Last week we had a guest columnist. I spoke with a few conductors who are going to help with the Christmas musical orchestra. I met with a guy who is helping to guide us through some facility upgrades in the sanctuary. I rehearsed with a soloist for this Sunday’s service and am looking forward to sharing the choir anthem with her. I am planning on having someone led for me on a Sunday morning in few weeks. The Christmas musical is quickly approaching as well as a couple other special services. I am aware of my need of a little creative support and a lot of help over the next eight weeks or so.
All of this has me thinking again of equipping.
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13
Equipping is done so the body will be built up. The point of the building up is that we all reach unity in faith and knowledge, and ultimately maturity. To think that each of us has a part in that is very exciting to me.
So what is your part? Are you a choir member, bass player, actor, painter, tech, carpenter, intercessor, etc.? Are you fulfilling your role? Have you been equipped to do so? Is there more that you could be doing? [There is always more that could be done, but are you doing what God wants you to do.]
Here is a list of some things that are emerging. Maybe you have some talents and/or passions to express for the good of the church.
Contributing authors – I believe some of you have some things to share that would make great Tuesday Tunings. I am officially excepting submissions.
Christmas Eve – I am praying about some creative expressions for that evening. I welcome ideas.
Creative Team – Like our worship team that meets weekly to prepare to lead our people, I am considering compiling a group of people to plan and express talents in worship for the glory of our Lord. Interested?
Intercessors – I would love to see a group of people praying during each of the presentations of the musical on December 11. Would you be available to pray for us as we present?
??? – Maybe there is something else that we need to be doing to allow God to declare His glory in our midst. I welcome those thoughts.
I look forward to hearing from many of your in response to these needs. I am trusting God to continue to move in our midst as we faithfully stay one step behind Jesus. What an exciting time to be a part of the family of worshippers who call North-Mar Church home! I am glad I am here and that you are too!
Jesus, equip us for the building up of Your Bride.
In Christ,
Pastor Timothy
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“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work”
(John 5:17)
“I bless you my children! Today I wish to speak to you about God’s work in these times and about the general picture in which your life and your mission is inserted.
“Try to understand, above all, that you did not happen to be in the reality in which you are by accident, but you are here because of a precise divine project. Whatever you might think about yourselves or others might think about you, know that your life is precious and irreplaceable in the time and place in which you find yourselves to be, according to God’s projects. You have been preordained for this reality, and for this reason God gave you irreplaceable and original potentialities. No one in the universe is equal to you, because God’s creativity is unlimited and inexhaustable, and because each one of you is absolutely unique in his being and in his way of acting.
“Unfortunatly, many on Earth live below their potentiality, because they do not make of themselves a gift to Me. I am the only One to know pefectly the Father’s project for each one of you, because from Him I received the order to bring to completion His work in every person. I am acting in you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enlightens you, cloaks you, constantly inspires you pointing out the avenue towards Me, so that I might reveal to you the Will of the Father for each one of you.
Without me you shall never truly be able to know yourselves, nor to be able to understand what is asked of you to do in this life.
“The Holy Spirit and I are constantely at work in order to realize the Father’s project in each one of you, but we can do this only with the help of your freedom, that is, only when you willingly and freely choose to love and serve God and you offer to Him your life. This is the indispensable condition so that your potentialities activate and are at work. In fact, by the moment you decide to live for God and to be totally abandoned to His will, within you the action of the Holy Trinity starts working, and little by little, transforms your life and your thoughts. Thus, you are beginning to become conscious of who you are in God and to make a mark on reality, a creative mark, because it is divine creativity working in you. I wish you to be conscious about what I am saying to you, because the knowledge that God is active in you, independently from your human limitations and frailties, is determinant for your mission in the time in which you live.
“Yours is a grand time and a difficult time for the entire universe. Grandiose for the power of the events that the hand of God is preparing, and difficult because it is a time of battle with the powers of evil, an always more open battle.
All this does not refer to the planet earth alone, but to the entire creation and all the people who inhabit many other planets. I have already told you that they are children of God as you are, and that I gave My life for them as well. They are your brothers in whom the project of My Father has to be perfectly accomplished, just as it is in yours.
“What is the project of the Father? To bring back the entire creation to the state of integrity and perfection it had before original sin; to bring back every person to the dignity and glory of a child of God. All men and every creature that exists in the universe must be made free from corruption and death which infiltrated themselves in the work of God because of the sin of your forefathers. Humanity must return to a correct relationship with God, by recognizing His authority and by submitting to His guide. How is the Father going to realize this project? By recapitulating all creation in Me, since He gave Me all power in the whole universe. /www.versolanuovacreazione.it /
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“This is why I am at work in this time
So glad to find you on here=) I always loved your Tuedays Tunings=)
We miss you all !!!!
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