Newsletter & Prayer Directive 11-13-07
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.”
And
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