Fellowship Sweet

Philip our pastor and his wife Sheila are away at the moment so last week Trevor took the morning meeting and Alec the evening. This week Ken led the meeting and Gareth Philip and Sheila's son gave us a message. It was the first time he had done this, he has shared testimonies with us before how the Lord is working in his life but this was the first time he spoke on a scripture passage. It really was quite amazing how the songs and the testimonies people shared all fit in. Gareth had no idea what the songs were going to be, but the Holy Spirit did :) Gareth shared with us thoughts on "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul", it was thought provoking, uplifting and challenging. All the songs earlier had been about our dependency on God, He is all I need, He is more than enough and so on. We really must do some series heart searching to make sure that God is number one in our lives and that we are not trying to gain temporal things that in the end will do us no good whatsoever, they are fleeting and they are passing away. Gareth reminded us that in and of themselves there is nothing wrong with having nice thing it is when they take first place in our lives and put God second that the problems start. Money and material things are not the problem, the problem is our attitude towards them and if we are striving for more of these things instead of striving to know more of God and walking every day in worship and service to Him then we will grow more and more spiritually weak and our witness will be ineffectual.

Afterwards I went for a BBQ with my daughters and their hubbies at Hannah (my middle daughter) and Phil's home which you can read about here. Break out the barby

The evening service was uplifting also which was taken by Alec and Susan. We were reminded that Jesus is always with us no matter what we are going through, whatever our circumstance, whatever our situation, Jesus is with us and He will either help us through it or take us out of it, either way it will be His will. You can read Alec's message on the Elim website, Think on These things Troubles and Trials and I trust it will be of great encouragement to you, and uplift you and help you in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.