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Children’s Ministry will be with the Ministry leader during worship time starting in the fall. Pray with us in our transition. Sis Debbie.
Youth ministry will meet in the fellowship hall at 9:30 am. Youth Ministry will be meeting every 1st Sunday of the month at 9:30 am.
Happy Birthday and Wedding Anniversary to all family and friends celebrating in the month of March.
The Second & Third Sunday we will celebrate the 2025 Kansas Reads to Preschoolers. We will add All ages because when you read you succeed. Join us for an exciting event.
Sis. Debbie will be having Children’s ministry 1st through 4th Sundays. On the 1st Sunday the children will do special projects. Please text Sis. Debbie if your child will not be in attendance. 5th Sunday no children’s ministry.
March 15th– Baptismal service. If anyone wants to be baptized, please see Pastor Dexter.
March 21st Board Meeting at 9am.
March 24th-Kansas City Community Church is hosting a Prayer Luncheon at 11am.
DCCCA is offering free sessions for parents and caregivers of youth ages 9-14. For more information, contact Sis. LaTanya Dunn..
March 29th– Palm Sunday.
April 3rd Good Friday.
April 5th Easter Sunday.
Offering Envelopes are located on the wall outside of the sound booth.
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How many of us love God so much you are willing to give everything up for him? First we must define Love:
Love defined by Oxford Languages
- “an intense feeling of deep affection.” (Job loving his kids and livestock)
- “a great interest and pleasure in something” (loving action of sacrificing a lamb for his kids sins”
- “a person or thing that ones loves” (loving his wife)
Then comes Faith,
Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” and knowing that we cannot please God with out having faith, Hebrews 11:6 “ Without faith it is impossible to please God.:
How do we acquire faith you might ask… Romans 10:17 “Faith comes form hearing the message of Jesus”.
I was surprised to learn how God still held meetings with Satan, as if he was holding a progress report. God had done so much good and Satan was so board he had nothing to do because of the promises and blessing he had upon Job.
7The LORD said to Satan, “ Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
So then when God challenges him to prove to Satan, Job is a good and faithful servant to God. and basically offers Job to Satan and lifts his protection so he can test him.
My bible foot notes state – “The book of Job shows a good man suffering for no apparent fault of his own. Sadly, our world is like that. But Job’s story does not end in despair. Through Job’s life we can see that faith in God is justified even when a situation looks hopeless. Faith based on rewards or prosperity is hollow and unstable. To be unshakable, faith must be built on the confidence that Gods’s ultimate purpose will come to pass.”
I am sure we have all tried to do good deeds and it turns out to be a complete nightmare, right? Before I would be self-conscious about over extending my support, if all its going to result is in a negative outcome. I sure Job felt this way because he was doing everything by the book and for him all these things randomly started to happen, and he was still faithful to his God.
So now WE must change our thinking, We must stick to our path. Continue to rely on our integrity and do the right thing no matter what, because we neve know when we will be tested by our God. Even when we seek confinement in others, we must uphold our values in God because Satan will try to corrupt your mind through Friends and Family. Where he is taking a familiar face of someone you may respect and get you to rebel against God.
For Job it was his 3 friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, they tried to convince he had hidden sins. Even his wife was telling him to “curse God and die”
Job 2: 1-13
2 On another day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. 5 But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[b] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.
Job was firm in his Faith prayed to God, when God finally answered Job; Job humbled himself, acknowledging God’s sovereignty.
God rebuked the three friends for their false counsel and restored Job giving him twice as much wealth as before, seven more sons, and three more daughters.
Epilogue
7 After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver[a] and a gold ring.
12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
We have many more examples of though out the Bible how God shows his love an protection while he is testing us.
- Satan could not act on Job until God approved it, and set limitations on him.
- He showed mercy by protecting his life, proving that our life matters the most, and if we trust and believe in him; not even Satan can take that away from us.
- We should not hold our standard on this Earth based on material things because God can take it all away in a Day!
Pastor Damon preached about the 3 men in a fire refers and nothing happened to them because God the 4th men in the fire was right there with them.
Daniel 3:24-27
24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?”
They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”
25 He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
26 Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!”
So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, 27 and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
We must be comfortable being in the fire, taking on problems big or small. Staying true in Gods Love, Faith, and Plan. We must have faith when we are in fear, pain, and uncertainty; even when influenced by your immediate circle. My family have had 2 deaths within a year apart, Pastor Dexter and his family have gone through the same thing in the same month. These are all hard times, but its part of Gods plan. Yet, we have witnessed 3 souls accept God into their lives! So, we must continue to do right by our God and keep praising him in all situations. Our God is not defined by fear, pain, loss, he loves us so much that he walks right next to us through all of these hardships. Loves us so much he gave his one and only Son to die for our sins! That is the best gift we can ever have. If we are just strong enough to trust in him and grab his hand to lead us through his path and not ours, he will also bless you 7 times more how he blessed Job and he will protect you like the 3 men in the fire. If you don’t see his results on this Earth, your reward will be far better in Heaven.
Topic: How God tests our Love for him, though hardships.
Text: Job 1: 1-12
1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
4 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
6 One day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b] also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
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