GOD IS DOING SOMETHING BIG!

Our little church in Winchendon MA is experiencing a powerful work of God. It is a prayer movement the likes of which I have never seen in the 45 years I have been involved with the church.

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It is something I knew was coming. I have been telling our community that there was coming a day when God would call us together and we would need to pray because the needs would be too big for us to handle on our own.

Since January I have watched a growing desire for MORE of the Spirit of God in our congregation.

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We held twenty one days of fasting and prayer in January in partnership with The Worship Room House of Prayer in Winchendon. They offered and I encouraged three hours a day of prayer seven days a week for the 21 days! It was an amazing time.

From that time to this our Sunday services have seen an increase in faith. There has been one financial miracle, one supernatural healing, one baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues and several of our members have made the decision to move toward the next steps of full time ministry.

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There has also been a deepening desire for and call to prayer. The Worship Room House of Prayer has now made a decision to permanently increase to seven days a week raising the number of prayer meetings they hold weekly to 21. Cornerstone Church has started what we call JESUS 45. Two mornings a week we meet at 6 A.M. to pray for 45 minutes. The last two weeks we have had just under 30 people meeting for the Tuesday meeting!

These meetings are coming at just the right time. Our town is facing some pretty big needs just now. Our local paper reported that the town is facing a $4,000,000.00 shortfall for FY 26. What are we going to do?

WE ARE GOING TO PRAY!!!!

GOD IS DOING SOMETHING BIG!!!!

THE FOREST GARDENING BEGINS 2025

I have now met with our Vicarage gardening team either in person or on line. We have started peppers and tomatoes in pots. This week we will start the broccoli in pots to get it started before we put it out under the covered beds we are getting ready.

Here is a video I watched on planting the broccoli.

Next come the early greens and the peas.

Oh! I also received our Jerusalem artichoke bulbs.

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and the Belgian endive seeds.

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I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER WAY

Lately I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the state of our world.

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I see what appears to be a forest fire approaching our culture.

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I also see part of the culture sitting back saying, “Nothing to see here.”

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I see trouble ahead.

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I also believe that if we are in the time I think we are, then there is no avoiding that trouble. We are on a one lane road and there is no UTURN.

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I hear people calling for action…uprising….even violence.

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The world is polarized and divided and people are saying, “It’s us or them!”

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I have people urging me to: PICK A SIDE…RIGHT OR LEFT; TAKE A STAND… LEFT OR RIGHT; VOTE THIS WAY AND BLAME THOSE WHO DON’T VOTE THE SAME; STOP TRYING TO MAKE NICE WITH THE OTHER SIDE. WE HAVE TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM THEM AT ANY COST.

BUT

I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER WAY.

It’s an ancient way. It is an eternal way.

It is the way of…“let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ” 1 John 4:7,8

It is the way of...”‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Matthew 22: 37-39

It is the way of… “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” Matthew 5:44

This way is neither left nor right. It is straight ahead.

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This way doesn’t choose the human way. It chooses God’s way. It leaves saving the world up to God and makes loving people its priority. It doesn’t choose riches or primacy. It doesn’t choose money or security. It chooses relationship. It chooses community. It chooses sharing, encouraging and sacrificing for others.

Most of all this way doesn’t view this life as the “be all and end all of existence.” It accepts all of life on this side…good, bad, and ugly

AND

It accepts that there is life even in death… and that life is light, love and laughter.

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SO IN THE DAYS AHEAD…

I will choose another way.

I will choose the way of loving God and loving people.

I will choose the way of peace.

I will choose community.

I will choose relationship.

I will choose sharing.

I will choose encouraging

I will choose the way of sacrifice.

I will choose to pray for the Lord’s salvation to come quickly!

WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?