Prayer 

These I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer...for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. - Isaiah 5:7 

Prayer Concerns

To contact the Prayer Chain, call the church office 258-1228. Government confidentiality regulations require Charity to have family permission to enter names on the prayer chain. Call the office to make appointments to meet with a pastor for prayer and counseling.

Updated August 27, 2010

O God, the light of the heart that sees you,
The life of the soul that loves you,
The strength of the mind that seeks you:
May I ever continue to be steadfast in your love.
Be the joy of my heart;
Take all of me to yourself, and abide therein.
The house of my soul is, I confess, too narrow for you.
Enlarge it that you may enter.
It is ruinous, but do repair it.
It has within it what must offend Your eyes;
I confess and know it,
But whose help shall I seek in cleansing it but yours alone?
To you, O God, I cry urgently.
Cleanse me from secret faults.
Keep me from false pride and sensuality
That they not get dominion over me. ~ St. Augustine 
 

Prayer Room

Charity has a private prayer room on the east side of its facilty.

Theology Alive

"Walk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you." John 12:35

Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mount with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" The second you waive the question of sanctification or any other thing upon which God gave you light, you begin to get dry rot in your spiritual life. Continually bring the truth out into actuality; work it out in every domain, or the very light you have will prove a curse.

The most difficult person to deal with is the one who has the smug satisfaction of an experience to which he can refer back, but who is not working it out in practical life. If you say you are sanctified, show it. The experience must be so genuine that it is shown in the life. Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships. "Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees . . ." said Our Lord, i.e., you must be more moral than the most moral being you know. You may know all about the doctrine of sanctification, but are you running it out into the practical issues of your life? Every bit of your life, physical, moral and spiritual, is to be judged by the standard of the Atonement.

Destiny of Holiness

"Ye shall be holy; for I am holy." 1 Peter 1:16 (R.V.)

Continually restate to yourself what the purpose of your life is. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. Nowadays we have far too many affinities, we are dissipated with them; right, good, noble affinities which will yet have their fulfilment, but in the meantime God has to atrophy them. The one thing that matters is whether a man will accept the God Who will make him holy. At all costs a man must be rightly related to God.

Do I believe I need to be holy? Do I believe God can come into me and make me holy? If by your preaching you convince me that I am unholy, I resent your preaching. The preaching of the gospel awakens an intense resentment because it must reveal that I am unholy; but it also awakens an intense craving. God has one destined end for mankind, viz., holiness. His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men; He did not come to save men out of pity: He came to save men because He had created them to be holy. The Atonement means that God can put me back into perfect union with Himself, without a shadow between, through the Death of Jesus Christ.

Never tolerate through sympathy with yourself or with others any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means unsullied walking with the feet, unsullied talking with the tongue, unsullied thinking with the mind - every detail of the life under the scrutiny of God. Holiness is not only what God gives me, but what I manifest that God has given me.

Pray For...

  • The anointing presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our worship services, our leadership, our pastors, our staff, our ministries, our neighborhood.
  • Christians under persecution, especially in the Sudan, Egypt Indonesia and China.
  • All of our servicemen and women and diplomats in foreign service, particularly Afghanistan and Iraq.
  • The renewal of all those who are dead in their faith - that they may discover, perhaps for the first time, what life and hope is in Christ Jesus.
  • For the lost, homeless, hopeless, addicted and abused. May Christ heal them and free them!

 "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." - C.S. Lewis

 

~ St. Augustine