Sometimes...

Life just sucks! I know it's only for the here and now and that we tend to get caught up in that but still. Death is never easy, even when it's someone you didn't know well. Our little church has lost another. Brian Fulton has passed away and now Joyce is hurting. Please keep her in your prayers if you are a prayer warrior. Thanks.

Shelly




I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Matthew 28:20

In the early 1980s, a young woman was languishing in deep spiritual, mental and emotional torment. She wrote:

Dear God,

Where are You? How can You watch and not help me? I hurt so bad, and You don't even care. If You cared You'd make it stop or let me die. I love You, but You seem so far away. I can't hear You or feel You or see You, but I'm supposed to believe You're here. Lord, I feel them and hear them. They are here. I know You're real, God, but they are more real to me right now. Please make someone believe me, Lord. Why won't You make it stop? Please, Lord, please! If You love me You'll let me die.

A Lost Sheep



Many Christians, I fear, are filled with such confusion that their daily walk with Jesus is unfulfilling and unproductive.

When they try to pray, they begin thinking about a million things they should be doing. When they sit down to read the Bible, they can't concentrate.



When they have an opportunity to serve the Lord in some way, they are brought up short by discouraging thoughts of self-doubt.



After she was saved and had Jesus in her heart, in her new found freedom, "The Lost Sheep" wrote a response to her own prayer based on her new understanding of God's provision through Jesus.



My Dear Lost Sheep,

You ask Me where I am. My child, I am with you and I always will be. You are weak, but in Me you are strong. I am so close that I feel everything you feel. Be crucified with Me and I will live in you, and you shall live with Me. I will direct you in paths of righteousness. My child, I love you and I will never forsake you, for you are truly Mine.

Love, God



See you in church

Pastor Hersch