On the following Sundays: October 11th, 18th, and 25th the sanctuary will open for prayer at 10:00 am. Prayer partners will be available to pray with you individually or you can pray alone. This is not a scripted service, its a time of consecration, a time for you to connect with the Lord.
Everyone is welcome to come in and pray!
If you will not be praying, we ask that visit our lower level or remain in the lobby until regular worship service begins. We appreciate your cooperation!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Are You Accountable?
This is a friendly reminder for you or your Prayer/Accountability partner to submit the time and date of your prayer time to our Common Made Holy email address: commonmadeholy@marshillchgo.org
Submissions should be received no later than Friday of each week at 11:59 pm. If you do not have access to the internet, simply call 773 287-3535 before Friday at 4:00pm and an Office Assistant will record your information.
Submissions should be received no later than Friday of each week at 11:59 pm. If you do not have access to the internet, simply call 773 287-3535 before Friday at 4:00pm and an Office Assistant will record your information.
Growing Together As A Family
The Common Made Holy Praye Service is held every Wednesday at 7:00 pm.
On Wednesday October 14, 2009, the Fellowship Ministry invites you out to fellowship together, grow together, and build authentic relationships. A special "treat" is in store for you!
On Wednesday October 14, 2009, the Fellowship Ministry invites you out to fellowship together, grow together, and build authentic relationships. A special "treat" is in store for you!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Fall Revival 2009 "THE COMMON MADE HOLY" JEREMIAH 18:1-6
Fall Revival 2009
The Common Made Holy
JEREMIAH 18:1-6
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6
A long time ago the infinite and eternal Creator sat down at His potter’s wheel as He had so many times before. Everything He had made so far was very good, but this time He had something else in mind. He wanted to create something in His own image – something, or better, someone who could personally relate to Him. The Potter had already fashioned living beings to inhabit planet earth, but this new creation would be different. Far more significant than all other earthen vessels, this new creation would be fruitful and multiply and rule over all the other created beings that flew in the sky, walked on the earth, or swam in the seas.
So He took a glob of clay and placed it on His wheel. As the wheel began to turn, He placed His thumbs in the center of the clay and formed the inward parts. Miraculously the clay began to take shape. As the wheel turned faster and faster, the clay began to rise from the earth, which it was taken. Fearfully and wonderfully He made this new creation, which had been planned, from the beginning of time. But He wasn’t done. Something was missing. The clay had no life. So He breathed into this earthen pot the breath of life and it became a living being. This fusion of divine life and earthly clay would make this new creation different from all the other created beings.
What appeared to be common was indeed holy, and set apart to do His will.
what is revival?
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
First, revival isn’t getting an evangelist to come in, and do a series of meetings to stir the people up. We have developed an understanding in the church today of “holding a revival.” You can’t hold a revival. All you can do is participate in one that God is throwing.
The prefix “re” literally means, “to do again.” The root word “vive” is from the Latin for “life.” So, “revival” means “to bring to life again.” You can’t bring those to life again who have never been alive before. To be revived, you must have been alive once before.
For it to be a true revival, it must be a sovereign work of God. That means we can’t schedule it in advance. Only God can accomplish it, and that in His timing, and in His way. Revival really isn’t for the lost, but for the saved. We tend to think of revival as getting the lost into the church. But, that’s not what it’s all about. When revival is happening, the lost will come into the church.
However, the reason they will come is because of the changed hearts of God’s people. That will draw them. That will show them their need for salvation. Once the Holy Spirit cleans up the Body of Christ, then He will start drawing the unsaved in. If we try to get the unsaved coming into our church, they’ll just see how messed up we are. Consequently, this will not draw them to Jesus.
The Common Made Holy
JEREMIAH 18:1-6
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message." 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?" declares the LORD. "Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6
A long time ago the infinite and eternal Creator sat down at His potter’s wheel as He had so many times before. Everything He had made so far was very good, but this time He had something else in mind. He wanted to create something in His own image – something, or better, someone who could personally relate to Him. The Potter had already fashioned living beings to inhabit planet earth, but this new creation would be different. Far more significant than all other earthen vessels, this new creation would be fruitful and multiply and rule over all the other created beings that flew in the sky, walked on the earth, or swam in the seas.
So He took a glob of clay and placed it on His wheel. As the wheel began to turn, He placed His thumbs in the center of the clay and formed the inward parts. Miraculously the clay began to take shape. As the wheel turned faster and faster, the clay began to rise from the earth, which it was taken. Fearfully and wonderfully He made this new creation, which had been planned, from the beginning of time. But He wasn’t done. Something was missing. The clay had no life. So He breathed into this earthen pot the breath of life and it became a living being. This fusion of divine life and earthly clay would make this new creation different from all the other created beings.
What appeared to be common was indeed holy, and set apart to do His will.
what is revival?
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
First, revival isn’t getting an evangelist to come in, and do a series of meetings to stir the people up. We have developed an understanding in the church today of “holding a revival.” You can’t hold a revival. All you can do is participate in one that God is throwing.
The prefix “re” literally means, “to do again.” The root word “vive” is from the Latin for “life.” So, “revival” means “to bring to life again.” You can’t bring those to life again who have never been alive before. To be revived, you must have been alive once before.
For it to be a true revival, it must be a sovereign work of God. That means we can’t schedule it in advance. Only God can accomplish it, and that in His timing, and in His way. Revival really isn’t for the lost, but for the saved. We tend to think of revival as getting the lost into the church. But, that’s not what it’s all about. When revival is happening, the lost will come into the church.
However, the reason they will come is because of the changed hearts of God’s people. That will draw them. That will show them their need for salvation. Once the Holy Spirit cleans up the Body of Christ, then He will start drawing the unsaved in. If we try to get the unsaved coming into our church, they’ll just see how messed up we are. Consequently, this will not draw them to Jesus.
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