The Cove Community Church, a ministry of www.InFaith.org

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12/15/2022

For the past week, a single oak leaf has been stuck on my window. Fragile and tissue-paper crisp, it’s held captive by an abandoned web and relentlessly battered by the wind. I can’t help but relate, when a season of life abruptly changes, and whatever I thought was holding me secure is gone.

Sometimes what follows seems like a trust fall exercise: unsettling, but thanks to prior life lessons, endured with confidence of a gentle landing. Other situations are scarier and feel more like a free fall—experiences that make me ask, “How much longer can I endure?” Perhaps, like me, you also at times find scriptural advice tougher to implement when you’re blown off course and trapped in a hostile circumstance.

Yet this is how God planned for His children’s faith to grow. In the devotion for August 7, 2021, Dr. Stanley says: “God doesn’t enlarge our faith instantly; it’s a slow process that happens over our lifetime and often involves trials. Each time we choose to believe the Lord and step out in obedience, we gain greater confidence to trust Him the next time … Try looking at each difficulty as an opportunity designed by God specifically for the purpose of increasing your faith as you see His dependability in action. With each step of obedience, your trust in Him will strengthen.”

Sure, unexpected tempests might detour us to where we feel stuck or beaten up. But Scripture teaches that God controls and has purpose in every breeze, gust, and tornado of our life (Gen. 50:20; Ps. 103:19; Jer. 29:11). He custom-designs our trials to mature and fortify us, and when we cooperate with Him, not a one will be wasted.

Adapted from “Free-falling With God,” by Sandy Feit

08/28/2022

So fitting for today.

"I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church." (C.H. Spurgeon)

08/27/2022

Greetings to you all. I am hoping to use this site a bit more from here on out, and so wish to say happy weekend to you all. we will be looking into II Corinthians 6:11 - 7:1 tomorrow and what it might look like to "Be Holy" in an unholy world. Hope to see you there. Also, we would like to see this site used more for encouragement and praise, so feel free to add to the page posts that are following along those lines. Please refrain from any posts that are not Christ honoring or The Cove Church related. The same goes for the message board. Folks have been getting notices on their phones of a message only to find it's not a praise/ prayer request or a church related message. Thanks all and have a great Saturday.

08/09/2020

Looks like it could rain tomorrow, but there will still be church at the Lynum house at 10:30

03/04/2019

"I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church." (C.H. Spurgeon)

02/11/2019

To live with determined purpose is a high goal to aspire and strive for.

02/01/2019

Since you are tempted without ceasing pray without ceasing.
Charles Spurgeon Daily

12/12/2018

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