Sanctuary Revival was like heart surgery. Our Great Physician and Healer began to do repair work by skillfully revealing our diseased hearts. Then He gently took His blade of truth and began to cut away the damaged...the affected areas that were destroying our lives. For some, He took out a heart of stone, and replaced it with a new heart...a heart of flesh that began pumping life back into a dead body...a complete heart transplant!
Praise God for revival and renewal! Praise Him for His gentle mercy and His unending grace! Praise Him for His unfailing love! Praise Him that He brought revival to your heart to make you strong and whole again...so that you could accomplish His purposes and be used to bring Him glory!
"When you came to Christ, you were 'circumcised,' but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision - the cutting away of your sinful nature." Colossians 2:11 NLT
Do you have a thirst to grower deeper in your intimacy with our Savior? His presence will fill you in His Sanctuary as you meet with Him in His Word, through worship and reflection. He will give you the enablement to be released from your chains, and to be reignited for the cause of Christ!
Join us for a short six week summer Bible Study beginning June 15th. We will have a morning and evening group for women of all ages on Tuesdays, as well as a special group for college age women on Wednesday evenings at the home of Cindy and Ashley Quick.
Just $5 for the weekly study guide - please email brendapeitzman@gmail.com to register, or to recieve more information!
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Trash the Veil!
A beautiful May afternoon in May...white roses, candles, family and friends gathered together, ready to capture the moment the bride enters the sanctuary to meet her groom. Ushered in with praise and worship...in awe of God's amazing grace! The bride...adorned in sparkling sequins and fully clothed in white...a glistening diamond on her left hand as a token and pledge of her beloved...her head covered by a veil only to be lifted by her groom!
Cleaning up after the glorious celebration, we found the veil wadded in a sack of garbage along with the clutter of the reception and trappings of the day. What a picture of the veil that lies over our hearts, covering our hardened minds, blinding us so that we cannot understand truth! But then...we turn to our groom and He lifts the veil...it is taken away...we can see Him face to face! Only He can lift the veil of sin and guilt...of darkness and evil...of fear and insecurity.
NOW we can see Him and reflect His glory and perfect image! NOW there is freedom and liberty! NOW we are transformed into His likeness, beholding as in a mirror the glorious image of the Lord, with ever increasing glory! NOW, with unveiled faces, we are being changed into His image, the image of the only true and Holy One! We, the bride, the church of Christ, reflecting His glorious image!
"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." II Corinthians 3:16-18 NIV
NOW we can live unveiled...in freedom...transformed into His image...no longer covered by the veil of sin and guilt. The veil is lifted...it's gone...trash the veil!
Cleaning up after the glorious celebration, we found the veil wadded in a sack of garbage along with the clutter of the reception and trappings of the day. What a picture of the veil that lies over our hearts, covering our hardened minds, blinding us so that we cannot understand truth! But then...we turn to our groom and He lifts the veil...it is taken away...we can see Him face to face! Only He can lift the veil of sin and guilt...of darkness and evil...of fear and insecurity.
NOW we can see Him and reflect His glory and perfect image! NOW there is freedom and liberty! NOW we are transformed into His likeness, beholding as in a mirror the glorious image of the Lord, with ever increasing glory! NOW, with unveiled faces, we are being changed into His image, the image of the only true and Holy One! We, the bride, the church of Christ, reflecting His glorious image!
"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." II Corinthians 3:16-18 NIV
NOW we can live unveiled...in freedom...transformed into His image...no longer covered by the veil of sin and guilt. The veil is lifted...it's gone...trash the veil!
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