Today is Wednesday April 2nd.
Flowers are starting to bloom, trees are beginning to bud, birds are starting to choose their nesting site and the carpenter bees are back along with the precious honey bees. God’s creation goes right on doing what it was designed to do. Nature does not get caught up in political battles, stock market ups and downs, it just does what God designed it to do. So what are we designed to do? We are designed to worship God our Father. How do we do that? It’s very hard to worship something that you do not know and love, as a matter of fact it’s probably impossible. People choose to worship sports and sports idols, musicians, other people, hobbies, lifestyles, you name it. But whatever it is that we worship it’s because we have a close relationship with it. You develop a relationship with the living God over time by reading the book He has given us and spending time in prayer and time alone with him. Talk with him, ask him questions, and then just listen carefully to what He is saying to your heart. I think it may surprise you just how close He really is and just how open He is to communicating with you. Spending intentional time with God is a discipline. But this discipline brings many Blessings, and Peace that only come with a close relationship with God our creator. I guarantee the effort you put into getting to know God intimately will be well worth your time. Blessings, Kent
We have people who need our continued prayers:
- Patti Franklin is at Barnes Hospital and they are still running tests but her daughter has put a request out saying she needs big prayers please.
- Bonnie Rutkowski had surgery yesterday to relieve a blood clot in her leg and is doing good and hoping to come home from the hospital today.
- Steve Porter had is heart ablation procedure and is doing good.
- Mike Portell is still doing intense physical therapy everyday to regain function in his leg so that he can walk on his own. He has been on a long journey with his back surgeries and we need to continue to lift him and encourage him and Ruth on this journey.
- Mary Knapp, I spoke with Mary yesterday and she is in need of our prayers. Mary has developed a pressure wound that has grown and is not healing properly. She said it is very painful. She will begin seeing a wound doctor to see what treatments might be available.
- Dr. Ed Breda a good friend of Joanie Kuba who suffered a severe bicycle accident on March 6th of this year has been left paralyzed from the chest down and lost his left eye, suffered a broken jaw and many broken ribs. Please lift Ed to Jesus’ power of healing and mercy.
Praise Community Fellowship is a very Joyful, Prayerful church! We meet Sunday mornings at 10:30am at the Esic Worship Center located at 1000 University Drive Edwardsville near the old YMCA . We believe in teaching all of God’s truth with love and compassion. Come be part of a Joyful Christian Family. We have a Sunday school program and a nursery for the little ones. If you have questions call Pastor Kent @ 618-334-3575 or our board president Gary Watson @ 409-781-6510.