I really do believe that a blessed person has options. I want to list a few of the “additional” options you have for blessings. I say additional, because you have ongoing sources of blessing in your Connection Group, Weekly Worship, daily time with God, etc. Here are a few coming up that could make a difference. Of course they take some effort on our part. Look over the options and see if God may be providing an answer to prayers you have been praying or relief from a pain you have been experiencing. Either way, a blessed person has options!
This Saturday our Experiencing God group is leading a walk through the Riverland Terrace neighborhood. Walk you dogs or a walk with the family. Either one or both. As you walk, pray for what you see and ask God to show you what He sees. This is not so much a church wide event as it may be an event God has somehow, in His mysterious way, put on your heart. Meet at JIBC Fellowship Hall at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday, February 20. Walking, praying family fellowship…hmm?
This Sunday, pray for Class 101: Discovering Membership. We have 20 signed up. That is 20 wonderful precious souls our Father may be leading to unite their family with ours. I really do believe God adds to the church those that He wills. So let’s pray with them about this next step at JIBC.
How about your language…your love language that is? Saturday, February 27 will be our 5 Love Languages gathering. We have 50 signed up so far. Hey, by the way, you don’t have to be a couple to benefit from this. Knowing your love language will help single people, single moms or single dads, etc. Whenever I meet with a couple planning to get married, this book, The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, is one of the three books I recommend. Need a tune up? Things going good but could be a little better…let’s give it a try. A blessed person has options. Call the church office to make your reservation or sign up this Sunday.
Just around the corner is our church wide blood drive. Our friends from the American Red Cross will be at JIBC on Sunday, March 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Janie and I will be out of town that Sunday, so we will make a special effort to donate the week before. Our family has been blessed more than once as we needed blood. My grandson, Wyatt, is here by the grace of God, the will of his mother, the love of his father, the prayers of our friends and the gift of life given through the Red Cross. Thank you for donating. It was the difference of life.
See you Sunday as we get Jonah in the belly of the big fish! Now he is Running To God.
Pastor Tom
