Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. Look around and serve God. Look within and find God! God closes doors no man can open and God opens doors no man can close. If you need God to open some doors for you... Expect it to happen!
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A New Song - Use your Giftings!
Lesley Shae singing an original song during a service at Freedom House Church in Charlotte, NC. This is an original song by Lesley titled Rescue.
God has given gifts to the body to use for the edification of all the body. We need to flow with the wind of the Holy Spirit and let God be glorified in and through us.
Be blessed!
Pstor Kitner
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Easter Song by Keith Green
Keith Green was a very progressive singer/songwriter/preacher with out some of the compromise that is seen in the music industry.
Listen to his songs and you'll see what I mean.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Christ did not die to give people a career
The past holds tragedies. When doors opened for the Gospel, jealousy found Christian workers guarding their monopoly like diggers their gold-rush stake-out. Rivalries sometimes killed revivals. The harvest must not go unreaped while reapers merely defend their patches. Christ did not die to give people a career, or pas......tors a well-paid job, but to save the lost. Agreed? Please tell me. REINHARD BONNKE
Matthew 9:35 - 38 (KJV) 35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Pray that God would send you.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
Matthew 9:35 - 38 (KJV) 35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Pray that God would send you.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Charles Kitner
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Give your all where ever you are!
I borrowed the following from Kids4Truth
Jim Elliot wrote, “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
"What are you doing for God right now? Are you doing your best in the responsibilities God has given you right now? Your school work? Being in your family and in your church family what you ought to be? Do you take your work and your studies seriously? Wherever you are right now (by God’s grace), “be there” with your whole heart!"
1 Corinthians 10:31 – Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
At times we want that elussive butterfly that we see fluttering in the wind but miss what is right in front of us where we are. This is a strong message for those who long to be somewhere else in their life or who feel trapped in the place where they are at. (mine)
God bless
Pastor Kitner
Jim Elliot wrote, “Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
"What are you doing for God right now? Are you doing your best in the responsibilities God has given you right now? Your school work? Being in your family and in your church family what you ought to be? Do you take your work and your studies seriously? Wherever you are right now (by God’s grace), “be there” with your whole heart!"
1 Corinthians 10:31 – Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
At times we want that elussive butterfly that we see fluttering in the wind but miss what is right in front of us where we are. This is a strong message for those who long to be somewhere else in their life or who feel trapped in the place where they are at. (mine)
God bless
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
What is Lent and why does it last forty days?
What is Lent and why does it last forty days?
Lent is a time of repentance, fasting and preparation for the coming of Easter. It is a time of self-examination and reflection. In the early church, Lent was a time to prepare new converts for baptism. Today, Christians focus on their relationship with God, often choosing to give up something or volunteering and giving of themselves for others. The forty days represents the time Jesus spent in the wilderness, enduring the temptation of Satan. Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a "mini-Easter" celebration of the Jesus' victory over sin and death.
Ash Wednesday is tomorrow as the Lenten season leading up to the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ begins.
For more on Lent go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Lent is a time of repentance, fasting and preparation for the coming of Easter. It is a time of self-examination and reflection. In the early church, Lent was a time to prepare new converts for baptism. Today, Christians focus on their relationship with God, often choosing to give up something or volunteering and giving of themselves for others. The forty days represents the time Jesus spent in the wilderness, enduring the temptation of Satan. Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a "mini-Easter" celebration of the Jesus' victory over sin and death.
Ash Wednesday is tomorrow as the Lenten season leading up to the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ begins.
For more on Lent go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Monday, February 15, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
THINK!
When speaking about something or someone: Ask yourself some questions.
T H I N K
T – Is it true?
H – Is it helpful?
I – Is it inspiring?
N – Is it necessary?
K – Is it Kind?
Let’s bring our mouths into alignment with what God’s Word shows us.
Bless and not curse.
Do good to those who despitefully use you.
Some scriptures to read to go along with these questions:
Read James 3:1-12
Romans 8:29
Psalm 139
Proverbs 10:31,32
Galatians 5:15, 16
I Peter 3:8
T H I N K
T – Is it true?
H – Is it helpful?
I – Is it inspiring?
N – Is it necessary?
K – Is it Kind?
Let’s bring our mouths into alignment with what God’s Word shows us.
Bless and not curse.
Do good to those who despitefully use you.
Some scriptures to read to go along with these questions:
Read James 3:1-12
Romans 8:29
Psalm 139
Proverbs 10:31,32
Galatians 5:15, 16
I Peter 3:8
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Romans 8:31-39(KJV)
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Friday, February 12, 2010
Assurance Just for You!
He is with you!
Hebrews 13:1-6(KJV)
1Let brotherly love continue.
2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
By him were all things created!
By him were all things created,
Colossians 1:12-18(KJV)
12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Colossians 1:12-18(KJV)
12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Friday, February 5, 2010
Spiritual Growth
Here is an acrostic for our Spiritual Growth.
G - Go to God in prayer.
R - Read God's Word every day.
O - Obey God moment by moment.
W - Witness for Jesus Christ each day.
T - Trust God for every detail of your life.
H - Honor the Holy Spirit and allow Him to control and empower your life each day.
G - Go to God in prayer.
R - Read God's Word every day.
O - Obey God moment by moment.
W - Witness for Jesus Christ each day.
T - Trust God for every detail of your life.
H - Honor the Holy Spirit and allow Him to control and empower your life each day.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
We Must See Jesus!
We Must See Jesus
Isaiah 6:1(KJV)
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
If there is to be an awakening and/or a revival in our nation and the world the church must have a renewed vision of Jesus Christ as the exalted Lord and Savior. We must see Him in all His splendor.
We must see Him:
In His Awesomeness
In His Power
In His Authority
In His Majesty
In His Holiness
In His Omniscience
In His Omnipresence
In His Being Greater than the Temple
In His Throne - Unshakable
In His Desire to Save Man
In His Grace and Mercy at Work for Us
Those that name the name of Jesus as Savior must also be willing to, not only pray for the Lord to send laborers into the harvest field but be willing to go themselves as the LORD speaks to them.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Isaiah 6:1(KJV)
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
If there is to be an awakening and/or a revival in our nation and the world the church must have a renewed vision of Jesus Christ as the exalted Lord and Savior. We must see Him in all His splendor.
We must see Him:
In His Awesomeness
In His Power
In His Authority
In His Majesty
In His Holiness
In His Omniscience
In His Omnipresence
In His Being Greater than the Temple
In His Throne - Unshakable
In His Desire to Save Man
In His Grace and Mercy at Work for Us
Those that name the name of Jesus as Savior must also be willing to, not only pray for the Lord to send laborers into the harvest field but be willing to go themselves as the LORD speaks to them.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Get all the facts first!
Get all the facts first!
Sometimes we go off on tangents before we know what the facts are in a given matter. Here is a little story to illustrate the need to have all the facts before we say something.... I have and am learning this more and more as I go along my life's course. Get all the facts first.
Enjoy:
A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.. "That's interesting," she said, "how do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Sometimes we go off on tangents before we know what the facts are in a given matter. Here is a little story to illustrate the need to have all the facts before we say something.... I have and am learning this more and more as I go along my life's course. Get all the facts first.
Enjoy:
A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool.. "That's interesting," she said, "how do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Holy Groans
Holy Groans by - Rachel Tulloch
As I write this, I am waiting for a bus on a busy corner in an extremely poor community in Central America, in which I lived for a year and have been visiting now for nine years. Most of the time, the tragedy of this place fades into the background of my thoughts, pushed there by familiarity, busyness, and the cheerfulness and resilience of the people who have welcomed me here. Nonetheless, it is evident that the joy many people here display is in clear defiance of the facts of their daily existence.
Sometimes, moments like this one come when I can no longer ignore these facts, and the sense of tragedy becomes overwhelming. I can see garbage strewn around me—plastic bags, empty bottles, crumpled wrappers, cigarettes—things discarded. Since it is located on the site of an old dump, garbage literally serves as the foundation of this mini-city, which is full of people discarded. I see a young girl walking towards school and I wonder if she shares the experience of so many other girls and young women here whose bodies are used, owned, or defaced. I see a boy whose swagger makes him look older and more confident than he probably is. As he joins the group of laughing older boys, I am aware of how likely his future is to be stolen by gangs and drugs. They are more lucrative ventures than most other job options that will be available to him—lucrative as long as he is alive, that is. Beside me is a woman selling tortillas and green mangoes. Like the innumerable other single moms in this community, she must choose between being with her children and feeding them. Even the dogs, whose ugly skeletal bodies manage to reproduce at obscene rates, join this dance of joy and threat, death and life that is ordinary living here.
From behind me, I hear an old man groan; he is struggling to stand up from where he is sitting against a wall. And it seems to me right now that I can hear in his groan the groaning of this whole place, and for that matter, the groaning of all creation that Paul spoke of in Romans as it waits for its redemption. The groaning of these hills, soaked with the blood of those murdered for a cell phone or a pair of shoes. The groaning of this river, polluted with chemicals and sewage. Holy groans. Like the groans of the people in Egyptian slavery that touched the ears and heart of God. Like the groans of the psalmist while his very bones wasted away. Like groans of the crucified One, bearing the weight of the whole world's pain. I want to groan too, because I don't have any words to speak. So I am thankful for the beautiful Spirit who joins the groaning, who takes my conflicted feelings of guilt and anger and love and intercedes for me with "groans that words could not express." Holy groans.
But now, I am struck by something else. I hear the voice of a little girl coming from around the corner, singing loudly and clearly a song I know well: "Oh love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong, it will forevermore endure, the saints' and angels' song!"
Love of God, rich and pure, measureless and strong. In the middle of so much suffering, this can easily sound like the mockery of an indifferent universe. I am certain of one thing: it must either be a cruel joke or the deepest possible truth. It is easy for philosophers and theologians to debate the question of suffering when they are removed from its stark reality. However, it is a costly thing for those who suffer to speak of the love of God in the midst of their pain. That is why their voice carries the ring and force of truth. When it comes to questions of love and suffering, the voice of the smallest, the poorest, and the most vulnerable carries an authority far beyond that of philosophical treatises or the debates of the 'experts.' I have read many good books on this topic, and I have even tried to write about it myself. But I have never read anything that speaks so profoundly to life's deepest groans than the song of this child in this place. This song does not dismiss or deny our groaning, but assures us that we do not groan in an empty void, but in the midst of a universe whose truest reality is Love.
- Rachel Tulloch is a member of the speaking team with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Toronto, Canada.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
As I write this, I am waiting for a bus on a busy corner in an extremely poor community in Central America, in which I lived for a year and have been visiting now for nine years. Most of the time, the tragedy of this place fades into the background of my thoughts, pushed there by familiarity, busyness, and the cheerfulness and resilience of the people who have welcomed me here. Nonetheless, it is evident that the joy many people here display is in clear defiance of the facts of their daily existence.
Sometimes, moments like this one come when I can no longer ignore these facts, and the sense of tragedy becomes overwhelming. I can see garbage strewn around me—plastic bags, empty bottles, crumpled wrappers, cigarettes—things discarded. Since it is located on the site of an old dump, garbage literally serves as the foundation of this mini-city, which is full of people discarded. I see a young girl walking towards school and I wonder if she shares the experience of so many other girls and young women here whose bodies are used, owned, or defaced. I see a boy whose swagger makes him look older and more confident than he probably is. As he joins the group of laughing older boys, I am aware of how likely his future is to be stolen by gangs and drugs. They are more lucrative ventures than most other job options that will be available to him—lucrative as long as he is alive, that is. Beside me is a woman selling tortillas and green mangoes. Like the innumerable other single moms in this community, she must choose between being with her children and feeding them. Even the dogs, whose ugly skeletal bodies manage to reproduce at obscene rates, join this dance of joy and threat, death and life that is ordinary living here.
From behind me, I hear an old man groan; he is struggling to stand up from where he is sitting against a wall. And it seems to me right now that I can hear in his groan the groaning of this whole place, and for that matter, the groaning of all creation that Paul spoke of in Romans as it waits for its redemption. The groaning of these hills, soaked with the blood of those murdered for a cell phone or a pair of shoes. The groaning of this river, polluted with chemicals and sewage. Holy groans. Like the groans of the people in Egyptian slavery that touched the ears and heart of God. Like the groans of the psalmist while his very bones wasted away. Like groans of the crucified One, bearing the weight of the whole world's pain. I want to groan too, because I don't have any words to speak. So I am thankful for the beautiful Spirit who joins the groaning, who takes my conflicted feelings of guilt and anger and love and intercedes for me with "groans that words could not express." Holy groans.
But now, I am struck by something else. I hear the voice of a little girl coming from around the corner, singing loudly and clearly a song I know well: "Oh love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong, it will forevermore endure, the saints' and angels' song!"
Love of God, rich and pure, measureless and strong. In the middle of so much suffering, this can easily sound like the mockery of an indifferent universe. I am certain of one thing: it must either be a cruel joke or the deepest possible truth. It is easy for philosophers and theologians to debate the question of suffering when they are removed from its stark reality. However, it is a costly thing for those who suffer to speak of the love of God in the midst of their pain. That is why their voice carries the ring and force of truth. When it comes to questions of love and suffering, the voice of the smallest, the poorest, and the most vulnerable carries an authority far beyond that of philosophical treatises or the debates of the 'experts.' I have read many good books on this topic, and I have even tried to write about it myself. But I have never read anything that speaks so profoundly to life's deepest groans than the song of this child in this place. This song does not dismiss or deny our groaning, but assures us that we do not groan in an empty void, but in the midst of a universe whose truest reality is Love.
- Rachel Tulloch is a member of the speaking team with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Toronto, Canada.
Blessings on ya!
Pastor Kitner
Monday, February 1, 2010
What Pleases God?
Hebrews 11:5-6(KJV)
5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Enoch was a man
1. of faith
2. who walked with God
3. who believed God
4. who sought God
5. who prophesied
6. who was diligent in seeking God
7. who pleased God
8. who reaped the reward of God for his diligence
What I see in Enoch and His relationship with God is intimacy with God. He went beyond the superficial knowledge of there is God to knowing God in a deep relationship, where they shared the things with each other that no one else shared. That is what intiamcy is about, an ever growing desire to know more of each other beyond the superficial surface knowledge.
When you seek God with your WHOLE heart He says He will be found of you. Desire coupled with diligence toward knowing God causes one to reap the reward from God.... Go for it today!
When you hunger and thirst after His righteousness you shall be filled!
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Enoch was a man
1. of faith
2. who walked with God
3. who believed God
4. who sought God
5. who prophesied
6. who was diligent in seeking God
7. who pleased God
8. who reaped the reward of God for his diligence
What I see in Enoch and His relationship with God is intimacy with God. He went beyond the superficial knowledge of there is God to knowing God in a deep relationship, where they shared the things with each other that no one else shared. That is what intiamcy is about, an ever growing desire to know more of each other beyond the superficial surface knowledge.
When you seek God with your WHOLE heart He says He will be found of you. Desire coupled with diligence toward knowing God causes one to reap the reward from God.... Go for it today!
When you hunger and thirst after His righteousness you shall be filled!
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner
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