Sunday morning Mona and I went to Coastal Virginia Church or Cova Church where she attends. The worship service was uplifting and there was a guest speaker that spoke about the missionary efforts to build schools around the world for the Pentecostal church. He mentioned how God had to set certain things in place before each of the schools could be built. For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the death or over throwing of several dictators in Africa and the Middle East all had to happen first. He spoke about how they had to endure the hardship of those conditionals until God brought about the change that allowed their work to prosper and their dreams be fulfilled He said not matter how daunting the obstacle, like the wall was, he and his group kept each other encouraged that God would make a way and that they needed to be prepared when the time came. This went along with what Dr. Denman said about needing to encourage each other when things are not the way we feel they should be.
That evening we went to Bayside Church of Christ and Bro. Ross spoke from Acts 1:12-25. It was the time before Pentecost but after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. According to scriptures Judas must be replaced as one of the 12 Apostles. The new Apostle had to be one who had been with Jesus from the beginning of His ministry and was an eye witnesses present at all His miraculous deeds. Two men, Justus and Matthias fit the qualification and were prepared to step into the role. They were not mentioned before this nor are they mentioned after this, but Matthias was sent out as one of the 12 to spread the gospel. They didn’t know they would be called but they were prepared.
All three messages went hand in hand to confirm the message we were being given.