Wednesday, December 10, 2008

"Christ", the reason for the season.

GREETING;
As we are entering into the Christmas season I pray that we are entering in with a greatfull heart. I am greatfull for the year that the Lord has given me and my family and I hope you can say the same . I know that Christmas can be a sad time for those that may have lost a love one over the course of the year. My prayers and my heart goes out to you. Cathy and .I understand all to well what that means.This year I loss a step father in law who was a very dear man and in years passed we loss a son. It is very difficult to get in to the Christmas spirit with a grieving heart as we miss our love ones. But I know that if they died with the Lord we will see them again and I do look forward to that as well as I know that many of you do. I remember the first year that Daniel was killed I thought about him spending Christmas with the Lord and that how he must of felt as Heaven was rejoicing over the birth of Christ. I don't think we can come close to comprehend how beautifull Heaven is . Grace ,Paul knew about Grace when he had prayed on three diffrent times for the Lord to take away the thorn in the flesh, But God said my Grace is sufficiency for you. Christ is the only one that can mend a broken heart if you are a child of the Lord's fall on Him let Him help you to heal ,He is the only one that can .I know that there are suport groups out there that can help also we have family members to help,but they can't take away the hurt only Christ can do that. Psalm 46 has allways been a comfort to me, in verse one it states that God is my refuge and my strengh always ready to help in times of trouble.I know that when Daniel died I tried to carry all the pain myself .I thought that thats what it ment to being a strong christian.But the Lord kept telling me to stand still . But when you are hurting that's hard to do.In verse ten he said , stand still and know that I am GOD.the only way you are going to be able to with stand the hurt is to stand still and realize that you can't make it alone and that the Lord is our refuge and that is where we find rest for our weary soul.I believe that the Lord is speaking to some one because this is not what I intended to write about . If I can help you by sharing how the Lord ministerd to me, are if I can pray for you let me know.In the Magnificat: Mary said Oh , how my soul praises the lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! NLT How could she know how blessd she was for God chose her to give birth to the Savior for all man kind. Don't let grief or problems or anything else stop you from being able to worship the King of Kings the Lord of Lords this Christmas. It is not in how much we recieve or in how much we buy, that can bring us joy , But in knowing the child that was born in a stable as our savior.The angels told the shepherds in the field that"Don't be afraid !"he said."I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people.The Savior- yes ,the Messiah, the Lord-has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! Luke 2:10-11 NLT . So let your heart rejoice , let your spirit sing out and share your faith with someone this Christmas. Tell them about the "reason for the season"and keep looking up He is coming back! God Bless you and your family .Oh I told you that our family lost Jimmy this year and Liz ,Cathy's mother is fighing cancer ,"WE thank everyone for prayers for Liz"But the Lord blessed us with a new family member and this will be Will Allan's first Christmas, he loves to look at the lights but his big sister this year getting in to Christmas, and to be able to see Christmas through the eyes of a child is a great joy!!! Mery Christmas from the Heath family.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Choose Life

Greeting;
I hope that you are able to get out and enjoy the fall colors .This is my favorite time of the year. Here in Patrick co we are blessed to live where each year the Lord puts on a great show of colors. I look out at the mountain and cannot but wonder how anyone can said there is no God. In Romans chapter one and verse twenty tell us that we have no excuse not to know that there is a God just by looking at everything He has created . But that is why God lets us have freewill we can choose to believe what ever we want to. I am so greatfull that God's Holy Spirit is still calling people to him. And can make the choice to believe or not. Some had rather believe a lie than the truth . They think that if they believe that there is no God then they will not be held acountable to their sins, but it does not work that way ,the bible is very clear about this . That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father Philippians 2:10-11 NLT .I am so thankful that I bowed on this side and did not wait when the Holy Spirit call me. Thank God for His mercy and His grace . Don't wait until it is to late to acknowledge Christ. Also as a nation we have turn our back on God and still think that He will continue to bless our nation, this year I think we are witnessing one of the most important election of our time. I believe that the very soul of our nation hang's in the balance. the issue is not the economy, are the promises that the candidates or making about taking care of us ,and all that they are going to give us . This election is much more than that. This election is about life, the life of the unborn child, as a church we have tried to sweep it under the rug, but the issue will not go away.So many christians this year will go into the voting booth and vote for their pocket book instead of life for the unborn and then we expect God to answer our prayer. I once thought that christians where just not informed on the issue of abortion , but now I think many choose not to be informed so they want have to answer for their lack of support for the unborn children. I don't see how anyone claiming to be a christian could support that horrible procedure to kill an unborn child. But many do , they are able to separate their faith from thier vote. But just like the unbeliever that thinks he will get by God , many christians think the same thing. We serve a Holy God and he will not let the blood of the innocent go with out judgement. The church needs to do more for these mothers that think they may not have a choice, instead of condemning them we should be sharing the love of Christ with them and help them choose life for their child. And those who have had an abortion , let them know that there is healing for them and forgiveness from Christ . We don't have to pray about which candidate to vote for one stands for life , one stands for death. Oh if we are really concerned for our nation then we should do what the word of God tells us to do. Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land . 2 Chronicles 7:14. Child of God if there has ever been a time for us to pray for our nation it is now. Let us agree together and pray in one mind and stand in the gap for the sins for this once great nation for God , That we don't get the leader we deserve but the one we need. Keep looking up He is coming soon. Amen

Monday, September 29, 2008

Halleluiah

Hallelujah ;
We heard people use the word hallelujah ,it is used to express praise or thanksgiving to the Lord.How exciting it is to be a child of the Lord's and be able to break out in praise for his goodness and mercy.When I stand in the pulpit and I feel his presence around me I cannot help but to break out in worship. As christians we should always be able to worship God , even when we have had a bad day and don't feel like it.We have so much to be thankful for, but so often the only thing God gets from us is our complaints . Job ; when he found out that he had loss everthing he had including is children Job 1:20 At this, Job got up tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship. NIV . You might say how could he do that after such a bad day . Job knew that no matter what he was going through God was right there with him , And he knew no matter what God was not going to leave him . Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Paul knew this that is how he could face the trials in his life .Read Romans 8:31-39. That is how Paul and Silas could worship even as they were beaten and thrown into prison .Acts 16 :22-25. And when they broke out into worship there in the jail it led others to the Lord . Our God is alive and we should worship Him like He is. I love to be around christians that worship with all their heart . I love lively worship, How can you have Christ in your heart and not get excited? I have heard folks say we have to have orderly services and that we should not get emotional in our worship service. I would agree that there should be some order but not to the point that we suppress the spirit , if Christ is the head of the church I think it is time for us to get out of the way and let him start leading it. How can you have such an awesome God and not break out in worship? HOW can you have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and not let it rise up in you in worship? Read Psalm 149-AND 150 AND TELL ME THAT WE ARE NOT TO WORSHIP ARE GET EXCITED!!!! People are turning to all kinds of cults and witch craft because they are looking for something alive , many are looking for anwers for problems in thier lives,instead of looking for those anwers in the mainline church they are turning to the things of the devil. Why, because they don"t see any life in the church anymore . There are no signs and wonders in the church . Jesus said in Mark 16:17 and these signs will accomany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; Most christians setting in the church today don"t even believe that there are demons much less be able to cast one out. My prayer is that you allow the Holy Spirit to rise up in you and that you start worshiping God in your life and never allow religion or anyone stop you from worshiping in freedom and in truth. Satan wants the church dead and religious and led of man because he knows the power that can be unlease if Gods people start to worship and pray for revival and start to hunger for more of God . If my people who are called by my name ,will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from wicked ways, then I will heard from Heaven and will forgive thier sins and heal thier land. 2 Chronicles 6:14 NIV This is what satan don't want you to know . SO the next time you heard someone say HALLELUJAH join in and get excited in the goodness and mercy of the lord. Let your cup run over .Break out of the rut and allow God to get real in your life. Keep looking up He is coming back. Praise God!!!!!!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

We need revival

Greeting ,
I hope you had a great labor day weekend. It is hard to believe that summer is officially over, time waits on no one. I heard someone say that one thing that money cannot buy is time, I would agree with that but there is another thing that money can't buy and that is salvation. Salvation is free to anyone who calls on the name of Christ. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. Acts 4: 12 NIV When you think about that, that is truly awesome ; ALL we have to do to be save is cry out to Christ. The bible said in Romans 10:13 for Everone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."NIV " With that said how can so many people be confuse about how to be saved? I heard that a recent poll taken said that over twenty per cent of people setting in our church today think that there is more than one way into heaven. That they can get in on good works or just being a good person. That is a lie right out of hell . How can so many people setting in our church today not heard the truth? One reason is that a lot of pastor have given up on salvation, they are more concerned about keeping there congregation inside the church rather than sending them outside the church to the harvest. Most of the church today operates in the natural rather than in the supernatural. We know longer see signs and wonders in our church today. We are satisfied with the church the way it is, not expecting anything an not getting anything ,but I know that Christ is not happy with a luke warm church. Christ said in Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So because you are neither hot nor cold- I am about to spit you out of my mouth. I all so know that Christ is raising up a church today that is hungry and thirsty for his Holy Spirit . Christains that keep praying for the out pouring of the Spirit , that are begining to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit to edify the church. The unchurched are watching the church today to see if there is life , we need to be praying and seeking the face of God for our church today ,for God to stir the church ,to put life back into it, to get it out of the hands of men and back into the hands of Christ.WE NEED REVIVAL! But the only way it will come is if there are enough christians who are hungry and have such a burden for the loss that they will keep praying and will not stop . If you read this and think that you can get to heaven an bypass Christ here is what he said in John 10 :9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out , and find pasture. Friend there is only one way to heaven ,only one way to be saved . That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,you will be saved. ROMANS10: 9 NIV. That is so simple that even a child can understand. If you prayed for Christ to come into your life let me know and we will send you some helpful information . Keep looking up He is coming soon!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

WHO WILL YOU TRUST ?

Greeting ,

I trust you are doing well in the Lord. I am praising the Lord for his goodness and His mercy.I hope you are able to praise Him also. I have been on the road all day and I am writing this from my motel here in Altoona PA. As I was driving today I have been talking to the Lord and praying for his church . I am so glad that I have Him with me where ever I go and I can pray for my family and know he is watching over them, that gives me great peace . The longer I know the Lord the more I know that I can trust him with my life.When we turn our lives over to him completely that is when we began to realize how helpless we are with out Him, HE must be a part of everthing we do. We get our selves in trouble when we don't let him take control of our every day lives.We offen think that He is there only for the big storms or events that we can't control; but so offten it is the little things in our lives that keeps eroding our faith.We have to trust Christ in every battle and in every storm. I am reminded of Paul when he was on his way to Rome to stand trial, they where sailing near Cnidus and the wind was against them.They arrived at Fair Haven near the town of Lasea. they had loss alot of time and the sea was becoming very dangerous for sea travel because it was so late in the fall, so Paul spoke to the ship's officers about it.
Men", he said, I believe there is trouble ahead if we go on- shipwreck, loss of cargo and danger to our lives as well', But the officer in charge of the prisoners listened mor to the ship's captain and the owner than to Paul. ACTS 27 :10-11 NLT . The officer is a lot like us if we are honest with ourselves , we listen to people more than we do the Lord; And find ourselves in a storm that can ship wreck our lives. Pray about everything , Christ wants to be a part of everything we do.Paul knew who to go to for the answers, He prayed about everything .If you don't know what to pray for let the Holy Spirit pray for you. And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example ,we don't know what God wants us to pray for . But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groaning that can not be expressed in words. Romans 8:26NLT .Who do you trust? Do you trust in your friends more than Christ? Do you trust in yourself more than Christ, Friends will let you down , even the best friends will eventuality will , they don't meant too but they are human . Some times we let our selves down, but there is one that will never let you down and that is Christ the anchor of our soul.That's who Paul was listening to and that is who we need to turn to for our questions and decisions we have .If we would, it would save us from a lot of hurt and pain. GOD BLESS ''' send in your prayer request. Let me hear from you . I trust you will pray for this ministry , and for Mayo we are steping out in faith to reach as many souls for the Lord as we can. AMEN

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Come to Me

Good evening,
I trust that you have had a great day. I know that sometimes that is hard to do. We have so much going on in our lives that sometimes it is easy to get distracted from things in our lives that really matter . I have had times in my life that I felt like I had the weight of the world on me. It becomes difficult at times like that to stay focus on the important things. When I am having days like that I learned a long time ago to run to the Lord. Jesus said in Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest . Take my yoke upone you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Over the years I have watch as folks went through difficult times in their lives , and have seen that they will do one of two things they will either run to the Lord or away from him.I have learn to run to Him, rest for your soul is an awesome thing ,peace in times of great trials can only come from the Lord. We are to take one day at a time, do not waste todays grace on tomorrow.Every trial we go through makes us stonger. I read somewhere that you can't grow an oat tree in a flower pot. How true that is .It is only during the storms that our roots sink deep into the bed rock that anchors our soul, that is Christ my savior , Christ my king, Christ my shield, Christ , the one that carries me when I can not walk. Do you have rest today? I know where you can find it. Ask Christ to come into your life in a real way. He is faithful to do what He said he would do. COME UNTO ME ALL WHO ARE WEARY. All you have to do is come to Christ, He is waiting on you. GOD BLESS It is my prayer that you experience the love of Christ my Lord and SAVIOR. AMEN

Monday, June 30, 2008

FAITH

Greetings,

As I sit here tonight in a motel , I was thinking about the service we had at church yesterday. We ended the service in prayer.
We were praying for our country and the church , not just our church but for the Bride of Christ.
We prayed in faith . You might say what has faith got to do with prayer? Everthing! As a child of God when we pray we have to have faith in God that he not only hears our prayers but answers them in his own time, not our time but his time. I think a lot of our prayers don't get off the floor because of lack of faith.
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrew 11:1 NLV . As a church today, for one thing we don't pray enough and when we do pray we don't always have confidence in the Lord that he will answer. I know that there are times when our faith is weak; that is the times we need to get as close to the lord as we can and we do that by getting in to his word. That is where we draw our strenght from is his word.
That is one reason the church is weak today in our country is the lack of faith.Lack of faith hinders what Christ can do in our church. And without the power of the Holy Spirit working in our church we can't have church, we might have a meeting but we won't have church.
When Jesus returned to his hometown in Nazareth the bible said he could only do a few miracles there because of there unbelief. Matthew 13:58 . Unbelief can stop a move of God in our churches and our lives. As a child of God we need to pray for more faith in our lives ; stay in the word and live a sanctified life.Remember James said that the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James 5:16 NLT . Getting back to our services yesterday we ending in prayer for revival in our land and our church and I know that God will and does answer our prayers of faith . May God Bless you and Reward your faith.Keep looking up for He is coming back.

Monday, June 16, 2008

GET EXCITED ABOUT CHRIST!

Greetings,
All praise to God, the Father of ourLord Jesus Christ.It is by his great mercy that we have been born again , because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation. 1 Peter 1:3 NLT . ALLELULA ,I have been born again.I hope that you can say that today. That is why I can praise Him because I know Him. W e should never feel like we are made to worship Christ , we should break out in worship every time we come into His presents.We are children of the MOST HIGH GOD,it does not get any better than that Amen. As a pastor sometimes I see people struggle in their worship because they want let go of themselves.They want to stay in control,when we worship Christ He has to be in control not us.Some of the best services I have been in , is when the Holy Spirit took over and people got out of the way.Now we live in great expectation. That is an awesome statement that Peter has made. Do you remember when you were a child and how excited you would get before Christmas, you were excited because you were expecting something. We need to be that excited everytime we enter into Gods Tabernacle , expecting a move of the Holy Spirit in our services. We should expect miracles,we should expect healings , we should expect deliverance, we should expect something. But to often we come into the church expecting nothing and getting nothing.We just go through the motions.Can you imagine our that makes God feel when we have loss our excitment and we are just going through the motions. I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot or cold.I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! REV. 3:15-16 NLT. So many of our churches today have become luke warm, they have become comfortable and they have no power nor do they pray for the power of God back into their services.They are satisfied and that is a dangerous place to be.It does not have to be this way we can do something about the state of our church today, we can pray and seek the face of GOD.
Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore thier land. 2Chronicles:7-14 NLT . Pray for the fire of revival to fall on our churches today. Amen, remember keep looking up He is coming back.God Bless

Monday, June 9, 2008

THE POWER OF PRAYER

Greeting in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
I trust you had a great week in the Lord and started this week off in prayer.I heard and old preacher say one time that that when you went to bed at night put your shoes far enough under the bed that you would have to get on your knees to get them out and while you where there pray.As a child of God we need to start each day in prayer pleading the Blood of Christ over our house hold.David said in Psalm 34:4 I prayed to the Lord ,and he answered me.
He freed me from my fears.NLT
I thank God everyday for his blessing and for the power of prayer. Some times as a child of God I think we forget what power that exist in prayer. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. James :5-16 NLT
If you have fears in your life Pray,If you have trouble Pray, IF you are sick Pray and when you pray believe . Believe as David did that God hears your prayers . Believe that all things are possible with God . I have seen in my life what prayer can do . There have been times in my life that I have been hurting so bad that I could not pray for my self , that is why we need to hold each other up in prayer . When a child of God is on there knees that when we are the strongest and that is when satan starts to tremble because he knows what prayer can accomplist.
Here at Mayo we KNOW the power of prayer , we gather around the Altar of GOD each thursday night calling out each name on our prayer list in prayer, we KNOW that God can heal, we have seen Him change lives,we have seen Him save the loss.
If you have prayer needs let me know . Remember you have not because you ask not. James 4:2 . As a child of God you need to develop a srong prayer life so that when the emeny comes you will not fear and the storm arises you will over come.God want to hear from you ,REMEMBER that he loved you so much that he gave his only Son that you would have eternal life. Keep looking up He is coming back. God Bless

Monday, June 2, 2008

Fan the fames

I greet you in the name of the lord,
We here at Mayo are excited about our new web site and can't wait to see how god is going to use it. Send your prayer request and also pray for our church. God is raising up a powerful church for the time we are living in and pouring out his spirit on his people that are ready for it.
Joel 2:29 In those days I will pour out my spirit even on servants -men and women alike.NLV
Here at Mayo we are praying that God keeps pouring it out on us to give us the boldness we need to get the good news out to the world.So get excited fan the flames of the spiritual gifts that the HOLLY SPIRIT has given you and get on the front line. May God Bless you and keep looking up He is coming back.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Welcome

Pastor David Heath will soon be taking prayer requests and comments here on this all new blog made for the people Patrick County. He will also be updating this blog often to spread the word of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Check back soon!