Bobby Lepinay

Israel Bound!

At 6am tomorrow, Pastor Roger and I fly to NYC to meet a group of ARC Pastors to make pilgrimage to Israel.

Words fail to describe how excited I am!!

A highlight will be taking communion together in the Garden Tomb where Jesus was buried, right under Golgatha were he was crucified.  Walking the path Jesus took carrying His cross, going to the Jordon River where He was baptized, Mt. Carmel and Elijah's cave where God spoke to him....on and on the list goes of what lies ahead!

Make sure to be at Harvest this coming Sunday, as I will be updating you guys then.  Please pray for us.  I am expecting major "God Moments" on the journey!

Love you much!

PB

Weekend Review 1/12/12

• Let me begin by saying my disappointment in this football season knows no bounds:  LSU STUNk IT UP......The Saints lost....then Denver gets creamed.  
• Now for the Super Bore.....I mean bowl :)
• The change to 9am on Sundays from 8:30 for early service has been a HOME RUN.  Record crowd this past Sunday.
• We did it to balance out the 2 services and make room in the 10:30.  At the rate we are growing presently, we will need to be out of the Rave theater much sooner than we had planned.
• Our plan now is to find warehouse/office space that we can quickly get into that could seat 600 in a given service.  Think we have one around the corner from Harvest Learning Center on L Street, 17,000 sq feet.
• We would still be focusing on getting into the Plaza, redoing the entire theater, but it will buy us time and give us room to grow NOW.  Eventually, the L Street property would become Youth facility and permanent offices.
• Growth Track has been a knockout success as well.  27 attended 201 last night.  This is my favorite class to teach.  
• LOVE the energy and momentum right now!
• Small Groups for Spring semester less than a month away.  If you have an idea for a group, email it to Pastor Rich at harvest@harvestpensacola.com
• I am really loving the testimonies I am continually hearing in this season:  Salvations, real, bonifide healings, true life change taking place right under our noses.  
• Our mission, helping seekers become servants of Christ, is really happening.  So cool to be a part of a church that is DOING the Great Commission, not just talking about it.  
• Praying for God to do a great ingathering of people in our city to Christ through all the churches in our city that love Him and honor Him.  In the month of January, EVERY service has had people come to Christ for the first time.  
• I am so ready to go to Israel next week.  The series we are doing on Passover makes it even better timing, as I know it will all come alive!  Especially looking forward to the Upper Room.
• Friday night, 7 to 9pm, the Annex will host a special city wide worship time for all the churches involved in Pray for Pensacola.  You are invited!

Love you guys,

PB

A Dying Man's Last Words

Saw this today and really affected me.  It very much reminded me of my own dad on his deathbed in 2009. Pop had become a Christian a few years before.

Eternity is real.

PB

 

The Winds Have Shifted

A few months back, as I was running one day, the Holy Spirit whispered to me, "The winds have shifted."  I suddenly realized that from that point, the things we have been doing that were so hard will now become easier and easier.

The winds of favor are a wonderful thing indeed.  This past Sunday you could feel it in the air.  Hard to explain, but the winds have indeed shifted.  Here are a few verses I shared January 1st for this coming year.  I encourage you to print them and make them your own, claiming them for your own life and family:

Psalm 5:12
Surely, LORD, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield. 

Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. 

Psalm 90:17
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands. 

Psalm 102:13
You will arise and have compassion on your people, for it is time to show your favor; the appointed time has come. 

Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor…..

Love you guys!

PB

PS  Sad for all you Bama fans for what is about to happen tonight! TIGERS RULE!!!!