Week of November 20

Following God

Sowing our Prayer… Reaping the Spirit

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!

~ Romans 8:15 in the Message ~

Monday	Romans 8:15
Tuesday	John 1:1-18
Wednesday	Luke 7:36-50
Thursday	Matthew 5:14-16
Friday	John 4:1-42
Saturday	Acts chapters 6-7

A life of light that does not seek change in the darkness of the world is not an effective, productive, or useful light.  Shining a flashlight when the sun is out does nothing.  We as Christians are lights to the world, but what good are we unless we shine our light in the darkness instead of where all the other light is?  A light-filled life without shining in the darkness is not a life worth having. 

Seek God by asking him what is next. Be expectant for Him and his message.  Let us be a church that burns with passion for God.  The more we learn about God, the more it becomes obvious that He is on a mission of Love to bring others close to him.  If we are his followers, his light, then we need to take this light into the darkness, to take our light on HIS mission.

Pray for God to direct your light into the darkness.  Pray that the light of Oak Chapel will blaze brighter and brighter so that the darkness runs from our community and from the nearby counties.