Old Savannah Baptist's Podcast

Getting us in the Christmas mood young Grace Alcorta provided us with the song away in a manger.

Dalton Buchanan singing saved to the uttermost

Danny Hall's testimony and a song following

This morning, Sunday November 23, 2014 Pastor David preached on the "Fires of Favor" from Luke 1: 28-30. Mary had plans and dreams but GOD interrupted her life. He never interrupts our life at a convenient season. Angel told her she was highly favored but not in the way Mary thought. There is always a test before triumph. Will you stand when you don't have the strength to stand.

Did Mary think this was favor?

- Pregnant out of wedlock without being with a man

- Had to tell Joseph

- Endure gossip and being an outcast

- Had to ride a donkey all the way to Bethlehem

- Had her baby in a barn

- Had to be on the run for 2 years

She was tenacious and did not quit. We now have a generation of quitters. No staying power.

Remember GOD chose you for the task. Need to take plan and keep walking.

Marys tests did not end there, saw her Son falsely accused, no where to lay his head, tried, crown of thorns, beaten, made to carry cross, crucified, side pierced, buried. Until the empty tomb and she saw GODS plan live again. Was in upper room when Holy Ghost came Acts 1:14. Stay with it till you get your Joy back Joel 2:25.

So tell yourself: I am digging in. If I can just stand one more time, fight one more fight!

1 Thessalonians 5: 19-22

Each verse has to do with preaching:

Verse 19 "quench not the spirit": the spirit can be resistant, spirit grieves and the spirit can be quenched.

Verse 20 "despise not prophesyings": preaching should be:

1. plain

2. personal

and 3. promising

Verse 21 "prove all things; hold fast that which is good": today many accepts anything that comes from people - we believe everyone who say they are Christians are, when they are not.

Verse 22 " abstain from all appearance of evil": things that are not good (i.e. movies, music, tv shows, or books) get rid of these things as they are the appearance of evil.

Elizabeth Souderes singing Dark Places

One more, spirit led song for us at Old Savannah.

Victorious Valley Girls join us in our services to bless us with singing, testimonies and passages from the Bible.

Your Flag and my Flag! And, oh, how much it holds - Your land and my land - Secure within its folds! Your heart and my heart Beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, Red and blue and white. The one Flag - the great Flag - the Flag for me and you - Glorified all else beside - the red and white and blue! Your Flag and my Flag! To every star and stripe The drums beat as hearts beat And fifers shrilly pipe! Your Flag and my Flag - A blessing in the sky; Your hope and my hope - It never hid a lie! Home land and far land and half the world around, Old Glory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound!