“You are the light of the world!” (Matthew 5:14)
We often fail to appreciate how significant this statement is. Jesus calls His followers “the Light of the world.”
What chance does the world have to come out of darkness and into light without the Church? None.
Or as Paul questioned:
“How will they hear without a preacher?”
Answer: They won’t.
If the Church isn’t in revival, the world is descending into hell.
What a good day it is to be filled with the Holy Spirt! Our sanctification is the world’s salvation.
Lord, renew in us today, a steadfast and willing Spirit. By Your power, let us fulfill our calling to be the light of the world today. In Jesus’ name.
@Olamide @tanjaostman @bethany @MaryMamuzich @Cherishingsparrows2020 Praise God for answered prayer! wow - thanks for sharing bruv
@MaryMamuzich ok... fair enough
Yes not so much fun when it tastes like that
@Cherishingsparrows2020 working for the Lord is never in vain
Always encouraging to have some some encouragement though!
Perseverance is one thing I rarely have in short supply. When I do slip, my family bolsts me along a bit more 🙂
@tanjaostman @sinbach there's truth...then there's THE truth
This confirms what you have been saying about Facebook @sinbach https://youtu.be/cCOvFLlsjI4
@Cherishingsparrows2020 @bethany @sinbach
I think God has a sense of humour 'cos I hear a lot of laughter when I pray around the plans I've come up with
and I do, then, wonder if it helps relieve God's stress, too, when I try and help Him out with His plans, but in my own way?
[obviously God doesn't get stressed....just sayin that here.....
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bizarre and interesting!
I'm not into stats of how many views we get, posts that have been read etc. But while we're not overly bothered if nobody ever watches anything we create, I still find it interesting, none the less, especially when it makes no sense to me!
So, our YouTube statistics came in yesterday, and the thing that threw me is that the busiest month for our videos to be watched was during November, when we didn't actually put anything out...
also, the top video we have for viewings, from all time, is one of our Song Time Videos that Jo did
"The Animals Came in two by two"
Like I said, I found it both interesting and bizarre
And it is encouraging that people have views nearly 3.500 minutes of our videos over the past year om YouTube...'cos it is nice to know that people actually are watching something of what we're producing...and 'cos you do wonder about that , even if your goal is creation and obedience to God, not human success!
Andy B
@Berrybunchfamily @bethany @sinbach Amen, amen. It is so true! It is a tactic of warfare against God's Kingdom. Keep on advancing, soldiers of God! There is so much to be done and your mission is important!
@Cherishingsparrows2020 @bethany @sinbach I'm encouraged and challenged tthatscripture doesn't commanded us to like each other, but to love each other
I get sad when I see the worst of inflicted pain having it's source inside the church, not outside it
@sinbach wow! erm..........
and "If I had to guess, you clicked on this story because you’re over filling in your eyebrows every damn day. "
actually, i'm here because Eugene posted about it on DingDash and I was curious what hellish scheme they've now come up with for women to endure pain to look a certain way
@tanjaostman there's always hope 🙂
@tanjaostman seems legit - i've accidentally read this enough times to be happy it is true (as happy as you can be about anything online at least)
@sinbach Wanna see even more scorn and hatred? Work with children in an organised church setting and try engaging them with Jesus instead of just babystting them and just playing games with them
Wow! Just wow!!! You'd think we were trying to start a satanic temple in the church hall!!
The levels of hatred from that are even worse than having the 'wrong songs' in your set when leading worship 😂 😅
@sinbach Thankyou. Gonna try a celebration evening again once we've moved up to the north east in January (a little closer to Bethany)
Saved since May 2020 for a replacement engagement ring for Jo. Finally sorted that this week 🙂 it's rare to find my wife quite that overwhelmed!
Funny how those prophets missed the mark so wildly... apparently saying "God said" doesn't make things happen lol
@sinbach 4th needed booster already announced in the UK - the one that is stated to be designed to fight omicron
To be fair, after the 2nd vaccine was announced, the 4th was already mentioned as necessary, so just confirming what they'd already, previously, mentioned
@sinbach UK attitude tangibly shifting
People who have complied fully, including multiple jabs, are saying no to the booster in increasing numbers
Flicking through the comments on Facebook posts by Boris Johnson, and the mood has very definitively changed
The support is still there, but the opposition is very definitively rising...slowly, but it takes a lot to rile the British...but when sufficiently roused en mass???