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The Holy Spirit and His Gifts

I haven’t posted in a full month… “clear­ing my plate” I know of life with­out the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I can’t think of liv­ing with­out Him now. With­out his pres­ence, with­out his encour­age­ment when I’m down on myself, when I feel inse­cure (The Great I AM has me in His hands, AMEN!), or his rebuke [...]
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John Marr

Here is a great album for down­load. Take time to really lis­ten. Artist’s name is John Marr. He is solidly locked onto Christ. 01 — Your Sal­va­tion Day.mp3 02 — Prayer for boldness.mp3 03 — Martyr.mp3 04 — My Only Comfort.mp3 05 — You are beautiful.mp3 06 — What If_.mp3 07 — Good­bye Mr. Preacher.mp3 [...]
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Morning Meeting notes — 1/6/08

Q: Why did God make Paul min­is­ter, to preach to the Gen­tiles the unsearch­able riches of Christ, and to bring to light for every­one what is the plan of the mys­tery hid­den for ages in God who cre­ated all things? A: So that through the church the man­i­fold wis­dom of God might now be made known [...]
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Unless you are converted, and become like children…

Two days ago I set the alarm clock ear­lier because I’ve been want­ing to have more time in the morn­ing alone with God. Alarm went off, I jumped out of bed… and hit the “off” but­ton, and snooooozed back to sleep. It is vain for you to rise up early, To retire late, To eat the bread of painful [...]
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Happy New Year!

This morn­ing I woke up and thought: “A new year… new mercy, new grace.” But no, the same mercy, the same grace from my Father in Heaven! New years are a time of new begin­nings and fresh starts. For me it marks the end of a year of incred­i­ble change: From know­ing about God and His son, [...]
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True Religion

John preached a immer­sion of repentance/reformation/change-your-life/stop-sinning-and-live-right/ for the for­give­ness of sin. Jesus said that “… repen­tance and for­give­ness of sins should be pro­claimed in his name to all nations, begin­ning from Jerusalem.” It takes both. Bet­ter is open rebuke than hid­den love… If any­one thinks he is reli­gious, but doesn’t even con­trol his own mouth and deceives his [...]
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In light of the season

I just wanted to share my med­i­ta­tion the last week or so, from Philip­pi­ans 2:1–11: So if there is any encour­age­ment in Christ, any com­fort from love, any par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Spirit, any affec­tion and sym­pa­thy, com­plete my joy by being of the same mind, hav­ing the same love, being in full accord and of one [...]
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This is precious!

The most recent Voice of the Mar­tyrs News spoke of Iraqi Chris­tians, and their plight (and many’s flight) from Bagh­dad. Although a hor­ri­ble time (one pas­tor said most of the men of his parish have been killed), I think Jesus smiles at what is hap­pen­ing amidst his con­gre­ga­tion, as the VOC con­tacts report: “We are still [...]
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Pray for workers in the harvest field

Do it. Now I’m start­ing to see how seri­ous Jesus was about this:  When he saw the crowds, he had com­pas­sion on them, because they were harassed and help­less, like sheep with­out a shep­herd. Then he said to his dis­ci­ples, “The har­vest is plen­ti­ful but the work­ers are few. Ask the Lord of the har­vest, there­fore, to [...]
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Ready for suffering?

Read Psalms 44. Read the whole thing… think. The high­light in it: 11 You have made us like sheep for slaugh­ter and have scat­tered us among the nations. 12 You have sold your peo­ple for a tri­fle, demand­ing no high price for them. 13 You have made us the taunt of our neigh­bors, the deri­sion and scorn of those around us. 14 You have [...]
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