Where there is rain..there is a rainbow!!

Yesterday was another GREAT day at Grace Baptist Church-Gastonia!!  Everytime I walk through the doors of church, i expect great things to happen, and praise the Lord, He NEVER disappoints!! Even while in the nursery, I learn and grow so much!  I spent the AM service in the nursery with all the precious babies with two of our friends and my parents as workers! We really needed that many because there were so many babies.  Isn't God good?! Needing more workers because He is adding to our congregations is a problem that excites us!!
Last night's service was all about Noah!! So many know the story by heart, and there are so many great applications from Genesis 6: 8-22.  Joe preached a great message about Noah and the church today!! So often we as Christians try to do what 'we' think God has for us, but we need to first pray what God will have for us before accepting roles or jobs in the church as well as in life.  Also delayed obedience is nothing more than disobedience!! Knowing what God wants us to do and putting it off because of so many different reasons, is simply disobedience!!  The thing that hit me the most was when Joe talked about using his "sanctified imagination" and wondering what the people of Noah's time were thinking when the first raindrops hit the earth!! Can you imagine?!  Noah preached, for some would say 90 years, that a mighty rain would destroy the Earth, and it had not rained EVER!! I'm sure people thought he was a crazy man, but Joe related it back to when the Rapture comes, what will our generation think?! How many people will be left here thinking, "well that preacher/singer/Sunday School teacher/etc wasn't so crazy after all!" The problem with these people is that after the Rapture takes place, it will be too late for them.  This absolutely breaks my heart!! Never before have I seen the need for people to get saved by Jesus and Him alone!! Salvation isn't found only at church, praise God! God is such a big God that He can save you anywhere, even when you least expect it!! I have been a Christian for a long time now, and I am more excited than ever because of what I am seeing through dedicated people in my life!! We all need to strive to be like Noah!! "Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so he did." (Genesis 6: 8-22)

Brittany!!