Sunday, January 27, 2013
Scripture reading: I Corinthians 12:12-31, Luke 4: 14-21.

Nutshell: Maybe we can't walk on water, but each of us has everything we need to do the things we are here on Earth to do.

We all have different talents and personalities, but we all have received the same Holy Spirit. You may not feel inclined to go feed five thousand people with a loaf of bread, or walk on water, but you may be anointed to go into that mundane work place with a smile on your face day after day and spread the joy of God to your fellow workers. You may be anointed to teach or just be a helpful, good neighbour right where you are. Yo may be anointed to serve coffee or greet new people who come to your church. With God there are no great jobs or little jobs, they are all God's works!
So what miracles are taking place in your life? What anointing do you have to be a part of them? The Spirit of God was upon Jesus to do the works God sent Him to do. So it is with us. Each one of us is anointed to do the work God has sent us to do. God's not going to ask us to do something that's not natural for us to do. He will get us involved according to our natural abilities. And as a group we can be anointed too. We will find unity between us when we focus on Christ and let the Holy Spirit work in our hearts. Together we can reach out to the community.
It's up to each of us to take the time to know God's voice so we will recognize His leading. Whatever time you need, whatever works for you, so the Holy Spirit can heal you from the inside out and God can minister through you to others.
Songs: Lord I Lift Your Name On High, Only You
(From the next song) Lord, my heart's desire is to know you more, to be found in you and known as yours, to possess by faith what I could not earn, all surpassing gift of righteousness.
Song: Knowing You
 It's God who called us and we just responded to that call. We don't have to go on about our mistakes or the past sins we have done. Just let God's Spirit teach us, make us more and more like Jesus, enabling us to do the things that God has called us to do. It's God that called us. It's Christ's blood that makes us holy before God. It's the Holy Spirit that transforms us day by day into the nature of Christ and leads us to do the things that we are here to do.
( From the next song) Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me, for I am His and He is mine- Bought with the precious blood of Christ. No guilt in life, no fear in death, this is the power of Christ in me. From life's first cry to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny. No power of Hell, no scheme of man can ever pluck me from His hand. Till He returns or calls me home, here in the power of Christ I'll stand!
Song: In Christ Alone
(From the next song) The Spirit of The Lord Is upon me. He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the people with a broken heart, to preach deliverance and give sight to the blind and to set free those in captivity, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Song: The Spirit Of The Lord ( Buddy Axely)
Other Songs: I Will Offer Up My Life, Take My Life And Let It be
Photo of Dream Circus, performing at Buskerfest 2012, St. Lawrence Market, Toronto.