On Wednesday night we met for worship and twenty eight people were in attendance. The praise team got us off and running. As usual they were great. In my message I shared the fact that when Jesus taught us to ask God not to lead us into temptation, he may have been suggesting we ask God not to let us face trials. The Hebrew word for both temptation and testing is the same. None of us want to face trials and Jesus knew we would want to ask God for that. But testing and trials come and I pointed out that what God promised is that he would be with us in our time of testing.
It seemed like a message that was timely for all of us who were present. Some of those who were there were facing pretty big challenges. Others were going through a valley of testing. I don't think there was one person present who couldn't say they weren't worried about something going on in their lives. It is funny how God works. I've been preaching on the Lord's prayer for six or seven weeks and this was the night, with our highest attendance, that we dealt with a subject that hit home for so many. The truth is that every one of us is either just coming out of a trial or will soon be facing one. That's life. But it did seem timely.
We closed our service with prayers for Dot Kreger, Joe Rodino and a young man named Casey who were all facing surgery in the near future. We lifted up Gwyn Green who fell and sprained her ankle. We lifted up Nikki Dufour. We prayed for two of Cliff Vanase's friends who were facing medical concerns. We prayed for Zelda Fellows and the Lucien family and their concerns. Then as we were getting ready to go, we paused to say thank you to God for the blessings in our lives. It was a good service.
Cal
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