Yes..it is Wednesday and its soon going to be time for supper and prayer meeting at Buffalo Baptist Church in Union County, SC. Looking forward to a great evening of food and fellowship!
Talked with Jody Hamrick today (as he cut my hair)...lots of you Union People and Buffalo People know Jody. He is quite a fellow. I really enjoy talking to him when I get my hair cut. He knows all about Buffalo...and Union too. He read my blog and told me He got more out of it than he did the "Grapevine", "Times", and "County News".
Of course he was exagerating. I do like to talk though...sometimes too much...so I really do take what I put in print seriously. I want to give out information and news of local interest in Union and especially in my personal life for all my friends all over the world. Lots of people probably don't even know of Union, SC.
But Union is a "famous" place for various reasons going back to the Civil War! We are a part of what they call the "UPSTATE". I looked that up in the dictionary this morning and found out this is what it means:
...of, relating to, or characteristic of a 'part of a state' "away from" a large city and especially to the North! That describes Union and also Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties of SC.
Someone told me recently they heard that God was going to begin an "awakening"..."revival"..."renewal"..."rebirth"..."regeneration","RESUSCITATION",
"resurgance","REVIVAL","BRING BACK TO LIFE,CONSCIOUSNESS,TO USE", "reinvigorate", "wake up","make fully conscious & aware"....ALL THOSE THINGS BASICALLY MEAN THE SAME "SPIRITUALLY" ! Anyway, I feel like that is what is needed in today's world all over...(Glen Beck thinks so)! And I think we are going to be surprised at "who God uses" to bring about this Revival and Awakening in the Upstate of SC. This same person told me of some things that have happened in her Church recently that were nothing but "supernatural deliverance" ! A MINISTRY OF GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY UNTO HIS PEOPLE...in that church! He wants to do it for all of us...in church and out...(especially those "out"!)
So God is at Work Everywhere...and I believe MORE SO NOW, because the Bible says "that where sin abounds..so much MORE THE Grace OF GOD ABOUNDS" ! God cares for the drug dealers, addicts, those in prison...(Paul spent a lot of time in Prison and wrote a lot of the New Testament)! Just this morning I was reading out of Phillipians..the letter Paul wrote to the church at Phillipi while in prison.....!!! Pray for those in prison..yes, they did wrong things..got caught up in things they shouldn't have and the devil wants to destroy them utterly. However, Jesus said "true religion" was ministering to those in prison (and their families) and the widows, orphans etc. If you have never experienced having a member of your family or close friend incarcerated in prison...you have no idea at all what its like.
Prisons are supposed to be places of "rehabilitation"...........BUT THEY ARE NOT!
The Prison Systems in the USA (many of them) function as if they were on another planet. Drugs are abundant within the "walls" and anything, any type of drug or weapon an inmate wants can be had. There are Good people in the prison system, but the majority are just as lying and deceptive as the prisoners they are supposed to control. And those prisoners that are Christians and got "caught up" in Satan's traps, are the most in need of prayer by those on the outside who know of them. Jesus said it...so why don't we do it? People within the walls have a "system" all their own and if you are not strong or have people praying on a daily basis for you there are a lot of things the enemy uses to completely dash all your hope of anything ever getting better. Ya know...I would like to see a supernatural move of God in the Prisons of America like in the New Testament. As Paul and Silas prayed and others on the outside prayed for them there came an earthquake and the doors were opened and they were "SET FREE"! Even though the people praying for them saw them at the door, they didn't believe their own prayers! SET FREE...OH HOW PEOPLE NEED TO BE SET FREE BY JESUS...WE ARE SET FREE BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT WAS SHED AT CALVARY AND WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT....! Believe it and walk in it and pray for those who don't know HIM yet...so many..................sooooo many need JESUS !!!
And they will only know Him when they "see us" Walking in Unity and Love as the Body of Christ...together...all of us......
Amen!
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