Tuesday, October 13, 2009

DO NOT KILL YOURSELF!!!! God Has Something Good for You

Do not commit suicide. You are not alone. There is hope for you in the days just ahead!
I am writing to tell you something you can do - right now - where you are. I am telling you something you can pray.
This is not a magic chant that you have to email to others.
This is not a repetitive chant for you to lift yourself through the great karma...
There was/is a man named Jesus - Jesus of Nazareth, in Israel. He was a good man, a healer, who went around doing good and healing all kinds of diseases and emotional brokeness in people's lives. He even set people free from demonic mental torment.
Religious people were divided in their opinions about him, just like they would be today. What one guy thinks is great, another sees as terrible. And most of the time we have to just walk away in disagreement.
But in this case, the argument has been settled. Jesus was betrayed by religious leaders who feared he would cause them to lose their cushy positions and incomes. They had him executed on false premises. But three days later, God raised him from the dead and has honored him by making his name the key to unlock a relationship with God.
Give him a chance to help you.
Out Loud, right where you are, call out to Jesus Christ and ask him to hear you and help you. Say something to the effect of:

"IF YOU ARE REAL - IF YOU CAN HEAR ME - Help ME. JESUS, GIVE ME HOPE.

Find a Bible you can read, look in the index and find the Book of Matthew. It gives the testimony - the eye witness account - of real people, in real trouble, who needed hope. It shows you how God helped them.
The whole point is:
if God can give these people hope and
a reason to live,
he can do it for you.
I am living proof.
I am not selling anything.
The only offer here is what Jesus has done and will do for you!

Saturday, October 10, 2009

While Praying, Waiting Quietly and Listening, I Found a Poem Written by Arthur Wallace

I have been reading a book by Arthur Wallis entitled "God's Chosen Fast." One of the most moving, inspiring and informative books on a number of subjects I have read in a long time. I have found grace to practice it, too. Actually that has come from 3 sources, the greatest influences I have ever had to fast and pray for my dreams. 1) The current sense in my prayer times that we as a nation are in deep trouble that will include tremendous doses of divine judgment if we don't find mercy in the place of prayer. 2) My wife started doing it w/o me and for long periods of time, because I couldn't find the discipline to forgo meals ... and the sense of shame has been unbearable; and 3) Arthur Wallace's book.
And I am not doing anything for anyone else to be impressed by - even now - but the Father-God, the Lord Jesus Christ, working through the Mighty Holy Spirit, whom Jesus sent to help us, has been helping and visiting with me. Things are changing inside me and I am again sensing a fresh surging of His presence and power.
So, in the light of these things, here's the poem at the end of Wallace's book. I hope it inspires you to begin a journey of prayer, of mourning, of fasting, and waiting on God in behalf of our families, our cities and churches, our states, our nation and other nations that are in grave danger right now whom God can and will save if we will lift up our voices in prayer.


THEY FASTED

On Sinai's mount, with radiant face,
To intercede for heaven's grace
Upon a stubborn wayward race,
They fasted

Once lifted from the miry clay,
When opposition came his way
This soldier-king would often pray
With fasting.

A seer, possessed of vision keen,
Who told the troubled king his dream.
Had light on God's prophetic scheme
Through fasting

The prophetess in temple court
Beheld the Babe the two had brought;
For Him she long had prayed and sought,
With fasting.

He came to break the yoke of sin,
But ere his mission could begin
He met the foe and conquered him
While fasting.

'Set these apart' the Spirit bade.
A spring, that soon vast rivers made,
Broke ope by men who as they prayed
Were fasting.

'So shall they fast when I am gone!'
Was this no word to act upon?
Ask countless saints who fought and won
With fasting.

When we shall stand on that great day
And give account, what shall we say,
If He should ask us, 'Did you pray -
With fasting?'

More on this later. (btw ... Arthur Wallaces books are available on Amazon.com CHEAP!!)