New Year

The New Year has started and many of us see that as a fresh beginning.  A time to leave our past behind and seek the future.  And what comfort we have in knowing that our future lies in the hands of our Lord!   

 “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord, “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  -Jeremiah 29:11

Fall

As  we look around and see the power and beauty of God's world and the changes that He shows us each fall, may we never forget to thank Him and give Him glory for all He has done for us.  May the one who spoke all this wonder into existence speak to you today. 

Gene Christian, Industry Coordinator

Christian Life

The normal Christian life is one of constant and continual revival. While longing for a global revival to sweep the earth or a local revival to touch our church, we can personally nourish our soul every day. We can grow wise by the reading of God's Word, become enlightened by meditating on memorized Scripture, learn to treat others with the tenderness of agape love, and display the sweet traits of humility and confession. We can bolster our spirits with hymns and songs, and we can comfort and strengthen our hearts by reflecting on heaven and on things above.

For renewal to take place, we have only to study God's blessed Word and let it do its work in our lives.

Regularity of devotion, this holiness of common life... is a devotion that is the duty of all orders of Christian people.  William Law

¹William Law, A Serious Call (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1966), 45, 88.


Taken from "Our Daily Bread"

Haven of Rest Mission

The residents at the Haven of Rest Mission have a wonderful, blessed opportunity to learn about God, themselves, and to develop a solid, safe and secure plan for their lives based on the Word.  They are put in a safe environment and given the time to experience God and what God is trying to do in their lives.  When they see this, they can bring honor and glory to God and allow them to become an asset to their family, church, and community.

We desire your prayers.  Thank you

Curtis Pless, Mission Director

Managing MY Emotions

I have recently started teaching a class on Joyce Meyer’s book ‘Managing Your Emotions’ and I’m here to tell you…God has a way of making the teacher the student.  I have always personally struggled with my emotions and controlling them.  I’m learning so many things and I really wanted to share some of them with you all.  God has a purpose in everything!  Amen

Managing Your Emotions

By: Joyce Meyer

Questions and Answers

Introduction:

1. Can we get rid of our emotions?  No, but we can manage our emotions.
2. Can we feel more than one emotion at a time?  Yes
3. Is anger a wrong emotion?  No    Explain your answer: The Bible does not teach that we are never to feel anger.  Instead it teaches that when we do get angry, we are not to sin, but rather we are the MANAGE or CONTROL our anger in the proper ways.
4. Where do our emotions come from? All emotions are given to us by God Himself and they have a purpose.    
5. Are sexual emotions wrong?  No  Explain your answer  It simply means that we are human and subject to all emotional feelings and reactions experienced by other human beings.  THE IMPORTANT THING IS HOW YOU HANDLE YOUR EMOTIONS.
6. With God’s help, we are to learn to keep sexual feelings Under Control until we are married.

Romans 6:12 states: Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

7. We are to resist sin in the power of the Holy Spirit.

*****It is important to remember that emotions won’t disappear and go away.  They will ALWAYS be there.  We must not deny their existence or feel guilty because of them.  Instead, we are to channel them in the right direction.  We are to deny the flesh the right to rule us, but we are not to deny that it exists.*****

8. It seems that the majority of people are either emotional or emotionless.
9. The ability to show emotions when they are positive and helpful, and to control emotions when they are negative and destructive can be referred to as balance.

I would like to challenge you to come visit us and see firsthand who we are and what we do!  To schedule a tour or just to ask questions, please contact me at 864-226-6193 ext. 102 or e-mail me at heather.mabe@havenofrest.cc.  Thank you for your willingness to help others.

In Christ,

Heather J. Mabe

Development Coordinator

Opportunities

As we are thinking about the fall of the year and the fact that the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons are just around the corner, we start thinking of all the people that may not be able to enjoy the things you and I may this time of year.  There will be volunteer opportunities and opportunities to give and share what God has blessed us with.  If you would like to find out more, please call us at 226-6193.

Sid Stewart, Executive Director

The Power of an Earnest Prayer

In Matthew 7:7-8  Christ says, “Ask and you shall receive.  Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be open to you.”  He didn’t say, “Maybe I can help.” Christ said to “Ask!”  The most reliable, confident step you can make in your relationship with God is to pray.  Therefore, when you come into the presence of God, don’t come with a calloused attitude; don’t come with a lazy “lay me down to sleep” prayer; come with great expectation that your Father is listening and ready to answer.  God has given us the promise in 1 John 5:14, “And if we ask for anything that agrees with what He wants, He hears us.”  An earnest prayer from a faithful child moves the hands and heart of God.

Please join us in praying for the ministry of the Haven of Rest. 

Theresa Allen

Women’s Ministry Director