BBD 01.04.15 Facilitating Your Spiritual Break Out - Pt 4 The Church (Classic)

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please write a review. Thanks! Here is the link: http://amzn.to/1ufa1ov
If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from the Burning Bush
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The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2004

01.04.15

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 4 The Church

And let us consider one another in
order to stir up love and good works,not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and
so much the more as you see the Day approaching. - Hebrews 10:24-25 NKJV.

For where two or three are gathered
together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. - Matthew 18:20 NKJV.

During one week in 1984, God brought a passage of
Scripture to my attention three separate times. He first brought it to my
attention during my quiet time, then during Sunday School, and then in the
pastor’s message. I had no doubt that God was speaking to me and it was this
same passage of Scripture that God brought to my attention some seven years
later in my quiet time confirming His call upon my life. I would never have
experienced a spiritual break out without regular church attendance. Being in
church for every opportunity of worship, fellowship and learning is vital to
being where God can speak clearly to your heart.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon is often called the Prince of Preachers (1834 -
1892) and perhaps was the foremost preacher of the 19^th Century. In
1861 Spurgeon’s congregation built the Metropolitan Tabernacle which had
seating for 4,700 people. Also in 1861, Spurgeon preached at the Crystal Palace
in London to a crowd of 23,654. But Spurgeon would never have been saved, or
heard God’s call, if he had not been a determined church attender. Here is how
he tells the story in his own words of the day of his salvation: “I sometimes think I might have been in darkness and despair
until now had it not been for the goodness of God in sending a snowstorm, one
Sunday morning, while I was going to a certain place of worship. When I could
go no further, I turned down a side street, and came to a little Primitive
Methodist Chapel. In that chapel there may have been a dozen or fifteen people.
I had heard of the Primitive Methodists, how they sang so loudly that they made
people’s heads ache; but that did not matter to me. I wanted to know how I
might be saved, and if they could tell me that, I did not care how much they
made my head ache. The minister did not come that morning; he was snowed up, I
suppose. At last, a very thin-looking man, a shoemaker, or tailor, or something
of that sort, went up into the pulpit to preach.” It was during a
snow storm so bad that the pastor was not even able to come to church that
Spurgeon heard God speak to him through a faithful servant who did make it to
church that day, and reluctantly shared God’s Word as best He could. The impact
of Spurgeon’s ministry is still being felt and will be for all eternity. The
church made it possible, and facilitated the spiritual break out of Charles
Haddon Spurgeon.

The church is not man’s idea; it is God’s idea and
plan. There is no getting around the fact that it is God’s will and plan for
you to be in church every time the doors are open (If you are physically able
and are not providentially hindered in some way.). How much does God desire
this? Jesus died for the church. The church is the body of Christ on this earth,
all those who have received Jesus as their Savior. If you want to break out
spiritually the church must be part of the plan. Thank God for the church!!

Copyright © 2003-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
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and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the “Devotional of the Day” and read the devotional
there.

The New Pastor's
Training Manual is now available for download on Amazon. You can READ for
FREE a LARGE SAMPLE (approx. 17 pages) which includes how God worked in my life
to Call me to Preach and other material. Click on the “Look Inside Link.” If
you do buy the 216 page eBook for $3 (FREE if you have KINDLE UNLIMITED.)
please write a review. Thanks! Here is the link: http://amzn.to/1ufa1ov
If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from the Burning Bush
website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

The Burning
Bush Devotional

Classic
from 2004

01.04.15

Facilitating Your Spiritual Break
Out - Part 4 The Church

And let us consider one another in
order to stir up love and good works,not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and
so much the more as you see the Day approaching. - Hebrews 10:24-25 NKJV.

For where two or three are gathered
together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. - Matthew 18:20 NKJV.

During one week in 1984, God brought a passage of
Scripture to my attention three separate times. He first brought it to my
attention during my quiet time, then during Sunday School, and then in the
pastor’s message. I had no doubt that God was speaking to me and it was this
same passage of Scripture that God brought to my attention some seven years
later in my quiet time confirming His call upon my life. I would never have
experienced a spiritual break out without regular church attendance. Being in
church for every opportunity of worship, fellowship and learning is vital to
being where God can speak clearly to your heart.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon is often called the Prince of Preachers (1834 -
1892) and perhaps was the foremost preacher of the 19^th Century. In
1861 Spurgeon’s congregation built the Metropolitan Tabernacle which had
seating for 4,700 people. Also in 1861, Spurgeon preached at the Crystal Palace
in London to a crowd of 23,654. But Spurgeon would never have been saved, or
heard God’s call, if he had not been a determined church attender. Here is how
he tells the story in his own words of the day of his salvation: “I sometimes think I might have been in darkness and despair
until now had it not been for the goodness of God in sending a snowstorm, one
Sunday morning, while I was going to a certain place of worship. When I could
go no further, I turned down a side street, and came to a little Primitive
Methodist Chapel. In that chapel there may have been a dozen or fifteen people.
I had heard of the Primitive Methodists, how they sang so loudly that they made
people’s heads ache; but that did not matter to me. I wanted to know how I
might be saved, and if they could tell me that, I did not care how much they
made my head ache. The minister did not come that morning; he was snowed up, I
suppose. At last, a very thin-looking man, a shoemaker, or tailor, or something
of that sort, went up into the pulpit to preach.” It was during a
snow storm so bad that the pastor was not even able to come to church that
Spurgeon heard God speak to him through a faithful servant who did make it to
church that day, and reluctantly shared God’s Word as best He could. The impact
of Spurgeon’s ministry is still being felt and will be for all eternity. The
church made it possible, and facilitated the spiritual break out of Charles
Haddon Spurgeon.

The church is not man’s idea; it is God’s idea and
plan. There is no getting around the fact that it is God’s will and plan for
you to be in church every time the doors are open (If you are physically able
and are not providentially hindered in some way.). How much does God desire
this? Jesus died for the church. The church is the body of Christ on this earth,
all those who have received Jesus as their Savior. If you want to break out
spiritually the church must be part of the plan. Thank God for the church!!

Copyright © 2003-2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn
profile with endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
an end to the racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace
and love. Please pray for Justin Lewis who is battling cancer. He is a young
Christian man with a wife and two children. Unless God intervenes there is
little hope for him. Please also pray for Shane Hall who has cancer and for all
those afflicted with this terrible disease. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the
burningbushdevo devotional group by sending a blank email to
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text group (Because of time constraints the devotional is only being sent now
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