GREENE STREET LETTERS: MERCY ME

Friday, January 6, 2023

MERCY ME

Psalm 95:1 / Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our Salvation.

Last night was our first Thursday night meeting @ the ReCovery Church. The word I kept hearing over and over this morning as I wrote in my journal was that this first meeting was a "SEED BED". That God had planted in those present last night those things He wants to come forth in our lives.

The worship was "new" even the songs were old. They connected us to our past and the goodness of God we've seen over the years in our own lives. Sometimes we need to revisit the past in order to regain a new perspective of where we are today. Below is a list of our worship.

#1 - "YOU ARE HOLY" / A declaration of who God is. That His holiness is beyond our comprehension, yet He gives us glimpses into His nature, His character, and His Kingdom plans.

#2 - "Sweet Mercies" / Let the mercy of God rain down on us and what's more that we are aware of what God's mercy to us truly is. May we never take for granted the mercy, love, and compassion that has been made available to us. Not for what we've done, or who we are.......but because this is God's nature.

#3 - "River Of Delight" / Where are you taking a stand? Where have you planted your flag (so to speak) and declared your allegiance to either this world Or to God. As Rich Mullins sang, "The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I only to the giver of all good things."

#4 = "Merciful God" / God just doesn't dispense mercy.........He IS mercy. And it is the mercy of God that keeps you, and me and this whole cockeyed worlds from slipping over the edge into total darkness. Imagine what it will be like when we actually stand before Him and see those eyes of mercy...feel the touch of His hands of mercy...and hear the voice that has called out to us across the years.

If you haven't guessed it by now, the message last night was on the mercy of God. We need to re-focus our thoughts and direction to embrace and seek out the mercy of God. To be more aware of what this mercy means in our every day life.

We will be hosting our breakfast give-away this coming Saturday (Jan. 7th) so come out and join us. And...we will be back next Thursday night - 6:30 p.m. for another meeting.
May you find God this day, and may you allow Him to change you.

God On You........

Michael B

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Friday, January 6, 2023

MERCY ME

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD