Worship Service

Since our little piece of Heaven did not have a church we visited with our Pastor Pedro who worked with us on the very first day of the project.  Tyler, intern was asked to read the scripture found in Psalm 117.  Our dear sweet Carmen opened the service in prayer.  Moses' brother Oscar sang "At the Cross.  Pastor Pedro got up to welcome everyone but he first asked us where we content today.  Are you content today in your walk with the Lord.  What a profound question.  Are we content?  Ponder on this as you read, are you truly content with life.  He thanked God for the most needed rain last evening.  No matter how bad we are God is always so good to us.  At this time Marlan, Elmer's mother sang "If You Are A Disciple of God".  Alyena sang several speicals as well with the congregation.  Oscar took up the offereing.

Ray has been bringing teams for three years.  But this year Ray shared with Mike and I he came prepared to bring the message and what a powerful message he delivered.  He shared the book he was preaching from today could be our book to live our lives from on a daily basis, Romans 12.  Well he took each verse and shared from his heart how this is what we as Christians are suppose to be doing.  We should not be adjusting our lives as Christians to be like our friends but to be like Jesus. We do not need to think we are better than others. It is not us to bring goodness to God but God brings goodness to us.  This is what God does for us.  We just simply need to trust HIM with our lives.  We are all apart of God's purpose if we are HIS children. We all have different gifts given to us by God.  We need to use our gifts for HIS kingdom work. We need to do it with grace and freely give.  Love must be sincere, very simple love from the inside out. We need to serve our Lord with zeal.  We need to show hospitality.  It is not easy being a Christian and times will get hard.  But this is when we pray harder.  We need to be humble as you are persecuted for being a Christian.  Bless others and don't curse them.  We need to live in harmony no matter the situation.  We need to love our enemies with our whole heart, this is impossible without Christ.  It is not our job to get even.  God will judge everyone accordingly.  We need to forgive from our heart and move on.  This is also impossible without Jesus. Also in Leviticus 19:18 it says "Love your neighbors as yourselves."

If we can live our lives by this scripture how pleased God will be with us and how blessed we will be in the true joy that is only found in Christ Jesus.

At this time Ray closed us in prayer.

Thank you Ray for three years ago bringing your first team, thank you for always making each week a special one with your sweet and sincere spirit and last but not least thank you for stepping up and getting out of your comfort zone.  Ray what an amazing message God sent to his people through your obedience in listening to HIM.  Ray spent many hours in preparation for this time in sharing.  He took this to heart and from his heart God shared what HE wanted us all to hear.  You definitely spoke to me that day God through my friend Ray.