Monday Night Bible Study (10-26-09)
We had the privilege of entertaining a special guest on our Monday night Bible study program. Jason Mills, founder of Calvary Spartanburg, ministered in both worship and the word last night during our one-and-a-half hour meeting.
It was nice to be in the presence of another brother in the Lord, hear God's Word and worship with a fellow believer whom we only recently met. God bless Monday night fellowship and God bless Jason and his family!
Our brother shared about how God provides for us. That He doesn't wait for us to get loaded-up with all the right information, then let us move in knowledge, but that He gives us just enough information to set us in the right direction so we can move in faith.
He gave an illustration from a book called "God Smuggler" about faith lessons from a missionary training school, and waiting on God's provision, providing as a background and focus the Scripture from Luke chapter 9 verses 1 through 17:
"And He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. And He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And He said to them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staffs, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money, nor each to have two tunics. And whatever house you enter into, abide there and depart from there. And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. And they departed and went through the towns, proclaiming the gospel and healing everywhere. And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things happening by Him. And he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead; and by some, that Elijah had appeared; and by others, that one of the old prophets had risen again. And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see Him. And returning, the apostles told Him all that they had done. And He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida. But knowing this, the crowds followed Him. And He received them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and He healed those who had need of healing. But the day began to wear away, and coming up the Twelve said to Him, Send the crowd away so that they may go into the villages and farms all around, and lodge, and get food. For we are here in a deserted place. But He said to them, You give them something to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people. (For they were about five thousand men.) And He said to His disciples, Make them recline by fifties in a company. And they did so, and made them all recline. And He took the five loaves and the two fish. And looking up to Heaven, He blessed them and broke, and He gave to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them."
So for whoever reads this, go ahead and share what you gained from this meeting, so the rest of the world can be edified if they so choose.