Have You Ever Been Alone with God?

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. Mark 4:34

Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell out our own souls. It is slow work, so slow that it takes God all time and eternity to make a man and woman after His own purpose. The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters. It is astounding how ignorant we are about ourselves! We do not know envy when we see it, or laziness, or pride. Jesus reveals to us all that this body has been harbouring before His grace began to work. How many of us have learned to look in with courage?

We have to get rid of the idea that we understand ourselves, it is the last conceit to go. The only One Who understands us is God. The greatest curse in spiritual life is conceit. If we have ever had a glimpse of what we are like in the sight of God, we shall never say — “Oh, I am so unworthy,” because we shall know we are, beyond the possibility of stating it. As long as we are not quite sure that we are unworthy, God will keep narrowing us in until He gets us alone. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affection — things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone. We listen to many things in classes, but they are not an exposition to us yet. They will be when God gets us alone over them. – Oswald Chambers

The Lord's Day Services


Sunday, January 22, 2017:

10:00a.m. Sunday School

11:00a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Larry Saunders

6:00p.m. Pre-service Prayer Time

6:30p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Frank McClelland


Weekly Events

Weekly Announcements


WEEK OF PRAYER

January 23rd – 27th

Bible Study & Prayer each night at 7:25p.m.

Monday: Dr. Larry Saunders

Tuesday: Rev. Reggie Cranston

Wednesday: Baptismal Service

Thursday: Dr. Frank McClelland

Friday: Dr. Larry Saunders


Friday, January 27th:

9:00a.m. Women’s Morning Bible Study

7:00p.m.  Good News Bible Club


Weekly Events
Upcoming Events

Advance Announcements


Sunday, January 29th:

10:00a.m. Sunday School

11:00a.m. Morning Service – Dr. Larry Saunders

6:00p.m. Pre-service Prayer

6:30p.m. Evening Service – Dr. Larry Saunders

Fellowship & Refreshments following the evening service.

Team # 3 is on set- up and clean-up


Wednesday, February 1st:

7:25p.m. Bible Study & Prayer Meeting


Thursday, February 2nd:

7:30p.m. Youth Fellowship


Friday, February 3rd:

7:00p.m. Good News Bible Club


Upcoming Events

Deepest Sympathy

The congregation would like to extend sympathy to Rhoda Nebitko, whose father passed away in the Philippines. She plans to fly home to be with her family, and we pray for traveling mercies and that the whole family will know comfort from the Lord at this time.

J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion

“The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same”

Please Pray for

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