On today, we celebrate with our USHERS.  Their USHERS’ ANNUAL DAY.

 Today, we are all ushers and this day is very important to all members of this church family.  Annual days are a time of reflection and thanksgiving.  We reflect upon the all sufficiency of our loving, heavenly Father who empowers us as we go about performing our assigned tasks. 

 It is not our “ability” the Lord is looking for, but rather it is our “availability.”  When we make ourselves available to Him, how apropos are the words of this Psalm, penned for the Sons of Korah.  “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:  they will be still praising thee.  For a day in thy courts is better than thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to swell in the tents of wickedness.”  (Psalm 84:1-4, 10)

 Our love for Him and His house, prompts us to serve His people in His house.  Our Ushers do such a good job because of what God does for them and what God does through them.  As Pastor, I am grateful to Usher Board President, Craig Miller and to all the wonderful, dedicated members who serve with him, for the fine job that they do through-out the year.

 Ushering, as such, is not a glamorous job, but it is a very important job in the house of the Living God!  Ushers are caring people who are willing to work without publicity.  People who will work diligently and cheerfully at their task, knowing that they are working for the Lord, rather than for men.   Thank you Ushers for a job well done and we thank the Lord for our Ushers.

 In His Service.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones

On today, we celebrate with our USHERS.  Their USHERS’ ANNUAL DAY.

 Today, we are all ushers and this day is very important to all members of this church family.  Annual days are a time of reflection and thanksgiving.  We reflect upon the all sufficiency of our loving, heavenly Father who empowers us as we go about performing our assigned tasks. 

 It is not our “ability” the Lord is looking for, but rather it is our “availability.”  When we make ourselves available to Him, how apropos are the words of this Psalm, penned for the Sons of Korah.  “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:  they will be still praising thee.  For a day in thy courts is better than thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to swell in the tents of wickedness.”  (Psalm 84:1-4, 10)

 Our love for Him and His house, prompts us to serve His people in His house.  Our Ushers do such a good job because of what God does for them and what God does through them.  As Pastor, I am grateful to Usher Board President, Craig Miller and to all the wonderful, dedicated members who serve with him, for the fine job that they do through-out the year.

 Ushering, as such, is not a glamorous job, but it is a very important job in the house of the Living God!  Ushers are caring people who are willing to work without publicity.  People who will work diligently and cheerfully at their task, knowing that they are working for the Lord, rather than for men.   Thank you Ushers for a job well done and we thank the Lord for our Ushers.

In His Service.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones

On today, we celebrate with our USHERS.  Their USHERS’ ANNUAL DAY.

 Today, we are all ushers and this day is very important to all members of this church family.  Annual days are a time of reflection and thanksgiving.  We reflect upon the all sufficiency of our loving, heavenly Father who empowers us as we go about performing our assigned tasks. 

 It is not our “ability” the Lord is looking for, but rather it is our “availability.”  When we make ourselves available to Him, how apropos are the words of this Psalm, penned for the Sons of Korah.  “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:  they will be still praising thee.  For a day in thy courts is better than thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to swell in the tents of wickedness.”  (Psalm 84:1-4, 10)

 Our love for Him and His house, prompts us to serve His people in His house.  Our Ushers do such a good job because of what God does for them and what God does through them.  As Pastor, I am grateful to Usher Board President, Craig Miller and to all the wonderful, dedicated members who serve with him, for the fine job that they do through-out the year.

 Ushering, as such, is not a glamorous job, but it is a very important job in the house of the Living God!  Ushers are caring people who are willing to work without publicity.  People who will work diligently and cheerfully at their task, knowing that they are working for the Lord, rather than for men.   Thank you Ushers for a job well done and we thank the Lord for our Ushers.

 In His Service.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones

As Jesus taught in the synagogue at Capernaum, the Bible describes it this way:  “And they were astonished at His doctrine:  for His word was with power.”  (Luke 4:32)  His word was with Power!  WOW!

 Dear Ones, please get this truth in your spirit.  There is power in the Word.  Jesus spoke as one who knew the truth because He is TRUTH.  He, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, has to speak with authority because He is the Word.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.”  (John 1: 1, 3)

 There is creative power in the Word.  As people of God, learn to speak the desired results to your circumstance –

 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

• “I will succeed in this business endeavor.”
• “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”

 Speak a positive confession into the lives of your children and grandchildren.  (May I suggest you pronounce upon your children the blessing found in Numbers 6:24-26).  There is overcoming power in the Word.  “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.”  (Revelations 12:11)

 We are children of the Most High God.  We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.  The Holy Spirit displays God’s power through each of us as a means of helping the entire church.  If God be for us, who then can be against us?  The Word will work if you will work the Word.  Mark 11:23, “For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”  The Word tells us that “Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, when he was arguing with Satan about Moses’ body, did not dare to accuse even Satan, or jeer at him, but simply said  ‘The Lord rebuke you’.”

 Dear Ones, our authority, yes, our power is found in the infallible Word of God.  Love it, learn it, use it, and be blessed.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones