It's 2019 * Let's do this!

                                   Happy New Year!

We had the privilege of attending the Mobile Bay Campus on December 29^th and Pastor Jimmy Bowers preached an incredible message. In light of the New Year, I wanted to encourage you by sharing some of it here.

1. Show Me: One of the most important parts of growing in our faith in Christ is a willingness to ask the Lord to search our hearts.
   “Search me, God, and know my heart;
       test me and know my anxious thoughts.
   See if there is any offensive way in me,
       and lead me in the way everlasting.”  –Psalm 139:23-24
    
   There have been times where I thought everything in me was ‘fine’ and it really wasn’t. I love the way Scripture always addresses how I’m feeling and points me to the truth. Jeremiah 17:9 says, this: “The heart is deceitful above all things”; so that tells me that if I truly want to become more like Christ, I must be willing to ask the Lord to show me the true condition of my heart and then humbly obey what He’s asking me to do.
    
2. Cleanse Me: After going through the process of the Lord showing me areas that need to be changed, I must be open to the spiritual cleansing process.
   1 John 1:8-9--“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
    
3. Send Me: Finally, out of willing obedience, ask the Lord to send you out to do His will.
   Isaiah 6:8- “Here am I, send me!”

**We'd love for you to join us in this season of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting.

Mon-Fri at 6am; Saturdays at 9am (January 6-26)....see www.churchofthehighlands.com for campus/location addresses.

                               More of Him; less of me ~ "He must become greater; I must become less"-John 3:30