August 15 - SpiritFire

Heaven’s Open Door 

     Sunday Morning: Daybreak & Refresh

• [Spoiled! Instant communication – Skype from Peru to Thailand and China and face-to-face with Home!]
• Key Passages: Esther 4:9-11
  [Very few, if any, of us could fly to Washington, DC, take a taxi to the Whitehouse and go up ask to speak to the President, face-to-face, the risk to Esther much greater!]
  Ephesians 2:14-22
• Scripture Reading: Romans 8:26-29
• Because the Spirit of God is in us, we can be assured of three things:
1. We have instant access always to God, Spirit to Spirit – no king or president is worthy of His shadow, yet the Creator of the universe has time for us [Hardest thing for our Chinese students to understand]
2. We are not only heard, but we are understood – words and emotions – by God [Little Peruvian Orphans we couldn’t understand]
3. We are not alone in the communication, God is with us and in us as we seek to connect to Him [Next best thing to being there]

• Focus: God not only allows us to communicate with Him, but He desires it, and longs to return to the Garden where we can meet in the cool of the day – but because of our separation, God has graced us with the Spirit to connect to our heart!

     Sunday Evening: Sundown

• Title: Malachi - Culminating Hope
• Speaker: Phil Ware
• Prayer & Scripture: Foy Owens Malachi 4
• Communion Devotional: Charles Howard
• Song Leader: TBD
• Closing Praise: Luke 1:68-75