When You Pray

Pastor Stewart and Family

Our Church Family

PenTab Academy

Our Communities

Our City Officials

Our Nation

Our Marriages

Our Children

PenTab Staff

Sunday School Teachers

The Parking Lot Bandits ( Purse Snatchers)

Our Deployed Soldiers Homebound

Elseda Haughton

Valetta McNally

Agnes Kirkland

Gloria Chin Francis

Mary Lee

Urcelena Lucas

Arthniel and Mervita Smith

Lurlene Harris

Victoria Cassie

Hyacinth Carnegie

Zareth Heslop

Grace Whilby Healing/Hospitalized

Leonie Bryant

Valetta McNally

Beverly Henry

Pauline Bown

Evadney Douglas

Leonie Green Bereaved

Algon Robinson and Family – lost his father

Barbara Loussiant– lost her father

Vernice Horton-lost her grandfather

Announcements

Join Pentecostal Tabernacle for

the Annual Family Day Picnic

Monday, May 30 at 10:00am

Venue: Brian Piccolo Park

Admission is free!!

Graduation Banquet

Saturday, June 18 at 7:00pm

Venue: Newport Beach Re-

sort Please join us in a

Special time of celebration with

all our High School

Graduates

U.S. Citizenship and Immigra-

tion Services On Tuesday, May 24th at 7:00

pm will be hosting a Naturalization Informa-tion Session for legal permanent residents and interested naturalization applicants.

Topics covered at this free session will

include:

The Naturalization Process

The New Naturalization Test

Rights and Responsibilities of U.S. Citi-

zenship

Ezra’s Consecration

“For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in

Israel statues and judgments.” (Ezra 7:10)

EZRA led a group of Israelites from the captivity of Babylon back to Je-

rusalem. He was a great spiritual leader of the Jews in the days of their re-

turn to the land. Here in our verse is expressed the great consecration of

Ezra. In it is preparation, meditation, application, and proclamation.

Preparation. “Ezra prepared his heart.” The heart is where you began any

endeavor if you wish to succeed. The reason many folk fail is because they

do not have their heart in what they are doing. In our text, preparing the

heart not only involved getting the heart dedicated; but it also involved a

proper relationship with God. Getting the heart right with God is the most

important preparation of all. For it prepares one for eternity.

Meditation. “Seek the law of the LORD.” Ezra was concerned about

what God was saying and how God wanted him to live, so he would study

the Scriptures earnestly. He would spend much time meditating on the

Word of God. Many are the shipwrecks of human lives in society who be-

came shipwrecks because they paid little attention to God’s Word. They

scorned God’s law but to the ruin of their lives.

Application. “To do it.” Ezra not only studied the Word of God to know

it, but he studied it to also do it. It is one thing to know the Scriptures; it is

another to do what the Scriptures say to do. We should all know the Scrip-

tures, but do not stop there—apply the Scriptures to your life. Ezra did not

study the Scripture to satisfy his curiosity or to just fill his mind with facts,

rather he studied it to live it.

Proclamation. “To teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” Ezra desired

to teach the Word of God. Teaching the Word is so important. We need to

teach the Word of God more than anything else. But you cannot teach the

Word unless you have first done as Ezra—prepared your heart, studied the

Word, and lived the Word. We first earnestly learn and live the Word, then

we can teach it.

SUNDAY First Fruits Prayer 09:30 am Christian Education 10:00 am Morning Worship 11:15 am Evening Prayer 06:30 pm Evening Worship 07:00 pm MONDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am TUESDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Fasting and Prayer 10:00 am Men’s Prayer meeting 06:00 pm U.S. Citizz. and Immig Serv.0:700 pm WEDNESDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Staff Devotion 10:00 am Pastor’s Forum 07:30 pm Youth Service 07:30 pm THURSDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am FRIDAY Early Morning Prayer 06:45 am Prayer meeting 07:30 pm SATURDAY OUTDOOR CLEAN – UP 09:00 am

Team 4

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 09:00 am Team 2

MAY EVENTS

May 1

Missions Sunday

May 5

National Day of Prayer

May 8

Mother’s Day

May 14

Tea Party

May 24

U.S. Citizenship and Immi-gration Services

May 27 - 29

PENTAB West Palm

Youth Revival

May 30

18415 NW 7th Avenue Miami Gardens, FL 33169 (305) 651-9696

www.pentab.org