MONTHLY CALENDAR
COMING UP:
Good Friday Service - Friday, April 3, at 6 pm. “Jesus’ Journey & Communion”
Regular Scheduled Meetings and Bible Studies Meet in the PS Building
Weekly Sunday Morning Adult Bible Study - (From 9:00 - 9:45 am)
Weekly Wednesday Night Bible Studies - 7 pm.
Women’s Ministry - Saturday, April 18, Meeting will be held at 10 am.
Watchmen’s Prayer Night - Thursday, April 16, at 7pm.
Website Monthly Prayer Strategy - Monthly (See below)
Teen Group & Children’s Church - Meet Sunday Mornings
For more information: Text (520) 743-9500 or email chapelsl@yahoo.com
OUTREACH
Radio Program: 12:30pm Monday-Friday on KGMS 940
The NET (Small Group): Son Life Chapel's home Bible study ministry aims for greater opportunities of fellowship and discipleship Call church for more info. (520) 743-9500
“Acts Of Kindness”
Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35
Areas Of Need:
Start Right Here Homeless Outreach Ministry - Currently collecting Care Kit items for those that will be going out and ministering to the homeless in our community.
Gospel Rescue Mission, and Haven
Would appreciate your help with hygiene items, new or gently used clothing, and new undergarments.
(For Children, Women, and Men.)
All items can be brought to the church, Ed Grijalva will deliver your donations to the organizations. Monetary donations are also welcome.
“Look Into His Presence”
Repentance - The key to Revival
The message of the Lord to king Solomon was: ”if My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from Heaven, I will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (II Chronicles 7:14).
There is power in turning from sin, repenting from sin, and turning back to God. The greatest miracle that Jesus provided for us, by shedding His blood and giving His life for us, is the freedom from sin. Healing through repentance applies to individuals, groups, the church, and cities. Nineveh was a city that heard the Word of the Lord, were convicted and they repented. But Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh to deliver the Word, instead he fled to Tarshish in disobedience.
Jonah 1:1-3
Jonah’s Disobedience
1 “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. “
Jonah 2:1-9
Jonah s Prayer and God’s Answer
1 “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly.” 2 And he said: “I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your billows and Your waves passed over me. 4 Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; the deep closed around me; weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. 7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; And my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple. 8 “Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.”
Jonah 3:4 …Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Nineveh was the capital of the great Assyrian Empire, it was a very vile and fierce Empire which showed no mercy on her conquered lands. Yet a simple message caught the ear of the king, he called for national repentance, and God spared the nation from His Judgment through a great national revival. This is one of the greatest revivals in human history.
It was all because a reluctant prophet repented, obeyed, and went to a great city of a great empire and preached the message from Heaven. God saw their repentance and stayed His judgment.
The message of repentance has become a lost and unpopular message in the church today, but it is the key to freedom from sin and destruction. Sin binds people and sin destroys nations. Sin in the church makes the church powerless, while repentance (turning from sin) makes the church powerful. Jesus is coming for a glorious church without spot or wrinkle.
When a nation that was born as a Christian Nation, turns away from God, and sins, if it does not turn back to God, repent, and turn away from sin, that nation will suffer judgment.
America is in that place right now and it is time for us to repent and turn back to God, but it starts with understanding that we must humble ourselves before God, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways.
Pastor Gil
April Prayer Strategy
1 Timothy 2:1-2 (NLT) 1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. 2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.
We are in a Spiritual war not against flesh and blood but against evil. There is turmoil in our world right now because the enemy wants to sow chaos, discord, and hate. God wants us to sow seeds of order, harmony, and love. People need prayer and people interceding for them. We want to thank the Lord for our leaders, and pray the Lord will help them. All people need God’s help especially kings and those who are in authority. God wants us to live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. Let’s pray for a swift end to various ongoing global conflicts. The top ten nations Christians are persecuted in are North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Libya, Iran. Nigeria in particular needs prayer, it is the epicenter of violence, with the highest number of Christians killed for their faith annually. Let’s pray for those in authority of these nations where ongoing persecution happens that it would stop attacks against Christians and that revival would so burn through these nations that they would be forever changed by the Gospel. Pray for peace. Pray against the principalities of darkness that are at war with America and pray their influence be diminished to nothing, pray their followers be converted, and pray that they would loose power over institutions from those in government, to financial institutions, private companies, and criminal organizations. Pray also against corruption and fraud that has been robbing from those in real need. Pray justice would prevail and that criminals would be judged righteously and be stopped from harming the innocent. Pray against the perversion of our court system. Pray that the courts would not release violent criminals back into society if they are not rehabilitated. Pray violent individuals would be arrested and kept from harming innocent people. Pray for all people everywhere.
Pastor Jon
