God has given us the opportunity to gather together today to celebrate the 191st Anniversary of Springford Baptist Church. We do thank God for all the ways that He has revealed Himself to us and those before us over these many years. Our opening hymn for our Anniversary Service will be “Great is Thy Faithfulness.” This is the reality that we have all experienced. God has accompanied each of us on our life journey. Whatever we have experienced and whatever we will experience, God is with us and God’s compassion for us never fails. Truly God’s mercies are new every morning. As we enter this new day and a new month, we can look to God expectantly for what He will be doing to reveal His constant faithfulness. Our guest preacher for today will be Gene Tempelmeyer who will bring a message from Hebrews 11;1,2;8-16 entitled, “FAITH, IMAGINATION, AND SUFFERING.” When we look at this Scripture we can recognize that, “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11;1) A question that we will be asked to consider at our service today is, “What do we learn about God while we are waiting for His answers to our prayers”? This waiting for what God will do is a time of exercising faith. It can be a time of being assured of God’s love for us. It can be a time of realizing that God does care for us and about us when we do not fully understand God and His ways. It is in our times of suffering that our faith is greatly challenged. These are the times that we look to God to carry us through and we hold on to our faith as a confidence in what we hope for and an assurance about what we do not yet see. There is not an attached message or online service available for today. I encourage you to read this Scripture from Hebrews 11 and to ask God to show You what He has to teach you about your faith and His infinite faithfulness.
Thanking God that we can hold on to faith in Him and that He promises to hold on to us always, Pastor Lola