Lesson's Learned from yesterday

First of all, thank you all again for all your hard efforts this weekend in being a part of something beautiful for our Lord Jesus. I believe His name was lifted up and His people were encouraged, I know I was...I also believe others that don't know Him may have been drawn as well.

While still fresh in mind, I wanted to note a few things we can do for future to continue to improve and magnify and honor God through this ministry.

First and foremost, we should always, especially in our private prayer times, be lifting eachother and everything we do up to God. We should offer ourselves as living sacrifices asking God to do His work through us with His annointing. If God has given us the privledge of leading others in worship of Him, then we should do it with excellence (all that we can bring to the the altar on the practical side of things...practicing, top notch equipment, preparation, memorizing songs for example) and His annointing ( all that He is wants to through us, through His power and grace that we ask for in advance through prayer and this all through Jesus.)

I was reminded of this yesterday by another pastor who there. His remindar to me helped put God back in control knowing that if we put all our effort out there with our motive to honor God and our prayer giving it all up to Him, He would work through us...I believe He did just that.

I also want to thank God for answered prayer that He would receive all the glory He deserves...as a good sister shared with me yesterday...she prayed that morning that God would hold the rain off through the morning so that His name would be honored in a public place and that after the service, it could rain all it wanted to...that my bro's and sises is exactly what occurred! To the praise and glory of God...let's not be afraid to ask God just like this in the future.

And on some practical notes -

Pre-preparation and planning on the sound system paid off big time...thanks Don

One should listen to a brother who wanted to avoid papers blowing all over the place...sorry Brian...please forgive me...you were right...Vince

Let memorizing songs be our goal for the remainder of this year ( for musicians especially ) this would eliminate alot of difficulty we had yesterday and as Jason pointed out earlier this week, if bar bands can do it, should we do no less as we our serving God through this ministry?

Christ Peace in your hearts,

Vince