Outline
of Service 22nd July 2018
Winter: Plan and Prepare – Acts 27:12
Hymn100:
Fed by God
The Lord’s Prayer from
Luke 11:2-4
Psalm
61: Praise the Lord as we wait
Bible
Readings:
·
Remember Lot’s
Wife – bad planning and no preparation!
Genesis 18:18-33, 19:15-17, 22-29
·
Doing What We Can: Acts 27:1, 6-14, 18-25
·
Meanwhile, We
Wait: 2 Timothy 1-5, 13-17
Hymn46:
God’s Plan for now and beyond
·
Lot
living in the Sodom and Gomorrah is like us living in the evil World today; we
can also liken this to living in the Winter, or the time ruled by Satan, when
we need to seek diligently to find God’s Way
·
Paul
knew that his ship should wait in the safe haven during winter, even though
this put limitations on what could be done, but the limitations needed to be
accepted until it was safe (or in accordance with God’s timing) to move
·
Living
in this world (like winter) puts many restrictions on us with regards our
relationship with God, but we need to rest in His Presence until He makes clear
the next stage of His Plan for each of us
·
Whilst
we are waiting for the winter to finish we must develop an awareness of God’s Plan
and Purpose and prepare by trying to follow the lifestyle He has set out in the
Scriptures
·
As
we await the return of Jesus Christ, when He will “pull us out” of the winter
(as the angels pulled Lot out of the City), we must remain in the safe haven without
becoming over-comfortable in it, with a Plan to Prepare for God’s coming
Kingdom.
Hymn
15 – Tune 13: Preparing God’s People
Doxology
