 Upcoming Events Sunday December 12 Special Offering Day Sunday December 19 Christmas Program No evening services Wednesday December 22 No night service Sunday December 26 No evening services Wednesday December 29 No night service Sunday January 2, 2022 No evening services Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule December 5 – Heather and Brooklyn Graham and Lyla Brayan December 12 – Lilly Bryan, Alexis Graham, and Madison Jones December 19 – Sandy Smith and Felicia Wilson December 26 – Libby Blasingame and Teri Bryan January 2 – Cora Reese and Joyce Van Norman Join us on Social Media! Facebook: @faithoutreachokolona Twitter: @faithoutreachms Instagram @faithoutreachokolona Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users
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Sunday November 7, 2021 Fall Festival - 5pm Join us for games, food, and candy! Daylight Saving Time Ends, fall back one hour Wednesday November 24, 2021 No services Thursday November 25, 2021 Thanksgiving Day Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule November 7 – Teri Bryan and Ruth Bramlett November 14 – Debbie Ausbern and Cindy Long November 21 – Margaret Tackett and Jan Boone November 28 – Deanna Thompson and Joy Blasingame December 5 – Heather and Brooklyn Graham and Lyla Bryan Join us on Social Media! Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users  Upcoming Events
Sunday October 10, 2021 Special Offering Day Sunday October 31, 2021 5th Sunday Lunch, no evening services Sunday November 7, 2021 Daylight Saving Time Ends, fall back one hour Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule October 3 - Lilly Bryan, Madison Jones, and Alexis Graham October 10 - Sandy Smith and Felicia Wilson October 17 - Libby Blasingame and Teri Bryan October 24 - Cora Reese and Joyce Van Norman October 31 - Jennifer Morgan and Payge Morgan November 7 - Rose Houk and Ruth Bramlett Join us on Social Media! Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users Pastor Jimmy and Ann Bryan . HWY 41 N. Okolona, MS . 662-447-3080 . www.faithoutreachokolona.com  Upcoming Events Sunday September 5, 2021 No Evening Services Sunday September 12, 2021 Special Offering Day Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule September 5 - Debbie Ausbern and Cindy Long September 12 - Margaret Tackett and Jan Boone September 19 - Deanna Thompson and Joy Blasingame September 26 - Heather and Brooklyn Graham and Lyla Bryan October 3 - Lilly Bryan, Madison Jones, and Alexis Graham Join us on Social Media! Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users Pastor Jimmy and Ann Bryan . HWY 41 N. Okolona, MS . 662-447-3080 . www.faithoutreachokolona.com  Upcoming Events Sunday August 8, 2021 Special Offering Day Sunday August 29, 2021 Fellowship lunch following morning worship; No Sunday School that morning or evening services Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule August 1 - Sandy Smith and Felicia Wilson August 8 - Libby Blasingame and Teri Bryan August 15 - Jennifer Morgan and Payge Morgan August 22 - Cora Reese and Joyce Van Norman August 29 - Rose Houk and Ruth Bramlett September 5 - Debbie Ausbern and Cindy Long Join us on Social Media! Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users Pastor Jimmy and Ann Bryan . HWY 41 N. Okolona, MS . 662-447-3080 . www.faithoutreachokolona.com  Upcoming Events Sunday July 4, 2021 Independence Day, No Evening Services Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Sunday Morning Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Nursery Work Schedule July 4th - Margaret Tackett and Jan Boone July 11th - Deanna Thompson and Joy Blasingame July 18th - Heather and Brooklyn Graham and Lyla Bryan July 25th - Lilly Bryan, Madison Jones, and Alexis Graham August 1st - Sandy Smith and Felicia Wilson Join us on Social Media! Podcast: Search "Faith Outreach Okolona" for Android, iPhone, or iTunes Users Pastor Jimmy and Ann Bryan . HWY 41 N. Okolona, MS . 662-447-3080 . www.faithoutreachokolona.com  Upcoming Events Sunday September 6, 2020, Labor Day Weekend No Evening Services Sunday September 13, 2020 Special Offering Day Nursery Open All youth classes will meet at 6 PM Service Times Sunday 9:45 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Worship 5 PM Intercessory Prayer in the Chapel 6 PM Youth and Evening Services Wednesday 7 PM Bible Study Celebrate Recovery Monday and Thursday 7 PM Join us on Social Media! Don't miss out on God's blessing on tithes and offerings! Please send your tithes and offerings to Bro. Jimmy Bryan 31312 County Line Road Okolona, MS 38860  By Author Emerald Barnes
(All Bible verses are in the NKJV copied from www.biblegateway.com.) The greatest lie Satan tells is “what if…?” What if this? What if that? What if? What if? What if? And he’s persistent with it too. That thought gets stuck in your brain, causing it to be the only thought you dwell on. And why does he do that? To get you out of the Word. I’m speaking from experience, but my experience also has OCD in it. I won’t go into more details here, but I recently spoke up about my experience with OCD and fear in my life on my personal blog. Still, between Satan and the OCD, my life has been a constant fear/worry/anxiety-filled battle field, especially for the past year. And Satan knows what he’s doing. He’s really good at reconnaissance. He knows exactly how to hit and what to hit us with. He knows exactly what will bring us to tears and hold us back.
Satan is always out looking for some way to devour you, and when he finds that way in, he’s very adamant about it. He will do anything to keep you in a place where you can’t grow, a place that will keep you away from pursuing God’s will for your life. Like in my case, it was to keep me inside, away from the people I have the potential of reaching for Christ. We all have a purpose, and Satan knows that. He knows that God has created us for greatness, and Satan doesn’t want us to achieve that greatness. Simply because once we step into what God has for us, we know that we have authority, and when we realize the kind of authority we have, there is nothing the enemy can do to stop us. We become unstoppable when we realize who we are in Christ, so Satan will do everything in his power to keep us out of the Word and out of faith so we will never discover who we are in Christ and accomplish what God has in store for us. Yet, when the enemy comes against us, the best thing we can do is use the Word against him. Quote scripture to him; praise God; and use your words, the words that God has used. Your authority comes from the Gospel—the good news, the truth, and it's our job to stay in the Word, to study it and know what God has said about us. It's time to discover who you are and get out of the doubts, the what-ifs that Satan holds us back with. Whatever your "what if" is, don't let it define you. As Kenneth Copeland says, "Don't let the devil see you sweat!" Today, take that lie of "what if..." and counter it with the truth, what the word says. What if I'm never healed? The Bible says that it is God's will that we ARE healed. What if I die alone? The Bible says there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother; that He will never leave us or forsake us. What if sicknesses and diseases come against me and my family? Psalm 91 says that no sickness or calamity will come near our dwellings! There is always an answer in the Word. Take Satan's lies and tell him God's truths. The truth will always set you free. "Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." - John 8:26  By Lynn Morgan
I don't think there's any subject that man has been able to cover exhaustively concerning Holy Scripture. We may have seen books entitled "An Exhaustive Study" on whatever topic in the Bible. But in truth, we can only handle what we're able to handle at the point we find ourselves in. The Pharisees had an idea they knew it all so much so there was nothing left for them to learn. I believe some of the Pharisees are still around. What about you? How many times have we read a passage and seen some truth we've never seen before? It just kinda jumps on us. Take a three or four year old child. You can tell them, "No, don't do that," not wanting them to harm themselves. But if you try to explain all the reasons why they should not, it'll be over their heads. At some point, it becomes one of those "because I said so" moments. I heard a minister from Mississippi say this not long ago: "We never get completely through on any subject in God's word; we can only follow The Spirit of God 'til He says it's time to unplug from this topic for awhile." Could it be before we can go any further there are some other foundational truths to be stirred up? I think so. One thing's for sure, we have much to learn. Paul was a faith preacher if there ever was one. God speaking to us through Paul's writings are just as much for the church today as in the early church, after all, there's only one church. "The just shall live by faith"...."we walk by faith and not by sight"....the word of faith which we preach"...."it's impossible to please God without faith" just to name a few. We, as believers on and in The Lord Jesus Christ, must put God's word in us so much so that it comes out of us automatically. "The entrance of His word gives us light". God said through Paul: "They believed and they spoke, we believe also therefore we speak." We are either walking in the natural and tolerating everything as "that's just the way it is", or we are being "transformed by the renewing(continually) of our minds" to what God has said. It's "either or": walking by faith in what God says or walking by our natural sense and reasoning and our five physical senses alone. But to walk by faith—it has nothing to do with intellect or what we feel but what we trust and believe in as TRUTH in our hearts. You can trust God. What He has said, He watches over it to perform it. There's none like Him; He's not a man that He should lie. We need to expect Him to do exactly what He has said. Trust in Him with ALL your heart. Remember, waiting on The Lord IS expecting Him. We are to put our confidence in God, not man. We need to be "FULLY persuaded" as Abraham believed "what God had promised HE (The Lord God Almighty) was also able to perform". Trust God today in Jesus' name. With God, nothing shall be impossible.  By Author Emerald Barnes
Transparency has never really been my thing, but there is something cathartic about being honest—at least in writing and not face to face with another human being. I've been dealing with some things lately, mostly fear, and I hate admitting that. I know there is no reason to fear anything, but I can't help it. It feels like Satan's voice is extremely loud and annoying, and it's all I can hear lately. It was never my intention to get into this state of mind. It just happened. And the longer it happened, the louder this voice became. And this voice began to choke out the Word. It had gotten to the point where I couldn't believe anything. That I was worried and fearful of just about everything. That's the thing about fear. Eventually, it becomes louder and louder, more obnoxious, more determined to keep you in this constant state of anxiety, to the point where you can't do anything. And that's the point. Satan wants to keep us in this place of constant fear so that we'll forget all that God has told us and all that God wants us to do. If Satan could keep us in our house, away from souls we could potentially win for the Kingdom, then he's doing his job. But it's our job to stop him. First, we have to know that we have all the power here, not Satan. Oh, he likes for us to think he has the power, but Luke 10:19 (AMPC) says, "Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you." God has given us all the authority and power to take care of the enemy ourselves. And, He clearly says that NOTHING will harm us. No matter what lies Satan is telling us, God assures us that we won't be hurt in ANY WAY. How amazing is that? Second, we have to remember that Satan is the father of all lies (John 8:44). There isn't anything he can do but lie to you, so when these overwhelming and overpowering thoughts come to you, those thoughts that are on repeat and keep you anxious and in fear? Yeah, those are from the father of lies. He only wants you thinking his thoughts, not God's. And when this happens, it's important to remember God's words. That's why it's so important to stay in the Word. And that brings me to the last and probably most important point. Stay in the Word. If you start repeating and believing what the Bible says about you, then you can defeat Satan and his minions easier. Believing what God says about you is so much more important than believing these lies that Satan wants you to think. It's a simple statement, yes, but sometimes, we forget that. We start believing what Satan says and we let him choke out the truth. That's why we have to read and remember the Word. We want the Word coming out instead of Satan's negative thinking. Our words, God's words, will win the battle, though the war has already been won. We don't have to do this alone. Speaking to you about fear is something that scares me because it opens up what I've been dealing with, but you know what, I'm done. I'm tired of fighting Satan when God has already won this war for me. And it can be that way for you, too. Today, let's not fear or worry about what Satan is saying and start remembering what God is saying to us. "Fear not, child." What can anyone do to us? God is our protector. He is our Savior. He is our Father. He won't let anything harm you. Today, if you're struggling with fear, doubts, worries or anxieties, I have a prayer of protection for you. It's something that is prophetic and you can take to heart. It's Psalm 91 but rewritten as a prayer via Kenneth Copeland. Pray this over yourself and your family daily. It really does make a difference when you're ready to face Satan and tell him to leave you and your family alone. It really helps when you're fearful and anxious. And it's proof that God will not let any harm come to us! Start believing this today! |
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