Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
We won last night, more in this post!
Blessing from rain drops, Trials in this life are mercies in disguise , healing through tears,
From the song, “Blessings” I hear it played all the time on Glory Radio! www.fggam.org ;
I have come to know that God heals us through tears, through trials.
I got this email after the CUP yesterday talking about God’s Promises……..
Thanks Dewey. I needed to hear those promises. Still how does one take hold of them when they cannot see God moving or hear Him speaking but so very want to see and hear both.
God speaks to us through silence! I can hear some saying, What do you mean by that? I mean I have found through my horrible challenges that I have had in the past that I hear God in His silence, He is teaching me through the trial. I have come to realize that I am being taught by God through trials. I also know that in this silence God is working on the matter and doing things I cannot even imagine. I wish at my age of 57 I would have known this earlier in life. But when we go through trials we want them to end right away. Some trials last for years and years. The thirst we have cannot be satisfied here on earth, this is not our home.When you have a close relationship with God, the favor of God, you will be guided. I have learned not to pick up the phone and place a call or send an email if there is a challenge going on until I am prompted by the Holy Spirit. We get into trouble when we start trying to solve these problems on our own. AMEN!
Some of you know that at age 4 I my Parents and i were told that I may never walk or run like the rest of the kids because of the hip disease I had. Do you know what impact that has on a child being told that? Wearing that full leg brace for a year and a half and having kid’s kick you, push you down, tease you, and then for years after still tease you because of that brace you no longer wore, etc…..???
If it were not for my Godly Mom and Dad and Grandparents, Teachers, Sunday School Teachers I would have been lost!
So with that challenge in my early life, it created an enthusiasm for life! Not taking, walking and running for granted. That lesson carries me to this day! I realize God’s plan, I am weeping as I type this, as I miss my Mom and Dad, I realize God had a plan for this 4 year old boy who wore a full leg brace that I still have in my office to remind me that God heals, That God has a plan, he has me at 57 coaching and playing softball and last night I slid into the bases 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am told by the youngsters that I encourage them by my play and attitude. It is all for God’s Glory, all.
So whatever you are facing today or in the future, when you feel God is silent, He is not! He is working on things that you cannot imagine, He is working on this 4 year old through his journey of a year and a half wearing a full leg brace and putting into place His plan for this little guy to coach and play softball in Albuquerque, New Mexico at 57 years of age.
God speaks to us through His silence, He is God. We cannot even imagine what God is thinking or doing. That is why I stress all the time, and some of you are probably tired of me preaching on the same things, we have got to have a close personal relationship with God.
At this very time that you are reading this, God is working on your life. Have the faith.
Now I want you to go to www.fggam.org and read my post on The Word of the Day on Psalm 46: 10-11
Here is the link :https://fggam.org/the-word-of-the-day-be-still/
Also in talking with Brother Paul Dokken this morning he gave me this verse:
For some of you, this could be hard to swallow, but swallow and take this pill……..
Whoever is of God listens to God. Those who belong to God hear the words of God. This is the reason that you do not listen to those words, to Me: because you do not belong to God and are not of God or in harmony with Him. John 8:47 The Amplified Bible
Are you in harmony with God?
So many that I counsel profess to be of God, but when we dig deep, deep, they find that they have been out of harmony with God.
In other words, they are out of alignment with God even though they will profess that they are not.
Pastor Don Kimbro of Nuggets of Truth and the Amistad Church was at last nights softball game to witness Amistad winning over Heights Christian Church 19-11 in an excellent contest of brothers and sisters in Christ!
Don sent this to me, it is an excellent post by J. Lee Grady…………It fit’s so well with FGGAM! For God’s Glory Alone!
Almost all ministry in the book of Acts occurred outside a church meeting. So why do we hide our message in a building?
Whenever I visit my friend Lewis Lee, a pastor in Baltimore, I end up on the streets. That’s because Lewis is never content to keep his congregation cooped up inside their church. Every month he takes them downtown to feed homeless people at a park near Johns Hopkins University. On hot summer days he takes teams to the worst neighborhoods of his city to pray for people, share the gospel and distribute bottles of water.
This should be standard procedure for any church, but it’s not the norm. A majority of American churches rarely engage in any form of outreach that takes place outside their buildings—and 95 percent of Christians in this country have never led a person to Christ. Because of fear, apathy or lack of training, we are content to live in an isolated religious universe. Then we trick ourselves into believing we can transform our communities by singing, praying and preaching to the choir.
Yet when I read the book of Acts, I’m struck by the fact that in the earliest days of the New Testament church, almost all ministry took place outside of Christian meetings. The gospel was always shared outside the box. Of course, the first disciples met together for encouragement, teaching and fellowship, but their primary focus was always outward. Shouldn’t the book of Acts be our pattern?
If you want to break out of your religious box, and you want your church to do the same, you must be willing to take these steps:
1. Ask for the Holy Spirit’s power. The first outreach in the book of Acts occurred immediately after the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit. The apostle Peter, who had denied Jesus just weeks before, boldly preached in a public place—and 3,000 people were converted (Acts 2:41). You may feel fearful about sharing your faith, but you will receive supernatural confidence to speak when you are baptized in the Holy Spirit. Lack of emphasis on the Spirit’s power is the No. 1 reason the American church is timid when it comes to evangelism.
2. Look for opportunities. Peter and John were on their way to the temple to worship when they saw a lame man who needed healing (Acts 3:1-3). They prayed for him, and the subsequent miracle led to more conversions. Many of us are so focused on getting to church that we miss the people God puts in our path along the way. Your biggest opportunity may be on the street corner outside the church. Tune your ear to the cries around you.
3. Expect miracles. In the early church, miracles of healing took place in the streets after they preached (Acts 5:14-16). Maybe one reason we don’t see the same level of miracles today is that we want God to perform them on our carpeted stages when He wants to show His power on the city square, on the subway or in the Wal-Mart parking lot. You don’t have to be a theologian to share the gospel—just offer to pray for someone and see what happens!
4. Be willing to go to out-of-the-way places. God told the evangelist Philip to leave the exciting revival meetings in Samaria and go to a remote place on a desert road (Acts 8:26). His obedience led to the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch, who then planted the gospel in that nation. Because we think spiritual impact is measured by crowds, we often neglect one-on-one conversations. God’s biggest surprises are often found on desert roads, and sometimes the most strategic ministry moments involve just one spiritually desperate individual.
5. Always look for the need. The gospel spread rapidly in the regions of Lydda and Joppa because Peter prayed for a bedridden man named Aeneas and a dead woman named Tabitha (Acts 9:32-42). Neither of these people went to a church to get ministry. Be sensitive to people in crisis—and go where they are. One miracle can set a whole city abuzz.
6. Be willing to cross cultural barriers. Peter didn’t want to go to the house of Cornelius because Jews didn’t hang around with Italians. But when he followed the Holy Spirit’s leading and walked into that house full of foreigners, the gospel jumped over the cultural firewall and a new subculture was introduced to Jesus (Acts 10:44-45). As you pray about where to do outreach, don’t allow racial barriers to limit you. Cross the line.
It’s time we dispense with the crazy notion that people should come to us and sit in our padded chairs in order to hear our message. Jesus’ mandate was “Go”—not “Wait for them to come to you.” Let’s trade in our passive, anemic religiosity and reclaim the passionate, aggressive, evangelistic faith that was modeled for us by the early church.
J. Lee Grady is the former editor of Charisma and the director of the Mordecai Project(themordecaiproject.org). You can follow him on Twitter at @leegrady. He is the author of Fearless Daughters of the Bible and other books
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