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Praise and Worship Sunday 3 January 2010 As a member of Jars of Clay Church, I send you greetings from Germany, and from Hermann and I, to wish you a very happy and blessed New Year,
The Message today is on a CD ….. Living with a perfect heart. By Janice Slater
"Come, just as you are to worship"……. This has to be one of my favourite worship songs. When I walked into Jars of Clay Church in September of 2004 and heard this song, my heart skipped a beat… I knew instantly that I was worthy to worship Him … just as I am. Thank you Lord for your undeserved favour and forgiveness ….. Thank you also for Juan, Ian and Diane, who founded Your Church in Menorca, and for their wonderful teaching and encouragement. And for insisting that we should always have a hunger for Your Word.
I have brought several books with me to read on my holiday. Thank God my eyes are healed, so I have no problems now with reading…. The other day I opened up a Philip Yancey book,.. I know you will understand me when I say that the book just fell open at a particular page and the words jumped out at me. It was a verse from the book of Jeremiah…….. I find it amazing when you sense that God wants you to do something; He just opens up the way and reveals it. This is the second time that Jeremiah has been used to help me to understand….. The first time was in Autumn of 2008. Each Church member took a turn to give the Sunday message. …I was given a particular message, and I wasn't too happy about it….. I remember thinking, "I'm not experienced, and I'm too old for this"… When suddenly into my head 'popped' the words ..."And Jeremiah the Prophet said he was too young, so what's new? Get on with it".
In the last few months I have been studying and writing a lot. I wake up at night and have to write down information and ideas I receive on the best way to share the Message with others. I do witness and support Ministries as best as I can, but as one of God's chosen ones, I feel I'm not doing enough, nor am I living up to the responsibility He has given me……… And then,…as I mentioned earlier, as if to help me to understand, … there in Yancey's book, the words of Jeremiah. He had also felt the weight of responsibility to do the will of God…. God's word he said "is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in, indeed I cannot!"…..On seeing this I went to the book of Jeremiah, he had indeed been given an awesome job to do, but God actually reached out and touched his mouth, and put words into his mouth, and encouraged him, telling him "Don't be afraid of anyone, because I am with you to protect you."
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
'Tricia
CD message Pastor Janice Slater Psalm 139 Rev 1.1..8 www.marbellaenglishchurch.com
Notes from 'Tricia Jer 1.6 Jer 1.9..10 Jer 4..19 and Philip Yancey's book "The Bible Jesus read" page 176
January 2010
I must start this message by sharing some very, very good news with you all. At 4.15pm on the 26th January 2010, Hermann committed his life to God. Hallelujah!!!!........... During the night, he had pain in his chest and felt that he was having another heart attack….. he asked me to pray….. I did… He then said, " I can´t hear you, I want you to pray out loud….. It was 4am and I was praying ´softly out loud´, …..In the name of Jesus and acting on His authority I was rebuking this sickness and thanking God for his healing………….. On Hermann´s instructions I did call 061 our Emergency service……… The Doctors did their usual routine, and the result was that Hermann may have had a mild heart attack, but there was no sign of it now…….. He was taken to Hospital for observation, and I followed by taxi……… When we were alone I continued praying, and Hermann said, ¨You don´t pray loud enough, and you know I don´t know what to say¨……. I wasn´t allowed to stay with Hermann, so returned home at 8 am and fell asleep for a couple of hours…………. I woke up with such a prompting from the Holy Spirit that I had had the opportunity to lead Hermann in the prayer of Salvation, but that I hadn´t understood him when he said ¨I don´t know what to say¨……. I immediately rushed back to the Hospital, and was told that visiting hours in Emergency were 11 am to 11.30 am and 8 pm to 8.30 pm…. My heart sank, but I waited in the Waiting room as I had asked if there was a Doctor available to give me some information on his condition; Meanwhile, I was praying that someone would allow me in to visit, … and my prayer was answered. I apologized to Hermann and said that I misunderstood him, and told him that I believed that the Holy Spirit had put it on my heart to lead him in the prayer of Salvation, and asked him if he would repeat the words after me, and he did……… And we all know what happened then, don´t we? The Angels were singing and rejoicing. Hallelujah, Glory to God. …… Please keep us in your prayers. I must just add this; moments later Hermann said to me, ¨You know, you must know how to pray out loud, you are the only one leading the Church¨!! …. I replied, that I believe that I am temporarily holding the Fort, led by the Holy Spirit, and as a servant of Christ, until such time that we have a Pastor.
It has given me such pleasure to share this wonderful news with you, meanwhile and until next week. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen
The Message on CD that I received from Janice Slater this month…. I am the Way… I am the truth… I am the life. …..Acts 13:13-23 // John 14:1-14 //Acts 9:1-22// Colossians 1: 15-23
And the Worship songs from the book, Songs of Fellowship
Song 1067…. To be in Your presence Song 851 …. I will offer up my life Song 514 …..Such love, pure as the whitest snow
God bless you all ¨Tricia
February 2010
Good morning Church and greetings from Menorca
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer Psalm 19;14
After a recent conversation I had with someone, I was aware of just how many people there are in the world who still believe in the wrath of God, and think that the earthquakes, and other disasters are a punishment for their sins.---- We know that God must be sad to see the worship of false gods, sexual immorality and voodoo practices, but we also know that God no longer judges us as sinners since Jesus came to earth and paid for all sin with the shedding of His blood.---- This type of conversation reminds one of just how important it is for God´s message to reach those who have never heard the Truth.
There is no doubt that God did pour out His wrath on numerous occasions, we can read this in the Bible, and He was justified in doing so, as He did it for the future of mankind; But, that was before Jesus came to earth.
For a long time now I have wondered; How would it be possible to condense the Bible,---- almost to the point of being able to read it on one page, so that a person who has no knowledge at all, could grasp the message---- and as the revelation of it sinks into them---- I imagine them thinking---- Wow!! As they believe, and fully understand the love of God.
Jesus died, that we might live,---- and not only to live an everlasting life with Him after death,---- but to live, now----today. A life of peace and joy, to know and accept the unconditional love of God.
The wrath of God will be seen of course when Jesus returns at the end of the age, We can also read this in the Bible. The Believers will reign with Jesus, in new bodies on this new earth.---- Those who refuse to believe will face a very sad end.---- I imagine that they will be fully aware of why they are, where they are.---- I pray now dear God, that not one person I know would have the right to say to me ¨Why didn´t you tell me?¨
I have heard it said so often lately, that we have been chosen ¨for such a time as this¨.---- of course we read these words in the book of Esther; But I believe it does apply to Bible believing Christians today.---- We have a job to do.
There is a spiritual war going on between good and evil,---- demonic forces are at work in many areas. And the places we see where Satan has a stronghold we must be prepared to use our authority through Jesus Christ to break that stronghold.
God is good.---- He has done all that He planned to do 2000 years ago,---- now it is up to us to spread His message.
In the past year I have studied a little bit of the Church history.---- Coming from a Roman Catholic background, it was important for me to understand, Why, when Jesus came and showed us by His example, the way to live,---- was His way so radically changed and misunderstood by the church?---- I have my Mother´s Bible, (albeit only the New Testament) and sometimes, I am led to compare it with the Bible translations that are on my book shelf. Every word, every promise of God that I have read thus far have been the same ( the man made notes, are of course, man made.) I realize it is not only persons of my religious background who are unaware of the full message of Jesus ( I must add that during a TV Talk show between Ministers of several denominations, a Catholic Priest revealed that, ¨Catholics are clueless, when it comes to matters of the Bible¨) I would agree with him,----but also, there are numerous people who profess to be Christians who haven´t got a clue.
Lord, What is the reason for this message today?
Well I believe it to be God inspired, to encourage everyone who reads this message to join a Bible class with a good teacher,----and to start reading stories about Jesus Christ.---- To be at least informed! When we look at Julius Caesar and Jesus, there are not too many years between them, and yet everyone seems to know and believes what they read about Caesar, and yet there are more books and manuscripts written about Jesus?! It just doesn´t make sense.---- God said ¨My people will suffer through lack of knowledge¨. And He does not want anyone to suffer. So again, it is up to us as servants of God to pass on His message.
Thank you for allowing me to share with you, I feel a little less like the sheep separated from the fold. God bless you all, I am so looking forward to your visits to Menorca. You are all remembered in my prayers, and I thank you so much for praying for Jars of Clay Church, and ¨May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen
The Message on CD from Janice is the third part of last weeks CD ---¨I am the life¨ Pastor Janice Slater www.marbellaenglishchurch.com And the Worship songs from the book, Songs of Fellowship Song 851….I will offer up my life Song 544….There is a Redeeme Song 475….Purify my heart ¨Tricia´s notes..Rom 5:9 Rev 6:12-17 Hos 4:6
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