Chaplain Dr. Paul Spence

An Independent Chaplain Serving Long Term Care Facilities For More Than 29 Years

"Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth." "O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help." --Psalm 71.9,12.

APRIL 19th; LORD'S Day (Sunday); 2026.

THIS WEEK'S SERMON. In This Week's Sermon, Dr. Spence will continue, GOD Willing, speaking about The Third Pouring Of Prayer. In Isaiah 44.3, GOD says: “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.” Time will be given to the Words: “I will pour.” May THE LORD bless the Preaching of the Scripture to the good of souls!

THIS WEEK'S HYMN. “Jesus! What A Friend For Sinners!” by Rev. Mr. J. Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918). The words of this Hymn were written in 1910.

THIS WEEK'S REPORT. This week among the Care Facilities please pray for— 1. A Lady who fell in her room last week. She is exceedingly sore. Yet she attended last week's Church Service in her Care Facility. 2. Another Lady said there will be an important meeting in her Family this coming week. She asks for Prayer. 3. Yesterday, a Lady left with a Family Member for Oklahoma. Other Family Members will later join her. She will be visiting for a week. She desires Prayer. 4. A Lady with eye problems. 5. A Lady with arthritis, yet who attends the Care Facility Church Services when she is well. 6. A Lady desires to give thanks this week. Her Son humbled himself, called her, and apologized for how he treated her. This was an Answer to Prayer. 7. A Lady who has extreme pain in her hip and back. 8. One Lady (now advanced in years) has had migraines since she was 8 years old. Migraines run in her Family. Despite her intense pain last week, while she was in the height of one of her migraines, she put on her sunglasses and quietly attended the Church Service. She told Dr. Spence: “I did not want to miss this week's Church Service.” 9. A Lady's Husband is improving. She expresses her gratitude to Heaven. 10. As Dr. Spence left one of the Care Facilities last week, he met a Lady who requested Prayer respecting her painful legs. 11. One Resident told Dr. Spence last week that his Church Service is the most well attended event her Care Facility has. O do pray for all the Church Services in all the Care Facilities! These are precious seasons. Ask that the Preaching of the Scripture will do abundant good to souls. 12. And yet in another Care Facility last week, serious repairs were being made to the elevator so that the dear people on the second floor (a large number) were unable to attend the Church Service. Still, with the far fewer who attended from the first floor, THE LORD'S Presence was unrestricted. GOD was Graciously present in the Preaching of the Word. Several were closely hearing. Ezekiel 18.21 says: “But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My Statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.” *These Prayer Requests come from the Residents, their Families, the Staff, or Dr. Spence's observations. In This Week's Report, the names of the people have been withheld to protect their privacy. Nevertheless, the Thanksgivings and Prayer Requests are real and actual.

THIS WEEK'S QUOTATION. Hebrews 8.10 says: “I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts.” In his admirable Exposition Of Hebrews, that truly great Independent, Dr. John Owen (1616-1683), says of these Words: “The mind is the most secret, inward part or power of the soul. The excellency of the New Covenant lieth in the fact that God puts His law here, in the human mind. In the New Testament, this is called 'the renewing of the mind.' Romans 12.2. It is also called 'the opening of the eyes of the understanding.' Ephesians 1.17,18. The law of God in the mind is the saving knowledge of the mind and will of God, communicated unto it, and implanted in it.”