Harvest Blog

We had a great week’s end and we also had a great week’s beginning last Saturday and Sunday.

Let me explain- the week’s end is always Saturday and the Week’s beginning is always Sunday.  It consistently irks me when people talk about the week-end being Saturday and Sunday.  They fail to realize that the Lord instituted the gathering together of his people on the first day of the week-Sunday (Acts 20:7 and 1 Cor. 16:1-2)  I do not like people referring to Sunday as the week-end.  That fits in with those who want to negate the necessity of His people gathering together on the first day of the week at Church to worship the Lord together.  Thank God that He has chosen for us to begin the week with Him and thus put Him first in our lives.

Now, back to what I started to say, “We had a great week’s end last Saturday.”  The Ladies of Harvest Baptist Church had a special birthday lunch for my dear wife, Guyla, last Saturday at Priscilla Musgrave’s house.  It was Guyla’s 85th birthday that day.  Guyla and others told me of the blessing they had that day at Priscilla’s home.  I thank Priscilla and the church ladies for honoring my wife this way.  THANK you.  And let me add, My dear wife has been a great wife all these almost sixty years we have been together serving the Lord.

Sunday was a great beginning for the month of March.  I elected not to preach either service since I had just had cataract surgery.  Pastor Josh preached both services and did a very good job.  I received a blessing from the Word as I listened to him preach.  In the morning he spoke on Daniel 4, showing how God dealt with Nebuchadnezzar to humble him so he recognized God as the Ruler over men.  Great Message!  Also Sandy Childers sang a solo that was a blessing-”Bow the Knee”-and that fit very well with the message.  Nebuchadnezzar had to bow the knee.  It reminded me of the story quite a number of years ago about Bishop Pike, the Episcopalian Bishop in San Francisco.  He denied the deity of Christ and stood against the Word of God.  He died in the wilderness while hiking in the wilderness of Judea in Israel.  He had fallen in that rugged terrain,  and when they found his body he was on his knees looking up.  So he, too, finally bowed the knee as did Nebuchadnezzar.

We are looking forward to next Sunday.  Let’s all be present and have the privilege of meditating together on the Word of God in Sunday School and in Church.  Let’s be praying that God will use our services to win souls to Christ.

Praise God that we are seeing a number of young people coming each Wednesday to the youth activity.

I am thankful we had visitors  last Sunday and trust we will all bring others with us this  coming Sunday. Do be praying for our Revival-Evangelistic meetings with Evangelist Gary Gillmore, beginning Sunday, March 15.  Also, do not forget our All-Church Prayer Meeting on Saturday, March 14, at 8:00 A.M.  The time is changed for March 8, because the whole family is involved in the Prayer Meeting.  The Men’s Prayer Meeting for this Saturday, March 7, will go forward at the same time as usual, 7:00 A.M.

Have a great week this week;  and let’s have a good week’s beginning next Sunday as we worship together as a corporate body at Church.

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