Sunday Services: 10:30 AM
505 South Sixth St. Burbank, CA
91501

FaithView, For Storm Riders:
“I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.”– Psalm 37:25

I love a cold house.

I’m not talking about cold in attitude or spirit, but cold in temperature–everything is fresher, I breathe better, I cannot put an exact finger on why but I do.

I enjoy the feel of my bed early in the morning when the comforter comforts. My face feels the cold, but the rest of me is tucked away nice and warm.

This is where I was at 5:30 this morning when prayer time came. Sometimes it can be earlier, but generally, I will get up at 5:30 and disappear into the living room for some morning minutes with the Lord.

This morning it was cold.

This morning I was working off of four hours of sleep.

This morning my bed and comforter felt like they never had before. Like an ephemeral addiction, I needed them. Just for the now.

My bones were tired, but eyes were open. My brain was clear. No cobwebs, no middle ground between dreaming and being awake.

Did I mention it was cold?

My eyes shifted, I looked around in the darkness; it was the perfect time to pray. The perfect time to get my day started. It was the perfect moment. God saw fit to clearly wake me, as he does so often at 5:30 A.M.

My mind attempted to claim fatigue, but it wasn’t there. My rationale brought up all the praying I had done at the board meeting the night before, and the Bible study the night before that.

Plus, it was cold, and I could not bring myself to do this thing.

I don’t know what your path, or God’s plan for you is…but this is something he set me on a while ago.

The testimony is I have abandoned myself to God. I am sold out. I have surrendered what Rev. Ron Kearns used to call “that self-centered, carnal, focus.”

This is a moment in the day the Creator of the universe wants to have with me…to enrich me, equip me, to bless me…to show me something new…and I reasoned, and I rationalized, and I made my case for staying in bed.

Because it was cold.

When I settled I wasn’t going to move from the comfort of my comforter; I digressed to the next level of apathy.

I attempted to pray lying down in bed.

The Creator of the universe wants to have a moment with me, perhaps with you too, and I can’t throw on a pair of sweats and go out to meet him the living room?

It’s cold, and I was all about his business the previous night at the church board meeting.

(Let’s not waste time on how praying in bed might work for you, the elderly, or the infirmed…We’re talking about a healthy adult male)

The prayer went nowhere, and in the middle of rolling back over in my bed, I apologized to God.

First instinct is to say “Well, pray at noon Joe” or “Go get’em tomorrow” or “Go to bed earlier tonight”…

Sure, but even if I employ all those efforts…I will never get back this morning. I will never get back the opportunity I had with the creator of the universe, who I willfully chose against meeting with this morning.

“If we lose the vision, we alone are responsible, and the way we lose the vision is by spiritual leakage.”
— Oswald Chambers

How easy it is for us to trade out God.

We won’t trade him out for a calf made of gold. We are wise enough to know we shouldn’t trade him out for money, fame, or any other form of sex, drugs and rock & roll.

But we will trade him out to be comfortable. We will trade him, him who is most faithful, him who has never forsaken us, for a pseudo peace.

Oh, so careful we should tread each an every moment. Oh, so careful we should be to recognize the precious majesty of his timing.

Boom!

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The Week of VBS Has Arrived.

The church has been decorated…Enrollment is full…But we can still use your hands and financial support…Please pray and see how the Lord would lead you to participate in this great week.

Paul and The Underground Church begins Monday at 9:AM-noon and runs each day until next Friday.

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Burbank Faith now has a Twitter account. You can follow us at; @BurbankFaithNaz

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Eric Canto has created a Burbank Faith channel on YouTube and has placed all of our recent services there. Go check it out.

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July is Camps Month: Remember July is camps month…Junior High, High School & Kids will all have separate camps at Granite Ridge.

District Assembly is July 12-14
(It is one month later this year due to General Assembly (Indianapolis) being held June 21-30.)

SrHi Camp: July 16-21
Kids Camp: July 23-28
JrHi Camp: July 30-August 4

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“Big September” every Thursday in the month of September (7, 14, 21, 28)…Old Testament overview. We’ll feed you and care for the kids. Mark your calendar. Big September is just like Big Wednesday times four…

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Did you know?
On this date…

…In 1683, English Quaker William Penn signed his famous treaty with the Indians of Pennsylvania. Voltaire once remarked that it was the only treaty never sworn to, and never broken.

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Church Calendar:
June 25: Sunday Service, 10:30 AM…Sunday evening “Prayer Hour” from 6-to-7:00 PM
June 26-30: VBS Week
July 6: Church Board Meeting
July 12-14: District Assembly
August 12: Church Garage/Yard Sale
“Big September” every Thursday in the month of September (7, 14, 21, 28)

As believers, we have to remain in continual prayer for all of our first responders…all our leaders…not a political party but for those carrying the heavy burden of leadership in our country and communities.