Dear Heavenly Father,
Your love lifts us. Your grace supports us. Your Eternal Presence sustains us. When the experiences of life are good, may we give You thanks. In those times when life is harsh and bitter, You are there to soothe and sustain us. Help us to embrace Your love and forgive us, O God when we do not. May we lift up our voices in thanksgiving because You are always with us. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.
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I received the following email from Patty Melott:
Dear Reverend McLemore. As you know Larry's mother and father have been having a lot of health issues and we are staying with them now 24-7. Larry's dad has been on Dialysis now for 2 years. He was put in the hospital on Thursday 2-10 because his dialysis port was stopped up. The doctor called this morning and his dad has to be transferred to OU Medical Center in OKC because he has a blood infection as well as infection in his arm at the port and they are going to have to remove the port and stabilize him. Please pray for him as all prayers will be greatly appreciated. Your brother and sister in Christ Larry and Patty Melott
Please pray for the Melott family.
John Yeager is back in St. Mary’s hospital battling lung cancer. Also hospitalized at St. Mary’s are Alta Berkenbile, Laura’s grandmother, Joan Petersen, and Phyllis May. Phyllis was admitted yesterday. Ron Maphet is in the Bass Pavilion and awaiting news about a possible procedure on his back. He probably won’t know anything until Thursday. Please pray for our members and friends who are hospitalized.
The funeral for Grant Harris is today at 1:30 p.m. Please continue to pray for Grant’s family.
Tomorrow there is a training session for the Junior Deacons immediately after the 10:15 a.m. worship.
Today’s scripture is Matthew 12:1-14:
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.” He left that place and entered their synagogue; a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?” so that they might accuse him. He said to them, “Suppose one of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not lay hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath.” Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other.
But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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