Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Good Morning you you and yours!
When you try to figure out everything, you’re exalting your reasoning above God’s thoughts and plans for your life.
There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus! The words of Billy Graham
To start our day a great message from Bill Graham……………
Billy Graham: Real Hope Starts with Prayer
NEW LETTER ASKS BELIEVERS TO JOIN MR. GRAHAM IN NOVEMBER’S MY HOPE OUTREACH
February 26, 2013 – “The goal is to share the love and hope of the Gospel with people in every corner of America, in every neighborhood possible, during 2013,” Billy Graham writes in his new prayer letter.
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.
By Billy Graham
Dear Friend,
A few weeks ago I received an invitation to join some old friends, people I’ve known for years, at a dinner in Washington. I didn’t feel I had the stamina to make the trip, so Franklin went in my place.
He gave the opening prayer. After dinner a nationally respected opinion researcher, a pollster, walked over and said, “Franklin, this should be a year of great harvest. This really is a perfect time to show people the path to real hope.” He explained that he constantly monitors what Americans are thinking. “I can tell you that anxiety is extraordinarily high right now among Americans. Fear is crowding out hope in so many people’s lives. People are anxious about everything, especially about the future.”
You and I simply need to look around us to know this is true. I feel a deep burden for so many Americans who live with no lasting hope.
We can help them find it.
Start with prayer—my prayers and your prayers. As Christians, we often pray for the sick, for each other, for the nation, and many regularly pray for “the lost,” but we should also pray by name for specific lost people.
In the familiar parable Jesus told about the lost sheep (see Luke 15), the shepherd did not go out to see if he could find just any stray sheep he might come across. He went searching for a sheep, a particular sheep. Pray that way, for specific lost people.
We may pray for a person to find God, but Jesus said it the other way around—He said that He came “to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10, NIV). Jesus does the seeking, and the Holy Spirit opens a person’s heart. That’s what we should be praying for. The first convert to Christ in Europe, that we know about, was a businesswoman in Ephesus named Lydia, a dealer in fine fabric. The Bible says God “opened her heart to respond to the things spoken” (Acts 16:14, NASB). There is no other way to get an unsaved person to respond. It took me years to understand this. We may pray for the preaching and pray for someone to turn to God, but the preaching will have little effect and the person will not make a decision to turn without the Holy Spirit.
When we pray urgently and faithfully by name for lost people we truly care about, asking God to reach them, God works—often in unique and unexpected ways—to open hearts to Himself.
If you are praying in this way, not once or twice, but persistently, for people you know who need Jesus Christ in their lives, you are already participating in the first key step of My Hope, a nationwide outreach BGEA has launched in partnership with churches across our land.
The goal is to share the love and hope of the Gospel with people in every corner of America, in every neighborhood possible, during 2013. The outreach will culminate in November when Christians from all over the country—hopefully including you—invite some of those on their prayer list to join them in watching a message I am preparing as part of a special nationwide My Hope TV program. Over the next few weeks you can watch an example of a My Hope evangelistic broadcast on many cable channels.
I pray God will call you to be part of this outreach. America is a large country filled with people who need Jesus Christ, and the task is enormous. We ask for both your prayers and your gifts for the My Hope project.
Only the power of the Gospel can change a heart or a nation. Will you join me, beginning today, to pray for our nation by praying for specific people you know, asking God to seek them and draw them to Himself?
Warmly,
Billy Graham
P.S. For a good part of my adult life, I made it my personal practice to read five psalms and one chapter of Proverbs each day. My friend and colleague George Wilson, who managed our BGEA headquarters office for many years, put together a unique Scripture devotional book based on this pattern. We’ve recently updated the book, and when you send a gift to BGEA this month, we would like to send Words of Wisdom as our thank
Great words from Billy Graham. When I started in radio I used to play Billy’s “Hour Of Decision” on Sunday mornings on KGCX in Sidney, Montana. He helped grow me up in Christ!
Billy said this…………
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!
This is what the Lord has sent us here at FGGAM to do………reach the lost………one person at a time…….. bringing the light of Jesus Christ to the world………..one person at a time.
I was talking to Jerry Lucero yesterday of Indigio Mortgage, which is a supporter of FGGAM, that just as Billy Graham says, so many people are lost, without hope, do not have a Church or Pastor, and we are helping get people reconnected with the Body of Christ.
Yesterday was a bit tough, maybe more tougher than I realize but Billy also said this…….
I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long. AMEN to that! By mid-afternoon after praying, talking with Sharon and Wanell Pate, and having lunch with Gretchen I was back on track.
I call Kyle Martin Pastor/Founder of Time To Revive, a Billy Graham Jr., because Kyle reminds me so much of Billy out in the mission field holding revivals all over America and bringing others to Jesus Christ. I remember when Kyle was in Santa Fe, NM holding a revival and he told me that one night he was just weeping, wailing out to God for help, as he was being attacked by the Mayor of Santa Fe and the newspaper. That was me yesterday, wailing and calling out to God for help, and like Kyle, God also answered me and continues to do so.
Billy encourages us to read Acts 6:4……….We will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.
I also love this from Billy….We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side. AMEN!
I encourage you to read the many books that Billy has written. They will encourage you! Billy encourages us all to read into Psalms and Proverbs each day for encouragement, he has said many times that the book of Psalms and Proverbs helped him through the toughest parts of his life.
So as Billy Graham asks us to join him and pray for specific people…… let us make a list and pray over it many times each day.
March 5, 2013. You are blessed so that you may pass along the blessings of God to others who believe and who will yet believe. Your faith has made you whole. You are the redeemed of the Lord, sent to multiply and extend My blessings. It is now common in your life that you consistently are blessing others wherever you go. You are My ambassador of love and extender of blessings to Jews and Gentiles alike. The Lord says, “I am no respecter of persons. My love covers multitudes of sins. Bless the nations, even those who hate you. Bless those who are so different than you. Bless those of different color and those of different languages and cultures. It is My will that you do this and thus help fulfill My promises.”
Galatians 3:8-9 (NASB) “The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.’ So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.” Ras Robinson
This story of love and devotion, even to the point of death, will touch you deeply. Nolan Keane was diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 24. He is 28 now and he has undergone eight surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy. Recently, doctors determined that the cancer has spread too far and there is nothing left to do for Nolan.
This tragic piece of news hasn’t stopped Nolan, a Division I baseball player, from wanting to live his life. He is determined to marry his fiancé, Morgan Carstens, and to take her on a honeymoon to Disney World.
Unfortunately, the couple is struggling financially. The medical treatment for Nolan is expensive and Morgan quit her job as a nurse to take care of Nolan. The couple is looking to donors to raise money for the wedding and honeymoon; so far they have $12,000 raised. The donations have poured in from sympathetic, wonderful people from all over the globe. They hope to raise a total of $20,000 (via GiveForward.com) – and the money keeps flowing in from people who are praying and hoping that this amazing couple can truly enjoy their last days together!
“Truly an amazing couple and an inspiration to all,” Cassie, a donor who gave $100, wrote on the GiveForward page. “Enjoy this time together and cherish every moment <3.”
“They truly define love and commitment,” Morgan’s sister, Jaclyn, said in an email statement to The Huffington Post. “When they look at one another you can see the incredible love they have for each other. They never ask for anything and deserve an incredible honeymoon [to] help forget about the bad things, even if it is for a moment.”
We ask you to please pray for Nolan and Morgan. This couple has been dragged through so much in their relationship. Cancer takes a toll on more than the body it infects, it’s so inspiring to see this couple still so in love and dedicated to one another.
(via GiveForward.com and HuffingtonPost.com)
For God’s Glory Alone in the Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
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