrouded in darkness. The people of God know this to be the sign of the Son of Man. In solemn silence, they gaze upon it as it draws near the earth becoming lighter and more glorious until it is a great white cloud. It's base a glory like consuming fire and above it the rainbow of the covenant. Jesus rides forth as a mighty conqueror.” What a day that will be, and it's coming soon. Let me pray with you, "Father in heaven guide us now as we look forward to that great day when Jesus will return and until that time, help us to be involved with others and helping them to know Jesus is wonderful. Righteousness is beautiful Bible truths and his second coming. A wonderful event that will take place. Lord, protect each of us. Help us to be part of total member involvement, sharing with others that Jesus is coming soon. In Christ's name, we ask it. Amen." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPnoPVvjyg
The Seventh-day Adventist Church wants you to be a digital missionary.
The global Seventh-day Adventist Church is gearing up to launch what might become the largest digital evangelism series in history. Every Adventist is being challenged to become a ‘Digital Missionary’ as church leaders are hoping to recruit 5,000 digital missionaries in 5 days.
“Sometimes it is difficult for everyone to be involved in regular public meetings,” says Williams Costa Jr, director of communication for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “But when it comes to digital…
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Psalm 32:7
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.
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The Adventist Church in North America to hold department and ministry elections after 2021 General Conference Session
Due to the impact of COVID-19 and the postponement of the 2020 General Conference (GC) Session until May 2021, and the North American Division (NAD) of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church policy that requires the election of NAD vice presidents and department directors be held after a General Conference Session, the North American Division Committee (NADCOM) voted on May 21, 2020, to hold division elections on May 26, 2021, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
This date is…
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Have You Found Your Bearings?
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15.
Conformity to the world is causing many of our people to lose their bearings. I feel deeply over this matter, because it is continually kept before me by the Lord….
If ever there was a time when those who have a knowledge of present truth should find their bearings, it is the present time. Although no one is to move independently of his brethren, yet each one must gain a knowledge of his own condition, his exact bearings. The question that each one should ask himself is, “What is my relation to God?”
It is conformity to the world that is causing our people to lose their bearings. The perversion of right principles has not been brought about suddenly. The angel of the Lord presented this matter to me in symbols. It seemed as if a thief were stealthily moving closer and still closer, and gradually but surely stealing away the identity of God’s work by leading our brethren to conform to worldly policies….
The Lord expects us to make most diligent efforts to free ourselves of the worldly spirit that has come in among us…. The Lord calls for a reformation. In every place where believers have adopted worldly principles, He desires a voice of warning to be raised. “Cry aloud,” He says, “spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1)….
From many minds a realization of the times in which we are living is as far away as is heaven from the earth. It seems that their duty to prepare to meet a soon-coming Saviour is entirely forgotten. God wants us to come to our senses. He wants us to act like rational beings, who are living on the borders of the eternal world.
Remember that in preparing yourselves for the heavenly kingdom, you are preparing others. The Scriptures say, “Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.” …
So long as we work in Christ’s lines, laying hold of the arm of the Mighty One, we are safe; but just as soon as we loosen our grasp of His arm, and begin to depend upon human beings, we are in great danger.
This very day the Lord desires us to reach a higher standard than we have ever reached in the past. Day by day we are to advance upward, ever upward, until it can be said of us as a people, “Ye are complete in him.”—Manuscript 96, July 7, 1902, an early morning talk before the Pacific Union Medical Missionary Council at St. Helena,
The Upward Look p. 202
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Prayer Requests
—-Prayer requests from last night’s prayer meeting: Sherlyn’s shoulder that she will not need surgery—Ann’s dental work today—Joyce’s back pain—Ron’s need of a job—Barb as she goes back to work—Pastor the new church school teacher and Bible study contacts—Brian that he will be able to video chat with his dad and that BG will make good decisions regarding work—Veronica in the loss of her aunt.
—-ome friends of mine his daughter in Washington who has MS. was taken to the ER today they think she had a stroke.. she is 52. also my girlfriend Gayle who has stage 4 cancer is in bad shape in iCU. when the nurse went to move her from one b1ed to another they broke her fema. they did surgery this morning .she came through it but her B/P bottomed out plus the oncologist had to open her up and put some jell in her so she wouldn’t bleed to death during surgery. M
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Dear Friends,
When I was a little girl, my mother used to take me to the carnival. The fair grounds were at that time only about a mile from my grandparents’ house, so it was not far to walk. The carnival was a place of wonderment for me. Rides that I would never think of going on loomed overhead. Little kiddie rides that I enjoyed, “fishing” for a prize, watching my mother shoot a rife and getting to choose the prize, rough looking men hawking their wares, watching a man swallow a sword, and other wonders captivated my attention.
As we were walking along, my mother saw the House of Mirrors. Curious, she paid the entrance fee. When we got inside, there were mirrors of all types. When we stood in front of one, we looked very tall and skinny. Another one made us look very short and fat. Still another, made us look misshapen. I laughed and laughed. We entered a corridor of mirrors and soon we were lost in a maze. It was impossible to find our way out by sight. The mirrors were set up in such a way that we could see many reflections of ourselves, but not the way out. I felt panic-stricken! After a time of attempting to find the exit, my mother began to panic too. That scared me even more. Finally, she got the idea of feeling her way along the maze. That worked! Once on the outside, we determined never to enter a maze of mirrors again.
How often life is like that maze of mirrors. Without the our Great Redeemer’s guidance, we become lost in the tangle of trials and troubles of our own making. Without His special leading, we can get ourselves into circumstances where there seems to be no way out. The more we try to extricate ourselves from the situation, getting deeper we get in the trap.
There is only one way of escape. If we ask Him, Jesus will help us disentangle ourselves from the mess we have gotten ourselves into. All we need to do is ask. Our Dear Saviour promises, “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.” Psa 32:8 He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! (John 14:6) No matter what our circumstance, no matter how deeply we are ensnared in our own “house of mirrors, “if we cry unto the Lord in our trouble, He will save us out of all of our distresses, deliver us from self- destruction, teach us His way, and make a plain path for our feet. ( Psa 107:19,20; 27:11)
May we, this very day, while the door of mercy is still open, ask our Loving Saviour to take complete control of our life. May we declare as did David, “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” Psa 73:24 May we ever “follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth” is my prayer. Rev 14:4
Rose
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