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Reaching out with the gospel

February 2010

“Then Jesus said unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; the sea and waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:10, 11, 25, 26, 27, 28)

Surely we are beginning to see the beginning of the end of this world as we know it. Jesus is coming back to rapture His born again people, and rest assured that it is all right on God’s perfect time table.

Jesus’s words are coming true right before our eyes. The tremendous devastation by the Tsunami that destroyed entire towns and villages across vast regions of waters, as well as killed thousands of people. Everywhere you turn there are conflicts and wars going on all over the globe. The most recent tragedy is the terrible earthquake in Haiti. The hardest of hearts have been moved with compassion as they have seen the death and destruction caused by this natural horror. I trust and pray that all of these things Jesus told us about will not just move us to be compassionate to others for a short time, but that they will shake and stir us to our hearts, and cause us to begin to cry out to Jesus to help us realize the most important thing in our lives is to be ready for the return of Christ. I am trying to challenge our people to shake ourselves out of our complacency and lethargy and begin to call on God in Heaven, to help us to call on Him again with all of our heart and soul. Our nation is being destroyed before our eyes by those who hate God and His word, and the vast majority of our people are doing nothing about it. We have become so satisfied with our standard of living that Heaven doesn’t even have an appeal to us right now ~ maybe later. We have become content to live with what God hates; abortion, homosexuality, immorality, lying, cheating, gossiping, and stealing. Dear God, wake us up quickly to the fact that a few outward dress standards will never take the place of a radical heart change by the blood of Jesus Christ anymore today than it did for the Pharisees that Jesus called “whited sepulchers full of dead men bones.”

If mission work and giving is going to be successful, it will be because you and I are awakened and realize that God is counting on us to serve Him with all of our hearts and souls. We then will have the proper outlook on our world around us and will be moved upon mightily by the lost and dying who are all around us. Mission work will then become important in our own community. Reaching the unsaved within our local church’s reach will become a priority, regardless of race or color! When this begins to happen we can rest assured that the love in our hearts will be large enough to include foreign missions as well, because we do not want anyone to go to hell.

Jesus is coming back again! Millions are lost and without hope unless the church of Jesus Christ is quickly awakened and then does something about their lukewarmness. We can be changed, dear people! There is still help and hope for us! We are God’s hands and feet. I challenge you ~ let’s not fail Him! Your town is depending upon you! India is depending upon us! A lost and dying world is depending upon us! God being our helper, WE WILL NOT FAIL!