God and Chemo - what a combo!
For all of the folks that have held me up in prayer over this round in the cancer treatment battle a little good news today. The doctor looked over the scan that I just had, showed the pics to me and explained that the cancer was not active and at this point it was time to stop the chemo because it only works on active cells. In other words the cancer cells are inactive or in a remission state. So... now every 2 months I will get a CT SCAN to check it out and make sure or verify that it is still inactive.
After 4 months of treatment and all the adverse reactions in my system, it will be great to get my taste buds back to normal, to have more stamina once again and to not have the imbalance of my sugar or the blood pressure. I was told that it will take about a month or so but each day will be an improvement over the last, I am sure.
I give praise to the Lord for this and acknowledge that without Him I can do nothing BUT I can do all things through Him who stregtnens me.
Thank you all for your many prayers and encouraging words... God bless you richly!
Serving Christ Together With You
Pastor Charles Kitner
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Grace to You!
Ephesians 1:2 grace to you and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Grace is something to be received and walked in. This greeting by Paul is not just a trite greeting form a casual friend with no meaning. When people read over it this greeting is not thought about much because it is a familiar portion of scripture. When Paul says Grace to you, he speaks from the perspective of one who knows about the grace of God in depth and knows the power of it in his life. That's right I said grace is power and more power than we can imagine.
G R A C E = God's Riches At Christ's Expense. Jesus came full of grace and truth to this lost and dying people who didn't deserve anything from God - sinners separated from God - but God extended His hand of Grace and Mercy to us through Jesus Christ His only begotten Son.
Grace is truly unmerited favor but it is so much more. Grace is the power of God and His abilities released into the weakness and inability of our lives to do what we can not do!
So in the personal greeting that Paul used he was saying may the power of God be released to you. We should also greet others with this kind of greeting - grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. What we treat as a trite greeting can be a powerful release of the blessing of God into another's life if they will receive it.
2 Corinthians 12:9 - 10 (NIV) 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Grace and Peace unto each of you who read this, receive the fullest sense of God's power released into your lives now in Jesus name!
Pastor Kitner
Grace is something to be received and walked in. This greeting by Paul is not just a trite greeting form a casual friend with no meaning. When people read over it this greeting is not thought about much because it is a familiar portion of scripture. When Paul says Grace to you, he speaks from the perspective of one who knows about the grace of God in depth and knows the power of it in his life. That's right I said grace is power and more power than we can imagine.
G R A C E = God's Riches At Christ's Expense. Jesus came full of grace and truth to this lost and dying people who didn't deserve anything from God - sinners separated from God - but God extended His hand of Grace and Mercy to us through Jesus Christ His only begotten Son.
Grace is truly unmerited favor but it is so much more. Grace is the power of God and His abilities released into the weakness and inability of our lives to do what we can not do!
So in the personal greeting that Paul used he was saying may the power of God be released to you. We should also greet others with this kind of greeting - grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. What we treat as a trite greeting can be a powerful release of the blessing of God into another's life if they will receive it.
2 Corinthians 12:9 - 10 (NIV) 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Grace and Peace unto each of you who read this, receive the fullest sense of God's power released into your lives now in Jesus name!
Pastor Kitner
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Meditate on the Word of God
It is imperative that when reading the Bible that one take time and think about what they are reading. That is to say meditate on it so you don't miss something important that is right in front of your eyes. Meditation is the chewing over again of the cud so to speak in order to get all that is in it.
I have found that a lot of folks read but don't really read for comprehension. They read like they are in a hurry. I learned how to scan things for fast reading in college but when one reads the Bible they should read it to get the most out of every word. God does not waste Words. He sent His Word to heal. When He sends the Word in does't return to Him void but it accomplishes what He sent it forth to do.
Ephesians 1:3 says a lot but it is read over fast because it has become a familiar passage and some things are missed because of it. (Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.)
I just want to give a small example of what I am talking about here. The word "all" is read over as If it were not significant. It is a powerful word that brings something to mind if you don't rush by it. All not some spiritual blessings. God doesn't hold anything back but makes all that is in the realm of spiritual blessing available to us. Think about this and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you into finding out what these blessing are.
I am awe struck at the fact that God makes "all" available to me. Such knowledge is encouraging to me and causes me to want to know more of what God has for me.
Are you hungry for the fullness of God's Word to nourish your soul and spirit.
I hope you are challenged to find more when you read of the un searchable riches of God!
God bless you richly
Pastor Kitner
I have found that a lot of folks read but don't really read for comprehension. They read like they are in a hurry. I learned how to scan things for fast reading in college but when one reads the Bible they should read it to get the most out of every word. God does not waste Words. He sent His Word to heal. When He sends the Word in does't return to Him void but it accomplishes what He sent it forth to do.
Ephesians 1:3 says a lot but it is read over fast because it has become a familiar passage and some things are missed because of it. (Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.)
I just want to give a small example of what I am talking about here. The word "all" is read over as If it were not significant. It is a powerful word that brings something to mind if you don't rush by it. All not some spiritual blessings. God doesn't hold anything back but makes all that is in the realm of spiritual blessing available to us. Think about this and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you into finding out what these blessing are.
I am awe struck at the fact that God makes "all" available to me. Such knowledge is encouraging to me and causes me to want to know more of what God has for me.
Are you hungry for the fullness of God's Word to nourish your soul and spirit.
I hope you are challenged to find more when you read of the un searchable riches of God!
God bless you richly
Pastor Kitner
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Lord Has a Plan!
On September 28, I was at the Arnold Palmer Cancer Center for my chemo treatment for stage 4 Colorectal cancer that has moved into my lung. A brother in the Lord, Paul form the Monroeville A/G church came and took me to the center. We had good fellowship going to the center (a 24 mile ride).
When we got into where the cubicles are we were made aware that there was another brother in the Lord there who had saved me a chair in the cubicle where he was. So now we were 3 talking and sharing testimony and the Word of God. This went on for several hours. Next another brother, from another cubicle that was there with his wife who was receiving chemo treatment for cancer also, came around the wall with his Bible and sat down. He said he had to come over because of what he heard us talk about, which was the Lord for the most part. He had had leukemia and is now cured complete with a new blood system because of a bone marrow transplant and stem cell replacement. He shared his testimony and we shared scripture the rest of the time we were together in one small cubicle. The great thing is that other people can hear us and even the nurses want to hear what the real God is doing, they linger as they get supplies all day long.
All this leads up to me sharing the Lord to my nurse of the day. Her name is Ann. She had heard us for 4 hours or so and I asked her, as she was fixing me to be connected to the chemo
pump for 46 hours as I was going home, had anyone ever told her that God loved her and had a
wonderful plan for her life? She answered with a weak answer and I asked her if I could ask
her another question and she said yes. So I asked her if she died tonight would she go to
heaven? She said she didn't know but hoped so. I then asked her did she want to know for sure?
She said yes, so I led her in a prayer for repentance, right there in my cubicle and she prayed a for real prayer with me. I watched her countenance change from death unto life and she said she knew now for sure.
There is a new name written down in glory because - where 2 or more are gathered in the name of Jesus He is there in the midst and he came to save sinners. He is the same yesterday, today and forever and I praise His name!
God bless!
Pastor Kitner
When we got into where the cubicles are we were made aware that there was another brother in the Lord there who had saved me a chair in the cubicle where he was. So now we were 3 talking and sharing testimony and the Word of God. This went on for several hours. Next another brother, from another cubicle that was there with his wife who was receiving chemo treatment for cancer also, came around the wall with his Bible and sat down. He said he had to come over because of what he heard us talk about, which was the Lord for the most part. He had had leukemia and is now cured complete with a new blood system because of a bone marrow transplant and stem cell replacement. He shared his testimony and we shared scripture the rest of the time we were together in one small cubicle. The great thing is that other people can hear us and even the nurses want to hear what the real God is doing, they linger as they get supplies all day long.
All this leads up to me sharing the Lord to my nurse of the day. Her name is Ann. She had heard us for 4 hours or so and I asked her, as she was fixing me to be connected to the chemo
pump for 46 hours as I was going home, had anyone ever told her that God loved her and had a
wonderful plan for her life? She answered with a weak answer and I asked her if I could ask
her another question and she said yes. So I asked her if she died tonight would she go to
heaven? She said she didn't know but hoped so. I then asked her did she want to know for sure?
She said yes, so I led her in a prayer for repentance, right there in my cubicle and she prayed a for real prayer with me. I watched her countenance change from death unto life and she said she knew now for sure.
There is a new name written down in glory because - where 2 or more are gathered in the name of Jesus He is there in the midst and he came to save sinners. He is the same yesterday, today and forever and I praise His name!
God bless!
Pastor Kitner
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