IF ALL SOMEONE WANTS TO DO IS LIVE APART FROM GOD’S PERFECT WILL, ENJOY IT, BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THERE IS GOING TO BE, GOD IS TOLERATING SOME THINGS NOW, BUT HE WILL NOT VIOLATE HIS OWN NATURE.
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
The Church in America became interested in other things than the Word of God. This is what the History books will show about this time and the Church. The Church in many ways started to run around like a Chinese fire drill. as we used to say back home. The Church in America has more programs and product than Wal-Mart.
The Lord has shown me so clearly what has and is happening to the American Church.
My daddy taught when I was growing up, clean up your own backyard before you tell someone to clean up theirs.
Some Churches have a lot of cleaning up to do for God.
Daddy also said, don’t blame others for your problems, look at yourself.
The American Church needs to look at itself in the mirror, better yet, thru the eye’s of God.
Part of what we do here at FGGAM is point people that do not have a Bible believing Church too one.
I love what Pastor Leonard Navarre text messages me from time to time, as we all need encouragement as we face the darkness of the world, like I did yesterday and everyday!
Leonard simply says: Don’t give in, don’t compromise, on the Word of God.
THANK GOD! For the Churches out there that are Preaching the Word of God! Like where Pastor Leonard Preaches, Valley View Christian Church in Edgewood and I have two other great examples for you! Legacy Church and Heights Christian Church both of Albuquerque. No watering down of the Word of God!
For Gods Glory Alone TV tapings with Pastor Stevie Smothermon Youth Pastor at Legacy Church drawing as many as 1,000 youths to his services!! Wow Wee what energy Stevie has for our Lord!! His light shines so brightly!! Watch Saturday night 730pm KAZQ Ch 32 you will be so encouraged watching and listening to Pastor Stevie
Pastor Mark Scales is my guest a week from this Saturday. Pastor Mark is getting ready for a mission trip to Ecuador Pastor Mark also shares on how he went from being a teacher at Hope Christian School to Pastor at Heights Christian Church
We have this update on Judy…………………
Dewey, this is Bob Hartley with Albuquerque Fire. I just left UNM Hospital seeing Judy in ICU. They started seeing things improve with her yesterday. They took the props from her brain, which they have determined her trauma to the brain is not as bad as thought. She is still on a ventilator, but they are slowly weening her off of it. The concern is for her lungs which are in bad shape from inhaling vomit. Her body is also trying to rid itself of 1700 cc’s of fluids that she took in.
The family is very thankful for the prayers and are very positive with how she has improved. I told them that was the Power of Prayer.
She is not out of the woods, but we can see the light.
Please keep the prayers coming.
God Bless
Bob
Thanks for the update Bob, we continue to pray healing over Judy! AMEN!
I sent you all this email yesterday: many things are worthy of posting 2 to 3 times, and this is one of those times. The Lord has told me to post this again and then pray that all feel, see the full impact of this email. I just thank God that I have my friend Sonja who I have not seen since 1974, we reconnected here at the Daily CUP, she called me about Lynn. I have to share with you that the Lord is taking me back to those days in Windom and it seems the Lord is using me to minister to my classmates. Very interesting in the Lord. My testimony to you is this: Make yourself available to God and He will use you for His purposes. Too many run around thinking they are serving God. Sonja has made herself available to God….to be in the hands of God, to serve Him. Have you my friend made yourself available to God, and I’m talking to Pastor’s here to. Some Pastors have an agenda of their own and are not on the same page as God.
How do you know if you are on the same page as God? You will know, you will hear the true voice of God.You will have the favor of God, you will be guided. You are also to have mentor’s, a Pastor to help you in your daily walk with God, to help you stay on the path of God. If your attempting this on your own, good luck with that!
We must all have an accountability group! I have God, Sharon, the kid’s, a Board of Director’s, Advisers,
My Pastor, many other Pastor’s and many friends.
Who is holding you accountable?
I received a phone call from my High School classmate Sonja Haldeman about our classmate Lynn Nagorske. I remember Lynn as a highly intelligent friendly man! An intelligent level that I have never reached! LOL! I would read in the Windom paper (Our Hometown) of his great work as a banker. Sonja called to tell me Lynn is in his final days of life here on earth because of cancer.
I have not talked to or seen Lynn since 1974.
Only God through His servant, Sonja could this connection happen again!
This was an appointed time by God.
To accomplish what God wants done.
I called Lynn and we had a wonderful Godly conversation, we picked up from our School days! He knows he is going to Heaven. He told me at the end of our conversation, “You keep doing what you are doing!” I will remember that the rest of my life. I prayed over him and his family. I told him what a blessing to be able to talk and pray with him. I asked him later in a text message if our prayer warriors could pray for him and his lovely wife Pam and children. He said Absolutely! What a Blessing!
Lynn is in his final days here on earth in his late 50’s. What a testimony to all of us, he is ready to meet our Lord.
This is not the script Lynn has written for his life, but he has accomplished much while here on earth, he did not waste his life. He served God’s people in his profession with Biblical principles. He has served God well and his family.
He served people……. he did not expect to be served.
May we do the same.
His Testimony is on going.
The Lord gave me this scripture……………
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1:12
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your Life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. James 4:13-14
I pray that you will filly soak in the impact of this email into your life
Darlene Quiring sent this in……….Thank you Darlene!
Author Unknown
A minister passing through his church in the middle of the day, decided to pause by the altar and see who had come to pray.
Just then the back door opened, a man came down the aisle.
The minister frowned as he saw the man hadn’t shaved in a while.
His shirt was kinda shabby and his coat was worn and frayed.
The man knelt, he bowed his head, then rose and walked away.
In the days that followed, each noon time came this chap,
Each time he knelt just for a moment, a lunch pail in his lap.
Well, the minister’s suspicions grew, with robbery a main fear,
He decided to stop the man and ask him, “What are you doing here?”
The old man said, he worked down the road. Lunch was half an hour.
Lunchtime was his prayer time, for finding strength and power.
“I stay only moments, see, because the factory is so far away;
As I kneel here talking to the Lord, this is kinda what I say:
“I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, HOW HAPPY I’VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHER’S FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN.
DON’T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. SO, JESUS, THIS IS JIM CHECKING IN TODAY.”
The minister feeling foolish, told Jim, that was fine.
He told the man he was welcome to come and pray just anytime.
Time to go, Jim smiled, said “Thanks.” He hurried to the door.
The minister knelt at the altar, he’d never done it before.
His cold heart melted, warmed with love, and met with Jesus there.
As the tears flowed, in his heart, he repeated old Jim’s prayer:
“I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, HOW HAPPY I’VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHER’S FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN.
I DON’T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. SO, JESUS, THIS IS ME CHECKING IN TODAY.”
Past noon one day, the minister noticed that old Jim hadn’t come.
As more days passed without Jim, he began to worry some.
At the factory, he asked about him, learning he was ill.
The hospital staff was worried, but he’d given them a thrill.
The week that Jim was with them, brought changes in the ward.
His smiles, a joy contagious. Changed people, were his reward.
The head nurse couldn’t understand why Jim was so glad, when no flowers, calls or cards came, not a visitor he had.
The minister stayed by his bed, he voiced the nurse’s concern:
No friends came to show they cared. He had nowhere to turn.
Looking surprised, old Jim spoke up and with a winsome smile; “the nurse is wrong, she couldn’t know, that in here all the while everyday at noon He’s here, a dear friend of mine, you see, He sits right down, takes my hand, leans over and says to me:
“I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, JIM, HOW HAPPY I HAVE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND THIS FRIENDSHIP, AND I TOOK AWAY YOUR SIN.
ALWAYS LOVE TO HEAR YOU PRAY, I THINK ABOUT YOU EACHDAY,
AND SO JIM, THIS IS JESUS CHECKING IN TODAY.”
