BE THANKFUL, DON”T COMPLAIN

Posted on August 16, 2015 by admin

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without it. Don’t count all of your blessings in dollars and cents, but count your spiritual blessings in all of the wonderful JEWELS you have learned from God’s Word. “The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.” ( Psalm 119:72 ). You could have been born to a family in India who are starving and worship cows and rats, and they pray to rats, and make temples for them, and they feed them even before they feed their own children. My God such darkness! “I had no shoes and complained until I met a man who had no feet.” God hates murmuring and complaining and unthankfulness almost more than any other sin, except rejecting Jesus Christ, his Son. God destroyed millions in the Sinai Desert because of murmuring. “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”( I Corinthians 10:10,11).Think of it, after seeing all these miracles happen in front of their eyes. The Jews still murmured and complained. God takes away blessings when we don’t appreciate them. One optimistic old woman said, “Yes, its pretty hard, I have to get along with only two teeth– one upper and one lower, but thank the Lord they both meet.” “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” (I Thessalonians 5:16-18). Don’t let the devil trick you, and fall into his trap of murmuring, and complaining. If we are always being thankful for everything that comes our way, we won’t have time to be complaining and murmuring. Count your blessings name them one by one. Count your blessings and see what God has done ! The Promised Land is what you make it ! Be thankful and make it a little bit of Heaven right now ! Why Wait !!

Say this prayer to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. I believe you died on the cross for my sins ,and rose from the dead. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

Encouragement

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

When King David’s two wives were taken prisoner by the Amalekites and the wives of his men and their children. David and his soldiers wept desperately and cried “until they had no more power in them to weep.” David’s soldiers even were talking about stoning him, because they blamed him for what happened. David sought the Lord, and it says “David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.” And the Lord helped him to get his wives and all the wives and children back of his men and didn’t loose one. There is a great lesson here in 1st Samuel Chapter 30. So when discouragement comes, it is OK to weep, but we need to turn to the Lord, and not to any other thing, or person. Then the Lord will bring about the victory. Discouragement is the opposite of encouragement Discouragement is one of the devil’s favorite weapons to try and get you to stop serving the Lord, and get your eyes off of Jesus, and winning souls. The devil’s demons will tell you that you can’t be a missionary or a preacher of the Gospel, because you are not good enough for God to use you, but the fact is no one is good or prefect enough. We are all men of like passion. We are all filthy mensterous rags, and sinners. ” He puts no trust in his saints, even the Heavens are unclean in his sight.” (Job 15:15). Some people even listen to the devil so much that they want to end their life. That is the enemy’s ultimate goal to destroy you, and your witness, and service for the Lord. When you talk to people in that frame of mind, tell them if you want to throw your life away, why not give it for a worthy cause in helping others to know Jesus? Many people get discouraged after the loss of a loved one. One of the best ways to overcome, and fight that, is to immerse yourself into God’s Word and service, so that you just have no time to sit around and listen to the enemy’s discouragement. This counsel is easier to say than to do, but it is the best I can give you. Lord help us not to seek to be comforted, but seek to comfort, not seek to be consoled, but to console, for it is only when we take our eyes off our selves, and our own misery, and look to ease the pain of others that we can find peace and even happiness.“He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matthew 10: 39). “ The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite (crushed) spirit.” (Psalm 34:18). “ He was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:” (Isaiah 53:3b) .It is much easier to be a blaster, or a Prophet of doom, than to be a healer of wounds, a teacher of babes, and a Shepherd of lambs. Encouragement is a very much needed ministry in this world today with so much stress and sorrow out there. Jesus went about everywhere doing good. God’s love way, is the best way. Beloved pray for the gift of encouragement, and be like Jesus Amen?

Living for Jesus Part 3 (video & text)

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

45.) Romans 1:17 “ For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”

46.) Galatians 3:11 “ But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”

47.) Matthew 10: 36-39 “ And A MAN’S FOES SHALL BE THEY OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it : and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.”

48.) Acts 5:42 “ And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

49.) John 15:4,5 “ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

Say this prayer to be saved: Jesus, I want to know you, and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Saviour. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

CASTING OUT DEMONS

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

” Yet Michael the arch angel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” (Jude 1:9). Always cast out bad spirits in the Name Of Jesus Christ! The devil is afraid of the name of JESUS. ” he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. “( Matthew 10: 1b). This verse also shows us how sometimes unclean spirits can cause sickness and diseases. You can rebuke the devil and demons in the name of Jesus, but you had better have the faith to do it.“Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, and they fled out of that house naked and wounded.” (Acts 19: 13-16).This is what happened when seven people tried rebuking out a bad spirit but obviously didn’t have the faith to do it. Jesus said, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out: and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” (Matthew 12:43-45a). These verses show us how a person who has a bad spirit rebuked out of them can actually become worse by not being strong enough spiritually to resist any future attacks from the demons, or they really didn”t want to be delivered from the bad spirits. You can rebuke bad spirits out of people all day if you want, but as soon as you are gone they will come back in their host seven times worse if the people don’t want to be delivered..So make sure you let them know what can happen if they don’t get strong in the LORD and his WORD and really want in their heart to be set free. One day Jesus cast out many demons out of two people, and commanded them to go into a herd of swine which ran off a cliff and drowned in the sea. “And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.”(Matthew 8: 28- 32).When Jesus cast out evil spirits, he commanded them to go some place so they wouldn’t just temporarily leave and then come back.We need to do the same. By faith command them to leave, and by faith command them to go some place like the bottom of the sea, in the name of Jesus Christ!

THE NICE SLIPPERS

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

Once upon a time there was a kind elderly Grandfather. The high point of his day was when his Grand child would come and visit him. They would have a great time visiting and talking with one another. One day the child didn’t show up . The next day there was no visit either. This went on for quite a few days. The old Grandfather was brokenhearted. He just lived for that time of fellowship with his grandchild. Finally the child showed up bringing a pair of slippers. The child handed them to the Grandfather, he said my child where have you been? The young child told him I was busy making these slippers for you. The old gentleman said, I thank you my child for these fine slippers, but don’t you know that I would rather have had your company and fellowship? Isn’t this the way we sometimes treat the Lord. We get so busy in our work for him and helping others that we sometimes neglect spending time with The Lord our God our Maker and Master. God help us not to make a God out of God’s service. But to make time to pray and fellowship with him. Amen? Jesus said; “How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.” (Matthew 23:37). Jesus is asking, “Will You”?

THE MAGIC FORMULA FOR PEACE (video & text)

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

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Want peace?Jesus said.”Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”(John 14:27).You can have peace in the midst of a storm.When all the world is falling apart and you feel you are in the midst of utter chaos, you can find peace and rest in Jesus.Sometimes it just takes a brief prayer. Just look up to Jesus for your help and strength.”Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”(Matthew ll:28-30).

If we could just learn to rest in the Lord how much better our life would be.What joy would be ours if we would just learn to cast all of our cares upon him.”Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”(I Peter 5:7).Quit worrying about everything so much.Quit trying to carry the world upon your shoulders, let Jesus take care of it, have faith. His shoulders are big and strong enough to carry the whole world, and our little problems are nothing for him.Leave something up to the Holy Spirit In The Name Of JESUS ! “Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”(IThessalonians 5: 17-19). So what is this magic formula,and how do we attain to this state of euphoria and bliss? It’s really quite simple.First forgive others, for he that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must travel.Second get right with God,and follow the verses listed above.“And the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”(Philippians 4:7).Try it you might like it.

HOLD ON DON’T DOUBT

Posted on August 2, 2015 by admin

” For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” (Mark 11:23). Got any prayers that haven’t been answered ? It could be because you have doubted in your heart. If that is the case just ask the Lord to forgive you and have faith that he will, and get back on track or like my Dad used to say “straighten up and fly right. “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.” (Matthew 13:58). The key to getting your prayers answered is to hold on by faith even if you don’t see the answer right away, and don’t doubt in your heart. Just keep on believing. Or another reason you may have unanswered prayers is because you just have to be patient and wait on the Lord to work things out so your prayers will be answered. Just don’t doubt in your heart during the waiting time. Remember God is working things out for you behind the scenes. So don’t throw a monkey wrench into the machinery by doubting in your heart. Don’t leave school until the bell rings. Quote the terms of the contract (The Bible) to the contract makers, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ. “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark 9:23)

STAY ON GUARD

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

“The price of freedom is Eternal Vigilance”. This is also true in the spirit world. Thank God he never slumbers or sleeps. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil ,as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” ( 1 Peter 5:8). Remember we are in a spiritual war against the devil and his demons. The devil is always on the prowl like a lion. He is a lot smarter than you and me. He has been around over 6,000 years, but he is not smarter than Jesus, and he flees at the name of Jesus Christ, and the Word of God. Jesus fought the devil with the Word. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God,that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness: And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 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, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints:“( Ephesians 6:10-:18). All it takes is one unguarded moment for the enemy to get in. One arrow in Achilles heel and you’re down. “For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. “( Hebrews 4:12). So keep your sword sharp and ready for an attack at any moment. You can do this by staying in the Word. Be careful who you hang around with, and chose your friends wisely. “Can a man take fire into his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?” (Proverbs 6: 27). Why hang around people who are harboring bad spirits? “Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother, and my sister and mother.” ( Matthew 12:48-50). Pray against bad spirits and rebuke them in the name of Jesus ! What you eat has a great effect on you just like what you listen to has a great spiritual effect on you. If you think that you can sit around and listen to ungodly music, and not be effected by it, you are greatly mistaken.“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” ( II Corinthians 10:5). “ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject; Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.”(Titus 3:9-11). We need to continually stay in the Word and memorize and review, and literally brainwash our selves by the Word, like Jesus said, “ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” (John 15: 3). We need a big strong sharp sword of the Word to fight the enemy, not just a little dull butter knife. Ask the Lord for spiritual eyes and discernment and wisdom and it shall be given you. No victory without a battle, no triumph without a trial, no testimony without a test.

BE SPECIFIC WITH GOD

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Missionaries For Jesus

One day a man was praying and asking the Lord to provide a vehicle so he could get around. He prayed and said, Lord please give me a car, just any old car will do, and that is exactly what he got an old clunker just barely driveable. We need to be specific in our prayers and get down to detail with God. Just like a Father loves to give gifts, and reward his children, so does our Heavenly Father the same, and even more so.“If ye then,being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask him.”(Matthew 7:11 ).There are some conditions though, first you must ask in the name of Jesus. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” ( John 14:13). Second we must ask in faith.“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” ( Hebrews 11:6). So if you want to have your prayers answered and get past the ceiling, just have faith and ask in the name of Jesus.“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” ( James 1: 6-8). We need to be like the little girl who went to a prayer meeting for rain during a great drought, and she took her umbrella, and wore her rain jacket and golashes. The Lord wants us to have strong faith, and not be wishy washy, like a straw blown in the wind. Amen?

Say this prayer to be saved: Dear Jesus, I want to know you and to live forever in Heaven, I know I have made mistakes and done bad things- and I am sorry. Please forgive me.I believe you are the Only Begotten Son of God, and you died on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead. I know I don’t deserve it, but I accept your love and I accept you as my Savior. Please come into my heart and life and fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me peace. Amen.

DO YOU SEEK HIS FACE ?

Posted on July 26, 2015 by admin

“Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.”(I Chronicles 16:11 ). “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” (John 7:24). There is something about seeking his face. That must mean being close to him, because if you are right up to some ones face then you are pretty close to them. They say you are in their space. The Bible says in (Isaiah 53:2,3) “For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” These verses were talking about the time when Jesus came to the earth, and lived, and was crucified for you and me. If that is a picture of Jesus’s face on the shroud of Turin, and I believe it is, then he wasn’t a real handsome man when he was on the earth, was he? If you look in the book of Revelation it gives quite a different description of what Jesus looks like now in his new body. The Bible says we will look like him too, and our new body’s “shall be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”(Philippians 3:21). “and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”(Revelation 1:16b).However I am sure that we won’t shine as bright as Jesus does. Jesus said; “I am the bright and the morning star.” (Revelations 22:16b).The star that shines brighter than all the stars. Wow, that’s symbolic of Jesus ! “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Daniel 12:3). If you are hanging around Jesus a lot some of that shining is bound to rub off on you. So hang out with Jesus and shine. “Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:” ( Isaiah 55:6). “And ye shall seek me , and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” ( Jeremiah 29:13). Jesus wants to come and live inside of you, and transform you. “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2). “He must increase, but I must decrease.”(John 3:30). I just want more of Jesus, and less of me.

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