Receiving Strength Through The Word

Each evening the group gathered on the North American porch around seven in sharing God's Word.  Joel took the first night by reading Acts 10 to us and then proceeded to share from God's Word about the life of Peter.  Our lives are a lot like Peter's where we have to hear God's Word numerous time to hear it and know what God wants from each of us.  This week  Joel challenged his team to take what they brought with them to Honduras and allow God to use each of you in a mighty way.  You are all out of your comfort zone so get out there and share Jesus in a new place.  Joel shared his testimony one evening about how he knew who God was and was raised in the church by Christian parents and was using all this as his identity of who he was as a Christian.  Joel did not find out until later years he was not truly living his life for the Lord.  He was using his head knowledge and now allowing the Holy Spirit to work in his life to use him for the Kingdom work.  Joel did not have the heart knowledge necessary for him to truly serve his Lord.  He shared with the group without the Holy Spirit you cannot share the gospel.  The only way we can understand the scriptures is through the power of the Holy Spirit.  Just like Peter we get into trouble when we take our eyes off of Jesus. We cannot glorify Christ without the Holy Spirit. We cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.

Kim a team member who could not join us this year along with her husband Bill conferenced called us one evening and shared a devotional.  The team also prayed over Bill as he was going into surgery the next morning.  Honduras saved Bill's life actually.  He went in for his check up to come here and they found some complications.  Bill I hope to see you and Kim next year!!!! Kim's devotional was about our hands.  The many different uses of our hands and how important they are to us.  We tap someone for encouragement, we shake someone's hands, we hug someone, we pray over someone. we wave at someone,  we holds someone's head who is dying, we serve communion with our hands, build a home for someone like you are doing this week and open a door for a stranger.  Our hands symbolized the power of perfect protection in strength and in hospitality, to encourage and to strengthen all of us.

Rick our youth this week shared out of his favorite book Acts as well.  Acts 1:12-20  about how prayer changes everything and how God does not choose the qualified but He qualifies the chosen. Amen and amen.  Beau spoke on the structure of building a home is important where we use this as a tool to share the gospel with the lost.  He reflected on numerous bible verses about the structure of a home, the foundation needs to be solid and level. Before each devotional we started out singing hymns and Beau accompanied us on the guitar to a most amazing evening of praising our Lord.  

Thank you brothers and sisters for an amazing week studying God's Word.