Thursday, January 20, 2011

Devotional Thought Jan. 20

I hope that today you are blessed, don't forget
that Ms. Frances Woody visitation will be at 6pm
tonight and Funeral will be tomorrow @ 3. 
We are doing a dinner for the family after
the funeral Friday around 4pm.We are needong
you to help us with side dishes and desserts.
 
Also we will NOT have any HIS League Activities
tonight.
 
BIBLE MEDITATION:
John 15:1-2 - "I am the true vine, and My Father is the Husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
When Solomon built his temple, he employed eighty thousand stonecutters. They chipped and shaped those stones in the quarry before bringing them to the temple mound. Why? Because Solomon didn't want the sound of the hammers and chisels heard on the temple mound.
In the same way, you are part of the living stones of His temple and God is shaping you here in the "quarry" of earth. Part of your shaping is in the form of persecution.
So don't look at your persecutors as enemies, but as God's "stonecutters".

ACTION POINT:
Next time someone lashes out at you say, "Thank God, another stonecutter." God is shaping you to be what you ought to be.
Bro Greg Deaton
Sr. Pastor
New Salem Baptist Church
"We are Family"
PO Box 275
London, Kentucky 40743
606-843-7802
Philippians 4:13