i've been given a desire. a desire that unbeknownst to me - would be a burning desire for those who many forget about. i have a desire to ease the burden of those being persecuted for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. i have a desire to hold and care for the children of those who have been orphaned. there's a desire in my heart to take hold of women who have been neglected, alienated and forgotten. i have a desire to pray over those who have given their lives over to drugs and pray that God will give them that saving faith so they will desire to do nothing other than plead the blood of Christ and repent. to pray that God will save and deliver them from their addictions and of their sins. my desire is to feed the homeless, to eat with them, to share with them the beauty of the gospel. i desire to take God's word to those who are forbidden to partake. i desire to sing and worship alongside those who do battle for our Lord and Savior in parts of the earth where persecution is real. to take God's word and gospel to those who have not even heard the name of our beautiful Jesus. i do not look to serve the happiness of man, only to glorify God. my desire is to give up myself to the work of the gospel, to tell the world.
"woe is me. for i am undone and my lips are unclean. you chose me. to carry your word till the end of my days. my eyes have seen the King of All Kings. here am i send me. a witness to splendor and great majesty. and you chose me. to carry your word till the end of my days. for my eyes have seen, the King of all Kings. here am i. send me! a witness to splendor and great majesty. you saved me. the cross is the coal that has cleansed me to sing, safe in the grace of the King of all Kings."
- "here am i" by enfield.
some people ask - what do you want to do for the Lord. my only answer should be is to glorify His name the best to the ability that He has given me. i should never say "oh, i want to do this and this." it should be "i want to glorify God by doing the things He's asked of us, in His word." that is where i am at right now. my desire and hope is to be back in china/hong kong. meeting the needs of those, on that fertile ground. i used to plead and beg to go to africa, but were my desires pure? i don't believe they were. yes, i do believe i still need to go, i still believe that i should visit from time to time. but my heart for africa is strictly humanitarian. that is not a bad thing. many humanitarian efforts are based on christian values and they are doing a great number of things to help those in need. i commend those who are drawn to do just that. praise God for those people. personally though, my life is not to reach those with humanitarian efforts, its to reach those who need to hear the name of Jesus Christ. only Jesus Christ can save and fix things in a permanent manner. our bodies are only temporary - but our souls are eternal.
"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." - james 1:19-27
so many people are forgetting those in need. many people just walk by those that are homeless and in need of a bite to eat or a drink of water. maybe they are even in need of someone to talk with, a blanket. what about our churches - how many of them are truly seeking to fulfill the command to visit orphans and widows, to help those in need. to show Christ to the world, not only in word but in action. i've recently started listening to the revival hymns over and over and its really showing me the current state of the church. and i mean the body of Christ. here are a few quotes from ian paisley, leonard ravenhilln and duncan campbell.
"The church of Jesus Christ is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom and you have all the Christians in bed and they're all sleeping and they're saying 'Please don't wake me up! I want to sleep on!' And of course when God starts to operate a revival people cannot sleep, you can't sleep in church when the Spirit of God awakes the people. Look at the first verse of this 52nd chapter "Awake! Awake! Put on strength! Wake it up! You're sleepy Christians! Awake thou that sleepeth, Arise from the dead! Christ will give you life!" - Ian Paisely
"How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest man who ever lived but it can get on with you and me? Are we compromised. Are we compromised. Have we no spiritual stature? Have we no righteousness that reflects on their corruption." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Is the world crucified to you tonight or does it fascinate you." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We just come from an altar and we go back the next week and we're fascinated, we haven't spent a half hour with Jesus but we'll stay two stinking hours in a movie house." - Leonard Ravenhill
" Revival! Not of evangelist’s, not of special effort, not anything at all organized on the basis of human endeavor. But an awareness of God that gripped the whole community so much so that work stopped." - Duncan Campbell
how true is it that our church services have become watered down. at least for the most part. i can't say all churches are like this because i know for a fact there are flourishing churches out there, being blessed by the Lord because they are following His word the way He intended. i pray that the churches of america will wake up. i pray that the churches of this world will wake up! i went to the resolved conference last week and was changed. my heart bleeds to do the work of the Lord. i hate my job - not just because of the job itself but because i long to do the Lord's work everyday. i am keeping my job so that eventually my husband and i will end up being able to do nothing but the Lord's work. and while i'm there, i pray that God will use me. i've been changed, after realizing the true depth of Christ's sacrifice, understanding that He not only endured physical pain, emotional pain due to the mockery, but he endured and suffered the pain of the full fury, the full unsatisfied wrath of God himself. the wrath that should have been poured out onto you and me - but no, instead Jesus felt the fury that would await our wickedness had it not been for His sacrifice. it was through His sacrifice that the wrath of God was satisfied, so that we will never have to feel what Christ felt. i ask you to pray tonight, ask God to reveal this to you. i pray that you'll read mark 15 and get more from whats not said, then from whats being said. there isn't a lot of gore in this gospel of the bible. but the reality comes to life.
i love you and pray that God will reveal Himself to you in a way that is new and real. remember, "The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?" - Leonard Ravenhill. i pray that you will be.
agape,
christin joy.
- "here am i" by enfield.
some people ask - what do you want to do for the Lord. my only answer should be is to glorify His name the best to the ability that He has given me. i should never say "oh, i want to do this and this." it should be "i want to glorify God by doing the things He's asked of us, in His word." that is where i am at right now. my desire and hope is to be back in china/hong kong. meeting the needs of those, on that fertile ground. i used to plead and beg to go to africa, but were my desires pure? i don't believe they were. yes, i do believe i still need to go, i still believe that i should visit from time to time. but my heart for africa is strictly humanitarian. that is not a bad thing. many humanitarian efforts are based on christian values and they are doing a great number of things to help those in need. i commend those who are drawn to do just that. praise God for those people. personally though, my life is not to reach those with humanitarian efforts, its to reach those who need to hear the name of Jesus Christ. only Jesus Christ can save and fix things in a permanent manner. our bodies are only temporary - but our souls are eternal.
"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world." - james 1:19-27
so many people are forgetting those in need. many people just walk by those that are homeless and in need of a bite to eat or a drink of water. maybe they are even in need of someone to talk with, a blanket. what about our churches - how many of them are truly seeking to fulfill the command to visit orphans and widows, to help those in need. to show Christ to the world, not only in word but in action. i've recently started listening to the revival hymns over and over and its really showing me the current state of the church. and i mean the body of Christ. here are a few quotes from ian paisley, leonard ravenhilln and duncan campbell.
"The church of Jesus Christ is largely sleeping, like a great bedroom and you have all the Christians in bed and they're all sleeping and they're saying 'Please don't wake me up! I want to sleep on!' And of course when God starts to operate a revival people cannot sleep, you can't sleep in church when the Spirit of God awakes the people. Look at the first verse of this 52nd chapter "Awake! Awake! Put on strength! Wake it up! You're sleepy Christians! Awake thou that sleepeth, Arise from the dead! Christ will give you life!" - Ian Paisely
"How is it that the world couldn't get on with the holiest man who ever lived but it can get on with you and me? Are we compromised. Are we compromised. Have we no spiritual stature? Have we no righteousness that reflects on their corruption." - Leonard Ravenhill
"Is the world crucified to you tonight or does it fascinate you." - Leonard Ravenhill
"We just come from an altar and we go back the next week and we're fascinated, we haven't spent a half hour with Jesus but we'll stay two stinking hours in a movie house." - Leonard Ravenhill
" Revival! Not of evangelist’s, not of special effort, not anything at all organized on the basis of human endeavor. But an awareness of God that gripped the whole community so much so that work stopped." - Duncan Campbell
how true is it that our church services have become watered down. at least for the most part. i can't say all churches are like this because i know for a fact there are flourishing churches out there, being blessed by the Lord because they are following His word the way He intended. i pray that the churches of america will wake up. i pray that the churches of this world will wake up! i went to the resolved conference last week and was changed. my heart bleeds to do the work of the Lord. i hate my job - not just because of the job itself but because i long to do the Lord's work everyday. i am keeping my job so that eventually my husband and i will end up being able to do nothing but the Lord's work. and while i'm there, i pray that God will use me. i've been changed, after realizing the true depth of Christ's sacrifice, understanding that He not only endured physical pain, emotional pain due to the mockery, but he endured and suffered the pain of the full fury, the full unsatisfied wrath of God himself. the wrath that should have been poured out onto you and me - but no, instead Jesus felt the fury that would await our wickedness had it not been for His sacrifice. it was through His sacrifice that the wrath of God was satisfied, so that we will never have to feel what Christ felt. i ask you to pray tonight, ask God to reveal this to you. i pray that you'll read mark 15 and get more from whats not said, then from whats being said. there isn't a lot of gore in this gospel of the bible. but the reality comes to life.
i love you and pray that God will reveal Himself to you in a way that is new and real. remember, "The question isn’t were you challenged. The question is were you changed?" - Leonard Ravenhill. i pray that you will be.
agape,
christin joy.