Friday, October 31st, 2014

What a wonderful day in the neighborhood.  I hope you are all enjoying this day as it is the day that the Lord has made.  The goodness of God in today is always greater and better than any event that happens within the day. The test of a bad moment, or the test of a bad day is to remember to remind ourselves about what we believe.  As we tell ourselves what we believe our words will put a different point of view on our circumstances.  I have learned that it is better for me to question my circumstances than to allow my circumstances to question my beliefs.  Faith declares what it is I believe and by faith I continue to believe until my circumstances change. Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage."

Tick tock the clocks go back tomorrow night so enjoy the extra hour's sleep.  This Sunday is...wait for it.....wait for it...it's Family Sunday.  10:15 we start with food and fellowship and the opportunity to get to know your brothers and sisters in Christ.  It's also the opportunity to invite a friend that they may hear the Gospel.  My message will be on, 'The Anointed Church.'  Why did Jesus say that He would build a church?  What is the church suppose to be?  There is no evening service on Family Sunday.

Continue to pray for those in need.  Please pray for Bill Sweet's wife Don and their family as Bill went home to be with his Savior and Lord this week.  Bill was a faithful church goer until his recent health issues.  He is now absent from us and yet he rejoices in the present of the Lord.  Pray also for Carl MacDonald and Charlene Petrie who are recovering.  

Looking forward to seeing you, lots of love Pastor Kevin and Alice    

Friday, October 24th, 2014

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good.  In order for you to give thanks, you must have it first within you to give it forth from you.  There are only two types of attitudes that we all have towards life.  One is, 'what's in it for me, what do I get.'  The other is, 'what can I give or what can I do to help.'  Matthew 6:38 "Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."  It's like the statement, 'Ask not what can your country do for you but ask what can you do for your country.'  It's in helping others that the Lord looks to help you.  It's in giving that we receive.  It's in working to provide for others that the Lord will work to provide for you.  Look around at your world today and give something to encourage someone that God is good.    

This Sunday morning I'll be sharing on, 'At All Times.'  The event or the experience of our salvation should cause us to rejoice at all times.  Since I've been saved there have be trying times but at those times when I recall the blessing of my salvation I rejoice.  Things can be bad, times can be dark, storms can be strong but nothing has ever been so bad, nothing has even been so dark, nor has any storm been so strong that the glorious light of Jesus in my heart has gone out.  Sunday evening Pastor Mark will share with us the Word of the Lord.  Pastor Mark has great faith for God to meet your need.  Come out and be encouraged to receive your miracle. 

Next Saturday in Halloween and we have 'tracts' that you can have to go in the children's treat bags.  Next Sunday is Nov. 1st and it's Family Sunday so don't forget to invite a friend.  Continue to pray for all those in need and pray for Charlene Petrie who is recovering from surgery.  I'm looking forward to seeing you on Sunday, lots of love Pastor Kevin and Alice    

Friday, October 17th, 2014

What a great Thanksgiving service and dinner we had last Monday for our students from the CBU.  They all had a wonderful time and to see the fellowship between our helpers and them was a blessing.  Doctor DJ did an excitant job is speaking to all of us.  He told his personal story of how he grew up in a Christian home and how he had a determination to overcome any problems.  He shared how the Lord provided for him and how today he continues to pray, read the word, and believe for greater things.  Thanks be to God and thanks be to all those who helped make this day a success.

The Bible says in John 4:24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."  ThenJohn 8:32 "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  The more truth I have about God the greater my worship becomes towards God.  The outward expression of worship is a reflection of an inward truth that is burning in my heart.  Jesus healed 10 lepers but only 1 returned to worship because only one caught the truth about how he was healed.  Every time you catch a truth about Jesus it should bring you into deeper levels of worship.  The more areas of truth you receive the more you love God, yourself, and others. The truth you follow brings you into the levels of freedom that you enjoy.       

This Sunday morning I'll be sharing on, 'Hold Fast.'  There are some days when we are not moving forward and we refuse to go back so we hold on.  Having done all that we can, we take a stand.  There is something to be said for those people who just keep showing up.  Sunday evening, 'Now It Shall Come.'  There are some present promises that are heading to your house.  You shall be blessed in the right here and now.

Continue to pray for all those in need.  Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday, lots of love, Pastor Kevin and Alice

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Psalm 103: Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
² Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
³ Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
⁴ Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
⁵ Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

          It's great to read verses that kind of pick us up.  When we don't feel 100%, when we made a mistake, when life lets us down, or when we need to be reminded just how good the Lord is.  You wouldn't think that we would ever need to be reminded about so great a salvation but life has a way of moving us away from the closeness that we once enjoyed.  The trouble is when we drift from our foundation, right and wrong ideas can mix together, black and white collide and we come up with a lot of grey areas and sound doctrine can have a tinny ring to it.  The good news is the Lord has promised to never leaves us nor forsakes us.  It's His Holy Spirit that's in us and when we read verses like this we feel encouraged to press on.  Yes, He is still building His Church and you are still a part of it.  Have a blessed day.

          This Sunday is Thanksgiving and I'll be sharing on, 'The God of Variety.'  The Lord is building One Church but He is using a lot of different people to build it with.  Don't allow differences to divide you but see in the Spirit that this is the work of the Lord.  There will be no evening service this Sunday.

          On Monday we have having a special Thanksgiving Dinner to celebrate with the CBU students from around the world, 'the Meaning of Thanksgiving.'  This is not a Thanksgiving dinner for the entire church but for the CBU students.  The Salvation Army Church in Sydney has offered us their building to host this event.  Volunteers need to check with Mary MacLean about your time to be there.  The students will be arriving around 11:30, service will start at noon, and the meal to follow.

          Continue to pray for all those in need.  Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday, lots of love, Pastor Kevin and Alice    

Friday, September 19th, 2014

God is good.  Have you even looked at someone doing something and in your opinion they were doing it wrong?  Do you think that there have been times when you were doing something and others looked at you as doing it wrong?  It's funny how we can think.  If I am doing something right and you do it differently then you must be doing it wrong.  There is an old expression that you don't hear anymore, 'there's more than one way to skin a cat.'  This old saying draws a picture in our mind that isn't very nice for the cat.  It's a good thing in creation that God didn't make one kind of everything but He made 1000's of kinds everything.  He didn't make a tree one way, one size, one shape and say that's the only right way to make a tree.  He didn't make a frog and make every frog the same.  There are over 12,000 different kinds of frogs that we know about on the planet.  No two snowflakes are the same, no two fingerprints are the same.  I'm not saying that we don't do anything wrong but I am saying that doing things different is not wrong.  Look around at your world and rejoice for the human eye sees life in over 100 million shades of colour.  Your HD computer is 16.9 million.  God gave us the ability to view life in super deluxe over the top fullness which is much more than black and white.  I pray that our eyes would be fully open to embrace others and we would live an abundant life.

This Sunday morning I'll be sharing on, 'Learning To Lean.'  Where you lean is where you learn.  It's when we learn to lean on the Lord Jesus that we learn His ways.  Sunday evening, 'Your Character.'  Just as you can develop your natural body with proper food and exercise, so is it with your character. 

Continue to pray for all those in need.  Pray for humbleness, forgiveness, and understanding within the Body of Christ as the Holy Spirit brings divine unity into our community.  Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday, lots of love Pastor Kevin and Alice 

Friday, September 12th, 2014

greetings

Kevin Mattatall

 

 

12/09/2014

 

 

To: 'Pastor Kevin Mattatall'

Hi everyone, another wonderful day to serve the Lord Jesus.  Joshua 24:15 "And if it seems evil to you to serve theLord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."  Joshua looked around at the nation of Israel and he was in the midst of people who declared that they knew God but he could see that they were no longer serving God.  Even today we can look around at many who say that they know God but their lifestyle no longer serves God.  For many there life becomes one of self serving.  That means when I have a choice between what God would want me to do and what I feel like doing, I pick me.  The Holy Spirit is faithful to remind us that when we accepted Jesus as our Savior we were also to make Him our Lord.  Serving Jesus means that when I have a choice between what I feel and what He expects, I pick Him.  At the Fellowship Church we have decided to follow Jesus and as for me and my house we shall serve the Lord.

This Sunday morning I'll be sharing on, 'Living In the Now.'  All miracles arrive in the now so we must be in the now in faith believing.  If you get trapped in yesterday's mistakes or long for some future blessing then you are not currently expecting.  We should be coming to church ready to receive a Divine encounter in any and every area of our lives.  Sunday evening I'll be sharing on, 'His Path Is Right.'  Jesus never leads us in the wrong direction to teach us a lesson. All the paths of the Lord are dipped in mercy and filled with truth.  He has a right way for us to walk in but it will require faith to stay and not stray from the path.

Continue to pray for all those in need, looking forward to seeing you, lots of love Pastor Kevin and Alice      

Friday, August 1st, 2014

Praise the Lord for God is good and God is good all the time.  A person who orders their steps to follow His steps will walk in the blessing of God.  Psalms 1:3 "That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers."  Like a tree that bears fruit and has leafs that don't dry up, its a tree that is close to or connected to a stream or a water supply that is close by.  It's with the water supply of God's Holy Word or by the washing of God's Holy Word that we bear fruit and even abundant fruit as we live an abundant life.  

This Sunday we are going to hold our 10:30 morning worship service on our Church property. ( weather permitting )  There is a slight chance of rain and in that case we will be going back to the school where we always meet.  The church property is located at 969 Grand Lake Road it's 1km past the Mayflower Mall on the left.  There will be a bikers blessing as a part of the service followed by a time of food, fun, and fellowship.  There will be no evening service.

On Monday Alice and I will be taking our daughter Jenny and her boys back to Newfoundland.  We will be away for the following 2 weeks.  

Continue to pray for those in need, looking forward to seeing you on Sunday lots of love, Pastor Kevin and Alice.