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Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 08TH 2026, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

I do my best praying to God when I’m alone – whether at home – or in my car (especially driving around Sebring) – or in any public place. When it comes to praying out loud with others – I often feel like it didn’t sound right, or I stumbled with words, or the right words weren’t there when I needed them, or I left something out that I wanted to say.

I pray often for everyone I know – people I see every day, people I see every so often, and people I haven’t seen in years. I pray for my closest brothers and sisters of my first two church families in Homestead, and I pray for my current church family here in Sebring. I pray for my Sebring Historical Society family. I pray for my neighbors here in my dream neighborhood that God placed me in 3 years ago. Even if I don’t yet know their name, or I’ve forgotten their name – I still pray for them. God knows who I’m talking to Him about.

I say the words “Thank You Lord” often in my prayers. It’s how I start every prayer. I thank God for all that He has done for me – and all that He is currently doing for me – and all that He will do for me. I thank God for blessing all of my friends abundantly.

If you’re a believer and follower of our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ then I encourage you to pray often. You are qualified to pray – privately and publicly – no matter the time and place. When asked – I pray aloud in front of others even though I don’t think I’m good at it. But God. He just wants to hear from us – often. He doesn’t care how smooth talking we are. He wants to hear us in our own words and in our own voice.

Some believers don’t / won’t pray, but they will ask a Pastor / Preacher / Evangelist / Priest / Minister / Deacon / Elder to pray for them. God commands all of us to don’t worry about anything – instead – pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done. Then you will experience God’s peace – which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7 NLT)

It’s as simple as that. Ask yourself – aside from yourself – how many of your family members, friends, neighbors, and complete strangers will receive miracles from God because of what you prayed to Him ?

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday February 01ST 2026, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

Today is the coldest Sunday morning of my 19-years of driving to my church body. We’re in the mid-20s (Fahrenheit) this morning with wind chills in the mid-teens. When our church gathering ends at 11:30 AM today – we may reach the 40° mark. That sounds normal for practically anywhere in North America – aside from South Central Florida where I live !

It’s also Communion Sunday at my home church. I’ll be leading Communion right after 4 songs of Praise + Worship. By the way – we broadcast our entire Sunday morning church service from start to finish on our YouTube page. Our services start at 10:30 AM U.S. East Coast time, and they usually run to just past 11:30 AM. (They are also available on demand after airing.)

My Communion today is based on Acts 26:13-18, Romans 10:13,15, and: “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.” (Mark 16:15)

I’ve been asked about politics being preached. I don’t do it. My first Pastor of 8 years pretty much avoided it. My second Pastor of 9 years did it a bit too much, and it alienated members of the church. Whether it was overt or less obvious – it made some of us uncomfortable even if there was just a hint of political views sprinkled into the sermon. My current Pastor avoids it, and I appreciate that.

As a general rule I don’t discuss politics with anyone. I don’t wish to know what anyone’s political views are – even if I may agree with them. I don’t want to know anyone’s thoughts about any politician. Politics divides. Politics ends friendships and relationships. Politics can get you hurt or worse.

I believe that – as a Pastor or a Preacher or an Evangelist from the pulpit or the altar or from behind a keyboard – if you’re talking or writing about politics – then you’re not talking or writing about God. I’m a Preacher of God’s Good News.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 25TH 2026, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

Last Sunday morning at my home church we began our (probable) year-long message series from the Book of Acts. We covered Acts 1:1-11 which documents the promise of the Holy Spirit and the Ascension of Jesus. The Book of Acts is a continuation of the Gospel of Luke – written by Luke the Physician. It begins where the Gospel of Luke ends. The Gospel of Luke and The Book of Acts are essentially a two-part chronicle from the birth of Jesus to the spread of Christianity led by the Apostle Paul. He wrote it between 60 and 62 A.D.

We’ll also be discussing The Book of Acts each week at Friday Night Bible Study at my church. It will essentially be a “look back” at the previous Sunday’s message.

Here in my neighborhood a friend of mine leads Thursday Night Bible Study at our clubhouse. We just started studying Peter’s first letter. Back in 2021 and 2022 I preached 5 sermons from 1 Peter – “Salvation & Hope” (1:3-12), “Holy & Redeemed” (1:13-23), “Stones & Stumbles” (1:23-2:9), “Honor & Respect” (2:10-25), and “Good & Evil” (3:8-4:8).

I’ve been asked if I prefer preaching and studying with a traditional Bible or an electronic Bible.

I love traditional Bibles. I keep 2 in my car at all times. I have my very first Bible that I bought 19 years ago in my car, and I have a very worn and weathered New Testament / Proverbs / Psalms Bible that I usually bring into church on Sunday mornings and Friday evenings. I usually bring in my original first Bible to Thursday Night Bible Study. I also have a large-print Study Bible that I keep next to my desktop computer that I utilize frequently during the week – especially when I’m writing new sermons.

But I also love YouVersion. It’s the most downloaded and used Bible app worldwide with over 1 billion installs on smart phones and tablets since 2008. I’ve been using it on my own devices for most of that time. So – if I’m ever more than a few feet away from any of my traditional Bibles – then I’ve always got my electronic Bible in every translation.

Thanks to modern technology – you never have to worry about having the Bible away from you. And since that’s the case – the most important thing to do is to open it, read it, and study it daily. Read God’s Word. I love the quote – “Don’t say God is silent when your Bible is closed”.

As the Bible says in Isaiah 29:11-13 (NLT):

All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read – they will say – “We can’t read it because it is sealed.” When you give it to those who cannot read – they will say – “We don’t know how to read.”

And so the Lord says – “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday January 18TH 2026, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

Last #SundayScripture I wrote about the weeks and days leading up to that local Miami Christian pop radio station rock concert – at a church – on a Saturday night – in Homestead (my longtime home). God gave me the courage to actually go to that church and attend that rock concert – knowing not a single person there – and being an introvert – and rarely going out after dark.

The 2½-hour concert was loud and amazing, but I soon realized that I was probably the youngest person there; although, I kind of blended in. At the age of 39 – I looked more like 25. (I’m almost 59 now, and I’ve been told that I could pass for a 40-year-old.)

I discovered that the church building was no longer being used for church services. It was being used for special events, weekly meetings, and office space. The Sunday morning church service was being held in the local movie theatre a couple of miles away. Say what ? Church ? In a movie theatre ? To this baby Christian that sounded as weird as a rock concert in a church.

I went to that movie theatre the very next morning – on Sunday January 21ST 2007 – about 20 minutes before the start of the 10 AM (and only) service. I was greeted and hugged at the front door. The Hospitality Director greeted me and introduced herself to me in the main lobby. She directed me to the fresh-brewed Starbucks-branded coffee (behind the curtain on the movie theatre’s concession stand). She also led me to the specific theatre where service would soon begin. There were a few dozen of us in that theatre for that service. Within the first 10 minutes of that experience – I knew that I was exactly where God wanted me to be. I also knew that I would indeed return the following Sunday.

Today marks my 19TH anniversary of being part of a church family. I’ve attended over 900 church services since that first one in 2007. I was with my first church family for over 8 years, and I was with my second church family for the next 9 years. I’ve been with my fourth and current church family for the past 27½ months.

After salvation started I went 5 months without being part of a church family. I went just about as far as I could go on this fantastic journey by myself. That rock concert at that church, and that church service at that movie theatre 19 years ago this weekend changed my life forever. And now – in my 20TH year of salvation – I now enter my 20TH year of being the church and bringing the church in everything I do and everywhere I go.

All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it. Here are some of the parts God has appointed for the church:
first are apostles,
second are prophets,
third are teachers,
then those who do miracles,
those who have the gift of healing,
those who can help others,
those who have the gift of leadership,
those who speak in unknown languages.
(1 Corinthians 12:27-28 NLT)

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.

All rights reserved (c) 2026 Christopher M. Day, CountUp