Subject: He Has Given Us Room! A Report from Our First 2026 Intercessory Prayer Dear BCC Family, Hallelujah! A resounding praise to the Lord this morning! Eighteen prayer-filled souls gathered for our very first Intercessory Prayer of 2026. Despite the morning's weather and road challenges, nothing stopped us from stepping into God's promises for this new year. It was a powerful declaration that when we seek Him, He meets us. We began by anchoring our time on the foundational promise God gave to Isaac in Genesis 26:24: "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham." A couple of powerful truths from this verse set the triumphant tone for our session: Fear not, I will bless you, I will increase for the sake of Abraham... From this foundation, the Holy Spirit wove a rich tapestry of scripture through the believers present: From Isaiah 51 ...
Was and Now Ephesians 2:7–10 (MSG) Now God has us where HE wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower Grace and Kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all His idea, and all his work. All we do is trust HIM enough to let HIM do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join Him in the work He does, the good work He has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing!! Paul describes two themes from this chapter- 1) Death to Live 2) Division to Unity - It tells us who we were and who we now are — and the distance between those two is entirely the work of Grace. we were dead, Paul says, not struggling or striving, but dead — and yet "God, being rich in mercy," made you alive together with Christ. That word "together...