GMBC ACTIVITIES AND OTHER DATES

Deacon Ordination: May 3, 2026, 6:30 PM, GMBC

Women’s Brunch: May 9, 2026, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, GMBC

Mother’s Day: May 10, 2026

Armed Forces Day: May 16, 2026

Memorial Day: May 25, 2026

GMBC VBS: 1-4 Jun 2026

ask and ye shall receive

God’s word, The Bible, is full of his promises. A lot of those promises have already been fulfilled, and we can know from them that God is faithful and will fulfill the remainder. He has promised us each several things. Read Matthew 5 and see a list of things he has told us about how we should conduct ourselves and what we will receive.

We often, as human beings, talk about how God seems to have forgotten about us and left us to fend for ourselves. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He didn’t create us to forsake us and is always right beside us, we just forget to look for him and can’t see him. Whenever he feels distant, it is because we have walked away from him, not that he has walked away from us. All we must do is call on him and ask forgiveness for walking away and he is faithful to be right there with us again.

God is also faithful with our requests. He always hears our prayers. I am convinced that there are three possible answers to our prayers, “Yes, No, and Not Right Now”. As children, which we all are, we don’t like to hear “No or Not Yet”, but they are sometimes the answers that we need at that moment. It is when we get the “No or the Not Yet” answers that we claim that God is not listening to us. Nothing could be farther from the truth. God always hears and answers.

We often say that God has failed to provide for us, because we lack the things that we think we need for a certain task. James 4: 2 says “yet ye have not, because ye ask not” (KJV). Maybe it is time to ask God for what we really need, rather than what we want and just think we need.

My Dad used to always ask me when I went to him with a request, “Do you need it, or do you just want it”. I believe it is time to ask ourselves that question about the things we are asking God for in our lives. Then Ask God, believing that he will answer us, and see what happens when he opens the floodgate of heaven and showers us with blessings.

By James Lively

A GOOD WOMAN

A good woman is proud of herself. She respects herself and others. She is aware of who she is. She neither seeks definition from the person she is with, nor does she expect them to read her mind. She is quite capable of articulating her needs. A good woman is hopeful. She is strong enough to make all her dreams come true. She knows love, therefore she gives love. She recognizes that her love has great value and must be reciprocated. If her love is taken for granted, it soon disappears. A woman has a dash of inspiration, a dabble of endurance. She knows that she will, at times, have to inspire others to reach the potential God gave them.

A good woman knows her past, understands her present and moves toward the future. A good woman knows God. She knows that with God the world is her playground, but without God she will just be played. A good woman does not live in fear of the future because of her past. Instead, she understands that her life experiences are merely lessons, meant to bring her closer to self knowledge and unconditional self love. Girl Smile…YOU KNOW YOU HAVE IT GOING ON!

SEE PROVERBS 31: 10-31

real mothers

*Real mothers don’t eat quiche; they don’t have time to make it.

*Real mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox.

*Real mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens, and happy kids.

*Real mothers know that dried playdough doesn’t come out of shag carpet.

*Real mothers don’t want to know what the vacuum just sucked up.

*Real mothers sometimes ask “why me?” and get their answer when a little voice days, “because I love you best.”

*Real mothers know that a child’s growth is not measured by height or years or grade, it is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mom.

A FEW UPDATED DEFINITIONs

ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in his conversation.

MOSQUITO: An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN: A grape with a sunburn.

YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.

TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage.

INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

Most of us over 65 were HOME SCHOOLED – in many ways.

1 My mother taught me to APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE: “If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

2 My mother taught me RELIGION: “You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3 My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL: “If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4 My father taught me LOGIC: “Because I said so, that’s why.”

5 My mother taught me MORE LOGIC: “If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

6 My mother taught me FORESIGHT: “Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in and accident.”

7 My father taught me IRONY: “Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

8 My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS: “Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9 My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM: “Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10 My mother taught me about STAMINA: “You’ll sit there until that spinach is gone.”

11 My mother taught me about WEATHER: “This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12 My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY: “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times, don’t exaggerate!”

13 My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE: “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out…”

14 My mother taught “me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: “Stop acting like your father!

HOME SCHOOLED TO BE CONTINUED IN JUNE