Worship Time

Pastor Larry and Sandy spent two weeks with us in Honduras which means Pastor Larry got to preach twice.  Much to my surprise Pastor Larry had two completely different sermons.  Thank you Pastor Larry for sharing God's Word according to where God place you each week.  The pastor's wife opened the service with hymns of praise and worship unto the Lord.  We sang "How Great Thou Art", "What a Great Day", "Bienvendos", "Victory in Jesus" and as we were singing "Victory in Jesus" the power went out and the church continued singing and praising the Lord without the power.  All we needed was the power of the Holy Spirit which was in this place today!!!!  Pastor Arderon got up and welcomed us all to church.  

Pastor Larry got up to preach but prior to his sermon, he asked the pastor and his wife to step forward so he could pray over their lives as they lead this community and church.  Also there was an assistant pastor that Pastor Arderon wanted to come up as well.  

Pastor Larry brought the message from 2Kings 4:1-7.  "The Widows Olive Oil"  There was a lady in need who did not have any money for her family.  The Lord told her to bring all the clay pots to Him and as she did He filled them up to overflowing for her to sell.  There was more than enough for her and her son to live off.  But when the Lord filled up the last clay pot it was done.  God's provision for this lady and her son was more than enough for them to be able to live off of.  God also ask us for the impossible in our lives so He can perform miracles.  If life was easy for man, he would not need help from God.  God would not get any of the credit.  When we rely on God to help us with all our needs He gets the full credit for supplying our needs. Like the clay pots or vessels, Pastor Larry shared, we are God's vessels.  We need to be in church each Sunday to get filled up with overflowing so we can go out during the week and share the love of Jesus Christ with our community, El Limonal.  Whether we are out collecting firewood to cook with, making tortillas to sell, whatever we may be doing in our home or work place we need to be ready and fueled up to share Jesus Christ with others. in Jeremiah 18:1-6 it talks about vessels.  Pottery was marred in the potter's hand.  Just like this marred pottery are our lives.  We are all defective and God is in the business of molding us into who He wants us to become.  We are broken like the marred pottery and God is there to put us back together again.  God is there to fix our brokenness and make us complete in His will not ours.  But sadly some of us do not want to be changed.  We like living in our sinful lives.  We do not want to give up this life to live out a life with our Lord.  Don't want to give up the fun stuff in life.  The things that might be fun in our lives may separate us from our Heavenly Father. Also a vessel needs to be used.  It needs to come off the shelf and be used to supply the water we need to drink.  Like the vessel we need to be willing to get out of our comfort zone, get away where it is safe and get away from the pain in our lives and be willing to be a vessel for God to be emptied out and be used for the Kingdom Work.  In 2 Timothy 2:20-26  it talks of different gifts or qualities.  All of us are different vessels with gifts God has given us to use.  We do not need to waste these gifts and not give them out to others who need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ.  God needs to get rid of whatever does not glorify God in our lives.  In order to become who God wants us to be, the qualified vessel of Jesus Christ, we need to be in His Word daily.  We need to worship and praise Him.  We need to open our lives to God.  God knows and sees all we do.  We cannot hide our lives from God.   During the week you pour out yourself to your community and come back here on Sunday to be refilled with overflowing to go out again and share the love of Jesus with El Limonal.  Amen y amen.