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June 13, 2017
Seven Things God HATES
“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19
In this sugar-coated, self-centered-saturated world, even those who profess to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ sometimes get swept away with a watered down version...
“Don’t Tread on Me”
“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10:19
Call it funny, cool, popular, meaningless, trivial, insignificant, innocent, or even ignorant, or anything else, but it’s anything but. Try dark, dangerous, ungodly, unholy, evil, and, ultimately, a matter of life, death, and eternal torment in hell and the lake of fire. The message behind it, that is. That’s if you want to know the truth...
June 8, 2017
I Can’t Do This Anymore!
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Phil. 4:13
“I can’t do this anymore!” a friend cried out to me right around the time she burst into tears. She was not one to cry, at least in front of me. I knew how much pain she was in. She was broken. Battered down by someone else’s sin.
Within a week or so, another friend cried out to me. “I can’t do this anymore!” She didn’t burst into tears. She burst into anger. She too had been battered down by someone else’s sin. Broken.
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Come in the Front Door
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16
“…Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep…I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:7-9
When a friend lovingly invited me to bring two of my dogs to his home for a visit with his precious family and the sweet dog he had adopted from me, he wrote me that I didn’t ne...
June 7, 2017
Are You ASKING God or DEMANDING?
“And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.” Mark 1:40-42
One day I visited a prayer meeting and was struck by how a woman believed we should DEMAND God for what we want. She seemed to think...
Update & Prayer Request from Lara
Update & Prayer Request from Lara
In a nutshell, the first six weeks of being on the road full-time for the Lord and ministry were AMAZING. All by God’s grace alone! I probably had more opportunities in streets ministry as an evangelist & writer talking to people and distributing the Gospel tracts & devotionals I write than in all the years combined I have been in ministry. Not to mention in the south where my ministry work was usually focused on Americans often wealthy or middle class due to...
May 31, 2017
We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves
“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter...
May 30, 2017
“Doing Rounds”
“…Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Mt. 22:39
Call me proud and biased. I am. Call this bragging. I am. My Dad, who tried to retire after decades of being an AMAZING doctor, in my estimate anyway, is still in medicine. Helping patients, and other health-care practitioners. Seems to be in his bones. His blood. His makeup. I can’t possibly forget decades ago growing up in my family witnessing my Dad go to exceeding lengths to help his chronically ill patients. One particular memory fro...
Nobody Likes Me
“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.” Luke 6:22-23
I am not sure there is any ministry on the Internet with a Facebook page with fewer “likes” than mine. Nor with fewer fans or followers, or however that w...
May 29, 2017
Take Your Foot Off the Brake
Take Your Foot Off the Brake
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14
I’ve been driving for so long I don’t much think about it. I turn the keys in the ignition and off I go. I don’t usually think of all the aspects of it. Like starting the car. Putting my foot...
