SCHEDULES OF MEETINGS
Sunday:
Breaking of Bread - 09:45–10:45 a.m.
Fellowship - 10:45-11:00
a.m.
Ministry Meeting - 11:00-12:00 p.m.
Sunday School - 02:30–04:30 p.m.
(Sunday
School is every Sunday afternoon, 2:30 to 4:30, August through May, and is for ages 6 to 18. Program
includes Bible lesson, memory verses, activities, singing, and refreshments. If your children need transportation
for the Sunday School, please let us know.)
Wednesday:
Prayer
Meeting & Bible Study - 07:00–08:00 p.m.
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
DEEPENED CHANNELS - March 25, 2012
"God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of
His Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Corinthians 1:9).
We want fellowship with
the Lord Jesus in His peace and joy, and naturally fear and seek to avoid suffering. However, it is in the fellowship of His
sufferings that we partake of His peace and joy.
"The Lord has a wonderful
way of bringing us into the fellowship of His sufferings, even when everything outside looks prosperous. Sometimes the most
apparently prosperous lives have the deepest sufferings at the back of them. The Lord must one way or another teach us fellowship
with suffering, or we cannot be of much use. We dwell much upon the side of being filled with joy, but let us not forget there
are broken hearts all round us, and if we are to be channels of divine comfort to them, we must learn something of the fellowship
of His sufferings in our own experience."
"We shall err if we think
that life in the Sanctuary, hidden with Christ in God, means freedom from suffering, sorrow, and trial. Rather will the soul
be strengthened inwardly to be trusted more and more with the 'fellowship of His sufferings, becoming conformed unto His
death' (Philippians 3:10)."
"Our Father can advance His children
into conformity to the image of His Son, more by suffering in one day, than in many years of ease from trial."
"See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured
and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful" (James 5:11 Wms.).
