Bobby Lepinay

Uprising

This Sunday, we start the "God On The Billboards" sermon series! 

Tommorrow morning at 9:30 they record the interview that will be playing this weekend on TK101, so please PRAY that God would use it to draw people to church this Sunday.  And YOU......take this opportunity to INVITE, INVITE, INVITE to Harvest as well!!

We see this as a partnership:  You have the relationships out there we dont have, ie, your gym friends, your mom's groups, study groups....coworkers....whatever.  We on the other hand commit to proclaiming the Gospel as clearly as possible and providing a fertile environment where the Holy Spirit draws hearts in a life-giving way.

All you have to do is INVITE!!!!!

This is a video of the song we are doing this Sunday by Muse.  Dave is doing something else, entirely different video concept, and has put alot of hard work into it.  The band is rehearsing tonight  and tommorow night at our new Annex Warehouse. 

So what direction to you think I am going to go with the message??? :)

See you Sunday....and looking forward to meeting your friends and family you get there!!!

PB

21 Days of Prayer

This past Sunday, as I was out prayer walking before our services, I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit.  A word was impressing on my heart and mind:

That single word was "FOCUS".

Starting August 1, this coming Sunday, I will personally begin something I am calling "21 Days of Prayer".  For 21 days, I will be pressing into God for personal revival and souls to be added to His Kingdom through the 'God on The Billboards' series. 

Personally, I need more of Jesus.  I want deeper intimacy with Him, with the Holy Spirit.  I need a fresh encounter with God Himself.  As a church, we are embarking on our most evangelistic series of the year, "God On The Billboards", starting this coming Sunday.  I want to see people enter the Kingdom of God, period.  Lots of them.

Harvest is a Great Commission Church.  We focus on helping seekers become Spirit empowered servants of Christ, ie, 'disciples'.  God is helping us to do this.  Case in point:  TK101 found out about the God On The Billboards series and is doing a FREE interview with me this week that will run all weekend! 

LOVE IT!!!!!!

I am still working out this 21 Days of Prayer initiative, but for those of you who want to join me, I am asking you to send in the name of ONE person you are wanting to see saved, that for these 21 days, I can join you in focusing prayer on just them, believing for their salvation.  Put it on the Connect Card this Sunday.

Also, I will be sending out via a short text each morning whatever the Holy Spirit gives me in my prayer time.  If you are interested in receiving this, just email the church at harvest@harvestpensacola.com and you can get the instructions. The code is PRAY21.

Beyond that, I just ordered off Amazon the book "Ruthless Trust" by Brenden Manning, as well as downloaded the new Hillsong album from Itunes.  My morning time with the Lord will look like this:

• Read the day's assigned passages from our Victory Bible Reading Plan (get at our website, www.harvestpensacola.com under the media tab)
• Put on headphones, leash on Mia, worship to Hillsong, pray off whatever Holy Spirit prompted in my time in Word, pray for the people I am standing with you for, souls.  Pray in the Spirit...much.
• Later in the day, when I can break, prayerfully read 'Ruthless Trust', as I feel the Holy Spirit is going to use this book in this season of my life.
• Oh, one last thing:  Fasting.  I was asking the Lord about what to fast and woke up this morning with a distinct sense of direction.  I am to fast from saying ANYTHING negative for 21 days.  A 'Negativity Fast'.  Words are powerful, carrying the power of life and death (Prov 18:21).  I want my words to be more life-giving. 
• This may be the hardest fast I have ever done.  :)

After the 21 days, I plan to go back to journaling using the SOAP method.  I am excited about the breakthroughs that lay ahead!

Enough for today,

PB

 

God On The Billboards 2010

This coming Sunday begins one of our BIGGEST attended message series of the year at Harvest, "God On The Billboards"! 

I have spent this morning beginning preparation for Sunday's message.  The song we will go off of this week is by MUSE called "Uprising".

Our band is going to ROCK it!!!

I am scheduled to do a 30 minute interview with TK101 on Friday I believe.  Be praying for FAVOR with those listening!  Pray that the Holy Spirit DRAWS them to church so they can hear the Good News!!!

And begin praying about friends to invite!  "The harvest is plentiful....the workers...those who will invest and invite.....are few." 

Will you????

Have a great week!

PB

Skill

In all my Bible reading this past week, one verse in particular stood out to me from Psalm 78:

"He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.  He took him and made him the shepherd of His own people, Israel.  David cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands." 

This past week, Debbie and I went to the Grow Conference in Birmingham.  It was intensive and our brains were tired afterward, but it was really challenging for me.  People ask me all the time why I go to leadership conferences year after year all the time.

My answer?

I never want to stop growing as a leader.  God graciously gave me a gift.  It is MY responsibility to develop it, to develop my "skill set" as a leader to God's people.  And if I read the parable of the Talents right (Matt 25), I will be held accountable for what I did in developing that gift.

My experience is that many leaders are lazy.  They level off.  Their churches level off.  I want to break through any barriers.  That starts with breaking through barriers in my own life and leadership.

I was challenged this week and intend to "rework" much of the inner workings of Harvest in the fall.  We are doing alot of things right and well.  But there are things we can do better at and I won't rest until the Lord returns. 

I want to hear one thing:  "Well done, my good and faithful servant!"

See you Sunday!!

PB

A Strong Word To Men

Mark Driscoll, Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, is one of the most dynamic speakers in America.  He is hated.  He is loved.

But one thing is certain:  He will almost always stir the pot.

I recently watched this short piece from one of his messages.  I think the guys in his church got the message!! :)  You really have to hear the whole 5 minutes of this.  I promise: You will never forget it!

I have been married to Debbie for 26 years now.  I wish I had heard this at the beginning of my marriage.  When the Bible says "husbands be considerate of your wives", it means it.  I failed in this.  But I am giving the rest of my earthly life to treating God's daughters, my wife, my girls, like just that:  HIS daughters.

To men being men....

PB

Worship

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the subject of "worship" as of late.  Here are some random thoughts:  (feel free to jump in..!)

• Sunday morning, I looked back and saw that the front section of the theater was pretty much engaged, hands lifted to heaven, eyes closed, worshipping God.  The 2/3rds beyond that?  Like a different church.  Looked (may not really have been) bored.
• Worship is engagement with God.  Does that mean it will be reflected outwardly, ie, hands raised, etc..?
• What does it say if we are embarrassed to show our love for God?
• How much does knowing the songs, or, liking the song, have to do with it?
• Do I even have to have a song???
• How do we get more people engaging God at Harvest???

We will be talking about this more this coming Sunday.  God wants worshippers who will worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4).  Are we really doing this?

Grace on your week...!

PB

Golf Course Bail Out

You may have read in the papers a few months ago that the developer of Marcus Pointe Golf Course was going to close the course unless he got help from the homeowners. 

That would be me and 550 others.

After months of meetings, the 2/3rds majority was received to go forward with the bail out.  This will cost us each about $40 a month.

Interesting times we live in......! :) 

Can you say "Bailout Nation"??  Its in the air....

See you Sunday for our "Random" series!

PB