Fuel Church

Our First Service will be
Sunday the 24th at 11 am
Baptist Student Union
at Carl Albert College
Poteau, OK

Come for a message and time of worship.

For directions and more information, please click on the Fuel Church
link to the right.

Taking refuge

It is good to know that I have a God who loved me before I was born, who accepted me as his child the day that I accepted him into my life. I have followed God's will through out my life, at times it has not been easy. Growing up I was one of those people who always tried to keep peace in my home. My parents did not get along very well in my early childhood years. I spent many days and years praying for them, what I found to be true is that I am not the peacemaker, God is. The day my Dad and I accepted Christ into our lives, peace came over our family. My parents were seperated, my dad called me one Wednesday Night and ask if I would go to church with him. My dad did not go to church, I typically went to church alone on the church bus, or with my mom. That night I went to church with him, and we accepted Christ into our lives. Then we were baptized together. It was my first and true baptizm, a day that changed the life of my family and brought us back together.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be BAPTIZED every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Act_2:38-40)


The devil is attacking me today, and he is attacking me in every weak point I can imagine. I am doing what I know is best to do, pray and cling to scripture. I cannot be a peacemaker, only God can be the peacemaker. I am going to carry the last verse of the following scripture with me in the following week. I know that my God loves me and has confirmed his will in my life more than once. No matter what arrows may come against me, I know my God is fighting my battle. I know that my God is giving me the strength to fight the battles brought before me. I thank God for his goodness and grace.

Psa 64:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psa 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
Psa 64:3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Psa 64:4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Psa 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
Psa 64:6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
Psa 64:7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Psa 64:8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
Psa 64:9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.
Psa 64:10 The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory.

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HOPE

Job 11:15 Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.
Job 11:16 You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
Job 11:17 And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
Job 11:18 And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.

This is for my friend, and you know who you are. There is always hope. One day, you will be able to lift your face, and find your life will be bright again. Even though it is hard to do right now, cling to the hope you are given. I know I am. I will never let go of hope. Sometimes I think it is all I have. I am determined to cling to that and I choose to never let go of it. Because life will bring us down, and in life will come sickness, pain, things we don't understand, things we don't feel that we deserve, people that will judge you when their lives are just as messed up as yours, people that will never understand that there is no big or little sin, people who cling to things that don't even matter, people who will befriend people over things they don't even understand. There will be days that we will feel like it is all we can do just to roll out of bed and search for a smile deep within. This is not the world Joel Olsteen says it is. Life is not always happy and good. But through Christ and friends, there is always hope and a peace that surpasses all understanding. Cling to this, you have friends that love you and are here for you, you have a God that is always good, and some how, and some way, he will see you through even the greatest trials, even when it seems the world is against you. Let your strong will and heart carry you through.

Blah Blah Blah

I am not writing today to send Godly wisdom, I simply am having a blah day. Ever have one of those days where you just can't seem to snap back to your normal self. I'm just ready for something good to happen. It seems like my life has been filled with so many stressful things lately and sometimes days just seem hard to get through. I know I am whining. I am sorry. I guess it's time to just be thankful. I am sitting in a nice warm little house, filled with food, clothes, furniture, and anything I truly need and more. I just need to say it, God is Always Good. Yes, I am stealing this from you Ryan. But I have needed to say that more than once this week. I know that I am not the only one. The devil truly seems to be having a feild day with so many people I know. As I sit here with tears streaming down my face, I am telling the devil that he has not won the battle. That I may be beat down, my friends may be beat down. But God is our Saviour, and he loves us and he will prevail in our lives. Whether it is work bringing you down, or someone is in the hospital, money is in a pinch, I want you to say what our friend Ryan says, that is "God is always Good". I am so thankful that my God is Always Good. Even when I am not, even when life is not, he always has and always will be good.

My Gay Friend................

Some of you have already been offended by reading the title, yet you feel intrigued to go on and read whatever it is I have to say. Some of you have already made up your minds that whatever I have to say is going to be somewhat offensive. Some of you probably think that since I had a gay friend that I must think it is OK to be Gay. However you would be wrong. I did not agree with his lifestyle, but there were things in his life that I agreed with that I do not see in a lot of christian people today. He was friends with everyone. Men that were straight and married, married women, single women, single men, gay people, christian people. I sat and looked around at his packed out funeral, and realized he was real with everyone. If you wanted to talk church to him, he would sit and listen. He often talked about wanting to go to church. Just a week before he died me and another friend of mine had a long conversation with him about heaven and hell. Do you think he would have listened if wouldn't have given him the time of day before then. People felt comfortable inviting him to church, despite his non practicing lifestyle. He was a friend to everyone, and everyone felt as though they had truly lost a friend. If we as christians are not friends with the sinners, then who will witness to them. If you try to witness to them without being their friend, do you really think they will listen. I like people to be real with me. It is not biblical to talk about people behind their backs and pretend to be their friend to their face. It's time we learn something, we are going to have to eat with sinners and communicate with sinners. How else with they truly know who we are and want we have got, if we are not around them enough to show them. If we don't ask them everyday how they are doing, or being concerned when something seems wrong. When I die, I want a room full of friends at my funeral. A room full of christians and sinners, that hopefully when I die something that I did or said while I lived will live in their hearts and somehow grow. I wonder if Johnny remembered our conversation about heaven and hell in his last minutes of his life. Was he thinking about the words I said, that the only way any of us will truly know if it's real is when we die, and I hoped he had a chance to make it right with God because I wanted him to find that heaven was a real place. I hope that one coversation, may have been enough to change his life for eternity. What conversations will you have in the coming week that you hope someone will remember in their final days? What will you do for a sinner to show the love of Christ?

Labels.................

Have you ever been labeled? Labeled as the person with tattoo's, the party guy, the shy person, the punk kid, the dummy, The Baptist, The Pentecostal........I could go on forever. The truth is that we have all been labeled, and probably more than once, most likely everyday. How do we get labeled? Have you ever been labeled by association? If you would like to explore more about why you are labeled and how to peel off the label once it has been applied to your life, then we want to invite you to our home group. If you are interested in attending, please go to fbcpocola.org (or click on the link to the left of the page) and click on the homegroup icon. You will find a list of homegroups available, the times and locations. We come together in small groups so we can have a time of food, fellowship, and time of study.

PS............................................................................... If you are in one of our church homegroups, I want to ask that you leave a comment about what God is doing in your homegroup and what you have learned.