Weekly Newsletter

Tuesday 9/6

Wednesday 9/7

Mixed Bible Study 3:00pm

at the Carriage Crossing,

1701 Congressional Way, Champaign.
Interested? See Meg Drennan.

Mixed Bible Study 9:30am

at the Bridle Brook,

21505 Patton Drive, Mahomet.
Interested? See Meg Drennan.

Youth Group 6:00-8:00pm

9/9

9/10

Thursday 9/8

Church Office Open 12-5:00pm

Worship Practice 7:30pm

Friday

Church Office Open 11-4:00pm

Saturday

Sunday

9/11

Mens Coffee 7:00am

Studying the Book of James!

Youth Group Workday 10-12pm

Join the students as they serve Jim and
Kathy Woods - Pizza provided!
401 N. Division Street, Mahomet

Starts in just 6 days!

Please Pray RIGHT NOW for
AWANA. Pray for all the leaders
who have committed to serve
this year. Pray for those who are
still asking the Lord if they should
serve in AWANA. Pray for those
who we have reached and those
who have yet to be reached.
Please Pray as Paul did in
Colossians 4:3 At the same
time, pray also for us, that God
may open to us a door for the
word, to declare the mystery of
Christ
Please Share this opportunity
with your neighbors so that we
might reach all the kids we can in
Mahomet!

Christian Education 9:30am

Adult Gospel Project with Jim Sackett

Standard Lesson with Bruce Henrikson
A Womans Heart Gods Dwelling Place
with the ladies of CEFCM

Childrens Sunday School 9:30am

Kids Church 10:45am

Worship Gathering 10:45am

Special Guest: Don Estep of AWANA

Starts Tonight!
6:00pm!

Find out more here about

AWANA: awana.yolasite.com
You can register directly
TODAY for AWANA here:
https://
communityfreechurch.wufoo.com
/forms/zmopucd1a5wbvd/

This year we will again be hosting a table at the Living

Alternatives Annual Life Banquet. If you are interested
in attending this free evening of dinner, powerful
testimonies, and hearing how God is using Living
Alternatives to intercede for the unborn in Champaign
County, call Jan Piasecki TODAY to sign-up.

Check your photo and information on

the back table in the worship center
today. We will be doing a major
update in the coming weeks to help
you stay better connected to your
church family.

This Sunday: 10:45am

Don Estep of AWANA

Read Isaiah 63:15-19 through 64:1-8.

What can make Isaiah 63 and 64 very hard to
understand, is the fact that the prophet is not
following a logical progression of thought, because
he is too caught up, too deeply moved by his
prayers to be concerned by that. Have you ever
prayed like that? Where the world seemingly moves
around as you ask God to move in the world?
Friends, one of the great things I love about the
Bible is the window it gives us into the lives of
people God is coming to just like us. In Isaiah
63:15-19 through 64:1-8, we are actually sitting in
on the prayer time of the Prophet himself, and as
we read it we are joining him in his prayers for
Gods presence. What jumped out to me as I read
these passages is that Isaiah is taking no rest from
persistently praying and in doing so gives God no
rest until He rises and His people become the
praise of the earth.
Isaiah 63:15 (Beginning of Isaiahs prayer)
Look down from heaven and see,from your
holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your
zeal and your might?
Prayers for revival begins when we acknowledge
Gods absence and how we have drifted from Him.
This is why Isaiah begins his intercession to God in
Isaiah 63:15 with look down, and then in 64:1
with come down.
Isaiah 64:1-2 Oh that you would rend the
heavens and come down...
I believe that this one of the great prayers of
renewal in the Bible that we can ever read, hear or
know because it asks God to come to us. Just as
God came and walked amongst the pieces of meat
in the covenant in Genesis, just as God came in fire
on Mount Sinai in the Exodus, just as God came to
Elijah, just as God came as Jesus Christ in the
Gospels, just as God came in the Spirit and rested
like tongues of fire in Acts 2 the prayer here is to
come and reveal His awesome power to the
nations. The point of the prayer is His presence.
Do you desire that the Lord would make Himself
powerfully known like this through His life changing
presence? That He would come down?
Isaiah 63:15 The stirring of your inner parts and
your compassion are held back from me.

The Inner parts, described in Isaiah 63:15 does

not literally mean that God has inner parts, but that
He does have deep and abiding feelings for His
people. There is nothing superficial about this.
While we may drift in and out of relationship with
God, these deep and abiding feelings that God has
are an anchor that cannot be moved.
Have you ever been through difficult seasons
where God feels far away? I have. There are times
when God withholds the experience of His love.
Season where the most loving thing for us is the
absence of experience, because something needs
to be learned. I heard recently, that when the
student is taking the test the teacher is very quiet.
There are other times that He pours out an
experience of His love abundantly, because He
knows that is what we need. In both Gods love is
no more or less present, just our experience of it.
Friends even in those difficult seasons, take heart,
God is committed to us. The work of the cross is
finished and the Holy Spirit has come as living
proof of this. God does not change, but our
experience of Him does change and He is the one
who changes it, to change us.
Isaiah 64:12 (End of the prayer)
Will you restrain yourself at these things, O
Lord? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so
terribly?
Isaiahs prayer begins and ends with that same
persistent intercession. It does not wane, as he is
asking God to make His presence known amongst
us - Lord, dont hold back any of yourself from us.
Come and change us with you presence because
you alone are our redeemer.
Isaiah 63:16
You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from
of old is your name.
Do you desire God in such a way, that like Isaiah,
this is your life changing, nation changing prayer?
Isaiah 64:1-2 Oh that you would rend the
heavens and come down, that the mountains
might quake at your presence - as when fire
kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to
boil - to make your name known to your
adversaries, and that the nations might tremble
at your presence!

(Check next weeks newsletter for part 3 of this article)