http://antiochtabernacle.org/blog/illinois-news-radio-antioch-meets-this-saturday-night/ Christian Teaching, Commentary and Media from Antioch Tabernacle Ministries Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:59:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://antiochtabernacle.org/blog/illinois-news-radio-antioch-meets-this-saturday-night/comment-page-1/#comment-53 B augustyniak Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:57 +0000 http://antiochtabernacle.org/blog/?p=341#comment-53 Dave, I cannot help but think that our Lord is taking us through an " Egyptian experience" in this coming year. By that I mean a period of leanness before we can then again experience a period of dynamic blessing in our own individual spiritual growth regimens. It is an amazing fact you find when you examine the rings of a fallen tree. That among the rings found on the trees cross section, the thicker ones in the pattern are not actually those that experienced more bountiful years of growth. They are instead those years following an extremely hard season,where the tree has had to adapt to harsh conditions. Then in in the years following, can only then truly appreciate the nutrients, the moisture, and the beneficial growing environment in which it has found itself rooted. It is also in these lean times where the tree exerts greater effort to put it's roots down even deeper in the soil. This establishes an even more firmer foundation, to withstand against the storms that would try to prevail against it. I firmly believe that we the "church" have become to "fat" in this past decade, and we can now choose to either "put down our roots deeply" or to continue to on with our formula of "business as usual" and then be subject to the outcome of the forthcoming storms that will be facing in our futures. B.C.A. Dave, I cannot help but think that our Lord is taking us through an ” Egyptian experience” in this coming year. By that I mean a period of leanness before
we can then again experience a period of dynamic blessing in our own individual
spiritual growth regimens. It is an amazing fact you find when you examine the rings of a fallen tree. That among the rings found on the trees cross section, the thicker ones in the pattern are not actually those that experienced more bountiful years of growth. They are instead those years following an extremely hard season,where the tree has had to adapt to harsh conditions. Then in in the years following, can only then truly appreciate the nutrients, the moisture, and the beneficial growing environment in which it has found itself rooted. It is also in these lean times where the tree exerts greater effort to put it’s roots down even deeper in the soil. This establishes an even more firmer foundation, to withstand against the storms that would try to prevail
against it. I firmly believe that we the “church” have become to “fat” in this past decade, and we can now choose to either “put down our roots deeply” or to continue to on with our formula of “business as usual” and then be subject to the outcome of the forthcoming storms that will be facing in our futures. B.C.A.

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