Another day of Miracles!
If you remember guys I shared with you last week how we had claimed that Carolyn Baty would be walking back into the church after suffering a stroke.
Praise the Lord that's exactly what she did yesterday .
People want to know whether or not the Lord is working miracles in our day and time?
Absolutely; we witnessed one yesterday.
"Thank You Lord!"
Well, the vote is in and we welcome Amy as our new Music/Worship Leader.
She has done an outstanding job for us for almost a year and we welcome her onboard. The one thing she needs from everyone is the same thing I need as well as George; we need your prayerful support everyday.
So please take a moment to lift up every member of the staff that God's blessings would be upon us as well as the Holy Spirit's guidance.
Please be patient with me because I am using an old laptop computer at the church and it just doesn't want to cooperate with me this morning.
We had another great day in the Lord yesterday even though the weather was kind of yucky people still came out to be in the Lord's House and I want to say; "Thank you!"
I promised the Lord a long time ago that I would preach to the congregation no matter the size but it's alot more fun to preach to a full house.
We are still working hard on finding the last piece of puzzle as far as our staff goes.
I know in my heart that God has the right person out there to lead our Youth and we've just got to be pateint and wait on Him.
Often times in my life I have gotten ahead of the Lord thinking that I had it all figured out and in those times that's when I made some of my biggest spiritual mistakes.
I sure am thankful for the learning curve that the Lord applies.
He allows us to make mistakes and then learn from them.
One lesson the Lord has really been applying to my life in recent weeks is this;
Those around me are not my enemy.
Church all of us would benefit greatly by realizing that the devil is the enemy. Granted there might be times when he uses someone close to you but that person is not your enemy.
They need to be prayed for that God would give them victory over being used as an instrument in the devil's hands.
I also thankful that God has been reminding me daily that our neighboring churches are not our competition.
I am truly grateful for the working relationship that we have established recently with Northside Baptist Church.
Pastor Jeff along with Travis Agnew have been such a blessing to us by answering questions and helping us to expand our ministries.
You might be thinking; "Pastor are we at Emerald trying to be a carbon copy of another church?"
NO!
However, it would be foolish to not draw from those who have the knowledge and experience in areas that we are dealing with.
If my Doctor cannot determine what might be going on in my life I want him to call draw from another Doctor's wisdom to help me get better.
I feel good about churches being able to work together because we are on the same team.
Just a reminder this coming Sunday we are going to show the movie "Courageous" once again.
Many of you missed it the last time so we want to give you another opportunity to see this awesome movie.
Then on February 12 we are going to have "Resolution" Sunday.
I am really looking forward to this event. There will be more about that in next weeks article.
Folks, I'm about to come unglued because of this computer so before I do let me go ahead and wrap things up for this week.
God bless all of you and Lord thanks once again for reminding us that You are still in the miracle working business.
God bless ya until next week.
 Sincerely Preacher Curt
Feel free to drop me an email at:
curteidson@gmail.com
I would love to hear from you.