Church Service was beautfiul

 

We arrived for worship service in Cedeno at 9:00 and was greeted by hugs and smiles from all the church members. We learned quickly Andres and Suyapa led the worship service.  What a precious sight and confirmed their strong faith in their Lord and Savior.  Their joy of giving all week to the North Americans and Suyapa's amazing hospitality overflowed into worship on Sunday morning.  The team's blessings continued to flow until the moment they departed from Cedeno.

 

After the singing of hymns we were blessed by Lupa and Maria singing a duet together.  As they were singing it dawned on me the entire family was standing on the church stage together.  What an amazing testimony for all of us. As families we should worship together our Lord and Savior teaching our children how to serve at home as well as at church.  This was a beautiful testimony for a Christian family.  Thank you Andres and ladies for your testimony to each of us.

We had two testimonies given by Kristen and Nicole which shared in both how truly are we in a relationship with God, a personal relationship.  Kristen shared she questioned this at one point in her life and realized God wanted her life totally.  She surrendered her a whole being to her Lord and Savior through the power of the Holy Spirit.  When the Holy Spirit lives within us we know we are God's child.  His power is more than we can ever comprehend.  Nicole shared through trials in her life she realized she was not totally committed to her God.  She gave her life to God at the age of 30 by praying daily, reading His word daily and giving everyday to HIM.  Her day is not complete if it is not started with giving it to God.

Pastor Jon got up to preach and shared about "Love".  God's love which transcends all our understanding.  His sermon fell in line with the ladies testimonies and each did not know what the other was sharing.  This is how big our God is.  He ordained the worship service through each individual that Sunday morning.  Pastor Jon used Kristen verses came out of I John 5.  We are to give Jesus our total being.  We need to listen and then obey what God has for us daily.  Everyone born of God will overcome the world if they follow HIM daily. Following HIM daily is not about a bunch of rules.  It means to listen to HIM, hear his voice, get still and be quiet and listen to what God has to say to us each day.  Then taking all HE has shown us and love others with it.  It is not easy to love everyone but through Jesus Christ we can do this.  Love others as we want to be loved.  God loved us so much HE sent HIS only SON to die a brutal death on the cross so why can't we give out this glorious love to others especially those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  This was a beautiful day of worship with our brothers and sisters in Christ.  We ended on a precious note of all the children coming back into the church marching in a line to recite their memory verse for the day.  Thank you God first, Honduran brothers and sisters and Pittsboro Baptist for making Sunday morning a glorious one in the name of Jesus Christ.

 

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

I John 5:13

 

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
I John 5:1

 

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:13