Joe & Becky Cruse

We trust that this writing finds you blessed and prospering in the love and faithfulness of our God!

As we turn our hearts towards the “Thanks for Giving” Revival, we want to stop a moment and give God some praise for you, our church family and friends! Church, you were just a dream in our hearts seven years ago and today, we cannot imagine our lives without each one of you. You bless us in so many ways. You dream our dreams, carry our burdens and serve us as unto the Lord like few churches we’ve ever known. We been up together, down together and plenty of places in between together and the test of time is this - you’re still here, and faithful, and love the Lord with all your hearts.

We also want to take a moment and recognize our team of dedicated people who labor along side of us. Of course, the pastoral/admin.staff—Pastors Stan and Kym Whitmore, Ms. Glenna Morrison, Pastors Ryan and Tressa Cruse, Pastors Jody and Vanessa Cruse, Pastors Jay and Kari Crisman, Pastors Billy and Maritza Cano and Pastors Jess and Jenn Tomac - what an incredible team! We truly love each of you and thank God for all you do. We cannot even pretend to think we could do what God has called us to, without your expertise and your faithfulness to the Lord. You bless us everyday of our lives and we are eternally grateful to the Lord for linking us together.

Also, for our deacons, Centre-g leaders, Equip leaders and Servant leaders - Your heart to serve and to impart what God has put in you is such a blessing and a Godly example of “the greater works”! We love each one of you and want to say thanks for your love, faithfulness, and support.

We are incredibly blessed by all the volunteer students, teachers, and support staff - you know who you are! As you make things happen for this vision here - God will make things happen for you! Don’t you dare despise the days of small beginnings! God is at work on your behalf. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

The following scriptures come to mind as we rehearse God’s goodness!

2Th. 1:3 “Dear brothers and sisters, we always thank God for you, as is right, for we are thankful that your faith is flourishing and you are all growing in love for each other.”

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2Tim. 1:3 “I thank God for you. He is the God I serve with a clear conscience, just as my ancestors did. Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

2Tim. 1:4 I long to see you again, for I remember your tears as we parted. And I will be filled with joy when we are together again.

2Tim. 1:5 I know that you sincerely trust the Lord, for you have the faith of your mother, Eunice, and your grandmother, Lois.

2Tim. 1:6 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.

2Tim. 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”

We just wanted to remind each one of you, as we come together for a season of revival, to stir up the gift of God and fan the flames—for God has given you everything you need to walk in victory here on this earth. Sometimes we feel inadequate and inept, but God has given us power, and love and the discipline to not only preserve, but to do so with joy.

Today, as we pray that prayer of agreement, we are standing in faith for–

1. A harvest of blessing during our revival–blessings there are not room enough to receive. We are praying for a fresh wind of the Spirit that would revive each one of us.

(Acts 3:19 “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.”)

2. A harvest of souls - let’s invite our unsaved friends or family to church this coming week - we are asking God that He would prepare the way and open their hearts to receive the invitation to come to Him.

(Luke 10:2 “He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”)

3. A harvest of revelation - that the eyes of our understanding would be opened that we might know what the perfect will of the Lord is.

(Eph. 1:18 “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.”)

4. A harvest of spiritual gifts released in our lives - what do you have to give? God will work in you before He works through you. By being faithful with the “little”, He will entrust to you the greater.

1Cor. 12:4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

1Cor. 12:5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

1Cor. 12:6 There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

1Cor. 12:7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

1Cor. 12:8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,

1Cor. 12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,

1Cor. 12:10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

1Cor. 12:11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

Church, our revival is only three days! We are all very busy, but we believe that if we set aside this time together, God will meet us and bring the very things to us that we so desperately search for!

Beginning with our Recharge service Wed evening @ 6:30, let?s come together to lift our voices corporately for a great harvest beginning Sunday.

The revival schedule is as follows:

Sunday, Nov. 18th @ 8:30 and 11:00 am and 7:00 pm. We want to welcome Ps Dean and Jane Bearden, from Corpus Christi, TX as they minister in the Sunday evening service.

Monday, Nov 19th @ 7:00pm. Both congregations, CWC and Centro de Adoracion come together for a time of worship and celebration as one family.

Tuesday, Nov 20 @ 10:00 am and 7:00 pm. Join with the students of IFTA for their Thanksgiving chapel and then in the evening, our Thanksgiving dinner/service together.

You should be receiving a phone call this week as a reminder. We are very excited and look forward with great anticipation, to all God has for each of us. Remember, in lieu of our revival, there will be no Wed prayer service.

Harvest Blessings,

Ps Joe and Becky and the team

Greetings church!  It is so good to be back on American soil. We are awaiting the last leg of our flight back to Austin and are rehearsing the goodness of God with regards to our trip to Bangkok. There are so many testimonies to tell and pictures to share. We are forever changed by the love, the pureness, the joy and the hunger of the Thai people.Bangkok is a city with over 16 million people and 95% of the population is Buddhist. The other 5% is Hindu, Muslim, or Christian. Of the Christian sect, fewer still are Pentecostal and those that are, feel isolated and overwhelmed. I truly believe that God will use our friend, Dr. Lao (a native Thai) to go back home and reach his people with the fire of God.

Greetings from City Worship Centre! Pastors Joe and Becky asked Kari and I to prepare the prayer directive this week. So here goes…

First of all, remember that this Sunday is the end of Daylight Savings Time for 2007. You will ‘fall back’ one hour, which means one glorious extra hour of sleep (or prayer if you are particularly spiritual Before you go to bed (say at 9:00pm) set your clock back one hour (say to 8:00pm). Of course, you could do it like the government and wait until 2:00am to set your clock back to 1:00am Don’t get to church too early.

We have been going through a tremendous revival of prayer, study of the Word and genuine fellowship at the church. One of the areas God has spoken concerning is “Keeping God’s Word in Our Mouths.” Growing up as a Christian, I used to hear people say, “Put the Word on it.” In other words, if you have a problem, put God’s Word on it. God’s Word has promises, comforts and direction for every circumstance you will ever encounter. That is why God gave us His Word. It is a chest full of treasure. To activate that treasure in our lives, we must simply speak it!

With that in mind, I have felt impressed to pray God’s word over the future. There are many circumstances in our world today, and in many of our personal lives that would allow the enemy to say to us, “You have no future.” But! God’s word is clear, we do have a future in Christ.

Romans 8:16-20 states, “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirsheirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. From Suffering to Glory. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;”

Our future in Christ is the glory of God. We will be glorified with Him. We are to be joint heirs with Him. Only now do we groan (but in hope) for that revelation.

I would like to invite you to pray over the future. To start with, pray,

“Father, thank you for the gift of Your Holy Spirit who witnesses with my spirit that I am a child of God, and as such, I am a joint heir with Christ Jesus. I will be glorified with Him at the revealing of the Sons of God.”

You may not feel like what you just prayed, but if you pray it enough, YOU WILL!

Some other future areas we may pray for are:

1) Ourselves

Jeremiah 29:11 states, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Pray, “Lord I thank you that your thoughts toward me are thoughts of peace and not evil, to give me a hope and a future. Surely you are bringing peace to my life. Your thoughts toward me are for peace in my personal life, peace in my family life, peace in my church…”

Psalms 91:16 states, “With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”

Pray, “Lord I thank you that you will SATISFY me with LONG LIFE, and show me your SALVATION. I will fear no evil because no plague will come near my dwelling and no terror will come to me.”

Psalms 103:5 states, “Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

Pray, “Lord I thank you that you continually satisfy my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle. Thank you for a healthy future.”

Phil. 1:6 states, “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;”

Pray, “Lord thank you for finishing the good thing that you have started in me, and thank you for starting it!”

Pray the aforementioned scriptures over your family, pastors and church as well.

2) Your spouse (or even other peoples’ spouses–like your Pastors’!)

Prov. 18:11 states, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.”

Pray, “Father, thank you for my excellent wife (husband), in giving her (him) to me, you have surely shown me your favor. SHE (HE) IS A GOOD THING!”. Declare the goodness of your spouse according to the Word, and watch as God honors His Word in your marriage.

Prov. 19:14 states, “Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.”

Pray, “Father, thank you for the prudent spouse you have given me.”

Eccl. 12:4 states, “And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.”

Pray, “Thank you father, that You, I and my spouse are a cord that cannot be torn apart. Thank you for a strong, healthy marriage in Jesus’ name.”

3) Your children (or even other peoples’ children)

Proverbs 11:21 states, “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished; But the posterity of the righteous will be delivered.”

Pray, “Father I thank you that my children will be delivered from all of the afflictions, temptations, deceptions and circumstances of this world that would harm them in Jesus name! My children are delivered according to Proverbs 11:21.”

Psalms 112:2 states, “His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed.”

Pray, “Father, surely my descendants will be mighty and blessed. Thank you for Your covenant with me and my children in Jesus’ name.”

4) Your Church

Matt. 16:18 states, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

Pray, “Thank you Lord that the very gates of hell will not prevail against your church. Only victory awaits Your church in the future. Just as you began a good work in me, you have begun a good work in the church, and will complete it!”

Eph. 5:27 states, “…that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.”

Pray with me, “Father, we thank you that you are preparing your church and City Worship Centre in particular to be a church without spot or wrinkle, without blemish, that we should be holy. We thank you for your continuous work in our church.”

Finally, remember to pray for Pastor’s Joe and Becky as they travel to Thailand with Pastor (Doctor) Laohaprosit from Seattle Washington. This is a worship/missions trip that has been in the making for a long time. We believe the scripture that says, “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” and, “Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.” (Is 52:7 and Prov. 25:25)

Pray, “Father, we thank you that Joe and Becky are bringing the good news of your salvation to Thailand this week. We thank you that they will be blessed and will refresh the souls of those who hear them. Furthermore, just as Jesus proclaimed good news to the captives, Joe and Becky will do also in His name. We ask you to honor your Word and deliver, heal, set free and bless the church in Thailand on this trip in Jesus’ name.”

Join us as we pray and meditate on these things, and be sure to join all of us in prayer Wednesday at 6:30pm at City Worship Centre.

We pray for you all, Pastors Jay and Kari Crisman