Church of the Harvest | Riverhead, NY

We are a bible-believing church located in Riverhead, NY, that follows Jesus Christ as Lord and joins God in the work he is doing in the world today. We do this by Equipping Believers, Serving the Community & Offering Hope.

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Bring Me A Musician

Mar 23, 2025 • Andy White

The Church Needs A Colonoscopy

Mar 16, 2025 • Jim Whelen

But Not

Mar 2, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

L.A.S.I.R Me, Lord

Feb 23, 2025 • Dennis Bambino

Stay On The Wheel

Feb 16, 2025 • Jim Whelen

God Is Just Getting Started

Jan 26, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

How Shall We Then Live (Part 2)

Jan 19, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

How Shall We Then Live (Part 1)

Jan 12, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Life On Purpose

Jan 5, 2025 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Where Are You?

Dec 29, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

Redemption's Benefits

Dec 22, 2024 • Abe Smith

What Good Can Come Of This?

Dec 15, 2024 • Pastor Michael Troiano

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A Word From Pastor Mike

December 29th, 2022

Weekly Devotional

US or HIM?

“For we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” 2Corinthians 4:7 What is this treasure that Paul says we have in our jars of clay? Paul refers to us as “the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.” (2Cor. 2:15). He also says that God “has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant – not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” (2Cor. 3:6). This is the treasure that we have in these frail bodies of ours, the ministry of reconciliation to a dying world. “That God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors…” (2Cor. 5:19-20a). God purposely allows us to have weaknesses as human beings so that we can never say that “we did it” apart from Him. God shows His all-surpassing power through our weakness. God knows our weaknesses and uses these weaknesses when we surrender them to Him. He never intended for us to do the job He has for us, by ourselves. It is foolishness to think we can live this life and do this ministry in our own strength, apart from His Spirit. God wants us to remember our own frailty (our jars of clay) so we will rely on Him! What do we have to boast about? NOTHING! Paul said, “May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” (Gal. 6:14). The life we live, we live by the power of God. He wants us to remember that our salvation and our ministry of reconciliation is His gift to us. We did not earn it by our outstanding lives but rather it is through our weakness as human beings that God has reconciled us first to Himself through Jesus Christ. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” (Eph. 2:8) Then God has given us the ministry for others, who are in weakness, to be reconciled to God through the same Savior. It is God Who works in us and through us for His purposes. Let’s never forget that we have this precious ministry in “jars of clay” so that we will rely on Him and not on ourselves. “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe….” (Eph. 1:17-19a). If we let our Father work through our “jars of clay,” He will make us into vessels “unto honor, sanctified and meet for the Master’s use.” (2Tim. 2:21).

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