Ever Wonder How God Feels About His Children?

Watch this 3 minute video when you can have no distractions. It's my prayer that God's grace would overflow you and The Holy Spirit would fill you to overflowing as you watch.



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The New Life Drama Company is Coming to Jubilee Family Church

The New Life Drama company is coming to Batesville Arkansas for a drama workshop and presentation! The Workshop starts Jan. 16th at 6:00 PM and will conclude at 9:00 PM. We'll pick up again on Saturday morning January 17th @ 9:00 AM, go until noon, then break for lunch, we'll continue after lunch from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM.

The New Life Drama Company will also be ministering in drama on Sunday morning January 18th at 10:00 AM. All Workshops and performances are going to be at Jubilee Family Church. Call 870.793.9124 if you're interested in the workshops or would like to see them minister on Sunday morning.

New Life Drama Company Promotional Video


The church is located at
45 Thunderbird Dr.
Batesville, AR 72501
We're 2 miles East of Wal-Mart in Quail Valley. Thunderbird is right off Harrison St. and our church sign has the United States flag on top of it.

Please call 870.793.9124 if you're going to join in with us in this excellent drama training workshop.

A love offering will be received.

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Be Being Filled with the Holy Spirit Part 2

Review
The infilling of the Holy Spirit is not just a one time event but it is an ongoing experience.
Ephesians 5:18b
be filled with the Spirit.
“be being filled” or “keep on being filled.” (present tense) Ephesians 5:18 can be understood to mean “be continually filled by the Spirit.” (passive voice)

Sometimes we can “rest” on a previous religious experience we’ve had with God and thus stop listening to his voice. This is how a good Godly person who loves Jesus can become religious or ritualistic thus loosing connection with the Love of God and going through the motions of spirituality without God being involved.

This is easily illustrated with music styles in church.
Someone is listening to a certain type of Christian music, God moves mightily and the person builds a heart temple around the music style. Even fighting and arguing with their brothers and sisters in the Lord over it. They will actually make the style the Holy Style and place it on a level often even with the Word of God.

The Manna
Exodus 16:4,5
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days."

What happened if they disobeyed and gathered more than they needed so they could in effect take a day off from gathering?

Exodus 16
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed. 19 Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning." 20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.


This is how life turns into death! Living on last years revelation or on yesterday’s word from God. We need a fresh word daily from heaven or we’ll become religious and start to stink with the stench of death.
This is the spirit that put Jesus on the Cross!

Jesus is the Bread of Life
John 6:51
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

The principle of the Manna still applies today in the Church. Only take enough Jesus for one day. Eat all you want but If you try and save him up and take a day off from gathering Him you’ll begin to radiate death and take on the maggot and smell of death effect.

Getting into a Religious Rut in our Giving
Psalm 50
7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you:
I am God, your God. 8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

Psalm 50
17 You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 You use your mouth for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit.
20 You speak continually against your brother
and slander your own mother's son.

Moses
One time Moses was instructed to strike a rock and the second time he was instructed to speak to the rock accept he struck it 2 times due to frustration and a religious spirited response to the rhema word from God.
Exodus 17
6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

Numbers 20
8 "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink." 9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?" 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. 12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."

Intensely Severe Consequences
Moses is prohibited from entering the promised land!

3 Tabernacles
Peter has a religious moment where he want’s to memorialize an event where God genuinely moves. Notice God’s response to Peter
The Transfiguration
Mark 9:2-8
2After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. 3His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) 7Then a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and a voice came from the cloud: "This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!" 8Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.

Worship on this Mountain
John 4:13-24 (Emphasis on verse 20 and verse 23,24)

The Test of Abiding
Are you in a religious rut or are you in love with Jesus?

John 15
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Matthew 7:20
20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

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Polly Does Not Want a Cracker!

Enjoy the 38 second video of Malcom screaming, "NO!" to the question, "Polly want a cracker?". We don't know why Poly can't have a cracker but it sure struck us as funny.



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Duty Vs. Devotion

I read a blog post from a brother in Cape Girardeau named John Hawkins on Facebook today. He's a retired Navy man and is the Masters Commission director in Cape Girardeau, MO at Bethel Assembly of God Church where I attended for about 8 years. I found his writing thematically something that I find myself pondering often. Below are the thoughts of John Hawkins.

Occasionally I see fully devoted followers of Christ. Occasionally I am one. Sadly, it's just occasionally.

It’s not that I don’t read Scripture, pray, attend church services, give, serve others, and even preach and teach.

It’s that I don’t truly and totally love—not sufficiently, not consistently, not deeply, not unreservedly...at least not yet. And the more I learn about God, the more I realize that true love forms the foundation for true devotion.

I am very dutiful and it’s relatively easy to structure my life around duty. I’ve spent my lifetime working hard to meet the expectations of others. Whether it was my time in the Navy, or as a firefighter, or as an electrician, or in my current ministerial role, or in my marriage, I am overly committed and deeply dutiful to God, Country and Family!

But “fully devoted” and “deeply dutiful” reflect two different mindsets.

As Jesus faced the journey toward Calvary, He did so out of devotion...not duty. He faced His approaching death not from obligation to some divine plan that must be accomplished, no questions asked. Rather he faced His death because He loved us and the Father deeply. He did not endure the cross to fulfill His duty but to display His devotion.

All of our Christian rites, rituals and habits should have two goals; Love God and Love People...Totally and completely, with all our heart, soul, mind and strength!!!

Disciplines done out of duty fail to touch the heart and inevitably collapse for most of us. When we do something out of true devotion, it has a much longer lasting impact on our lives

Devotion allows us to read Scripture not for information but transformation; not to get God’s attention but to lovingly give Him our attention. We fast (from television, food, Internet, or whatever) not to impress Him but to press into Him.

The Christian journey finds its fuel not in law but in love. Our faith comes alive not with teeth-gritting determination to "do our duty" but with loving devotion to God, and each other. We enter the deepest joy as we engage the heart, not just the mind.

Learning to truly love Christ, provides the transition from duty to devotion. As we enter 2009, let the Father continue to shape us and change us! May we each have more consistent, deep, and unreserved love for Him, and each other. May each of us truly be the Salt and the Light in a world that desperately needs Jesus!

Your brother in Christ...
S.E. Missouri Masters Commission