The Spirit of Sacrifice

Wednesday night we played a video, “The Start of Sacrifice,” as a tribute to our veterans. This video makes sacrifice personal. The story line follows a young man as he tells his family that he wants to enlist in the Marines. We follow the sacrifice that the family makes and the sacrifice and courage of this young man as he completes boot camp. We experience the joy of graduation and the sacrifice of deployment.

This story becomes more personal for all of us when we think of our very own young Marine, Weston Landreth, who, this week, graduated TBS Officer School at Quantico Marine Base with honors!

Sacrifice means making that commitment to what you believe to be important, like your sacrifice to work hard and graduate from college or your sacrifice to work extra hard to receive a promotion at work. Many have sacrificed personal time to train for a sporting event.

Today, we must invade our comfortable lives to grow spiritually. It may seem like a sacrifice to set aside time to pray or read the Bible, but we are training for spiritual warfare! Jesus invites us to pick-up our cross (sacrifice) and follow Him. Let’s be salt and light!

Veterans Day from Ralph Sexton Ministries on Vimeo.

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911 Sunday

We welcome you to a special day of remembrance and honor!
The church family of Trinity Baptist and our area 911 agencies have partnered together to honor the men and women that serve our communities.
We honor the dedicated people of law enforcement, from those on the street to the chamber of our judges and we include the Highway Patrol, our SBI and FBI teams that serve Western North Carolina.
We offer our appreciation to the men and women of emergency medical care including the EMT and paramedics, the MAMA flight team, the nurses and doctors of the emergency room along with the fire, rescue and search teams of our communities. We also thank the dispatchers that keep us connected and safe.
We salute your service and honor your dedication to your calling to protect and serve.
This day also serves as a day of remembrance of September 11th, 2001.
We will not forget

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It’s Jubilee Time

What a joy to welcome you to the Land of the Sky Jubilee! We remember the greeting from Brother Billy Kelly for many years, “IT’S JUBILEE TIME!”

Many of the adults in our church have grown up with wonderful Jubilee memories and stories to tell. We remember working in the kitchen, helping to park cars, mopping the gym or even cleaning bathrooms, not to mention wonderful services, great preaching, singing to bless your heart and food and fellow-ship to “ice the cake!” Life is so short, we cannot miss these times of being together and making memories that will last a lifetime!

After enjoying breakfast from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. we will move to the morning services beginning at 9:30 a.m. We will then have lunch together around noon time. We will gather together for our evening services Monday through Friday at 6:30 p.m. Plan to stay after the evening services for some food and fellowship! Remember that there will be no Friday morning service but we will gather for rally services on Friday evening and Sunday morning.

Please make plans to attend every service. Our families and our church need the spiritual strength of the Jubilee! Our nation is at a spiritual crossroads, “repent or perish—revival or removal!”

We need the Lord! Please pray for His mighty hand to touch our lives!

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“Revival Praying”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was once invited to a special church event, and he was shown the order of service. They had written that Mr. Spurgeon would preach. The famed Spurgeon said, “If there is only one thing that I may do tonight, I want to offer the prayer.” Wise man!

If there is only “one thing” we can do… We can ALL pray! We must pray! We must teach prayer! To be faithful followers of Jesus, real New Testament believers; we must be men and women of prayer!

John Fletcher of Madeley was a great teacher who had a powerful walk with God. In his classroom, he would speak on great topics of the Word of God. Subjects of revival like, the fullness of God’s Holy Spirit or the power and blessing God meant for His people to have.

He would close his lecture and say, “That is the theory; now those who want the practice come along to my study”. They would follow one hour of theory by one and two hours of practice in prayer!

There is a story told of the great pianist Rubinstein. The maestro said,

“If I miss my piano practice one day, I know it.

If I miss my practice two days, my friends know it.

If I miss my exercise three days, the world knows it!”

Does the world know? Do your family and friends know that you are not praying?

Every day, every week and every church service can be filled with the power of God and the miracles of lives changed! We must be a people and a church of prayer!

Let’s keep praying together for a spiritual awakening in our hearts this year!

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Praying Together

The prayer meeting downtown Asheville has sparked a lot of interest in the subject of prayer.
Some have spoken of a prayer revival. That is the burden to pray again or to pray more. Others have confessed, “I never have prayed that much. I know I’m saved, I love Jesus, but I’m not a person of prayer.”
As a pastor, I know that God has burdened me, and circumstances have forced me to pray more each day. Our families, our church, and our community deserve the faithful prayer of the people that have been changed by the power of God.
James 5:16 starts with that prayer of confession, “Confess your faults.” We know there is none righteous, no not one! Our prayer to God is “that we need Him.” That same verse declares,
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
The word “effectual” is the Greek word ENERGEO. It means that the prayer birthed in the “Just man” is by divine energy! A God powered prayer!
You see the connection? Not my will, but thy will be done! Not my time, but God’s time. Galatians 4:4 shows, not my way, but God you have your way, your divine purpose for your glory!
It is God’s prayer by the Holy Spirit through us; the instruments of His plan and purpose!
No wonder the disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray!”

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