By His Spirit

Saturday Night Service. Is it just me, or are those three little words riddled in uncertainty, worries, and excitement? I may have mentioned that we are starting this up at my church, and we have a small team that is working to head this thing up. There are a lot of unknowns and a lot of things that we need that we don't have.

But in yesterday's morning service, our pastor talked about projects that we start and don't finish. Everybody has them. Sometimes they are dropped for good reasons, but most of the time we don't finish them because we are intimidated, discouraged, in need of the resources, we lose interest, etc even if we are excited to begin with. The passage was in Zechariah (curious huh?) in which Zechariah and Zerubbabel (nice name) are building the temple of the LORD. Zechariah had a strange vision in chapter 4 that I'm not going to put down here right now, but you can go look it up. The point and interpretation of the vision was thus:

"This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.
"What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of 'God bless it! God bless it!' "
Then the word of the LORD came to me: "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.

That means that no matter how hard we try to finish and accomplish something, it is nothing if the Spirit of the LORD is not in it. And no obstacle can stand in the way if the Spirit wills you to finish through Him! This was great to hear. God, bless the Saturday Night Service and give it success. I'll miss our church being tiny, but I'm sure I'll love it large as well:)

Oh, and we started worship with a video that really set the tone for the rest of worship time. Pastor Les pulled a couple of fast ones on us and we got brave and sang MIGHTY TO SAVE without practicing first! Church went long, but nobody cared. We were all in the Spirit.

But now what on earth will next Sunday's sermon be about??? We're done with the Spirit series, so nobody will know what to do with themselves!:P