There is a cost. 4/18/15

Prayer Alert: God would move on the hearts of the Supreme Court not to redefine marriage for the whole country. Pray and fast on April 28 when this is argued before the Supreme Court. Charles

Day 108 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Luke.14

Luke 14:25-35

The Cost of Being a Disciple

25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.

“Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

April 18th The church — Christ’s Person and work 

“And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” EPHESIANS 1:22-23
The church is not an entity separate from the Person and work of Christ. We should not think of the church as something different from His Person and work. The church is a description of Christ with the fullness of His Person in His Body resulting in a testimony of all that He has accomplished in His work to produce us as His expression. So the church is simply a manifestation, an extension, of Christ’s Person and Christ’s work. Coming from various backgrounds, we may have different ideas of what “church” means. The church is a building, or the church is an assembly of people, or the church is what we experienced for years and maybe were disappointed with. “Church” could mean many different things to us. But we need to see a simple and clear revelation of the church — it is nothing less and nothing more than the Person and the work of Christ embodied and expressed through His people. This is the way we need to consider the church. Properly speaking, the church is an extension of Christ’s Person and His work. When the Bible says that we are His Body, it adds,“the fullness of Him who is filling all in all.” This is how we are Christ’s extension. It is by His filling us. As we are being filled, there is an expression of all His riches. Look at His Person, look at His work. Then you know the church. The church is simply Christ Himself and all that He is dispensed into all of us, with all the riches of His Person and His work flowing from each one of us to express His fullness. What a marvelous realization of what the church is. It is just Christ and more of Christ filling all His organic members. 

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Ariana, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Blanca is in rehab….improving.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

Song(s) of the Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Y6qsLi5M&list=PLNjwS3yjZIABjlF41LFWqEjrsvBvusn8r
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