May 01, 2025
From your Pastor
Bring Your Wounds to Jesus
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (KJV)
A scar is a wound that has healed.
The great testimony of our faith is not that we have faith to be healed, but that we have faith not to be healed and still serve God.
We still have scars. We aren’t made perfect.
But we love the Lord, and still serve Him.
Linda and I, like many of you have had heart ache through the years
We always go to God’s Word for our answers.
Early in our Christian walk with our Lord , and a tragedy came our way, the very first verse I read was 3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (KJV)
I thought, We were wounded, and we still bear the scars.
But we, my precious wife Linda and I, use those scars so many times to say to another who’s going through their Gethsemane through their Calvary , “I know. I understand.”
There’s something comforting about a person who bears the scars and has a testimony nobody else has.
Beloved, bring your wounds to Jesus, and then Use your scars to point others to Him.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. Psalm 84:6 (KJV)
Beloved, what are some of the scars of your life?
How could you use those scars to point others to Jesus?
Who has shared their scars with you?
How did their testimony affect you?
Share the testimony of how your scars point to Jesus.
16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled (glorified) with my tongue.
18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. Psalm 66:16-20 (KJV)
Thank you for allowing me to share God’s Word with you this morning.
Linda and I love you ALL!!
God Bless
Pastor Roger
May 08, 2025
From your Pastor
Victory of a Mother’s Faith – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!
Hebrews 11:23-27
The most influential people on earth are mothers of faith. One powerful example is Jochebed, a Hebrew slave, mother of Moses, whose faith saved her son and, eventually, an entire people.
Hebrews 11:23-27 reveals five things about Jochebed’s faith that remain true for mothers of faith everywhere.
1. First, Jochebed’s faith saw a promise from God.
“By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child…”
Moses had godly parents who were willing to take a real stand for God.
Faith was involved in the very birth of Moses.
Jochebed saw that her son, Moses, was a gift from God.
She recognized his legitimacy, and saw he needed protection at a time when her nation was slaughtering babies like him.
2. Second, her faith acted upon the promise of God.
Not only did Moses’ parents have faith, their faith led to action.
They hid Moses in order to protect him. “…and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.”
Those were dark days, yet the Bible says that Moses’ parents were full of valor.
They knew God, They knew His Word, and They knew His promise to deliver His people. “24 By faith Moses… refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;… 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.”
We see faith at work in the life of Moses. He was brought up in the palace and would have been the next pharaoh, but Moses had faith to choose the right.
Jochebed’s faith saw victory.
God preserved the life of that child.
Not only that, God had engineered faith in Moses’ heart, through the faith of his mother. “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”
Moses had faith to act—faith will lead to action. Many folk today are saying, “I believe, I believe,” but do nothing. May I say, faith reveals itself in action. God saves us without our works, but the faith that saves produces works. Therefore Moses “forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”
Jochebed’s faith obtained strong, godly values she would pass on to Moses, who, in turn, would pass them onto God’s people.
Thank God for young men and women who have fires built into them by mothers and fathers of faith.
The great need today is godly parents, who in spite of the king’s commandments, listen to the King of kings instead.”
Apply it to your life.
Raise up a child and do not be afraid. 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) Take a stand of faith.
Claim your children for Jesus Christ.”
Thank you for allowing me to share God’s Word with you this morning.
Linda and I love you ALL!!
God Bless
Pastor Roger