"Our World Needs Moral Leaders & Pure Lives"

As I listened to our District Superintendent, Dr. Fuller, give his report at our District Advisory Board Meeting, he spoke of attending an Hispanic Youth Campmeeting and hearing the speaker from the Country of Columbia challenge the young people in attendance to be leaders of morality in the United States. "Your country needs you to live pure lives," he proclaimed.

What a true and staggering appeal. If our country and our world needs anything, surely "moral leaders" are needed. In fact, let us confess that we are beyond the desperate point on this issue. Yes, we really need genuine believers who are deeply devoted to our Holy God and ready to allow The Holy Spirit to make them wholly His.

Please pray with me that the Lord will begin a revival of raising up "pure lives" to be sanctuaries of The Living God across all generations, but especially in the generation of young souls. Pray that the Lord will make all of us and many, many others hungry for Him and His Holiness.

1 Timothy 4:12 (GWT) Don’t let anyone look down on you for being young. Instead, make your speech, behavior, love, faith, and purity an example for other believers.

Holiness Unto the LORD!
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Note: Please Love Jesus Passionately

Bring The Children To Jesus

Jesus did say for His disciples to "Bring the children to Him!"
-- Pastor Vic Bright

Lord, as Your fully devoted disciples, help us to heed Your command to bring the children within our circles of influence to You. Help us to bring them to You in prayer and by the way we live our lives may the little ones be brought to You, especially. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Jesus said, “Don’t stop children from coming to me! Children like these are part of the kingdom of God.”
-- Matthew 19:14 (GWT)

Jesus Loves Me. This I Know.
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Absolutely Obey God. Completely Love God.

Last night I gently heard the voice of my Father God. What I sensed Him saying was too personal to share. I am totally humbled, because I had no other desire but to absolutely obey what I heard Him say.

We must exercise the greatest care to be utterly obedient to God. He sees all the battlefield all the time. It is only He who can put each of us in the place where our lives can count for the most.
-- "Praying" John Hyde

But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love Him. That is how we know we are living in Him.
-- 1 John 2:5 (NLT)

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What An Unbelieving World Simply Finds Unbelievable?

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." -- Brennan Manning

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. -- Proverbs 11:30 (KJV)

Lord, with our lips and especially with our lives, we prove to be either foolishly fake as we lose souls or wonderfully wise as we win souls. We want wisdom that comes from You, Jesus! Amen.

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By Faith! In Faith! (Hebrews 11)
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Vision from Brother Job (of all People)

Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) says : Where there is no vision, the people perish.

I've been reading lately from the Old Testament Book of Job and my heart is encouraged by what he could see with the eyes of his soul especially in the midst of his personal suffering that was too awful for words.

Yes, Job said this in Job 19, verses 25 and 27:

But as for me, I know my Redeemer lives and He will stand upon the earth at last... I will see Him for myself. Yes, I will see Him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought.

Let's lift up our heads, my brother and sisters. Our Redeemer is Alive and Well! Yes, His Help is on the way. Our Deliverer is Coming! Are we overwhelmed at the thought?
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I'll Breathe Again

Let us never forget these seven powerful words spoken by our Lord Jesus. Yes, the memory of just seven words frightened The Son of God's accusers soon after He breathed His last breath on the Cross. However, the same seven words (now fulfilled prophecy) serve to chase fear from the lives of those of us who cherish Him:

After three days I will be raised.
-- Matthew 27:62 (The Message)

My three-word paraphrase of those seven powerful words is:
I'll breathe again!

Yes! Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.
Because He lives all fear is gone.
Because I know He holds the future.
And life is worth the living just because He lives!
--- Lyrics by Bill & Gloria Gaither

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
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Our Everyday Lives? An Eternal Offering!

One of the most soul-searching invitations in the New Testament to me personally is Romans 12:1 from The Message Paraphrase:

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
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