For your own good, I encourage you to etch out 38 minutes and 43 seconds in the very near future and treat yourself to this help.
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Pray. Ask the Lord to bring several unconverted friends' names to your heart. Pray earnestly for their salvation.
Invite your friend(s) to come to church with you at least one Sunday between March and May. Preferrably more than that.
The preaching pastors are committing to the body to be seeking the Lord's face to preach as clearly and simply the whole gospel each Sunday, including the bible's instruction for how one must respond. Pray for us!
When you invite your friend to church, arrange also to host him/her/them for lunch the Sunday they attend.
Invite a fellow Grace member/family to join you for lunch to help with meal preparations, build a new relationship, pray, and to help commend Christ during the lunch conversation. Don't let living far away stop you from being involved. Talk to someone else in the body, and figure it out together.
Launching from the morning's sermon, or however you can get there, turn the conversation toward the gospel. Explain God's Jesus-centered saving truth. Welcome questions and dialogue. Lovingly call for repentance and faith. Seek to arrange 4 to 5 times in the next 2-3 months to read the gospel of Mark (independently) and talk about it (together).
Repeat the entire process until God says stop (i.e. When you get to heaven).
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Peter Jeffery quoting Spurgeon in Bitesize Theology,
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great suject of the Deity. Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godheads's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.
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"My soul, wait in silence for God only..." - Psalm 62:5.
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If the Lord wills, Christ's immutability will be our theme this coming Sunday at Grace.
That's because God the Father gives us a window into His own delight into the Immutability of God the Son in Hebrews 1:10-12. Marinate your soul...
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“Let us mark…how Christ indicates that when His joy abides in us our joy is full (John 15:11).
Joy depends much less on what we have, than on what we are. You may give me this and that, and everything that can be thought of, yet in my soul there be no wave of joy.
But change me inwardly; make me like Jesus; let me, like Him, hate wickedness and love righteousness with the whole force of my nature; let me abide, like Him, in the Father’s love; let my heart, like His, flow over with loving feelings on every side; let me, like Him, delight in doing God’s will, and in finishing, day by day, the work given me to do; let me, like Him, live in expectation of the glory that is to be revealed when He appears with His holy angels, when His redeemed are all gathered from east and from the west, from the north and from the south; then shall not my joy be pure, deep, and real? Shall my joy not even now be unspeakable and full of glory?”
William Garden Blaikie’s, The Inner Life of our Lord, 97-98.
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When the vantage point of our prayer is lined up with Christ's worth, we will quickly find more expectation in our praying and true transformation in our lives.
Prayer can be empty, and often is, but it doesn't have to be. We should expect our Father's...
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“The lighter forms of joy, when they involve no sin, need not be banished from our life—bodily recreation, social mirth, lively books and lively conversation. But their place will be secondary; the great fountain will be Christ’s fountain. Nay, we will be jealous over ourselves with godly jealousy, lest we so drink of lighter joys of life as to spoil our relish for the deeper river that makes glad the city of our God.” - William Garden Blaikie, Glimpses of the Inner Life of our Lord, 98.
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Long-term Haiti relief plan in place
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