Telling the Story!

I'm so thankful for the gospel, especially for ministers who teach and preach it. I'm glad for the simplicity of the gospel. Anyone can share the gospel of Jesus. When the Lord has blessed me with an open door for sharing the Word, I have found myself as blessed as those whom I have been teaching. This beautiful message of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, and his desire to change lives today continues to amaze me! Truly, my hope is in Christ alone!


Matt 4:23

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.


Matt 9:35

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.


Matt 11:5-6

The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.


Matt 24:12-14

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.


Rom 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.


1 Pet 1:24-2:3

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you...

CHAPTER 2

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

Amazed in the Presence

You may have read my post a couple of weeks ago about my husband having had the grief and joy of performing a "homegoing" service for a sweet sister in the Lord. For over a decade, life had taken her down a different road. In His perfect timing, Jesus had brought her to a coffee shop where my husband had been taking a break. My husband had told her on that unsuspecting day that it was time for her to "come home." A few weeks later, she had come home. During the month or so that we had this sister with us, she was pure joy and energy! From her own mouth, she had spoken just about a week before her death that she was glad to be "home" at Deliverance Tabernacle.

Her children (all 5 of them) are surely missing her deeply on this earth. Her Church family definitely is missing her. Others feel her absence immensely. For the child of Jesus, however, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."

Today, I find myself thinking of the Presence of Jesus. Intense movements of His Spirit (the Holy Ghost) in services and prayer meetings and His gentle nudges throughout daily life remind me that, one day, I will see Him face-to-face. Whether I am in this body consciously experiencing His Presence or when I cross that invisible eternal line and am in His manifest Presence in His perfect peace,

I STAND AMAZED!




2 Cor 5:1-10

1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.


5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Dwelling in God's House (Additional Thoughts...)

Pastor Danny Davis

Missionary, South Africa

Slowing down this morning for my own inspirational reading, I discovered a post from Pastor Danny Davis of South Africa. Incredibly, the post seemed to fit the topic about which I have been blogging. Above, the link is provided to his article, "Relativism and Worship." Pastor Davis writes,

"The modern church has lost site of this divine connectedness of the body. No longer do we consider that our sinful actions will have a negative impact on the church as a whole. When one member of the body tells lies it causes the whole body to be tainted. Because we do not consider the body in making our decisions we then really have no need for the body."

I could only think of how this same attitude has caused many to literally see no need to assemble with the body. Instead, the lure toward individualism, pastoring oneself, and standing "alone as an island" has become stronger. This "disconnectedness" has opened the door and made sin easier to dismiss among us.

Recently, I listened to a lovely young woman speak of betrayal that had happened in God's House. Perhaps the reason that some have been able to seek their own selfish interests to the detriment of others in such cases has been that lack of true connection. While Christians are not perfect, acting on the knowledge that the body has been connected by Jesus should prevent individuals from intentionally harming others in the body for ANY reason.

If you have the time, please read Pastor Davis' post. We really are divinely connected. This weekend, if you do not already have plans to do so, please consider connecting with the body at God's House. And, as always, be blessed in the lovely name of Jesus...

Dwelling in God's House (Post 10)

These posts about "Dwelling in God's House" could go on for a long time. Knowing how my mind works, I may return to the topic later. For now, I just want to "close" the series of thoughts with parts of a song from the book of Psalms. I am a blessed person to have liberty and the ability to go God's house openly at almost any time I desire. What a privilege!

As always, be blessed...
In your going out and in your coming in...
In all that you do in the name of Jesus Christ!

Ps 107:31-38

• Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

• Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

• He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

• A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

• He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

• And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

• And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

• He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.