GBC Community Update: Want to show true strength? Practice gentleness and prayer

Good morning. I hope you’re making this a great week!  We’ve started a new month. Are you ready? What are you excited about? 
  
Preservice Time of Prayer
There will be prayer every Sunday morning at 10 am at GBC - come and learn 18 ways to pray for your church!  There will be coffee and donuts.  There will also allow for praying online through the following link
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Join us on Sunday in-person or on our livestream as continue our winter series, “Firm Foundations”-a study of the book of Romans
The foundation of a building is critically important for the stability of the structure that sits on it. In many ways our faith and relationship with God needs the same thing.  How is your foundation.
This Sunday Jacob will be sharing about how we interact with the law as found in the Bible when it comes to our sanctification.
Want to prepare? Read the text for Sunday ahead of time: Romans 7
If you can’t make it you can connect through our website:  
www.guelphbiblechapel.ca  our YouTube channel as well as Facebook LIVE.
 
 
Thought for the day: Be prayerful and practice gentleness to show true strength
As I read the Bible, I am reminded often that Jesus was a man of prayer. With this in mind, as we look at character and how to live it out, we should seek to be prayerful in our own lives.
No matter how busy His ministry got, Jesus found time to be alone and pray. Whether it was in the garden of Gethsemane, across a river, or on a mountaintop, Jesus disappeared for a while in order to pray to God, the Father. People always tried to find Him, and He never turned them away, but He also made sure to make time spent with His heavenly Father a priority. May this be something our lives are noted by.
 
Okay, that was probably an obvious one.  But how about this?  Jesus was seen to have a spirit of gentleness.
There were certainly times where Jesus used stern words, but He knew when gentleness was appropriate. Children seemed to love coming to him, and He made sure the disciples knew not to deter them when they did so. When speaking with His disciples, mother, or other people, He could be very kind-hearted and gentle. But, when He was giving someone a rebuke or making a point in an argument, He knew when turning up the heat was necessary and only did so strategically. He could be characterized as meek. Meekness, or gentleness, is not weakness, but strength under control. In these emotionally-charged days this is a critical trait for we who would like to follow Jesus to practice.
In an era where we are seeing varying expressions of power, the one who is prayerful and shows gentleness is the true practitioner of strength and thus character.
 
In His grip,
Pastor Chris