Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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No Chance To Be Born! -Connie Spivey

“HE PROVED HE WAS GOD” - Connie Spivey

Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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While I was alive in my mother’s womb,
And my life was taken from me too soon.
God did, You ever have a plan for me?
If You did, I guess it was never meant to be.
Lord You must have known I’d never be born,
even before, I was ever formed.
If only I’d had the chance to say,
Mom couldn’t you just give me away.
I wonder if you ever think about what you’ve done,
Since it turned out to be I was your only son.
I wish I had known what it would have been like,
If I’d ever been able to ride a bike.
Or to run and play with other little boys,
And had a lot of friends and a lot of toys.
And grown up to have Children all of my own,
But that is too late “I’m already home’:

By – Connie Spivey

Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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The Doctor say I’m dying and I’m still young,
But when I started smoking I thought it was so fun.

My family tried to tell me, I would die before my time.

Why didn’t I stop and listen why was I so blind.

I soon found out that what they said, all of it was true,
If you are thinking about smoking, thank about what I’ve said,

Since you may soon like me, find yourself in a hospital bed.

And Doctors bending over you and, you will hear them say,
We are going to have to tell him? As they quietly walk away.

We wish there were something, we could do for this young man,
We’ll just have to tell his family, we have done we can.

You see I thought I knew it all, but the day has finally come,
For I have lived a wasted life, with only myself to blame,

Even though I know the Lord, all I can do now is cry,
t’s so sad to leave my family, and I’m to young to die.

By – Connie Spivey

Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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It is indeed a good thing to unite with a local church which believes and preaches the Bible as the Word of God and exalts God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Every true believer in Christ should be involved in that kind of a local church!

“But where in the Bible do you find anything about joining the church?” someone asks. It does say that we are not to be “forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).

The Bible speaks of local churches. It reveals much about the spiritual Church, the Body of Christ. However, there is no direct instruction on official church membership or the act of joining a church.

Does this mean that true believers in Christ should not “join” a church? Let us do some prayerful thinking about this important theme.

There are two central lines of truth about the church in the New Testament in the letters of the Apostle Paul. One line deals with the Church, which is Christ’s Body. The other deals with local churches or “local assemblies” of God’s people—the people which go to­gether to form His spiritual Body.

I.THE CHURCH WHICH IS CHRIST’S BODY

“And He [Christ] is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things He’ might have the pre-eminence”(Colossians 1:18). A similar reference to this is Ephesians 1:22-23 where the Father is said to have “put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that fill-eth all in all.” We learn two things from these passages and others in Paul’s Epistles. We learn Christ is presently the Head of a Church, and this Church is His Body.

What does the word “church” mean? It means “a called-out assembly.” (See The Church-What Is It?” by Timothy Conklin.) It is not a building, nor is it a given denomination (such as “Metho­dist,” “Baptist,” “Roman Catholic,” and the like). Rather, it is composed of people—redeemed sinners anywhere who hear the Gospel and personally receive the Lord Jesus Christ into their hearts by faith, and are thereby saved. Note that the Apostle Paul calls this Church “the body of Christ.” This means that just as in the human body there is a head and many members all joined together in a living unit, so the Lord Jesus Christ is the living Head of a living Body of individuals whom He has saved and joined to Himself. This is why Paul wrote: “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones” (Ephesians 5:30). How does an in­dividual become a member of this won­derful Church?

A New Creation

“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17). To the believers in Christ in Galatia, Paul also wrote” “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nouncircumcision, but a new creature [creation]” (Galatians 6:15). What is this “new creation”?

God the Father is the Author of this “new creation.” The Apostle goes on to tell us in II Corinthians 5:18, “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ . . . .” He has two creations, according to His Word. The first is the material and immaterial creation which we are familiar with. The second is “the church, which is His [Christ’s] body.”

This “new creation” is also called “one new man” in Ephesians 2:15). The next verse equates this “one new man” with the “one body”-the Church. “And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby” (Ephesians 2:16). Thus, every person who becomes a mem­ber of this blessed Church is “a new creation”! This is why Paul could de­clare, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). Think of it! Each believer in this Church is part of the Father’s per­sonal handiwork! Truly, every true be­liever in Christ is a miracle of God!

A New Operation

Not until, we come to Paul’s Epistles do we learn of a Divine baptism by which individuals become members of Christ’s Body, the Church. Paul speaks of this supernatural operation of the Holy Spirit in five places: Romans 6:3-5, I Corinthians 12:12-14, Galatians 3:26-27, Ephesians 4:3-6, and Colossians 2:9-12. The most elucidating of these is I Corinthians 12:13: “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Greeks, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”

The word “baptize” means “to dip or to submerge.” It means “to introduce an object into an element which will change the character of that object.” Thus, the baptism which God the Holy Spirit performs places the believing sin­ner into vital union with Christ, thereby changing his character more and more until “the day of redemption.” This is why Paul could tell the believers in Corinth, “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (I Corinthians 6:17). Here is the way one “joins the church” today! God joins him to Christ the very moment he receives Christ as his Saviour and Lord! One may “join” any number of local churches, but unless he has been truly baptized into Christ by the opera­tion of the Holy Spirit through faith,he is in no way a member of “the church which is His body”!

This is why Paul tells all believers to “endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3). Why? Because there is “one. body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Ephesians 4:4-6). Based on this blessed sevenfold unity of the Spirit, one has well written:

“What could be more conducive to removing the interminable strife, the sectarian divisions, the doctrinal schisms, the petty jealousies, and the factional an­tagonisms so rife among Christian people today than for the church to catch a clear vision of the Spirit’s baptizing work organical­ly uniting all believers to Christ and to one another in one Body? This would immediately remove the widespread evil of substitut­ing ritualism for reality and church membership for a salva­tion experience.”

The Church is Christ’s own body,
The Father’s dwelling place,
The gathering of the called ones,
God blended with man’s race;
Elect before creation,
Redeemed by Calv’ry’s death,
Her character and standing
Of heaven, not of earth.
New man of new creation,
Born through her risen Lord,
Baptized by God the Spirit,
Made holy by His Word;
Christ is her life and content,
Himself her glorious Head;
She has with Him ascended
O’er all her foes to tread.”

A New Man

Simultaneous with the Holy Spirit’s baptizing the individual into Christ is the impartation of “the new man” in the heart of the believing sinner. Paul refers to this marvelous transaction when he tells us: “That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” He further states that this “new man” is being “renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him” (Colos-sians 3:10). This “new man” is the new nature which God creates in every one who receives Christ as Saviour and Lord. It is the very nature of Christ (Romans 8:9,15). It becomes the basis of all of the inward workings of God in the lives of God’s true children: “… work out your own salvation with fear and trem­bling. For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13). This “new man” is the pledge of the Father of coming glory for the members of the Body of Christ. By this, all true be­lievers in Christ Jesus are “sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of our inheritance until the re­demption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:13-14). Thus, the believer can triumphantly exult: “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). What a glorious salvation God has provided in Christ—”eternal salvation” (Hebrews
5:9)!

A New Destiny

What does membership in “the church which is His body” lead to? Glory! Everlasting glory! We read that, “When Christ, our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). We also read: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom

He justified, them He also glorified” (Romans 8:28-30). The glorious destiny of “the church which is His body” is to be manifested with the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory. Then the redeemed members of that completed Church will be on display to all the created intelligentsia of the universe as trophies of God’s mar-velous grace: “That in the ages to come He might show [put on display] the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:7). What a day that will be! Yet it will surely come to pass because God has spoken it! Are you, my dear friend, a member of this wonderful Body, His Church? You can be today if you will turn from your sins and your problems, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour and Lord!

II. THE CHURCH LOCAL

God has ordained in this present economy of His grace that members of the Body of Christ meet together in local assemblies. This is why we read in Paul’s Epistles of various churches in various places. For example in his epistle to the saints in Colossae, he says:

“And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans.” Then in the preceding verse, he exhorts: “Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house” (Colossians 4:15,16).

What It Is

What are these local churches (as­semblies)? According to Philippians 1:1, they are said to consist of “the saints in Christ Jesus” (in a given locality, such as Philippi), “with the bishops [over­seers] as deacons.” These local assem­blies met together at least once a week (see Acts 20:7) to fellowship together, hear the Word of God expounded and preached, pray, and take up collections for the promotion- of the Gospel (see I Corinthians 16:1-2). Unsaved people could come in to such an assembly (as in I Corinthians 14:23-25 seems to in­dicate), but these meetings were pri­marily for the spiritual adjusting and edifying of believers in Christ to the end that they might be able to more ef­fectively engage in “the work of minis­tering” (Ephesians 4:1 2, lit. trans.)

What Is Important?

In our present day situation many pressures are coming to bear on church membership! There are scores of churches, all differing on one or more points. Some churches do not require “joining” in order to fellowship with them. On the other hand, most churches do require submission to water baptism or an acceptance of other forms for be­coming one with them. It is almost nec­essary to officially “join” the average church to show allegiance to its teach­ings or methods.

Officially joining a church for the sake of fellowship may not be ex­plicitly wrong, nor is it necessarily required according to the Scriptures. The Bible is silent about that subject. It is, however, clearly the responsibility of every true child of God, who is a member of the “church which is His body,” to act according to his en­lightened understanding of the Word of God. Thus, regardless if a person chooses to “join” or chooses not to “join,” the Bible does instruct him to keep in mind and keep intact the unity of the Spirit in the one Body of Christ.

The Christian may have the freedom to live and work alone, yet he must understand and assume his duty as a member of the Body of Christ and func­tion in a living spiritual relationship with other members of that Body. Growing up together in Christ and doing the work of the ministry are often best accom­plished through the assembly of God’s people.

Then, how wonderful it would be if we could see ourselves and our local chutch as one part of that whole spiritual organism! Instead of being concerned almost totally with “my church” and “my denomination,” we will become more concerned and exercised about believers in Christ everywhere, and the Lord’s work everywhere. With that viewpoint, the believer will begin to pray more for “the saints in Christ Jesus” in his whole area, yea, throughout the whole world, not merely in his own local assembly. This would help pre­cipitate genuine spiritual revival!

This also would promote the truth which God. would have all believers in Christ to “see”-”what is the dispensa­tion [or, administration] of the mystery [secret]” (Ephesians 3:9). Once the individual child of God is gripped by this great truth, he can no longer be content to be a mere “denominationalist.” His interest rises to include the whole “household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

What Must Be Remembered?

One final thing needs to be stressed. It is brought out quite graphically in Ephesians 4:15-16: “But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love” (New American Standard Bible). Note how “each individual part” in this “body of Christ” has a specific function. Just as each internal and external part of our physical bodies has a specific function, so each child of God in the “body of Christ” has a ministry and a function! Read Ephesians 4:7-16 and also Romans 12:1-8 on this subject. You will notice that while Paul stresses the unity of the Body of Christ, he also teaches the diversity in the Body of Christ. One believer has this ministry, another has that, and still another has another minis­try. All are to work together “in the Lord” in harmony unto the ultimate building up and completing of the Body of Christ. Therefore, Paul exhorted two women who were at odds in the local assembly in Philippi, and he said: “I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord” (Philippians 4:2). Our over-all goal is to serve the Lord (Colossians 3:24b);
and like David, to serve our generation “by the will of God” (Acts 13:36). To be faithful to the Lord in this manner will be well worth it all on “that day” when “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (II Corinthians 5:10)!

In Conclusion

There is really only one Church today! It is “the body of Christ.” No one can “join” this living organism! Only God through the work of the Holy Spirit can “join” those who believe on Christ Jesus as Saviour and Lord to this wonderful Body. Then the believer may elect to “join” a given local assembly which preaches and seeks to practice the Word of God, especially in the light of Paul’s Epistles. Such ones who are gripped with the precious truth of the unity as well as the diversity in the Body of Christ can well sing with Sabine Baring-Gould:

“Like a mighty army
Moves the Church of God;
Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod;
We are not divided;
All one Body we,
One in hope and doctrine,
One in charity.”

“To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for­ever and ever. Amen.”

Poated By - Cecil and Connie Spivey

There was an elderly couple holding Sunday school classes at the country school where I attended. My mother allowed my sister who was ten, and I was twelve to go the first Sunday. I was so surprise to hear what they were saying as they told us that God loved us so much that He gave His only Son to die on a cross and paid for all our sins and all we had to do, is just believe on Him, and accept Him into our lives and, we never had to worry about not going to Heaven when we died, that God gave us eternal life and it was a free gift! I had never felt loved as a child and I couldn’t imagine anyone loving me that much so it was easy for me to just accept Him into my life and believe in the One who had did that for me! I wanted that Person more than anything I could think of. I don’t think I understood all that was being said but, I remember when they were asking us if we wanted to accept Him as our Savior, I know I was saved in my seat but, when they ask us to come down to the front I was more than glad to go. Will when I got down to the front as I looked back I notice that all the children were gone and we were the only ones left. They had all gone home and my sister had gone also, there were thirteen of us left.

So I had to go home alone, and I couldn’t understand why my mother was anger with me. I learned my sister had told her what had happened and she was waiting with a belt for me. I was afraid of her because she had used it on me many times, but couldn’t see what made her get that anger at me since, I didn’t feel like I had did anything wrong. I was so happy before I got home and it was hard to imagine this was happening, all my joy I had felt was turning into sadness. But she said there was no such thing as “Once Saved always Saved” and I was too young to be saved in the first place.

She just told me to go to the table and eat lunch but I wasn’t hungry at all, I was wishing I could go back to school and talk some more to the nice couple who; had made me so happy with what they told me. I was devastated as I heard her telling me I could not go back to the classes anymore, since they were going to continue them through the summer. I was wondering if the other children would get to go. Will anyway I was afraid to ask her if I could go back, after that! I know that was the worst thing I felt could happen to me. I don’t believe my family understood how hurtful that was to me, my sisters that were older, made ugly remarks that hurt me. I didn’t know why they were doing this to me and why did they not understand about God; and all the things He had did for them, I was afraid to tell them, so I just kept it to myself. It wasn’t easy growing up in a non-Christian family, but time went quickly and I wanted to go to High School, we lived quite a distant from a small town where the high school was and I could walk to the bus that carried the country children to the high school in town. But after my first year my parents let me live with my Grandmother who lived close to the school.

I found that Children weren’t much different than the little country school where I had gone. The children seemed more mature than I was, and I found myself spending all my time in my books.

It seemed like everyone just lived as if there was no God! At least that was the way it looked to me; I guess they just wanted to have fun anyway they could. I knew I couldn’t forget my experience I had, and although I was confused and I had no one to talk to, and I was very lonely. I couldn’t talk to my family or my Grandmother and so that left me just talking to the “One who had made me so happy on that summer day.” I did not know He lived inside me at the time. But I did know I could trust Him with everything and I just talked to Him, I knew He was the only real friend I had. I had tried reading my bible but found I couldn’t understand it. I knew I needed someone to help me understand the Scriptures, but I was afraid to even mention it, since my mother had acted like I did something wrong when I came home from Sunday school that day. I can’t explain why I felt the way I did, but I guess it was because of the fear, that my mother had put into me as I was growing up. I know that she made a difference between me and my other sisters.

I became confused not knowing just what to do, not having any Christian friends, and not knowing how to meet them. I know there are those who might wonder why didn’t I just go to a Church and ask the people to give me all the answers I wanted to know? But I remembered what had happened when my mother told me there was no such thing as “Once saved always saved” I was afraid they would tell me the same thing.

I believe God watches over His children and I believe He was watching over me all that time. I later moved to a large city and that is where I met my husband; I found He couldn’t help me with my questions either, but he understood more than I did. He was a Christian also but, his mother had brought him up in a Pentecostal Church. So he didn’t know that he had eternal life at the present time either. He was dissatisfied with the way the Church where he went believed on the subject of our Security in Christ. Now I believe that was the reason maybe we met since we both had some of the same problems. Maybe we would be able with God’s help to find the answers we needed.

But I didn’t know it would take so long, and God wants us to know the truth and to hide it in our hearts so we can live for Him the way He desires us to. I now know that it is so much easier to live for the Lord, when you know you have eternal life and He will never take it from you. Because eternal life is eternal or it isn’t eternal life at all. So that was why I was having so much trouble and so confused, there is nothing to rejoice about if you can lose your salvation. How could you trust God and be worrying about loosing your Salvation at the same time.

But I still had a lot to learn and it took me many years to forget about those bad things that had so confused me when I was young. I would read the New Testament over and over, since that was where my husband told me to read. He knew that I certainly couldn’t understand the OT so I read the new Testament through over 15 times in about 6 months. But it was not until after my second child was born and in school. One day I was reading my bible and praying for the Lord to help me, see the Security of the believer just like I did as a child of 12. While I was reading the book of John it seemed like John 3:16 stood out to me as if it were the first time I had read it, although, I had memorized it. I was taken back in my mind to the time when I was in the little country school and I could see the same thing again. I realized I had everlasting life all that time. You can’t imagine how I felt, all my joy returned to me and I was just as happy as I was years before. I couldn’t thank God enough for what He had done for me and for allowing me to once again to see that I could not lose my salvation.

I am hopeful that my Testimony will be a help to those who may have problems about the fear of loosing their Salvation after they are saved. I know that God will keep us in Christ and I can just trust Him for everything. I can certainly trust Him after all the Scriptures say so much about our security in Christ in His Word. Here are some of them that I have made a part of my life. John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 5:24, “He that hearth my word and believeth on Him that sent me hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Colossians 2:2, Buried with Him in Baptism wherein also ye are raised with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead.” (Corinthians 12:13) “For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:5-6) “Even when we were dead in sins, have quickened us together with Christ (by Grace ye are saved) and raised us up together, and made us set together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” I realize as far as God is concerned we are already seated in Heaven since, we are put into His Body, by the Spirit of God. We just have to wait for our Heavenly Bodies. (1 Thessalonians 4:16) “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Arch Angel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”(Verse 17) “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

I believe with the help of the Lord, my husband Cecil, and I was used in my mother’s life, and she was saved before going to be with the Lord. Trying to live up to certain standards to get to Heaven is one of Satan’s lies. I know I have eternal life and the devil cannot take it away from me. Romans 8:38-39, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor heights, nor dephs, nor any other Creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

We are now attending a Grace Bible Church about thirteen miles from us, and I know that the Lord has helped us come to the knowledge in His Word and to find the fellowship we have found in where we are right now.

Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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If you can not see the way, and you feel you are walking in the dark, Just read His precious Word, and hide it in your heart. We walk by faith and not by sight, and let Him lead the way, It’s amazing what the Lord can do, if we will only pray. He will carry us through the darkness, though we may not understand, God Who knows our future, is the One Who holds our hand. God knew us before we were born, and knew what we would do, So then no matter what happens, He will carry us through. We pray He will give us courage, and strengthen us within, So that we can help others, to put their trust in Him. When we get to Heaven, and see that beautiful Place, We will be there for eternity, and all because of His Grace.

 Connie Spivey – 1998

Connie Spivey, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Connie was born July 7, 1931, in Valliant, Okla., and moved to Texas when she was 17 years old. Connie was an active member of Grace Bible Church of Fort Worth. Survivors: Husband of 57 years, Cecil Spivey; son, Alvin Spivey and wife, Brenda; daughter, Brenda Salem and husband, Guy; grandchildren, Angie, Eric, Courtney and John; great-grandchildren, Cody, Kyle, Taylor and Scarlett; brothers, Richard, Gerald, James and Vernon; sister, Jean; several nieces and nephews, including Lana Pettit; and beloved sister-in-law, Sue Ashlock.

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