Jacob's Well Church

Fear can grip us and cripple us. The message of Christmas is a call to serve God without fear because of the Gospel!

This weekend our Legacy Concert of Prayer was not a music concert, although there was lots of great music! Instead, it was a time of concerted, focused prayer. It was a time where we were led through different kinds of prayer and worship. It was an experiential time of learning that was designed to deepen our prayer and worship life as individuals and as a community. 

As part of our Legacy series this springboards us into a week of prayer for our church. Let us all be praying  this week that we are in step with the Spirit at Jacob's Well, and making proper preparations for the next twenty years of ministry and beyond.

The foundation of grace is generosity. God is a giver and those who would seek to be like him will become generous in every aspect of the word. Learning to be enriched in every way and generous in every way is the key to living a life of meaning and significance. Giving of your self and of all you have is the joy of stewardship.

Life is busy! So busy that it is distracting us from choosing what is most important and living a life that matters now and for generations to come. God teaches us to number our days so we can gain a heart of wisdom and live our lives on purpose for His purpose. Our life is full of changing seasons. Seasons of laughter and dancing and seasons of crying and mourning. In the busy, in the seasons, God wants to align our hearts with His so we can learn to be stewards of the time we have been given. Then, we will be living a life of Legacy.

In this message we arrive at a turning point in the book of Ecclesiastes. The Teacher now shows us the secret of living wisely in a life full of chaos, confusion and uncertainty.

We only have so many days here on this earth, under the sun, so how do we make that time count? What does it look like to build a Legacy for the generations that come after us?

As we walk through the Book of Ecclesiastes we will see that this life is hard to figure out. How do we live in a world with so much uncertainty and random chaos?

God is Love. We are to abide in His love and Love one another.

God is light. Coming close to God is an invitation to come out of the darkness where so many of us hide and to come into the light of reality.

We come with a lot of baggage around the idea of holiness. But we have a holy God who has created holy people for a holy purpose. We need to grow our understanding of God as holy - he is uniquely set-apart, more than we can bear, in complete harmony and worthy of reverence. May we orient our lives to His holy purposes.