Balm In Gilead Family Counseling Ministries

03/27/2026

Join us for Communion on Good Friday! Vivian Rhone

03/11/2026

Join us Fridays for open Chapel prayer between 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. Our first open Chapel will be this Friday, March 13th!

02/01/2026

For immediate assistance, please call 910-424-2645, leave a message, and a case worker will be in touch with you when we resume operations. Vivian Rhone

01/31/2026

Due to inclement weather, Relevant Worship will be livestreamed on Sunday, February 1st at 10:30 a.m. It is accessible via our website (balmingileadnc.org) if facebook live isn’t working properly. See the pictures below for how to access live or archived worship services! Vivian Rhone

01/24/2026

📢 Office Closure Notice

Balm in Gilead Christian Center will be closed on Monday, January 26.

Thank you for your understanding.

— Balm in Gilead Christian Center
Vivian Rhone

01/24/2026

📢 Worship Update

Tomorrow, Sunday, January 25, Relevant Worship will be REMOTE ONLY.

🕥 Service Time: 10:30 AM
📺 We will be live right here on this page.

🔗 Please share this link with family, friends, and anyone you’d like to invite to worship with us online:
👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/1B4FKYsj6F/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Vivian Rhone

01/01/2026

BALM IN GILEAD “Daily Inspiration”
Happy New Year! God will make everything new!

12 And so, dear brothers and sisters,I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Romans 12:1,2

When we offer ourselves to God, we give everything we have in order to worship Him. By inviting us to “present [our] bodies as a living and holy sacrifice,” Paul knew it was a big ask. So did his readers. But he also knew that the offering would be received by a big God with big mercy. A God who is worthy of everything we have.

Father, Jesus asked us why we call Him Lord, yet fail to do what He tells us to do. Today I see areas where I have allowed the voice of my flesh to call the shots. Instead of mastering and subduing my flesh into silence, I have silenced the voice of my spirit that calls for me to present my body as a living sacrifice in obedient surrender to You. Father, I humble myself beneath Your mighty hand, and I repent for the ways I have indulged the carnal mind, which is not subject to You. I judge that as rebellion and I refuse to give it place any longer. Father, I thank You for Your great mercy in opening the eyes of my understanding to see this as You see it. I choose to submit to You and to resist the devil’s attempts to exploit my flesh to gain access to my life. You alone, Lord Jesus, have the right to lead me and conform my thoughts to Your will.
I pray this in Jesus’ Name, Amen!

12/31/2025

12/25/2025

BALM IN GILEAD “DAILY INSPIRATION”

When we think of Mary, the mother of Jesus, we think of Christmas stories. We think of Bethlehem, the manger and the baby Jesus. It is right
to do so. Yet, I wonder if the story of Mary is more than a story of Christ’s first coming. Might it, might she, be a picture of what Christ wants to do in us?

God gives you the same offer He gave Mary—the supernatural deposit of His son in your life. Scripture “is replete with the promise: Jesus lives in His children.

Christ is it not just near you or for you or with you—He is longing to be in you. God offers you the same Christmas gift He gave Mary—the indwelling Christ. Christ grew in her until He came out. Christ will grow in you
until the same occurs. Christ will come out in your speech, in your actions, in your decisions. Every place you live will be a Bethlehem, and every day you live will be a Christmas. You, like Mary, will deliver Christ into the world.

Mary, in a moment of disclosure, related what the angel Gabriel said to her.

Lk. 1:35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and He will be called the Son of God.

When Jesus’ earthly ministry was in operation, He and the Holy Spirit always worked together. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35); empowered by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16); and led by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 4:1). Jesus also healed people by the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38); cast out demons by the power of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:28); was resurrected from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11); and was seated at God’s right hand in the heavenly places through the power of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:19,20).

“This Christmas Day, I confess that I am led by the Spirit of God. I am careful not to make big decisions without consulting Him first. The Holy Spirit is my Leader, my Teacher, and my Guide; therefore, I look to Him to help me make the right decisions and take the right actions in every sphere of my life — my family, my business, and my ministry. Every day I experience more and more victory because I allow the Holy Spirit to direct all my steps.
I declare this by faith in Jesus’ name! Amen!”