WELCOME!

The Rock Church family welcomes your visit to our new website. We sincerely hope you will enjoy reading the daily devotional. Take time to pray about the specific prayer topic for the day, and worship with the video selected. Know that you were in our hearts when we put this website together. Be blessed!

WEEKLY SCHEDULE:

Sundays -

11 am - Sunday Morning Service
- K.Y.D.S. Church
- Youth Bible Studies

Tuesdays -

7:30 pm - "Night Watch" Prayer

Wednesdays -

8 pm Bible Studies for Adults

For more information click on the "Bible Studies" tab.

Thursdays -

8 pm - Music Ministry

For more information click on the "Worship" tab.

Friday -

8 pm - Youth Service

For more information click on the “Youth” tab.

SPECIAL EVENTS:

FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL SERVICE -

Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 11am

ANNUAL CHURCH PICNIC & WATER BAPTISM

Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 10 am - 5 pm.

Location: Corey Beach ... Patchogue, NY 11772

Mark it NOW on your calendar ...
you don't want to forget!

Start inviting TODAY all your friends, neighbors, co-workers and family ... have them SAVE the date, because you don't want them to miss out on all the blessings, inspiration, fun and celebration.

Daily Devotional

Sunday, May 20, 2012

"I've told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you. I'm no longer calling you servants because servants don't understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I've named you friends because I've let you in on everything I've heard from the Father.”

John 15:11 - 14 (MSG - The Message)

“You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because servants do not know their master's business.”

It is a remarkable position God puts us in, no longer called servants but friends. Elsewhere we find we are no longer orphans but God's children. In Hebrews we read, "Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters" (Hebrews 2:11). We are not only God's friends, but Jesus' brothers and sisters by divine intervention. Not by anything we have achieved but rather because God has chosen to make us holy. Thus we are in God's family alongside Jesus who is also holy not because God made him holy but because He always has been. Earlier in John we find, "On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you" (John 14:20). So we see God places us in this privilege position.

From this position God wants us to know His "business". Jesus tells us "everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you." Some days we may think we haven't a clue as to what God is doing. However we do know about God's long term plans. We know God's purpose is to bring people into a closer relationship with Him. We know God's purpose in sending Jesus was "to destroy the devil's work" (1 John 3:8). We know God is working towards a culmination where everyone will acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord (Philippians 1:11).

While we may not know the day to day details of God's plans, we can trust Him because we know the end result is good.

-by Susan Barnes

Please say this Prayer of Faith if you want or need more of God in your life:

Dear Heavenly Father,
I repent and come before you just as I am, with all my sins and faults. I confess Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I believe in my heart that you sent your Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross for me and on the third day you raised him from the dead. I thank you Lord, for receiving me now, forgiving me, healing me, protecting me, making my life brand new, and for writing my name in the book of life.
In the powerful name of Jesus I pray. Amen.