Pasadena Presbyterian Church
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Our annual Missions Conference will kick off this month on March 17th with a potluck dinner. Pastor Anthony Oliver will share a message following the dinner. The conference continues with a combined service on Sunday, March 21st. Our visiting missionaries will visit Sunday School classes prior to the service, and then will meet with the congregation in Fellowship Hall following the service. Please stop by and meet our missionaries and enjoy a light lunch.
Faith promise letters will be mailed out one week prior to the March 21st service. Please pray about missionary support through our Faith Promise offering that will be taken on March 21st. We currently support 19 missionaries/missionary organizations, and this is funding that is not included in the church’s budgeted expenses.
Please continue to pray for all of our missionaries: Campus Crusade, Heart to Honduras, International Teams USA, Intervarsity, Kairos, Living Bread Church, Mission India, New Missions (Haiti), Operation Mobilization, Pioneer (Indonesia), Southeast Asian Relief, Somebody Cares Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg Free Clinic, Tampa Bay Harvest, Tree House, Vision of Hope, Underground Network, Wings of Victory, Wycliff.
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said ‘Here am I. Send me!’” Isaiah 6:8
Leslie Hughes, EvangeMissions Chair
Hi every one, greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus our Lord the Savior of our soul, and is still saving souls every day. So let us be part of what God is doing. PRAISE THE LORD.
Thanks to everyone for helping in our first movie night and hoping the next time to have some of our friends, neighbors, co-workers, families, so let’s praise the Lord for now for what he is going to do for us.
You know the bible is very clear that in all things we should give God thanks, in the good times in bad times at all times.
So as I was reading in God’s Word today I thought I would share with you as well, about A Heart after God Mark, 7:6 “He answers and said unto them ,Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, but in their heart is far from me.”
Honoreth me with their lips
It means that God is not looking for just lip service, that is not good enough. He is saying to them that they were hypocrites because they were only giving lip talk and their heart was not changing towards God or the things of God. They were full of themselves and the traditional ways of men, and were always defending, or not willing to let go of their wrong teaching which blinded their eyes from hearing the truth of Gods Word through Jesus.
Today we have the same problem, most people don’t even know why they do what they do or don’t even take the time to find out if they are pleasing the Father in what they are doing.
The questions we need to ask.
Do you see God as your Father?
Do you see Jesus' Word as from the Father?
Is the Word of God through Jesus Final Authority in your life?
Am I born again by the spirit of the living God?
Am I thinking differently than how I used to think?
Am I living the Word of God?
Am I walking and loving others like Jesus would? And forgiving others as He did?
These are some of the questions we must ask ourselves, and if the answer is no, then chances are I am one who is not honoring Him with my lips, but my heart is far from Him.
Time to come close to the Father in your heart.
It seems that Jesus was saying that he is looking for more than just lip service from us, so what is He looking for? He is looking for a heart that honoreth Him, a heart that want sto be close to Him, seeking after God the Father, Enjoying the Father's presence at all times, seeking after the Father’s will for our lives and not our own daily, knowing the Father through His Word (Words of Jesus the Christ) daily and obeying Him, enjoying your Father’s love, grace, peace.
Beloved let us be the real thing, let our heart and lips speak the same thing, a hunger after God's own heart in Love, not as the hypocrites do.
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