We All Need To Be Stirred Every So Often

Associate Pastor Ryan Crawford brought us our Sunday morning message: What Stirs You?

We stood for opening prayer and the reading of God’s word taken from 2 Timothy 1:3-7.

“Stir Up!” he says to stir up the gift of God that is in you. I’m glad we have a church were we can come and learn the word of God and are taught this also in Sunday school classes, a church where we hear and sing old-fashioned hymns and songs that teach us about the works of God.

Brother Crawford is thankful for preaching that is from the KJV Bible on Heaven and Hell, on Jesus and the devil, on sinners and salvation. These things get him “stirred up.” We, as Christians, get callused, cold and discouraged during the week. We need a place where we can come and get stirred up.

“Nowhere else does my heart stir more than here at church or reading my Bible or listening to Gospel songs of Calvary,” Brother Crawford said.

Do you remember when you got saved and were stirred up? Even so much that you weren’t just stirred up, you changed?

Brother Crawford gave us the illustration of two glasses of “good ole vitamin D milk” with Hersey’s chocolate syrup. One he allowed to sit without stirring. The other he stirred up. The same ingredients were in both, but one is stirred up. We, as Christians, need to be stirred up again! It’s not really that you can’t be stirred, but rather what stirs you. What should stir you? Football, golf, and his wife stir Brother Crawford, he said, but God ought to be in the category of it all.

We should get excited about our salvation because he saved us and how he saved us. We were in a “courthouse of death,” but we were given a piece of paper that states, “Saved by Grace.” No sin is too far to be saved.

2 Timothy 1:9-10: “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”

Mace Jackson, a preacher from Louisiana, was preaching one Sunday morning. A little, elderly lady stood up and was excited for the Lord throughout the whole sermon. A church member asked the preacher, “Why did you allow her to stand up during your whole sermon?”

Pastor Jackson replied, “I didn’t stand her up, so I’ll not sit her down!”

We should get stirred up from the scriptures. Everyone has a favorite verse. Many know John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Will your favorite verse get you stirred so others want what you have or where you give your treasures to God? Have you, as a Christian, started talking like Jesus and walking like him so people want to come to you and see what you have? Or have you become just a regular Christian?

Do you know who you have helped from being a sinner to a Christian? We can never take Jesus to the wrong address. Many times we talk to a lot of people. Often we are blessed by testimonies of those who we have reached, giving us a second blessing. “Everyone needs Jesus,” as the song says.

Although, one day the sound we will hear is Jesus Christ coming back. Reading from 1 Thessalonians 4:1318, Brother Crawford asked, “Are you ready to meet him? Are you stirred up enough for him? Have you done enough? Do you have one more person to talk to? A loved one that needs to be saved? What stirs you?”

We are reminded that with Fall upon us, we are having our own Harvest. We need to pray before planting so when sowing, we will have the best picking of friends for Friend Day Nov. 6, 2016.

Have you read your Bible today? If not read, Isaiah 40:8.

Remember if you do not have a home church, visit us at 206 E. Fifth St. in Pineville. We are one of the friendliest churches in town.

Sunday school starts at 9 a.m. and is immediately followed by church service at 10 a.m. We will have our potluck dinner Sunday, Oct. 9, so come and visit and we will feed you physically and spiritually.

The Nursing Home Ministry meets at McDonald County Living Center in Anderson at 2:30 p.m. every other Saturday. The next meeting is Oct. 8.

Please check out our FBCP Teen Group Facebook Page.

Our Friday Night Bible Study Group will meet in the church gym at 6:30 p.m. Bring your favorite dish.

WMU is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the FBCP.