Thanks and exhortation

What up all!...With this being the first blog of I hope many I want to start by thanking God for His faithfullness to meet us each and every week. I'm sure each one of us has countless testamonies of how the Holy Spirit working through the study has helped us in our time of need. Whatever the case may be He continues to open up His scriptures and answer prayer on a regular basis. Praise God!!! Thanks also to Steve and Nikki for being faithful in their part to open their home every Tuesday. You guys have blessed all of us! Everyone else for coming out each week, Aaron and Steve for your hours and hours of study you've put in since the study started, (you guys rock!) Moms (and Nikki) for all the dinners. Thanks and God bless!


We need to continue to press in and seek the face of God. Many of us these past almost three years have went through many various trials and testing of our faith. So continue. We are all called to pick up our cross daily and if we fail to do that just once our enemy the devil gains a foothold on one of us. So encourage each other with the words of Christ whenever possible as
often as you can. For the more our Lord gives us to do for His kingdom the more resestance we are sure to face.


My prayer for all of you is and always will be is Colossians 1:9-18


And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has deivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redeption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or aurhorities--all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the Church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, that in Him everything might be preeminent...ESV


Seek to build each other up,look for the opportunity, pray for one another and above all Love God with all your heart,soul,mind and strength. May Christ have all the Glory!!!





BIC..,Lance