Sick and Shut-In

Ruby Bradley –   Doyle & Quitta Goodspeed

Oneita Wallis  – Martha Mitchell 

Patricia Stevenson – Thomas Carson- Charles Murrell Sr.

Military Prayer List

Michael Blackman

Jahnee McCoo

Brannon Rose

Samuel & Ja’Nae Wells

Prayer Requests  For April:

Bro Robert Montgomery was admitted to Baylor Scott White, Grapevine On April 7^th.

Remember Bruce &Tammie Smiths’ family in your prayers. They funeral her uncle on Saturday

Brother Thomas Houston lost his 1^st cousin on Saturday in Longview (Allie Rene Martin)

Bro Fredrick Reed confessed sin and requested prayer for a coworker with corona virus and a friend’s daughter that got stabbed.

Bro Michael Finch requested prayer

Sis Ollie Carter’s sister Ada Bell has very serious health issues.

Thelma Clemons, she is dealing with grief.

Bro Chris Clark for job conflict resolution

First Line  Responders & Essential Workers

Bro Cortney Pitts’ daughter has tested positive for the Virus.

Sis Eliase Tibbits’ daughter Brenda Holloway (exposed to Corona Virus)

Bro & Sis Taylor’s daughter’s father-in-law (recovering from a blood clot)

Bro Leonard Smith (recovering from pneumonia)

Bro John E. Smith (has health Issues)

Sis Rita Murray asked for prayer for her mother (This is also Ann Sanders Mom)

Sis Ann Sanders radiation treatments were stopped. Her doctors are looking for an alternative treatment.

Sis  Vicky Hawley Health Issues and medication availability.

Sis Yolanda Reynolds –recovering from shoulder surgery

Sis Sheila Riley’s brother Reese Williams in Michigan is now home recovering from the Corona Virus.

Sis Sylvia Mitchell’s mother is now home recovering from a stroke.

“Happy is that people whose God is the Lord”, Psalms 144:15.  

People are seeking happiness universally.  Men of all ranks and stations pursue it.  The general inquiry is: How shall I find it?  To this we hear answers like:  “Seek in gold.  Everything can be had for a price.  “Another say: “Seek it in paths of human greatness.”  A third answer is: “pleasure and comfort.  These alone will bring happiness.”

What are the results of these inviting pursuits?  Poor deluded men try one or all of these and find that he is not really happy but more dissatisfied and wretched than ever.  How then could one say that happiness might be achieved if the finest this world has to offer, falls so for short?

The Psalmist says that God’s people are happy and in saying so seems to say that they have found a formula that has escaped the wisest of worldly men.  He says that happiness is a natural result of being a child of God.  How can this be?  The true Christian is happy for many reasons:

*He is happy because of divine peace.  Peace with God through Jesus is promised in John14:27.  This peace casts our fear and relieves the heart of many anxieties of life and death.

*He is happy because of divine adoption.  Gal.4:5-7 teaches that he has the privileges and rewards of a faithful son.

*He is happy because none can take these things away.  Rom.8:35-39 clearly states that no power on earth can remove God’s people from Him without their consent.  Yes, these are HAPPY PEOPLE.

J. R. CHISM