As a family at CLC, we are experiencing some wonderful opportunities to care for the needs those who are going through difficult times like illnesses, hospitalizations or rehab, or death in the family.

Pastoral Care Ministry has been so rewarded by providing meals, helping with yard work or even doing chores around the home.  This allows the person or family to focus on recovery or caring for their loved one.  We have also helped families pack–up and move since some of our CLC  families are in the military and are with us for a season.

There is always room for anyone who would like to join us, so we would love to know if you are interested in helping in any of these ways, and would be willing to be notified by email when a need arises.

If you would like to help in any of the ways below, and would like to be placed on an email notification email list, Please reply to jo.bowman@CITLChurches.com, and let me know in which way you would like to help.

1- Making meals
2- Inside house chores like cleaning
3- Outside house chores like yard work
4- Running errands, giving rides
5- Packing or moving

Sometimes we have several needs all at once and other times there are no needs for a while.

You will receive an email when there is a need and you can email me back that you would like to help.

I will contact you with the final details like contact person, dates, diet restrictions etc.

God Bless You,

Jonell Bowman
Pastoral Care Director
Christian Life Church

Jo.Bowman@CLifechurch.com
207-449-3824 ex 202

just launched, and it’s not too late to join a group.  You can check out our Get Connected Directory on our web page at www.clc.citlchurches.org  or simply click the link below and it will direct you to our Get Connected list of groups.  For more information on a group just click on the title of the group for more details.

http://clc.citlchurches.org/category/get-connected/

We have many opportunities for you to make a connect this semester. Come and Get Connected to God; to others and to your purpose.

Spring is a great time to Get Connected!

Calling all Men!  Spring has finally come and its time to prepare the church grounds for its

> debut.  Join as we gather for a time of fellowship while working together to prepare God’s House for this new season.  Bring a rake, a shovel, and work gloves if you need them and a heart to make a difference.  Coffee, Juice, donuts and bagels will be served.

fellowship and have fun! If are between the ages of 20 & 30 something (single or married) we want you!. We are real, relevant, relational & revolutionary, and have one goal to connect with eact other and to connect to God. Check the CLC lobby for details and upcoming evets. Contact Jenny Jones at jazzy_mcjazzy@icloud.com or (603) 957.2087 for more information.

Then Elisha prayed, “Lord, open my servant’s eyes, and let him see.“ The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of order viagra online fire all around Elisha.

2 Kings 6:17 

In this hour more than any other, we need eyes to see. The eyes to see things as they really are!  It is when we humbly cry out to God in a place of prayer that we are able to look beyond the natural circumstance and see what is truly real. Our God is able and his vision for our cities is greater than what we can ever imagine.  So, as we seek God for our cities, pray that the Lord will remove the cataracts of our spiritual eyes and give us a clarity to see as He sees and to possess a heart to believe.

…“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”–  but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 

Come expecting a powerful day of ministry, where the word will be taught, then caught as we have interactive breakout sessions to dialogue with each other the truth’s being communicated.  There will be moments of powerful worship where the ministry of the Holy Spirit can ignite and touch the inner man in such a way that we leave changed!

Join us in an atmosphere of friendship and excellence as we begin at 8:15 with a continental breakfast, (sessions begin at 9:00 a.m.) a salad buffet for lunch and a day filled with camaraderie with other wonderful women of God. This event is open to women of all ages (including teens).  The day will conclude at 4:30 p.m.

The cost of the event is $40 if you register prior to March 31^st. ($50 after March 31^st).  [Please make your childcare plans early as we will not have childcare for this event and plan to come.]

For more information you can contact me at denise.satrape@citlchurches.com.  Place in the subject line- “Fearless Love,” and I will forward or mail you the information needed to register for this life changing event or you can call 207449-3824.

There are limited financial aid available, for more information, please contact us by March 28th.  (Financial aid is a partial pay of $25 and a commitment to volunteer for the event.)

Reach out, invite a friend and allow the perfect love of God to cast out your fears and live the fearless life of love you were

designed to live!

to Spring ahead!

About noon the

next day as they came near Joppa, Peter was going up to the roof to pray.

Acts 10:9

Peter went to the roof top to pray. It was a place of solitude, where he could escape the busyness of the day; a place where he could commune with God.  It was there the Lord could speak to Peter and reveal His will for that hour.

If we are to reach our cities for God, we will need to understand that it will take more than our busy man-made attempts.  It will take revelation knowledge to be at the right place at the right time, saying the right things that will bring forth the plans and purposes of God.

In this season, step away from the activities that can so easily swallow you up, and go to a higher place in your communion with God.  But in this place, don’t just talk to Him, sit and listen.  You will be surprised to hear He has a plan and it’s a better plan than you can do on your own.  It will be a plan that will bear much fruit and add great strength to your life.

 Would you like to have an evening of fun while benefiting a worthy cause?  Then we have just the night for you!

The EDGE Youth Group is sponsoring an adult dinner dance on Friday, April 12, 2013, to raise funds for their missions trip this summer.

In support of our youth, many businesses in the area have contributed to make this a special night.  Olive Garden, Bugaboo Creek, When Pigs Fly are just a few of the area businesses that have contributed.  The youth are currently in training to prepare to serve you in a spirit of excellence, in a wonderful atmosphere designed for fun and fellowship.

This event is open to all adults couples or singles.  There will be great music, lots of

laughs and you will leave with a great feeling knowing that you are supporting our youth to make a contribution in the advancement of the Kingdom.

There will be two menu options to choose from, which will be announced when you purchase your tickets.  We will serve, salad, bread, entree, dessert and soda, coffee, or tea.  Tickets are $15 per adult.  The night begins as 6:15 p.m. and concludes at 9:00 p.m.

If you have children, we will be providing childcare for $7 per child ($25 max).  Children will be served dinner in a special room prepared for them.  (We ask that those requesting childcare, sign up when you purchase your dinner tickets and prepay the childcare.  This allows us to plan proper number of childcare workers and prepare for the children’s meal.)

This is a great event to invite a friend, co-workers or family members and make a difference not just for the night but for eternity!

For more information contact:  Jennifer Babcock at jerryjenb@yahoo.com  or Christina Holsclaw at mikahal@hotmail.com

Even though Daniel knew that the new law had been written, he went to pray in an upstairs room in his house, which had windows that opened toward Jerusalem. Three times each day Daniel would kneel down to pray and thank God, just as he always had done.

Daniel 6:10

Daniel did not back off or go undercover in his relationship with God even when men made laws to legislate their worship.  Daniel continued to

pursue ((in a respectful manner) an open relationship with God.  Daniel was aware that there might be natural consequences for standing firm, but, he also understood that prayer is the key to true victory. Daniel continued to pray consistently in challenging times.

What do you do when the going gets tough?  Do you press in and persist? God is looking for people with the heart of Daniel in this hour; a people who will stand firm in their relationship with God, while serving in governmental or influential places.  God is looking for a people with whom He can demonstrate His power and might and strength on the earth.  Will you arise and be a Daniel that seeks God for his city?

 So King Ahab went to eat and drink. At the same time Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel, where he bent down to the ground with his head between his knees.  Then Elijah said to his servant, “Go and look toward the sea.“ The servant went and looked. “I see nothing,“ he said. Elijah told him to go and look again. This happened seven times.  The seventh time, the servant said, “I see a small cloud, the size of a human fist, coming from the sea.“ Elijah told the servant, “Go to Ahab and tell him to get his chariot ready and go home now. Otherwise, the rain will stop him.”

1 Kings 18:42-44

In this passage, Israel had been in a long season of drought, but the prophet heard from God that this is the season for rain.  The prophet’s response after hearing from God was to prevail in prayer to release the rain.  Elijah persisted in prayer, even when it seemed there was no

evidence of rain, he continued until the Word of the Lord came to pass.

Will you persist in this season of drought that the rains will come and quench our land?  If you persist, you will not be disappointed!  God is looking for a people in this hour who will hear His Word and respond with prayers that prevail.  Are you available to release the rain?

O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord. ⁷ Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

Isaiah 62:6-7

We are encouraged to be persistent in our prayer, as watchman that He has placed on the walls of our city. We are called to stand guard in the night season every looking, ever prevailing for the safety of the land.  We are being challenged in this hour to “take no rest,”  that means do not back off or back up, but press in and prevail for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done in our lives and those with whom He has called to influence.  God responds to a heart of faith that is persistent and unrelenting.  So arise, stay awake and be unrelenting in your

prayers, for surely He will respond!

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

James 5:16b  

The Lord had said he would destroy you, so I threw myself down in front of him for those forty days and forty nights.  I prayed to the Lord and said, “Lord God, do not destroy your people, your own people, whom you freed and brought out of Egypt by your great power and strength. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at how stubborn these people are, and don’t look at their sin and evil. Otherwise, Egypt will say, ’It was because the Lord was not able to take his people into the land he promised them, and it was because he hated them that he took them into the desert to kill them.’

Deuteronomy 9:25-28 (NCV)

Moses understood the gravity of the situation and the judgment that the people were due.  But he also understood the heart of God, as he prevailed for God’s mercy for God’s name sake.  Moses concern was not just for the people, but for God’s reputation amongst the people of the earth.  So he prevailed in intercession, not just

for the deliverance of the people but for the exaltation of God.   

As we pray for our cities, let us understand the gravity of our times, but let us also be a people who are concerned about the reputation of our God; a God who loves us with an everlasting love and has demonstrated this love throughout the ages and through His Son.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name! Deliver us, forgive us, and purge away our sins for Your name’s sake.  Psalms 79:9

Jesus answered, “That kind of spirit can only be forced out by prayer. Mark 9:29

We are living in a day, where the spirits of darkness have built a barricade around the hearts of men.  If our cities are to be reached it will take the willingness of God’s people to come together in

unified prayer.  The kind of prayer that is reflected by our willingness to sacrifice the convenient that others may live.  Let us be a people who force out the darkness and usher in the light of His love in this strategic hour by pressing in with our prayers!

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

Mark 14:38 

In this passage, Jesus is teaching us the “key” to not falling into temptation.  He tells us to “watch” and “pray”.  This means to be vigilant, stay awake and commune with God in

a sincere and transparent manner.

Jesus communicates this because He is so keenly aware of the war that rages between the natural man and the spirit man.  You cannot fend off the temptations of life and the enemy unless you are awake and empowered by God’s grace.  So, as you press in diligently, in this season of prayer, expect a new strength to arise in you to resist the temptations that the enemy would try to send your way.

Our greatest enemy in this hour is the passivity and complacency that lulls us into a sleepy state spiritually. So arise in this hour and shake of your slumber and connect with your God in a fresh new way!

Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

Ephesians 5:14 

As we press in on this 15^th day of this season of

prayer, let this be a season of deep returning to the Lord.  Many times “God People” slowly drift from God and end up being a group of “good people.”   “God people” are “good people”, but “good people” are not necessarily “God People.”  Has life, its challenges, or influences reduced the “God” light in your life?  Then spend time with the Creator of Heaven and Earth and allow Him to restore, refuel and re-fire your faith in this season.

*Sorry for the delay these past few days, we had computer issues. These devotions will continue to resume via CLC website mailings instead of my own email address.

‎Seek ye the Lord while he may be found,
call ye upon him while he is near: Isaiah 55:6

February 6, 2013

Dear Church Family and Friends;

Each year at this time, we begin to prepare for a very important season at CLC & FQCC. It is our season of prayer and fasting as we “Seek God For The City”.  For the past eleven years we have corporately come together for this forty day period of prayer, and we as we look back, we can see the tremendous impact it has had on our church, our community and on our own personal spiritual walk.  We will begin this focused time of prayer on Wednesday, February 13 and it will conclude on Palm Sunday, which is March 24th.

To assist us, we will use the devotional prayer guide published by Waymakers, entitled “Seek God For The City, 2013”. This is a powerful tool which will help you to pray effectively for our city and the world, as we pray for countries and different people groups. These booklets are available now, for a donation of $3 per book.

There will be thousands of other believers across the world praying these same prayers as we come together as the Body of Christ to seek the face of God for an outpouring of His Spirit. These scriptural based prayers will launch your prayers to a new level of awareness and understanding. Each week has a specific focus to help you stay engaged during this season of prayer.

As I mentioned earlier, this is also a time where we are including fasting with our prayers. Fasting is a decision to lay aside, a meal, (or more), a hobby, and or an activity as an act of consecration and dedication to help you bring your mind, will, emotions into alignment with your spiritual goals. Because this is a personal decision, may I ask you to begin to seek the Lord to find out what He may ask of you in this season?  The Bible says, my sheep know my voice, so I am confident that as you pray the Lord will reveal to you what He would like you to consider laying aside in this powerful season.

To help you understand what fasting is, we have a free booklet entitled “Draw Near” which is available for you in the lobby, that will inform you as to the types of fasts taught in the Bible and some suggestions and guidelines while fasting. The most important thing is that we set aside time daily to draw close to the Lord and bring our petitions before Him.

We want to encourage you to make

a commitment to join with us as we take this journey in prayer and allow the waters of His Spirit to cleanse us, renew us, and envision us so we can become vessels He can use for His Glory.

P.S.  Feel free to share this invitation with a friend.

Because the Cross is truly more than enough,
Pastors Ron & Denise Satrape

As we prepare for this season of focused prayer and fasting, from Sept 28 – Nov 6, let us stop and reflect on the Words of President Lincoln as stated in this proclamation. Let us renew our stance to be one nation under God.

Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
Washington, D.C.
March 30, 1863

(Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln’s son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30.)

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon;

and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

(Source: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler.)

regarding the 40 Days of Prayer! I am sending this update to clarify a few items.

Prayer will be held:

• Mornings:  Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday  6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
• Evenings:  Thursday 6:30-8:00PM

Feel free to come for all or part of the time.   On Thursday Evening there is childcare available.  Some have expressed their ability to come for 30 minutes or 45 minuntes.  Your presence is welcome even if you cannot stay the whole time.

Prayer focus during the meeting will be for the nation, the Body of Christ and for the upcoming election.

“Desperate for Change” will be available in the media center on Sunday after service. ($4) 

Handouts and guides will be in the lobby of CLC and FQCC.

Please feel free to contact me at denise.satrape@citlchurches.com if you have any questions.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.   Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, O Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among cheap viagra online the nations.

Joel 2:15-17 

We have been given many promises in God’s Word that if God’s people would humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, God would hear and heal the land.  

We are living in a time where our decisions do not just affect the moment, but they will impact the days and years of generations to come.  Let us arise in this critical hour as the people of God who are awake and aroused to action!  The kind of action that brings God on the scene in our government, our churches and our homes!

Join with me as we set aside 40 days to fast and pray for God’s will and ways to be established in our land, as we prepare for the our upcoming election.  From September 28 – November 4 we will be joining believers across the nation as we pray for our nation and the Body of Christ. 

You can also join us at CLC for corporate prayer on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings from 6:00 AM- 7:00 AM for an hour of prayer and/or Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:00PM.

To empower your time of prayer, we will have available for $4 a devotional book entitled “Desperate for Change” – a 40 day prayer guide for America, along with other printed materials to empower your prayers for our nation, the election and the Body of Christ.  Throughout scripture one can see the importance of prayer joined together with fasting. To help you gain a greater understanding of the how and whys of fasting, I have put together a booklet as a tool for you.  

Will you arise with me, as we fall to our knees and ask for God’s mercy and help for our country and the Body of Christ?  If so, respond to me  me at denise.satrape@citlchurches.com, and say “Desperate for Change.”

Materials and books will be available this weekend at CLC and FQCC.   CD’s of my message “Casting your vote on earth as it is in heaven!” which was presented this past Sunday, will also be available for purchase.   

Let’s join together in prayer and make a “world” of difference!

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3:17

Webster’s defines liberty as the quality or state of being free:

• freedom from arbitrary or despotic control:
• the power of choice.
• It is also described as a privilege: permission especially to go freely within specified limits.

True freedom comes when we freely live within the specified limits of that which is good and godly.  Let us pray today that we become a people of true liberty.  A people who have arisen from the despotic control of sin and have chosen the liberty purchased for us by the Blood of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the liberty you have granted to us through the shed Blood of your Son and our Lord; a liberty that has made us free; truly free from the tyranny of sin and its self serving ways.  We thank you for a liberty that grants us the power to choose.  Help us to be a people who use our liberties wisely.  In this hour raise a people who will honor the liberty they possess as a privilege and not just a right.  Forgive us of our choices that have reduced liberty to fleshly pursuits instead of the pursuit of virtue.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us online pharmacy no prescription free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 5:1, 13

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams

Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.  Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God … 

Deuteronomy 8:11-14

Heavenly Father, we humbly repent and ask for Your forgiveness in this hour as we have become a people who are more influenced by the world, its ways and our own accomplishments.  In the midst of our blessings we have forgotten the grace that has caused us to prevail.  Forgive us as we have become a people who are full and satisfied and in that satisfaction we have become complacent and apathetic.

Awaken us from our slumber and deliver us from the

pride that causes us to hide in our own reasoning.  Revive us again as a people who are “one nation under God.”   Send forth your Spirit once again and bring this nation back to you.  In Jesus Name we pray, AMEN

For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 57:15 

Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children

Lamentations 2:19

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ;

We are living in strategic times that require action; action that is a product of our faith in the goodness of God; action that will bring about a change.   This kind of action is the result of a people who have fallen on

their knees in prayer and then arise to their feet to respond to do their part.

I invite you to join me in this two-fold endeavor as we come together and combine our hearts, our wills and our time to be the change agents needed in this hour.

Prayer

• In 2Chronicles 7:14, we are admonished that when we come to God in humble prayer, recognizing our need for Him, He will hear from heaven and heal our land.
• In Luke 18, we see the example and encouragement of widow woman who prevails because she remained persistent.
• In Ezekiel we can see the desire and heartbreak of God to move on the behalf of His people, if they would only arise as a people of prayer and action

I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30

If you are a member of CLC, I want to encourage you to join me in prayer for our nation and the Body of Christ on:

• Tuesday, Thursday &/or Saturdays at 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM
• Thursday evening from 6:30PM – 8:00 PM

If you are not able to attend these meetings will you commit to pray from home?  (I can send you handouts so you can pray in union with us.)

If you are a member at Faith Quest, Stoneham, MA

Then join with the prayer ministry on Tuesday evenings at 6:30PM

If you attend another church, then I want to encourage you to gather together with others to pray on behalf of the nation and the Body of Christ where you live.

September 11, 2012

Will you consider joining me for prayer on 9/11 as we pray in remembrance of the freedom we possess and how easily we can lose it?

40 Days of Fasting and Prayer

Will you join me on Sept 28-Nov 6 for 40 days of prayer and fasting as we Cry Out for America in this critical hour?

• Check out this website for other initiatives and resources that are being conducted to encourage Americans to pray

http://www.awakeningamerica.us/

VOTE

• Will you register to vote and commit to vote in this strategic election?
• Will you ask God, who does He want you to vote for?
• Will you do your homework and check out the candidates in light of Godly values?
• Will you accept responsibility for the impact of your vote or lack of vote has on the direction of our nation

I have included instructions on how to register to vote in the state of Maine, you can check on online for the details on registering for the state you live in.

Guide to becoming a Registered Voter in the state of Maine

HOW do I register to vote?

The first step is to fill out a voter registration card. Follow this link to download and print off a voter registration card http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/reg-card-11-08.pdf

WHERE do I go to register? 

You can register to vote at your town office or city hall, through any Motor Vehicle branch office, in most state & federal social service agencies, or at voter registration drives.

Completed voter registration cards may be hand delivered or mailed to your town office or city hall, or sent to the Secretary of State’s Office in Augusta.

Is there a deadline for registering?

YES, there is a deadline!!! Deadline for voting registration is Tuesday October 16th, 2012

When is the next election?

The next election date is November 6th, 2012. Visit your towns town office or city hall as to voting locations for your area/ 

If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?

Psalms 11:3 (NKJV)

Our dangers are of two kinds, those which affect our religion, and those which affect our government. They are, however, so closely allied that they cannot, with propriety, be separated…

 To the kindly influence of Christiainity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoy. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. .. It follows, that all efforts made to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them..

Dr. Jedidiah Morse, April 25, 1799

Heavenly Father, we humbly

come before you and ask for your healing grace to prevail upon our land.  Ignite a fire within your people to take a stand for righteousness in this critical hour.  Forgive us of our apathy and complaceny toward spiritual things.  Remove the scales from our eyes and put in our hearts a lasting passion for you.

 “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.

Hosea 14:4

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)

In 1775, in the process of forming a new nation the Continental Congress called for a day of prayer.  At critical junctures during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln called for the nation to fast and pray and in 1952 President Truman signed a bill establishing an annual National Day of Prayer. 

As a nation, we are at a critical juncture that necessitates action.  The kind of action that brings a response of the heart; a response that leads to real change and healing.  2Chronicles gives us a model of national spiritual renewal.  This model lays out the steps of action that leads to true change; change for the better.

• Action Step #1  Humble ourselves
• Action Step #2  Pray and Seek the face of God
• Action Step #3  Turn from our sinful/selfish ways

Will you arise to a place of action in this hour? 

Will you arise with me, as we fall to our knees in earnest prayer?   If we will, He will hear from heaven and heal our land.

Heavenly Father, as

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we survey our country in this hour, we see our desperate need for You to arise with healing in your wings.  Release Your goodness that leads us to a place of true repentance, as we ask for your mercy and grace to heal our land.

Take the time to check out the link below and let’s become a people of action in this critical hour. 

http://www.40daystosaveamerica.com/

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

Genesis is one of the most important books of the Bible because it’s the foundation of the beginning of heaven and

earth. The heaven and the earth were both created together in the beginning.

The word used for “God” in verse one, is a plural word.  This shows us that the Trinity or the three personalities of the Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) were all involved in the process of creation.

Verse two states that the earth was or became without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.  Because everything God created was good, I find it hard to believe that God created anything that was without form, void or darkness upon it. 

There is speculation amongst some theologians that there may have been a period of time between verses one and two.  Some believe there may have been a pre-adamic (before Adam) creation that experienced something catastrophic before God moved upon the face of the waters in verse two. 

But the scriptures do not give us an explanation of what may have happened or how much time may have evolved between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, therefore, it is important to not make assumptions about the age of the planet based on what we assume to be true.  This can also true of all scripture interpretation.  According to scripture, it’s not clear exactly how old the planet is, but the account of creation is clear and science confirms it. This communicates to us an important truth that God doesn’t tell us everything, and we should be careful not to assume, but to base our truth on what His Word does say to us.  Never has biblical creation or the Bible been proven wrong, however assumptions about the Bible have been proven wrong. 

Then the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water; the Son of God spoke the Word given to Him by the Father.  In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
John 1:1

God said let there be light and there was light!  This was not the light of the sun, moon and stars but the light was good.  The first day was lit by the light of God that was created by the spoken Word.  The light was divided from darkness by the rotation of the planet. Once God’s Word established the rotation of the earth the first day was created.  Then the rest of creation unfolded through the spoken Word of God.

Then God rested in faith, knowing the Word would do the rest.  When the light of revelation shines on the spoken Word we can rest in faith knowing the creation of our day is in “now” progress. 

You do not have to know everything, nor do you need to make assumptions, just speak God’s revealed Word over your life and rest in faith that God will perform according to His word, because God’s Word continues to create when spoken out of our mouth.

For the word of God is alive and powerful…
Hebrews 4:12a  

Written by Pastor Ron Satrape

Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:9 (NLT)

Today’s reading leads us to Genesis chapter three, where a pivotal change takes place in the life of man, as these passages give us an account of the Fall of Mankind into sin.  The greatest impact of man’s fall is that it separated man from their day to day relationship with God. 

In verse eight of this chapter we read that God would meet them in the cool of the day to fellowship with them; that is, until sin brought an interruption to this relationship.  Of all of creation, man was born to have a unique and personal relationship with their Creator.  So we can see that sin’s greatest offense is that sin’s choices bring with it the fruit or harvest of division and separation in one’s life.

It is interesting to note, that when man fell, it was not God who hid from man, but man who hid from God.  Sin’s baggage brings a loss of identity in one’s life. This loss of identity, brought guilt and shame, where there was once clarity and stability.  The result causes one to hide from themselves and those with whom they are connected to.

Think about it; to have a personal relationship with someone, one must also have the ability to choose.  How could man choose to give up something so wonderful? It’s easy, when man allows temptation’s voice to misrepresent what is true.

Man’s fall from their close relationship with God began with a temptation; that opened the door to deception and deception’s question misrepresented the truth influencing one’s choices.

“Did God really say that you must not

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eat fruit from any tree in the garden?’
Genesis 3:1

So many times we can focus on the “act of sin” instead of the “impact of sin.”  The deceptive temptation promises so much, but never shows you the moments after and the cost of that choice.  Ultimately, the greatest impact of sin is the separation and consequential loss it brings in one’s life.

So, before taking a bite into what seems so promising, allow the voice of God to ask you a simple question to locate you: “Where are you?”  

Don’t allow the temptations of this life to deceive you into questioning what is good and true. But draw from God’s love that provides a promise of escape when you choose to trust in who He is and what He has said.

 The only temptation that has come to you is that which everyone has. But you can trust God, who will not permit you to be tempted more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, he will also give you a way to escape so that you will be able to stand it.
1 Corinthians 10:13

Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.
Hebrews 2:18 

 Written by Pastor Denise Satrape

It’s so easy to read about what happened in the judgment of man and miss what happened to God as a result of His rejection by man.  But in a modern day translation of Genesis 6:6 it gives us a much better view of how God is impacted by a world that was once full of light and glory, now filled with darkness, evil and depravity.

So the Lord was sorry he had ever buy cialis online canada made them and put them on the earth.  It broke his heart. … But Noah found favor with the Lord.
Genesis 6:6, 8

We cannot preach the Gospel of Salvation without including the need for repentance and acknowledging the evil state of mankind.  The value of Salvation is diminished when what we have been saved from, isn’t included in our preaching.

The following verses in chapter six go on to explain the evil state of mankind and God’s communication to Noah regarding it.

Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt. So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth! 

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