Prayer Update October 30, 2021

 Greetings to all of you.

Please continue to pray for our church family as several families are battling COVID. We have canceled services for the second straight week.

Pray for Pastor Alvis and his wife Laura as they are both sick with the virus. 

Due to Pastor's illness, there will be a lag until I can post his sermons again.

My wife has COVID but she is doing very well and has coughing as the only remaining symptom.

I have somehow stayed healthy and am praising God.

My wife's mom lived with us for about 4 years. We recently had to send her out for respite care so that Deb could recover from her illness. Her mom's health failed and she passed into glory Friday afternoon at 5:32 pm.

She has been born again for a long time and she was a blessing to all who knew her. 

I leave you with inspired words from Paul about death and what awaits us.

2 Corinthians 5:1-10  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6  Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8  We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 9  Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 

Paul tells us that we should have a desire for that day when God calls us home to glory. He has prepared a body for us fit for heaven. Death is swallowed up in life because Christ lives, we too, shall live. 

Paul reminds us that our Lord said He was going to heaven to prepare a place for us and that He will return and receive us to Himself (John 14). 

The great blessing for all believers in Christ is that when we are absent from our body through death, we are immediately in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Finally, Paul reminds all of us to use our time on earth wisely and choose to live for the glory of God. We have the opportunity for rewards and hearing our Lord say to us “well done thou good and faithful servant “ if we remain faithful

Thank you for your ongoing prayers for my family, my church family and Pastor Alvis. 

Have a blessed Lord's Day.

Bob