And He Will Give You the Desires of Your Heart

Heartbeat

May 21, 2017

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“Take delight in the Lord,

and He will give you the desires of your heart.”

Psalm 37:4

Prayer List

Janice Kindig (improving), Kim Adams (waiting on tests), Leslie Womack (needs our encouragement), Alice (Stella Selvaggio’s daughter

– lung inflammation), Philip and Heather Booker (adopting a child),

Crystal Wade (expecting a baby – health concerns), April Sholty (expecting a baby and injured her knee), Dorothy Hanson (Steve’s mom - recovering at home), Philip Booker’s grandmother (recovering from broken wrist),

Hillary (Andrew Wade’s patient – waiting for a kidney transplant), Jaimie Hinderliter-Faneuf (coworker of Dakoda Lanier – heart attack), Dick Young

(C Diff infection), Brandy Gerber (cancer), Family of Mark Scott (killed in a car accident)

Graduation Celebration – Zach Hanson: 6 PM at Izaak Walton, 725 Seven Hills Road, Metamora. Zach will be attending Freed-Hardeman University in Tennessee.

Nicaragua Trip: Bryan and Ann Reeves will be leaving this Thursday, May 25.

Park Bible School: Each Wednesday evening in June. There is a volunteer signup sheet on the bulletin board.

Adoption Fundraiser: For the Bookers, July 7 in Roanoke. There will be food, an auction and maybe entertainment. They are looking for volunteers to help. Talk to Heather for details.

Birthday Cakes: Volunteers are needed to bake cakes for residents at Roanoke AC Nursing Home on June 14.

Power Reading: Psalm 37

The Power of Words

by Marvin Williams

Nelson Mandela, who opposed the South African apartheid regime and was imprisoned for almost 3 decades, knew the power of words. He is often quoted today, but while in prison his words could not be quoted for fear of repercussion. A decade after his release he said: “It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are, and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.”

King Solomon, author of most of the Old Testament book of Proverbs, wrote often about the power of words. He said, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Prov. 18:21). Words have the potential to produce positive or negative consequences (v. 20). They have the power to give life through encouragement and honesty or to crush and kill through lies and gossip. How can we be assured of producing good words that have a positive outcome? The only way is by diligently guarding our hearts: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (4:23 NIV).

Jesus can transform our hearts so that our words can truly be their best—honest, calm, appropriate, and suitable for the situation.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Psalm 19:14