Pastor's Corner

for Sunday October 18th
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned from me and heard from me and saw me doing, and the God of peace will be with you.”(Phil. 4:6-9) The apostle Paul gives us several key elements in building our relationship with God. First: pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all that he has done. Second: fill your mind with things that are honorable, true and right. Don’t let the lies of the devil control your thought life. Truth about God; truth about His promises; truth about the right way to live your life, these are the things we should be thinking about. And thirdly: practice all that you have learned. You have to get out there and put all this into action. Action means we are convinced in the truthfulness of God’s claims and promises, if we don’t do it we don’t really believe it. Action pulls it all together. A cord of three strands is hard to break, a relationship with God that is characterized by prayer, meditation and action will be strong and unbreakable. Read those verses again, they really are worth thinking about.
Pastor Don.