Monday, February 28, 2011

The Weekly Diner

Dear Weekly Readers!

May the Peace of God be with you today and each day!

I want to thank each of you that have prayed for our recent missionary journey around the world. God has heard your prayers and has safely delivered us home.
It was truly a wonderful trip, one on which tens of thousands of souls heard the Word of God preached.

It is my hope and prayer that the Holy Spirit would add a blessing and would reveal the Holy Word of God in the hearts that have heard not only on this trip, but wherever and whenever His Word is preached.

It is only through the Power of the Holy Spirit, that the words we speak have any worth. There is nothing we can say or do of ourselves to help anyone. Everything is totally the work of our Almighty God, and to Him goes all Praise, Honor, and Glory.

We know that preaching the Word of God is the method that the Lord uses in our time so that souls would be saved. No Glory to man, it is the Word of God by which faith comes.

Romans Chapter 10: 13-17
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


Dear Reader, if you are a pastor, preach the true, full, and complete Word of God. Dear Reader, if you are not a pastor, still use the Word of God for your source of strength at all times, and share the Word as God leads you to do so.

During this trip just completed, we experienced first-hand several ways in which the devil tried his very best to stop the Word of God from going forth. We experienced delayed aircrafts, power outages, other groups trying to overtake us with competing noise, sicknesses, tiredness, empty feelings, mosquitoes, a roadblock, and who knows how many other unseen attempts by the devil to stop the furtherance of the Gospel.

However we did not experience anything as extreme as the Apostle Paul did:

2 Corinthian 11 v 23-27
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.



The Word of God comes to us again and says in Romans 8 v 31-39

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Yes, we deserve nothing but punishment, but when God is for us, who can be against us!

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Go Forth by the Grace of God and in His Faith………

Ephesians 2: 8 -10

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.


All true believers are His Workmanship, created in Christ Jesus! Let us go forth in obedience and do what He would have us to do. Walk as He would have us to walk!

May God Bless you bountifully this week!