Thank you for your prayers GratefulforGrace and everyone else praying for this dear lady to get saved. We are in this together in reaching the lost. :yes: I truly was very surprise to get that chance yesterday to speak to her. Lately I’ve been battling Lyme disease and taking meds but still in a lot of pain (inflammation) in my stomach and intestine region and the fact I haven’t had opportunities to witness to others for the past few weeks one on one because most people are standoffish now I truly felt my work was done ,,, other than praying for people. I even prayed that the Lord would take me home because of this pain, so I was shocked how His timing was perfect to be there for this lady. I almost was going to postpone the grocery trip to the next day ... so glad I didn’t. It was an uplifting day for sure. :yes: I think we all could stand to be reminded of His comfort and provisions by His willing grace and the ability of His strength - we will have all we need to do all He still has planned for us as we "occupy" or "do business til I come" Luke 19:12-13...(and yes, I do believe prayer is a great example of His power at work in our weakness because there have been so many times when that is all I could do and it was all He wanted me to do, I believe, after seeing how He worked in my life and others through prayer) 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness"..."I am well content with weaknesses"..."for when I am weak, then I am strong"... my husband and i have something we believe God is asking us to do that goes against our own nature/personalities but is in line with scripture...i read something else online this morning - a missionary's blog (that i hadn't looked at in probably years) was today a message of encouragement to step out in faith to do what God has asked you to do even though there are still doubts and fears and even some thoughts that it is useless... as Dr. Charles Stanley says based on Bible principle- obey God and leave the consequences up to Him! I do love our Lord and the way He works in and through us when we let Him! God always knows what He is doing! I don't. TR The FDA puts a halt on the Coronavirus testing kit endorsed by Bill Gates. This is the same test that showed positive readings to papaya fruit and on goats. :mdrmdr: And this is the kit Gates is endorsing for the home invasion testing ... man, if he had his way EVERYONE would falsely test positive and be taken away ... - Fair Use - Intellectually speaking, what is driving this man?! TR TR - for starters - evil, second, power. Ultimate world domination is a intoxicating cup for sure! (I will lift myself above the throne of God ... remember those words of Lucifer?) Soros has drunk from this cup, Obama as well! Rothchilds and so forth, a list of names and pedigree we are all familiar with. Many through time have received the lies of “your eyes will be opened to be like gods....” so very sad... and the truth is the opposite— we who have accepted the blood of Christ to forgive our sins are now the sons and daughters of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and we will drink of His cup. :yahoo: May He call us home today :prayer-hands: #1 on the Georgia Guidestones is Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Gates' vaccine seems to be in compliance with this rule. It’s all about power and control. They lust for it and refuse to submit to God’s power and control. Plus, I’m sure Gates and people of his ilk have been promised a prime position in the satanic kingdom if they get results. They are horribly deceived, of course, as these rewards will last no more than 7 years and then they will spend an eternity in everlasting hellfire. May they repent before it is too late. What a incredible testimony that would be. Bill Gates' and other globalists' efforts to reduce world population would be at least more cost effective than injections if he / they would instead support thousands of effective evangelical missions. I don't know how much of Gates' 10-15% for world population target reduction will acually disappear in the Rapture, but every new believer would reduce the population by one. And as a bonus the reduction would be sooner than later. At warp speed! Instead of "genocide," with all the negative connotations of that word, he could label his initiative "Operation Genosave!" Kinda catchy, no? Speaking about “Operation Genosave” 😉 here is an encouraging article ... The Worldwide Pandemic Is Causing People to Turn to Christ Decision Magazine May 1, 2020 By Jerry Pierce In the north central California town of Columbia, the father of a former drug dealer—unsettled by constant news of the coronavirus threat and convinced by a radical change in his son—was driven to desperation on a Sunday morning in March. With his son beside him, he got down on his hands and knees, asking Jesus Christ to be his Lord and Savior after watching church services online. Father and son have had a rocky relationship, but with God all things are possible, and God is working in this family, as well as throughout this former mining village, says the young man’s pastor. A few hours away, the multisite Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California moved its worship services exclusively to online streaming in mid-March. Within the first two weeks of doing so, online engagement rose by 400% to more than 600,000 screen views. By Easter, more than 1 million watched online services, and some 31,000 people indicated they had prayed to receive Christ in four weeks. “I think that this moment is an open door. … If we’re smart, we’re going to seize the moment—carpe diem. We don’t know when it will come again.” In Mexico City on March 18, just before that country began implementing widespread precautionary measures, a young man named Fernando heard the Gospel while serving food to a gathering of Christian pastors who had come to hear about the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Christian Life and Witness training. Afterward, Fernando approached the speaker at the meeting—BGEA’s David Ruiz. “I need to know that hope,” he told Ruiz, who then helped lead Fernando to faith in Christ. And in Punjab state in northern India, amid a national lockdown because of COVID-19, a Christian woman was so burdened for her Sikh neighbors that she shared the Gospel message with them. Moved by the Gospel, the members of the Sikh family prayed to receive Christ, and then walked a short distance to Pastor Bachitter Singh’s home. Initially Singh was reluctant to invite them inside due to the lockdown, but he relented because of the nature of their visit, spending several hours explaining to them how Jesus Christ had transformed his own life. Singh reported via email: “We have been locked inside our homes, but the Gospel cannot be locked.” Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, told Decision that his sermon on March 22—the second week of online-only church services—was about God’s answer to fear and anxiety, which seemed to resonate not only with Christians being reminded of their hope but also with unbelievers who are desperately seeking it. “I think, especially with the spread of COVID-19, you might read of yet another person dying. That’s really scary and it’s a wake-up call for all of us,” Laurie said. “But we want to show the Good News to people—that God can give them the meaning of life on earth and the hope of life beyond the grave.” Laurie noted that shelter-in-place orders have provided a moment in time that God might use to reap a spiritual harvest. “In addressing the church at Philadelphia in the Book of Revelation, the Lord tells them, ‘I’m the one who opens doors,’” Laurie said. “And so, I think that this moment is an open door. … If we’re smart, we’re going to seize the moment—carpe diem. We don’t know when it will come again.” Retired Major Gen. Douglas Carver, former U.S. Army chief of chaplains and now director of chaplaincy for the Southern Baptist North America Mission Board, served in the Iraq War and has witnessed multiple ways in which spiritual opportunities arise in crisis situations. “Normally we don’t plan a crisis for 12 p.m. tomorrow,” Carver said. “A crisis has a way of putting a person in a helpless situation where they look for some kind of relief in their time of need. Crises have a way of taking our props, removing all of those things that we have leaned on … and forcing us to see how finite we really are, that there is an eternity we can look forward to with hope through faith in Jesus Christ.” “We have been locked inside our homes, but the Gospel cannot be locked.” Mike Redinger, pastor of Connecting Columbia Church in the north central California foothills, whom God used to reach the father of the former drug dealer, has been encouraging his flock to “be the church” in their community of 2,200 residents for months. Redinger has been discipling Mathan, the former drug dealer. The dad’s conversion came after he invited Mathan over on a Sunday morning to “maybe have some Bible study”—a most unlikely request knowing the two men and their history, Redinger said. The pastor fought back tears telling the story of his small town, ravaged by broken homes and broken lives. “One of the things that I think this is telling me,” said Redinger, “is we’ve got to get our church going in that direction and ready for the harvest field that God’s preparing right now.” From computer and TV screens in living rooms to neighbors talking to each other from a safe distance, followers of Jesus Christ have a moment—an open door—to point others to Him. And in that moment, Laurie has a message for pastors: “Throw the net. No matter what you’re speaking on, make sure you think of nonbelievers who are watching you, who are looking for answers, and just tell them how to believe in Jesus.” - Fair Use -
—Pastor Greg Laurie
—Pastor Bachitter Singh
