Well praise God, here we are in a brand-new year! God has been faithful. As we enter into the year 2022, let me ask you to divert and
refocus. Allow me to tell you what I am talking about. In the new year, please divert your attention from the following terms: vaccine
mandates, Omicron virus, Delta virus, COVID variant, product shortages, and political instability. The list could be longer but for our
purposes, let’s use these. Now, with clear minds, let’s focus on the following:
• God’s plan and purpose for your life
• The faithfulness of God
• God’s divine protection for his people
In Psalm 91, see how God is a refuge, a shelter when we are afraid. The believer’s faith in God as protector will carry him/her through all the dangers and fears of life. In 1 John 3:1, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:” As believers, our overcoming power is based on the fact that God loves us and calls us His children. We are His children right now in 2022, not just sometime in the distant future. Knowing that we are His children encourages us to live as Jesus did. Jesus says in John 16:33: “These things I have spoken unto you, that ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulations: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” We, dear people, are overcomers.
Again, in 2022 let’s divert and refocus. Happy new year!

Pastor J. Amos Jones

This is the day after Christmas and in 6 days we will enter into the year 2022. By any reasonable assessment, God has been good to us. Not only has he been good, he has been ever so faithful. I am sure that you, like so many others, have had some good days, and some days that were not so good, but when you think things over, we have to say “Thank you Jesus!”  As we approach a new year, this pastor joins with King David in a Psalm 145 praise: “I will extol thee, my God, O king; And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”

Year to year and generation to generation, our God is great beyond discovery. Irrespective of what has happened or what will happen our God is the mighty God who does mighty acts across many generations. Because God is full of love, he satisfies all who trust in him. Dear ones, as we enter into the year 2022, see God as David depicts him in Psalm 145. He is full of great glorious honor and majesty (145:5); He is gracious, compassionate patient, and merciful (145:8); He reaches out to us with tenderness (145:9); He is our source in all our daily needs (145:15, 16) he is righteous and holy in all his dealings (145:17); He listens to our cries and saves us (145:19, 20).

What an awesome God we serve. Don’t enter into 2022 without Him.

Be Blessed.

Pastor J. Amos Jones

In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God. And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.”  (John 1:1,14 capitalized for emphasis).  What an awesome, intricate, but loving, plan of salvation God had for mankind. The plan involved a baby being born without the involvement of a human father.  Yes, a virgin birth.  A birth that was prophesied hundreds of years before the event.  The prophetic nature of this birth was fulfilled to the most exact detail. 

Someone asked recently, “Which is most important, Him (Christ) being born, or Him dying?” The answer my friends is that they both are integral parts of God’s plan of salvation.  Jesus often told His disciples that He must die, but in Matthew 20:28 He explains why: “Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many”.  A “ransom” was the price paid to release a slave from bondage.  Jesus was born to die–to redeem all people from the bondage of sin and death.  Hear the angel of the Lord as He speaks to the shepherds on the first Christmas day: “Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10-11). 

And the WORD was made flesh!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Pastor J. Amos Jones

December 12, 2021

“Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of His holiness.” (Ps 47: 6-8). As we celebrate with the members of the choir on this their Annual Day, we want to thank them for their faithful service to the Kingdom and to the Church of the Living God. As Pastor, I must tell you they (the choir) have it right! They sing praises to God, they sing praises unto our King (the Lord Jesus Christ). The choir understands that it is all about him! Once a year we formally recognize the choir on their Annual Day, but we thank and appreciate them every day.

Dear choir members, your service to the Kingdom has been awe-inspiring, and because you have it right, you know that the Lord is going to reward you for your faithfulness.  To the choir leadership, Sisters Marnita Bishop, Janice Goff, Janet Spurlock and the musicians Sisters Johnny Randall and Katelyn Johnson, and to all the choir members: “The Lord blessed thee, and keep thee: The Lord make His face shine upon the, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give the peace”. (Number 6:24-26) “Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.” (Ps 147: 1) How delightful and how right. Thank you choir for your service.

Let us continue.

Pastor J. Amos Jones

“But let justice run down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream [flowing abundantly].” (Amos 5: 24 AMP). In the year 760 B.C., the prophet Amos pinned these words in a call to repentance for an idolatrous people.  An ungodly, oppressive people ripe for the judgments of a holy God. But now in the year 2021, can it be that the arc of moral justice is bending toward righteousness? In Brunswick, GA, three white men were found guilty of murder in the death of a black man, Ahmaud Arbrey. These men were found guilty by a jury whose racial make-up was of such that it caused many to wonder if they could render a fair and just verdict. But there is a God that says: “let justice run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.”

We are moving to “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”  (Micah 6: 8).

Keep the faith.

Pastor J Amos Jones