Wow! The services have been great, and getting better each week. This past week was intense, we started on Friday with our annual men’s conference that was for The Rock Church, (we didn’t have any other churches involved for this one). It was the “Passion for His Presence” theme, and from Friday night to Sunday morning we saw a change in our men during worship. In the second service there were men on their knees at the altar giving all of their heart in worship! The Presence of the Lord is more intense and recognizable by all! Souls are coming into the Kingdom, healings, restorations, refreshing times, and people getting set free from past issues that were keeping them from moving forward with God. The Praise Team has stepped it up a couple of notches and you can feel it in the atmosphere… things are up and getting up, good and gettin’ better at The Rock Church and we give all Glory and Honor to Jesus Christ for His mercy and grace upon us!
RB
Last Updated: June 23rd, 2008 |
Have you ever considered what other people think about, or say about you from their “point of view?” What if their opinion of you were compared with someone who you didn’t want to be compared to, would it bother you a little? Would that point of view motivate you to want to change because you didn’t really want to be compared to that person? Galatians 6:14-17 Paul encourages us to lay aside all of our religious practices that avoid the reality of the Cross. He says what is most important is becoming a “new creature” through the work of Christ on the Cross. Then he concludes with “as many as walk [live] according to this “rule” will experience peace and mercy in their new walk.
Any initiative requires a “new metric” to guage the progress by. If you got a promotion on your job, a new metric would replace the old one. A metric is implying a new set of rules or guidelines, or a standard to measure by. Paul used the word “rule” which is from a word in greek, “kanown” or in english the word is canon. We know that canon is the canon of scripture, and Paul the apostle who didn’t walk personally with Christ is referring to this fulfilled scripture that guides him in his new walk of life. Jesus is the “metric” for the new believer!
What are some of the “rules” we need to adopt to have a successful journey on earth? Well a few of them are the rules that Jesus taught and lived. To name some of them we’ll start with the rule of Love, then Submission, and Truth, followed by Faith, and Righteousness with a Giving heart. Just to name a few important life changing “rules” we can learn to live by, that if we’ll use the metric of Jesus as our guide, we can certainly change the Point of View that others have of us into a whole new “point of you!”
Keeping it pure,
RB
Last Updated: June 12th, 2008 |
It’s one thing to simply say “my hands are blessed” but a whole other subject to know why my hands are blessed. What do I mean by blessed hands? Well I remember an old song we used to sing and it went something like this, “my hands are blessed with the blessings of God, and anything I touch surely must be blessed…my hands are filled with the blessing of God.” Singing, and saying that in church was one thing, but applying it in everyday “realtime” was another. Before I proceed let me ask you something, what do you do with your hands everyday? What represents the things you have aquired in life by the use of your hands? For instance, is your house a product of your hands? Absolutely because your home represents what you work to pay for doesn’t it? So it is something that you lay your hands to!
Deuteronomy 28:8 is a promise of God to His covenant people and He says, “…I will bless everything you put your hands to…” and that in any land you go to possess! The work of your hands involves so much of your life that you probably don’t realize how much this scripture covers. Your job, your home, you marriage, your vehicles, your body, etc… In fact the devil even knows that truth and when he went before God in the book of Job, he said to God, “you’ve blessed everything that Job has set his hands to and I can’t touch him or those blessed things!” Wow that’s exciting to me how about you? So start recognizing those things that represent the work of your hands, and bless them so the curse of the fall cannot destroy them!
All of God’s promises represent a covenant that He has made for us as human’s living on the earth yet we represent heaven. So lay hold of the blessings that God has a covenant with you for, and realize He has made a covenant that involves “your hands!”
Be encouraged,
RB
Last Updated: June 10th, 2008 |
