Pastoral Greeting – February 22, 2026

Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. Psalm 85:6-7

Greetings Church,  As Pastor here with Christ’s Chapel, as of recent, I have been greatly burdened for the people of God.  As I have went to the Lord in worship and in prayer, I find the reoccurring theme of my prayer to be crying out for a deepening relationship with the Lord to be realized amongst his people, an unstoppable revival welling up from within.

Through the psalmists writing (Ps85), we find a cry out to God, in reflection of the need and anticipation for God’s restorative power upon his people.  We see that there is a declaration of the need for God’s forgiveness and a hunger for the righteousness of God, believing that he will pour out his steadfast, love, faithfulness, righteousness, and peace, in a mighty way.  This here we find to be a vision for the spiritual revival of the people.  Today, I believe that in this season of looking to the cross of Christ, as all God’s people are before the Lord God in his word, in prayer and in fasting – seeking a renewal in spirit – seeking to hear the voice of God – God by his power will birth a revival within each hungry soul.

I trust that this is your cry today, that God will meet you in your hour of need, touching you in the physical and strengthening you in the spiritual – molding you into his divine image.  We invite you, to join with us this Sunday as we launch this season of spiritual preparation for the coming celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Resurrection Sunday) – His conquering of death – securing our justification – making atonement for your souls (Lev. 17:11, 1 Pet.2:24, 1 John 2:2).

In this day of worship before God, come believing for a renewed touch from the Lord, a receiving of his love, salvation, righteousness, and peace within the soul!

Sincerely, Pastor Simeon Strauser