ACT NOW!!

My name is AMANDA BOWERS and I am a REAL PERSON! I am a mom, wife, pharmacist, daughter, sister, and friend. I am an AMERICAN! I am not PAID TO WRITE THIS! I do it to honor my Lord, my family, and all the men and women in this nation who have shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for the innocent and helpless! It is now MY TIME to stand for freedom and LIFE! Will you join me?

Thus says the LORD: “ For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory. Amos 1:13

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received over $350 million in taxpayer funding last year and ended the year with a $112 million surplus. Washington has already mandated that taxpayers fund billions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus packages.

Right now Planned Parenthood is fighting tooth and nail to "enlarge their territory" by ensuring that the current health care reform bill exclude ALL LANGUAGE that would prohibit federal funding of abortions. They want to "rip open the women with child" in order to line their pocketbooks!! http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/prep/get-the-facts/responding-to-healthcare-myths/

Please call, email, write your senators during this Christmas season. As of right now the amendment to prevent tax-payer funding of abortion has been removed. Please let your senators know that if they vote for the health care bill as written at this time that they are going on record as a pro-choice supporter. Please ask them not to vote yes as it is currently written. Here are links to help you with what to say.

Take these 10 steps to save lives:
1. PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!
2. Forward this email to your entire CONTACT LIST!
3. Email or Fax your Senators
4. CALL your representatives and senators. Also call democrats who are pro-life and encourage them not to go back on their convictions!! http://www.democratsforlife.org/
5.Go here:http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/take-action/contact-your-elected-officials/
6. Tell people to go to this link and listen to this web cast. Tell them to call.
7. Send it to your email list, twitter it, ...facebook.
8. Call EVERYDAY! They need to expect your call every day. (I haven't done this before, but I will start!)
9. Write letters to your newspaper
10.PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!

http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/take-action/contact-your-elected-officials/

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


In fact, the stop the abortion mandate site already has a letter written for you. It takes less than 2 minutes to make the call. Just be friendly, tell them your name, and that you ask that they vote no on the health care bill as it stands without an amendment to stop federal funding of abortion. They are counting on the fact that you are busy with your families during Christmas and not paying attention.

If this gets passed, please know that it is ALL ABOUT MONEY! They will target the underprivileged and poor and begin using abortion as a birth control method.


We must take a stand on this now!

This is our generations time to stand up to tyranny! Please, I urge you to look into your child's face and do this for their future. You can remind the politicians that every child aborted is a future taxpayer and US citizen.

Thank you for taking the time to do this. You can also write letters to your newspaper, Facebook this information, twitter it, email it to your friends! Please forward this information to everyone and let the congress know that America is PRO-LIFE! God is watching to see how our generation will stand against this evil. We must stand for the innocent. These women are victims, too!


For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs 1 Timothy 6:10
Amanda Bowers

1000-Souls is going to move back home to One Sacrifice

If you follow me here, please consider switching over and following me at One Sacrifice For All Time. I am going to shut down this blog, but carry the idea back to my original blog as a feature on it. I just don't have time to separately write for both blogs, but I still want to activiely pursue this prayer burden and I still want people to share the names of lost loved ones who need prayer.

I fell that by consolidating all of my ideas back into one blog, I will be able to be more efficient with my time and more productive in my ministry on the internet.

Thank you for following me here at 1000 souls and please join me back over at One Sacrifice For All Time

A Good Thing To Keep In Mind

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: A Lamp For My Feet
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:33

Able to Receive


A young woman asked recently why it is that godly professors in her seminary are on opposite sides of certain doctrinal fences. A partial answer is that we know only in part. None of us sees the whole truth, and what we do see is "through a glass darkly." We are at different stages of the journey.

Sometimes I sympathize with the author of Psalm 119--"Gusts of anger seize me as I think of evil men who forsake Thy law"--and wish I could force people to accept what I see as truth. Jesus did not force them. "With many such parables He would give them His message, so far as they were able to receive it" (Mk 4:33 NEB). There may be some who are willing but not able to receive, others able but not willing. Only God can be sure who's who. We are to be faithful in transmitting the message and willing to respect the hearer. If God grants him freedom of will to receive or reject, so must I. If he is as yet unable to receive it, I must entrust him to God, remembering the narrow limits of my own understanding as well.

Excited Tonight about the One TRUE GOD!!!

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Hebrews 9:23-30 (New American Standard Bible)

23Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

So Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

Man, THAT IS EXCITING STUFF!!!! It's late and I should be in bed, but I just can't get over my joy in the Lord tonight!! I typed in the words, "One True God" on Bible Gateway and found this passage. LOOK AT THIS!!

Hebrews has been my life book. It saved me from the years of bondage thinking I could lose my salvation. Here it is again. He didn't enter a Holy place made with the mere hands of men. NO SIR!! He entered the heavens, the home of GOD ALMIGHTY! Because He is MY GREAT HIGH PRIEST, He no longer has to suffer often for my many sins, but "now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself". If you are a Christian, and that doesn't excite you, THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH YOU!

Then, look at the last of it. We walk around (and I am including myself in this) focusing on our burdens and our circumstances like the saddest sack people on the planet. No wonder no one wants to be a Christian. We are kill joys! Here we are told that Christ offered once to BEAR THE SINS OF MANY and He Will appear a second time WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SIN, to who?? To the world? No!! To those who EAGERLY await Him!!!

How eager are you for Christ's return? Are you thinking...no my baby needs to grow up, no I have to get married, no I want a career, etc. etc. I used the think that way when I was a nominal Christian (and most likely NOT SAVED), BUT NOT NOW! Man, I can tell you if it weren't for the deep burden of my soul for so many that are going to meet this day of judgment NOT IN CHRIST, I would be ready to see Him RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE! But, for your sakes, I am grateful He tarries.

Please, don't waste ONE MORE SECOND of your life on THIS PERISHING WORLD that offers false god's made by the hands of men. SURRENDER your heart today to THE ONE TRUE GOD not made by human hands. If you will, you will NEVER REGRET IT and YOU WON'T HAVE TO HOLD ON TO HIM because HE WILL HOLD ON TO YOU FOR ETERNITY!!

Evangelist Dennis Deese

If you live in or near the North Florida area of Live Oak, Florida, please come out and hear my good friend and former pastor, Dennis Deese, at his first ever evangelistic crusade.




Visit his blog, The World of the Evangelist, or his Website at http://www.dennisdeese.com/ to learn more about him and his ministry.

Waiting

But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. Leviticus 7:17 (KJV)

The following devotional deeply convicted me this morning because the Lord has been saying this to me for months and months (maybe years actually). I know it in my head, but in practice I am a poor player. The one encouragement is the first line, "It may seem and easy thing to wait, but is is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching."

Wait on the Lord

"Wait on the Lord."--Psalm 27:14

It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful, untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, "Now, Lord, not my will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower."

C.H.S.

Father,

I am a pitiful waiter upon you. Despite the numerous times you have stood up from your drowsing and calmed the storm, I am repeatedly like the disciples, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" (Mark 4:38b) But, You my Father, my King, my Lord, my Redeemer, my Savior, my Counselor, my gentle Rebuker, my Patient Faithful Father, You always say to me, "Why are you so timid? How is it that you have no faith?" to which I crumple up at Your feet once again in utter shame and amazement at You and wonder, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?" (taken from Mark 4:40-41)

Once again, Father, thank You for Your never ending mercy upon me. Thank You that I can know that these past months of torment and frustration were allowed by You through satan in order to prove me, test me, burn off the dross, and KILL ME, so that the beautiful aroma of Jesus Christ's nature could come through. I am ashamed of the stench of my flesh, but I am grateful that You have not stopped, yet again, to allow the burning of it that something more beautiful would shine through.

AMAZEMENT HAS SEIZED ME YET AGAIN!

Amen

Prayer

Well, it's been quite a while since I've been over here to write. Writing a series on prayer (or at least wanting to) led me into some more house cleaning that God needed to do first. Same thing on my "One Sacrifice" blog. I started writing on Spiritual Warfare, got to the second verse in the passage, and BAM, God stopped me to do some pruning. (You'll have to go over there to find out what I am talking about).

Before I start on #3 of the "Principles of Powerful Prayer", I will just tell you that I may not get this series finished before the end of the year. I hope I do, but God is slowing me down and calling me into a prayer ministry at church and home. I am sensing that He is calling me to a year alone in His Word (actually I think He has been telling me this for a while and I have been in rebellion over it). Please keep praying for souls and please consider adding to my list here. I have a long list on paper that I need to update here and I desire to keep praying for miracles through this blog.

God has temporarily stopped me on #2: A humble heart to reveal how prideful mine still was in some areas. However, just know for sure that declaring God's goodness to Him is definitely the place to start in powerful prayer. I'll be back soon to give you more.

Blessings,

Amanda

Who am I to argue with God?

Romans 9:16-35 (New Living Translation)

16 So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.

17 For the Scriptures say that God told Pharaoh, “I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread my fame throughout the earth.” 18 So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.

19 Well then, you might say, “Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”

20 No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into? 22 In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those on whom his anger falls, who are destined for destruction. 23 He does this to make the riches of his glory shine even brighter on those to whom he shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for glory. 24 And we are among those whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.

25 Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea,

“Those who were not my people,
I will now call my people.
And I will love those
whom I did not love before.”

26 And, “Then, at the place where they were told,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called
‘children of the living God.’”

27 And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out,
“Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore,
only a remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth
quickly and with finality.”

29 And Isaiah said the same thing in another place:
“If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
had not spared a few of our children,
we would have been wiped out like Sodom,
destroyed like Gomorrah.”

30 What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. 31 But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded. 32 Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path. 33 God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said,
“I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes people stumble,
a rock that makes them fall.
But anyone who trusts in him
will never be disgraced.”

I'm chewing on this passage. God is teaching me some NEW things; things that are calling into question all the OLD lessons I have learned. Not clearly understanding it yet, but welcoming and desiring the time with HIM to find the answers. I light of all the lies and half-truths put out by our nation and even by some who I thought could be trusted; I no longer rule out new information that calls to question long held beliefs. I must get to the TRUTH of God's WORD without biased man-made opinions. I encourage you to do the same. I do welcome discussion on this passage; however, but I will trust ONLY in my LORD for the final conclusion. I know that I have sinned in questioning why God made me like He did and I can only beg His forgiveness for that. I am seeking to know what HE WANTS of me and nothing else. May I be found faithful to the call despite my lack of understanding it.

But while in Prison; The Lord Be with You

And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. Genesis 39:10

When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, "This is how your slave treated me," he burned with anger. Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. Genesis 39:19-21

Father God,

Help me to be as Joseph who refuses DAY AFTER DAY to go to bed with sin or even be near her! Help me when this results in my imprisonment and my exile to know Your presence in a real and profound way. Help me to KNOW your kindness and be granted Your favor in the eyes of those who would seek to imprison me. LORD, be with me that I might not fail You.

Amen

Was He only Joking?

Luke 9:57-62 (New King James Version)

The Cost of Discipleship

57 Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”
But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Do you suppose Jesus was speaking figuratively here? Do you suppose He didn't REALLY MEAN that we are to forsake all things and all people who will not walk this narrow path? It is as if we think that Jesus was being tongue in cheek all the time. What hypocrisy! I for one am becoming painfully aware of what this passage means and I have decided it might be best for me to memorize it so that I can do battle against the enemy's continual assault on my mind. I take my Lord seriously because it was no joke that He came down from above and endured the Wrath of the Father for me. How could I spit on Him by thinking that He will overlook my silence just to spare myself reproach? To be honest, even if I wanted to and I honestly have tried to be silent at times, it just seems I CANNOT! There is such a desire in me to proclaim TRUTH that all the gates of Hell cannot stop me. Sorry to those who don't appreciate it, but I serve ONE GOD AND ONE GOD ONLY!

Principles of Powerful Prayer Part 2: A Humble Heart

1. Honesty
2. A humble heart.
3. Declaring the character and goodness of God before His throne.
4. Seeking not your own rights, but rather God's right to rebuke, reprove, and teach you in order that you might become more like His Son, Jesus Christ.
5. Time spent studying the way Jesus and others in the Bible prayed.
6. Declaring and pleading to God His own promises and His own will through prayer.
7. Confidence that if what you are seeking is God's will, then you can boldly claim it and have confidence in its answer. You must not doubt in your prayers.
8. Claim the authority you have over the enemy as a child of God in Jesus name and do it often. Do not be meek when wielding the sword against the enemy.
9. Willingness to wait upon your answer and not act until you are confident that God has revealed His will.
10. Praise, praise, praise!

Principle of Powerful Prayer #2: A humble heart

Ah....humility. How can I teach on that? I haven't it mastered at all. Adrian Rogers used to say the two most dangerous things to ask God for are patience and humility! He just might teach them to you. And, in fact, what little humility I posses has come from complete brokenness derived from NUMEROUS trips to the woodshed. I find it difficult to even suggest in instructing others that I have achieved humility for that sounds boastful and even saying that I don't want to sound boastful sounds boastful. Am I making sense? This is so hard.

If I recognize that God has given me some Spiritual insight that others may seem to lack, I am easily tempted to have Spiritual pride. In fact, for a long time I thought that my self pity and deep sense of guilt was God working in my life and yet, it took a form of pride because I was focused on my self. Again, I just say that this is truly a difficult thing to ascertain.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. Romans 12:3

If I have attained any sense of humility and humbleness of heart it came last year, ironically, through my blogging experience. I had been "priding" myself in what I thought was an extra measure of discernment granted to me by God. I was just so certain that I could tell the truth from a lie. Then, as Beth Moore so aptly describes in her study,

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"When Godly People Do Ungodly Things" I was "HAD". My mind was thrown into an utter state of confusion. I no longer knew who I was hearing: God or Satan. In my attempt to achieve clarity, I removed myself from blogging for about a month and over the next three months tried to get some grasp on what had happened to me. I was so embarrassed that I did not want anyone to know what happened. I was flabbergasted that "I" could be so duped by someone and God was disciplining me over my "Spiritual Pride" and my sinful tendency to go outside of the proper authorities in my life for Spiritual guidance. Needless to say, after many months of confusion, LOTS AND LOTS OF PRAYER, and LOTS OF REPENTANCE, God began to clarify what had happened and why He had allowed it. The end result was a beautiful thing and one that prepared me for the very trial that my church family and I are going through right now. God was teaching me that I cannot place ANY OUNCE of my faith and confidence in any human being that would supersede my FAITH IN HIM! He was also showing me just how prideful, arrogant, and man pleasing I had become. Who was I to be seeking to teach others anything, when I myself had so much lacking in true wisdom, humility, and knowledge of God.

Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. Colossians 3:22

I have shared this to tell you a few things that I do believe God has revealed to me about Himself through this lesson. First of all, despite my arrogance, I still had a heart to please God and I was classically "ignorant" of what I was doing. Now, I didn't say "innocent" for we are responsible to seek God to reveal in us any evil or wicked way and then repent and obey. At that time I was seeking other people to give me wisdom rather than God. However, Jesus is a long suffering and loving God who intercedes before the throne, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” and He patiently allowed me to be disciplined and suffer through this trial to teach me of HIS GREAT MAJESTY and my GREAT NEED of Him IN EVERYTHING!

"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5

Secondly, He taught me that the best way to guard against Spiritual pride is to continually remind myself through prayer and Scripture where ALL GOOD GIFTS come from. I have learned (the hard way) to continuously be grateful to God for ANY GOOD THING in me for without Him and His gifts I am a self-righteous, wretched, judgmental sinner. (And I don't mean that for pride or self-pity...it is just a fact!) I really don't want people to praise me because my tendency is to turn to pride and I honestly mean it when I say that if they see any good in me it is the Spirit of God and if they see bad it is my quenching of His Spirit and I am happy that they point it out. Now, sometimes my flesh doesn't react happy at first, but praise be to God BECAUSE He has given me His Spirit, it usually doesn't take very long and I recognize that they are right. That comes from Him because my natural tendency is to defend myself.

So I guess my advice to those seeking to have a powerful prayer life goes back to honesty before God about your "stuff". If you don't think you are prideful, then ask Him to reveal where you might be and honestly desire the lesson.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm139:23-24

Be warned: It may hurt and it may be confusing, but just cling to His Word in those times and it will produce the right result. It was funny, when I first announced on my blog that I was going to "take a break" and perhaps "quit blogging" in order to hear more clearly from God, I had someone criticize me for being too "pious" and "serious". At first I was upset by this and hurt until God began to teach me that it was just the enemy's last ditch effort to keep me from getting alone with Him. I looked up the definition of "pious" and found that the first definition given was "marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine". I decided that sounded a lot like Jesus and I was pleased to be insulted in that way. I decided that He was fairly pious when He shut out the crowd and went to a solitude place to be alone with the Father so I was in good company. So let no one tell you that you are wrong for wanting to block out man's interpretations of God's Word so that you can seek His face and His interpretation of His own Word for YOU! My friends, that is EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO!

God's Explanation for Global Warming, Homosexuality, and Atheism

Romans 1:18-32 (New International Version)

God's Wrath Against Mankind
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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Principles of Powerful Prayer: Part 1: Honesty

I just started a series on my other blog, One Sacrifice For All Time, evaluating in depth Ephesians 6:10-20 and the Full Armor of God.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His fight. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. with regard to the full armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-20

Yesterday, I wrote my first post about Ephesians 6:10. I explained that we have access to the strength of the Lord by boldly declaring war on the enemy through prayer. In response to that post, someone emailed me and asked for more specifics on how I pray for my marriage. I decided after writing her back that this would be a good way to begin writing about what God has taught me with regard to prayer. Everything I have learned about prayer started by my desire to see God heal my marriage. I did not have a particularly bad marriage; just a typical one. I don't plan to focus on marriage in these posts, but rather on the principles that God has taught me regarding prayer by teaching me how to pray for my marriage.

I didn't really realize it until I started typing the email response, but I have learned the following principles with regard to powerful prayer:

1. Honesty
2. A humble heart.
3. Declaring the character and goodness of God before His throne.
4. Seeking not your own rights, but rather God's right to rebuke, reprove, and teach you in order that you might become more like His Son, Jesus Christ.
5. Time spent studying the way Jesus and others in the Bible prayed.
6. Declaring and pleading to God His own promises and His own will through prayer.
7. Confidence that if what you are seeking is God's will, then you can boldly claim it and have confidence in its answer. You must not doubt in your prayers.
8. Claim the authority you have over the enemy as a child of God in Jesus name and do it often. Do not be meek when wielding the sword against the enemy.
9. Willingness to wait upon your answer and not act until you are confident that God has revealed His will.
10. Praise, praise, praise!

Principle #1: Honesty Before God

Let me speak especially to you who desire to find peace with God and salvation through the precious blood: you will do well to make your confession before God very frank, very sincere, very explicit. Surely you have nothing to hide, for there is nothing that you can hide. He knows your guilt already, but He would have you know it; therefore, He tells you to confess it. Go into the details of your sin in your secret acknowledgments before God. -Charles H. Spurgeon in Prayer and Spiritual Warfare.

I have previously shared in my testimony that honesty is required for answered prayers. One of the most awesome things about God is that no matter where you are in your maturity with Him, He always hears and answers honest prayers. I am not talking about being arrogant or insolent in your prayers because we know that He will not hear that, but even the sinner's prayer will be heard if it is an honest cry for help. If it were not so, then we would all still be lost souls. When we are completely honest before God about our weakness, our failures, our needs, even our sinful attitudes, we open up the channel for Him to respond in love at our deepest level of need. He will not harshly rebuke the honest heart, but rather will gently lead you into all truth.

I have sinned and done wrong since the day I was born. But you want complete honesty, so teach me true wisdom. Wash me with hyssop until I am clean and whiter than snow. Psalm 51:5-7

Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent. Jeremiah 5:3

I cried to Him with my mouth, And He was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Psalm 66:17-19

So as simple as it seems, we must be sure that we are not trying to hide anything from God when we approach Him in prayer. Obviously, we cannot hide anything from Him, but often in our attempt to not admit our failures or our feelings; we do try to keep the truth from God. Sometimes, when I know that my feelings are wrong, I have found the following approach in prayer to be best.

"Father, I know that these emotions I am having are wrong and are not from Your Spirit. I know that You would have me not to judge this person in this way. I am asking You to change my heart with regard to this matter because at this moment I am honestly not feeling love toward them. I am not understanding what You are doing in this circumstance, but I want to understand. Either way, I will submit and wait until You move and reveal Your glory."

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5

I can honestly say that anytime I pray in that way, something supernatural happens and over time God begins to open my eyes to see the person or situation from His perspective and gives me supernatural love or wisdom regarding it. So, please, just be honest with God; there is no other way to see your prayers answered and your heart changed.

God bless you and come back next time to dive into principle #2: A Humble Heart

Amanda

Because of the Brave

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1

Many souls have gone before us! Well more than 1000 souls have given their lives for our freedoms and liberties! Let us remember them as we celebrate this weekend. Let us not only remember the soldiers who gave us freedoms in this country, but also let us remember all the many men and women who have gone to the stake burned for the cause of Christ, those who were stoned, tarred and feathered, used as torches to light the parties of tyrant dictators because they refused to deny their true King and their true Home!

This 4th of July as we celebrate our nation here on earth, I ask you to examine your own heart. Are you living a life that exemplifies that you are a foreigner and stranger in this land? Are you sounding the battle cry to save your fellow brothers and sisters from the destruction to come? Are you dying to your own selfish desires and sacrificing all to see your loved ones, your neighbors, and even your enemies saved from the clutches of the enemy?

Even if America loses every liberty we have always known, we can sing this refrain:

"I can live in freedom! I can dream my dreams! Freedom's price was paid because of HIM who died for me!"

Jesus we thank you for all the soldiers who died for us! We honor them and we apologize to them and their families and most of all we beg your forgiveness for not standing up for the freedoms for which they and You died! May we seek from this day forward to confess our sins to you daily, to ask for your Spirit that we might receive our daily marching orders, and to rise from our humble position underneath your authority to proclaim to the enemy that he is defeated and we are more than conquerors in You!

Remembering My Personal Rescue

"I was having lots of personal turmoil and stress about my future and on September 10, 2001, despite my prideful desire to control my own life, I decided to consult a psychologist to see if he could help me with my anxiety and worry about my life and its meaning. He essentially gave me the Type A personality pep talk, and said that I just needed to let things go. So, of course, I walked out with the attitude that “I” would be able to gain control over this, I just needed to make the decision to do so. I went home and told my husband the good news, to which, I am sure he thought, “Whatever.” The next morning was September 11, 2001."

This is a quote from my personal testimony.


As I replayed these clips today, my heart was filled with so many memories. A lot has happened in my life as a result of that terrible day. There is a tendency to almost feel a bit ashamed that what was a day of death for so many in our country became a significant day of life for me. I remember feeling so helpless and hopeless as a nation during those days. And yet, at the same time I was being dug out of my own rubble by a mighty hero. Jesus Christ, Himself, had allowed a heap of brokenness, and shattered dreams, and shards of glass to pile up on me so that He could graciously and tenderly begin to rescue me. I had reached a point where I could feel the flames burning all around me and I was desperately trying to put them out with my spit! I could not accept the fact that I wasn't making any impact on the flames in front of me, and I wasn't even aware of the roaring flames coming up from behind. It wasn't until that day that I stood in my living room, terrified that the rapture had taken place, that truth was able to break through.

I had become completely buried under a heap of my own mess. My body and soul were exhausted from straining and pushing and heaving trying to remove the rubble. All I could do was barely reach a dirty, smudged, bleeding hand toward a dim glimmer of light that had been illuminated many many years earlier in my life. I had often seen the light in previous years. Sometimes it would shine brightly and draw me to itself, but as soon as I got close enough to see all the hideous trash lying around, I immediately covered it up with attempts to clean up, pull away, sweep under the sofa the dirt and the grime. I thought, "I appreciate the light that this little flame offers me, but it isn't enough so I had better light a few more fires over here and over there." Before long, things were burning out of control, walls were crumbling, debris was flying everywhere, and eventually I was buried ALIVE. So here I was; desperately stretching my hand up just hoping, praying, pleading for help. Yet, even in my desperation, my call for help was prideful, "Light, if You are there and if You are real, You gotta dig me out of here or go away and let me die." Boy, that doesn't sound like a person grateful for a hero. But you know what, a hero is a hero, no matter how the person he saves responds. He is sworn to do His duty and there is nothing that can change that.

So my gracious, loving, tender, merciful, mighty, powerful, strong, SUPERHERO, bent down in the rubble, let the dirt and the grime deter him not, and gently whispered, "Daughter, you have NEVER been without hope. I offered a sacrifice ONCE AND FOR ALL that has already cleared all of this filth. In fact, I have had my strong hand firmly clasped to your arm all these years. Yes, you have tried to pull away, you have squirmed, and yanked, and tried to pry my fingers off with your other hand, but my strength to "keep" you is far greater than your weakness to pull away."

As I reflect over the last nearly eight years, I'm reminded of many, many, many more times that my Superhero has had to pick up his shovel. In fact, this very week He removed one last heap of rubble that was piled upon me and I now stand upon ground zero, my flag firmly placed in the territory that is MINE (I know you hear me, satan!!!!!!!). I mourn the loss of the lives of my dear citizens of this great country, America, but I celebrate the gain of true life that I have found and the citizenship of royalty that I AM FIRMLY CONVINCED IS MINE!!

GOD BLESS HIS PEOPLE!!

Oops!! Father still knows their names, but I need an update!

This post is a plea for forgiveness and help to my followers. I have started a new blog about diabetes and because I was looking to freshen it up, I decided I wanted to do the same for this blog and my devotional blog, One Sacrifice For All Time. I knew that if I replaced my template I would lose some of my gadgets, but I didn't really have too many on this site. However, it never occurred to me that I would also lose my listing of all the people I had listed in need of salvation. Thankfully, my Father knows each and every one intimately, but I am asking that if you had a loved one or were burdened for someone on this blog, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE leave me a comment so that I may "re-list" them here. I will also be adding several "new" names and hope to update this blog a little more often.

Again, I am truly sorry. I re-posted my original post from January so if you are new or need a refresher on the purpose of this blog please scroll down and read that post. Thanks to all the faithful prayer warriors out there who are working alongside me to pray for the lost and dying of this world. May we see many new souls caught this year.

1000 Souls

Last year I started a page in my prayer journal titled, "1000 Souls" with the intention of listing the names of 1000 people that I know need salvation and praying for them at least weekly. I must confess at this point only consists of 54 names, but I can praise the Lord that I could remove one of them as salvation has occurred for them. PTL!!

I have decided to extend my prayer challenge to my friends in the blog world. I believe that prayer is a very misunderstood AND UNDERUTILIZED aspect of the Christian life. I by no means am an "expert" in prayer, which is exactly why I am qualified to talk about it. Jesus said that we were not to pray as the hypocrites with big words and lengthy phrases, but rather in plain speech with a humble worshipful heart; a heart that believes that the One to whom we pray both hears us and WILL ANSWER us.

"This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." 1 John 15:14-15

My purpose as stated at the top of this blog is this: I want honor my Lord by providing a place to publicly display His Power and the Power that exists through prayer and praying for the salvation of others. I to invite you all to participate in my "1000 Souls" prayer by commenting and leaving the initials of someone you know that needs salvation. Please be sensitive to the public nature of our relationship; you might even want to sign it anonymously.

Secondly, I plan to write a post (hopefully weekly) with regard to prayer and what the Lord has taught me, and I invite you to share prayer requests each week either for yourself and/or family and friends. Feel free to leave additional names for salvation each week as well. If you really feel led to do so, I also invite you to post what the Lord has done in your life through prayer and link your post back here to my site with Mr. Linky. If you should choose to write at your blog, I ask that you invite others to participate here in the "1000 Souls" so as to magnify the ability to pray for the salvation of as many people as possible. I have no problem with renaming it "10,000 Souls" should the Lord so bless it.

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What are my motives?

I wish to speak about something that I have noticed among various websites and blogs that troubles me. It is something that I have learned about myself and hope to encourage others to consider when witnessing about Jesus to those who 'are on the outside'. Scripture gives us several opportunities to learn and understand what it means to be salt and light among a dark world. I will confess that my zeal for the Lord has many, many times been used by the devil to harm others. I have suffered many times the hand of discipline from my father over speaking from passion and zeal with little regard for the outcome. Brothers and sisters we know we have the truth, we have experienced the love of God personally and our eyes have been opened to understand the Scripture, but when we speak the truth to those on the outside it is foolishness to them.

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1 Corinthians 2:14

Am I saying that this should cause us not to speak. Of course not!

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

However, I am saying that we ought to always be prayerful and repentant towards God to fully examine our own hearts and our own motives. Too many times I think we get passionate about our God when someone says He is not real or doesn't exist and in our passion we seek to 'set them straight'. This my friends is a work of the devil! Satan knows all too well that we love the Lord vehemently and if he can stir in us the flames of love and zeal for the house of the Lord, he can quickly take our passionate love and turn it into a fleshly desire to be right and prove them wrong. I implore you to search your heart EACH AND EVERY TIME YOU ARE WITNESSING and ask God to reveal several things.

1. Father, what is my motive for speaking to this person concerning You? What is it that I hope to accomplish in my conversation?
2. Father, what would YOU have me say to this person concerning You? What is it that YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH through this conversation?
3. Father, give me wisdom to walk according to YOUR DIRECTION with this person that no reproach or shame would come Your name.
4. Father, examine my heart fully and reveal to me any evil that is in it. Reveal to me whether I am truly concerned for the salvation of this soul or proving myself right and them wrong. Burden me with the gravity of their situation and rather than mock them let me be filled with Holy love and compassion for them.
5. Father, I know that You are unwilling that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance. I also know that only YOU can open the eyes, mind, and heart of this man or woman and I am fully trusting in YOU to guide me. Give me wisdom to know when to continue and when to walk away.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:5-6

Many seem to believe that we can 'argue' people into heaven and 'argue' them into believing. I ask you, did that work for you? Was it the arguing that won you to Christ? While I believe it is our responsibility to speak about the condemnation that is on all who blaspheme the Holy Spirit and scorn so great a salvation, it is also our responsibility to speak the truth in love. I strongly encourage you as you get into discussions with those who do not believe to fully evaluate your motives and your final intentions behind each argument. Are you trying to prove yourself and God right or are you trying to win a lost soul back into the sheepfold?

We must demonstrate to them the same love that Christ demonstrated to us while we were yet sinners. I feel that Jude explains the mind of those who do not know God quite well in his epistle. Keep in mind, however, Jude is specifically referring to false prophets in the church in the first part of this epistle and as it is so often found in Scripture the harshest judgments are pronounced on those 'people who eat with you in your fellowship meals.' I think that this is one of the reasons we so fail in the eyes of those on the outside.

When these people eat with you in your fellowship meals commemorating the Lord’s love, they are like dangerous reefs that can shipwreck you.They are like shameless shepherds who care only for themselves. They are like clouds blowing over the land without giving any rain. They are like trees in autumn that are doubly dead, for they bear no fruit and have been pulled up by the roots. They are like wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their shameful deeds. They are like wandering stars, doomed forever to blackest darkness.

Enoch, who lived in the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, “Listen! The Lord is coming with countless thousands of his holy ones 1 to execute judgment on the people of the world. He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

And you must show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.

Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen. (Selected Scriptures from the book of Jude)

Finally, I just wish to call your attention to the correct behaviors and attitudes we ought to have when dealing with people. If they are believers or 'professed believers' I believe we have a prayerful responsibility to correct, reprove, and demonstrate discipline in love toward them. The Scriptures give us clear directions on the appropriate methods and measures that should be taken. It is the neglect of this type of church discipline that has led the current American church to the unsalty, tasteless, unable to preserve her society state that she is currently in. However, when dealing with those on the outside our behavior, attitudes, and motives ought to be quite different. We have to stop holding lost people accountable to the rule of God and saved people unaccountable. It is this very misinterpretation of Scripture that has give satan such a stronghold in our society.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

Please join me in praying for RYK and CW and many others who fail to recognize the authority of the One True God.

Make Me a Channel of Blessing

Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is the love of God flowing through you?
Are you telling the lost of the Savior?
Are you ready His service to do?

Refrain

Make me a channel of blessing today,
Make me a channel of blessing, I pray;
My life possessing, my service blessing,
Make me a channel of blessing today.

Is your life a channel of blessing?
Are you burdened for those that are lost?
Have you urged upon those who are straying,
The Savior Who died on the cross?

Refrain

Is your life a channel of blessing?
Is it a daily telling for Him?
Have you spoken the Word of salvation
To those who are dying in sin?

Refrain

We cannot be channels of blessing
If our lives are not free from known sin;
We will barriers be and a hindrance
To those we are trying to win.

Refrain

Words and Music: Harper G. Smyth 1873-1945

Father God,

As you have led me to these old hymns and lyrics, I am convicted, humbled, burdened, and challenged by their words. Father, I pray that you would make me a channel of blessing to others. What a glorious privilege it is that we have to be part of your work here on earth. Too often we shy from it; wincing in the light and scurrying back to darkness for fear of personal rejection. Father, please forgive me personally for all of those times. Father, please have mercy on ALL of us collectively in the body of Christ for falling victim to satan's schemes. Forever burn on our retinas the image of lost souls eternally burning in hellfire and brimstone that we might not be insensitive to their plight. Father, please convict us of unknown sin in our lives that we might confess it, be cleansed, and be made ready to be a channel of blessing to others. Lord, I lift up to you ALL THE NAMES on this blog (and all those not represented here) that NEED SALVATION. Lord, many of them, obviously ALL OF THEM, do not know that the building they are in is on fire. They do not know that the path they lead, which seems so right, leads to death and destruction. Father, please fill me with your Spirit that I may be more like Christ; full of Grace AND Truth as I seek out the lost and try to tell them the Truth. Father, if I speak with all knowledge and have not love, I will be as a clanging cymbal and they will not desire to come out of the darkness and into Your glorious light. Father, I plead with you as your daughter that while you have burdened me with knowledge of You and Your word to take to the world, that you would infiltrate my thoughts, my words, and my actions with your abundant love and grace so as not to forever offend others away from You, but rather convict them of their great need for Your grace to save them. I sincerely plead this on behalf of myself and ALL who are burdened to win the lost to Your kingdom. May satan no longer triumph over us with fear of offense, with fear of personal rejection, and with fear of 'messing it up', but may we be so confessed up, cleaned up, and filled up that ALL THINGS be possible through Jesus Christ in our lives.

Giving YOU ALL THE CREDIT AND PRAISE FOR ANY GOOD IN MY LIFE,

Amen

"Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet if you have warned the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself." Ezekiel 3:17-19

Lead Me to Some Soul Today

Title: Lead Me to Some Soul Today


Lead me to some soul today,
O teach me, Lord, just what to say;
Friends of mine are lost in sin,
And cannot find their way.
Few there are who seem to care,
And few there are who pray;
Melt my heart, and fill my life,
Give me one soul today.

Words: Wndell P. Loveless 1892

Great Videos on Evangalism

Not Interested in HIM!

My church is encouraging its members to invite as many people as possible for Easter Sunday. They gave us some very nice glossy cards with the times and services listed. If we feel that we can get a commitment, they also want us to collect their names and information to turn back into the church.

Usually, when I hand someone a tract, I also give them an invitation card for my church so this fits in quite easily with my routine (if you call only been doing this for a few months now a routine).

Today, as I was leaving the self checkout at the grocery store, with tract and invitation in hand, I stopped to ask the nice lady who had been talking with my son at the counter if she had a "Church home". That was my first mistake as she looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Oops...church lingo...I quickly readjusted my words and asked, "Do you attend a church anywhere?" Her face quickly took the defense and through pursed lips she spouted, "I'm not interested." I replied, "Okay, thank you. Have a nice day." I also asked the lady next to her and she replied, "Yes" and then quickly gave me the name of the church. I suppose this was to reassure me not to press any further.

I left with my son and began to speak to the Lord on her behalf. "Father" I asked, "what must have happened to her in her life to make her 'not interested' in you? Lord, I'm so glad that you are interested in her and that now I have a reason to pray on her behalf." I am sharing this not to brag or pat myself on the back for being courageous enough to invite someone to church. After all, what kind of courage is that, really? Nothing compared to what many of my brothers and sisters are doing around the world and in cities across this country. However, I did want to give my Lord thanks for so quickly showing me that every opportunity to invite someone to Jesus yields a positive result. You see, even if they reject your message or your invitation, they can't reject your prayers. And we know that since He is unwilling that any should perish, and since He promises to hear and answer our prayers when they are prayed according to His will, then I can have hope and confidence for this woman. I can pray diligently that the Lord will continue to send people to her, and I can have hope that one day she will, by the power of the Holy Spirit, become interested.

She is not unlike all of us once were. For God's Word says,

"All of us like sheep have gone astray,Each of us has turned to his own way;But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." Isaiah 53:6

Let's be faithful to continue to pray for those who are "not interested" in Him because we all know that He is most definitely interested in them.

By the way. I know I started this blog with the promise to share about prayer and I still plan to, however, the Lord is still teaching me many new things, and I don't want to get the cart before the horse. So from time to time I will post my experiences as I try to become a more bold witness for the Lord, and when I feel He has some more for me to share concerning the process of prayer, I promise to bring it forth. In the meantime, Keep asking, seeking, and knocking for those who are lost. Remember they don't even know that the boat is going down until we tell them. Fish, my brothers and sisters, fish! If the net comes up empty, cast it on the other side. Keep fishing because the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are FEW!!

God bless you!

Paul Washer at Deeper Conference 2008

I found this on a fellow fisherman's site. I was at this conference and it was Paul Washer that God greatly used to stir in me the dormant desire to begin fishing.




I still have much to learn about being faithful to evangalize, but the Lord has helped me much in recent days. Recently I gave tracts at Taco Bell to the cashier and asked him to give some to the car behind me after I payed their bill. It was so exciting because the boy said, "Why would you do that?" I was able to hand him the tracts and say, "Because of what's in here. Because of Jesus". It was awesome!!

Happy Fishing loved ones!

A Friend Comes at Midnight

A Friend Comes at Midnight

And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. Luke 11:5-8 (New King James Version)

Hello everyone out there. I'm sorry I have negleceted this blog in postings, but rest assured not in prayer. I have prayed for the people listed here and I can't wait when the answers start pouring in about salvation so we can begin gloryfying or great Father for His love and hearing of our prayers.

I hope that this will be my last week back in the work force, and I will be back home with my little bugaboo with a refreshed attitude of gratitude about being a SAHM and homemaker. I have so many ideas floating around about organizing and running our home.

I would like to encourage any of you out there to continue to seek the Lord for the lost and please leave their names here. I really hope that by the end of 2009 I have at least 1000 souls in need of salvation represented on this blog. Sometimes I think we don't see great movements of God in our lives because we don't EXPECT great movements of God in our lives. I am expecting HIM to answer our prayers on this site and save our loved ones (and our enemies).

The signs of the end times are EVERYWHERE, and it won't be long before the chapter on the church age and the age of grace is closed, and the door is forever shut. We must seek out the lost with great urgency and share the good news of Jesus Christ with them before it is too late.

meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:3-6 (New King James Version)

Fishers Of Men