BY JESUS! Be encouraged, be hopeful, be alert, be ready, be faithful, be devoted, be loyal, be challenged- you get the idea, don't you? Or do you? Do you believe for even a second, that your participation in the Bent Knee Tribe is accidental? Do you perhaps entertain the idea that you are too busy to hammer out a half hour? Maybe you entertain the thought that Jesus has already a ministry you are busy with, so this bent knee business isn't of Him toward you? Maybe the idea of just another "Thing" to do, tempts you to dismiss Holy Spirit calling you to disciple disciples in this Jesus energized and commanded way? Be encouraged to read on, it's five minutes Holy Spirit gives you, from eternity.
Phl 3:13 - Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Phl 3:14 - I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Paul is writing to Christians in Phillipi,
they were persecuted, it was hard. Yet my sense is, you get that, Christ uses these writings to speak to you? You, in America, housed, fed, electrified, televised with our internet, with unbelievable blessings, health, food, comfort; us.
Compared to Fathers who were ratted out by their own families for thirty pieces of silver, a quarter years worth of food. Fathers the Romans would soak in oil, nail to a platform on their roads, then light on fire! As they made the snitch watch? To cruel Rome they were illegal immigrants. And on Sunday, the church will gather and folks without tears in their eyes, sitting stiff necked on the pews, "Have to listen to another sermon" identifying themselves as belonging to Jesus, will think it nearly a form of persecution that they "Have" to be there? Hard soil, takes, hard prayer.
Your absolutely vital to what Holy Spirit is bringing- REVIVAL. Not of us, not scheduled, not planned, ha ha, not financed. REVIVAL, brought to YOU, courtesy, I believe of the prayers of Peter founder of church, Paul evangel of growth, faith and grace to the gentiles, John who saw all the men he loved go to Christ before him! You are in Christ's heart to disciple disciples, to pray- please don't think you aren't vital, essential, necessary, wanted, desired, loved!
Four...four...four...four...people you know who will read the Bible daily, your prayers daily. Obsecramus Christ Amen
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