September Pastor’s Chat
God is faithful! What a comforting thought and truth it is to know that our Lord, Savior, and God is faithful. 1 Corinthians 1:9 says, “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Over the past (nearly) 6 years I have tried by the grace of God to be faithful to Him and His calling on my life to shepherd His flock at FBC of Dillon, Montana. However, on Wednesday, August 18, it became very clear that this calling was to come to an abrupt end. After having not received a majority in a vote of confidence to continue as Pastor of FBC, I gave my one month notice of resignation. We had prayed for God’s will to be revealed through the vote of our church members. I trust in God’s sovereignty and trust Him to provide for the flock at FBC as well as for us in the days to come. Can you trust Him? Will you trust Him?
God knows what each of us needs to be more conformed to the image of Christ. God is a faithful judge and heavenly Father! We can trust Him to send our way what is best for all of us. Romans 8:28 says, “We know that all things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to His purpose.” Regardless of your understanding or lack of understanding of what has happened here at FBC—love God! Grow in your knowledge of Him. Grow in your faith and trust in Him. Search the Scriptures daily and obey its clear teaching. Don’t become bitter. Be forgiving. Be wise. Be careful and discerning. Ask God for wisdom and follow His leading. Be faithful to God, for He has been and will be faithful to you! People will fail you, but He will never fail you!
With love and prayer, Pastor Mark
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May God give us wisdom, comfort, and help from
Romans 8:26-39
“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
