Hi Newport Church Family,
We hope you had a faith-filled week and are experiencing God’s grace for this season!
It’s Miracle May and we’re believing together for God to do extraordinary things in our house, our neighbor's house and God’s house.
Charles Spurgeon said, “To pray is to enter the treasure-house of God and to gather riches out of an inexhaustible storehouse.” As we pray and ask God to move on our behalf this month let’s remember that prayer is not laying hold of God’s reluctance but rather laying hold of His willingness!
We hope you have been able to join us for our weekly devotional “Have Faith!” and that these have been both inspiring and faith-building.
Over the last two weeks, our focus and reflections have been on how we can have an “Ever Increasing Faith” and on how we navigate the tension between “Facts and Faith”.
You can access those and our latest weekly devotionals with the QR code on the Miracle card we mailed to you, or you can click on the link here.
A big thank you to all those who have sown their time, talent and treasure in this season. We are making a difference together! We want to continue to be a storehouse that can provide for the needs of our church family and our community.
As we pray together and ask God to move miraculously in our lives, I’m reminded that the miracle is in the seed. Within every seed lies potential for exponential growth and multiplication.
Within one seed lies the potential for an orchard or a forest. Jesus spoke about the multiplication of seed in many of his parables, including the sowing of His own life as a Seed that would bring the rich harvest of salvation to the world.
The miracle is not in the fruit, it’s in the seed! Paul highlights this when he speaks about God’s promise to multiply the seed that we sow.
Let’s keep sowing like Isaac did in the midst of the famine, and reaped that same year one hundredfold. When we take care of the sowing, God takes care of the growing!
A reminder that on Sunday May 31st the last day of Miracle May we will be giving our annual Miracle Vision Offering. Our prayer is that this will be a significant and supernatural offering which will not only enable us to help many more people but that God will miraculously multiply the seed each one of us sows.
Let’s take time to pray in the coming weeks about what God would have each one of us do, remembering God’s promise, “whoever sows generously will also reap generously” 2 Corinthians 9:6
We look forward to you joining us on Sunday at 10 am and connecting through the many zoom call opportunities we have available during the week.
We love and appreciate you all greatly,
Jonathan and Dianne Wilson
Senior Pastors