Joy

Pastor Perry Burgess of Walk on Water World Outreach Church

Awesome message today by Pastor Angie Burgess at Walk on Water Church. Joy...."The Joy of the Lord is my strength". Some awesome examples of Joy today:

Roy Looney, who lost his wife of 50 years to cancer finding joy and a soul mate and announcing it to the church. Happiness is contagious, Roy.

The worship today was fantastic. People are learning how to worship and finding that "In His Presence is fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore".

Altar call today...obvious joy breaking out all over several people who responded, including new people. You could get used to this, right?

My Pastor, Perry Burgess is an encourager, a man who lives out his faith in front of me daily, who loves the Lord with all his heart. When he was watching his wife, Angie deliver the message today, the happiness inside of him kept bubbling over and he couldn't help but smile.

I say make somebody happy everyday, even if it is yourself.

I needed this message today. Thanks Angie for your obedience, Perry for your trust in me, Healing Flow for your awesome heart for worship, and Walk on Water church for taking this journey with us. Anyone in Northeast Georgia who is looking for a church that thinks outside the box needs to come out and experience the difference. 217 Sandy Creek Road in Commerce Georgia.

Today's set list:

Hosanna by Paul Baloche

Our God by Chris Tomlin

Glorious Day by Casting Crowns

The More I Seek You by Keri Jobe

Gotta Have Faith by Healing Flow

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in the flow,

jack

Time flies

We moved Daniel into an apartment in Atlanta yesterday. Frances and I are about to be empty nesters for the first time this week. Where did the time go? We enjoyed meeting Ben, his new room mate and Kevin and Lorie, Ben's parents. We seem to have an amazing amount in common, starting with the Love we all share for the Lord, and for our kids.

Walk on Water church is operating now in the big city of Commerce, Georgia, my home town, and we are having some great services. We even had a taste of camp meeting this morning as some spontaneous old school praise broke out....such as When I Think of His Goodness, Look What the Lord Has Done, Enemies Camp and such. What fun!

The rest of the worship set this morning:

Holy is the Lord by Chris Tomlin

Treasure by Healing Flow

Mighty to Save by Hillsongs

Your Love is Extravagant by Darrell Evans

Grace Flow Down by Chris Tomlin

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Here's an original about time....

Time by Jack Balthazor (ASCAP)

Copyright 2009 Healing Flow Music (ASCAP)

Time is but a vapor

Here today, gone tomorrow

Life is so fragile

breakable, changeable

Never ending, yet sudden

Eternity unstoppable

Stops by to remind us

What is man that Thou art mindful of him?

I want to be in Your Presence, Lord

I want to live in Your time and place

You know no boundaries

Your love knows no limits

A day is like a thousand years

a thousand years is like a day

Got a minute?

You Can't Get the Holy Spirit from Watching Carol Burnett

A little random, perhaps? A blast from the past, all you old Visions fans? Or a reality check on a Tuesday afternoon?

My old friend Corky wrote a song talking about T.V. and it's ability to take us away from what is important. The TV Blues was a fun little tune, with a message that rings true 30 years later. "The best way to kill some time is to read God's Word. So please Lord, deliver me from my TV set". I was reminded of this last night when I noticed that Terry Ross, Missions Pastor for Grace Fellowship and former lead singer of Visions had Carol Burnett Show listed on his facebook page. Facebook...now there's an addiction for you.....Terry, forgive me for this but I cracked up when I read that. And yes, folks....don't worry about Pastor Terry Ross, he is most definately Spirit filled and walking with the Lord.

I wrote a song a couple of years ago called Treasure which is based on the scripture that says "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". As a worship leader in a missions church, where a great number of our congregation come for the free food and a place to spend the night, I am always concerned at the attitude toward worship that many people have. Worshipping God together is a privilege and an honor and leading others into His Presence is an awesome responsibility. Sunday morning I heard His Spirit within me say, " If you do what you have always done, you will always get what you've always gotten." I encouraged our congregation to go after God and see what happens. If we are looking for a free meal, to satisfy our flesh, for our ears to get tickled, that can surely happen, but what if our treasure, our real reward is to be in His Presence and to drink from the river of life and feast on His word?

I'm so glad we had this time, together, just to have a laugh and sing a song. Seems we just get started, and before you know it, comes the time we have to say, so long.....

In the flow,

Jack

This weeks set list at Walk on Water Church:

Path of Life by Healing Flow
Our God by Chris Tomlin
Trading My Sorrows by Darrell Evans
Amazed by Jared Anderson

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