Pastor Bruce’s blog

We had a great conference kickoff meeting tonight!  Pastor GF Watkins from Texas was here and gave us a terrific message and impartation for being, well, salty, as he put it.  He used a pair of Bible verses, one New Testament, one Old Testament, to show that God wants us to be full of His Spirit and reaching the world around us for Christ on an everyday, radical basis.  Many folks were touched and helped as they came forward for prayer.  Two women gave their lives to the Lord.  I can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds!  Men’s breakfast in the morning and a picnic then service tomorrow afternoon and early evening.  I’m going to sleep well tonight!  Blessings, PB

This morning I was reading Psalm 11 and I came across these words…”His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.  The Lord tests the righteous…”  Then later this morning I spoke with a brother who has shared with me that he felt the Lord was testing our people in regard to believing Him for our future building.  And it brought a whole bunch of thoughts about how God will most often allow a vision He has given us to simply “die”, and then resurrect it from the dead in order to purify our hearts and to show us that it’s really Him directing us.  Have you had the “death of a vision” experience in your own life recently?  Has a Godly plan, purpose or situation seemingly perished for no good reason?  Then maybe it’s just simply God at work in that plan to make the fulfillment of the vision purely His.  Just pray and see what He does…  Blessings, PB