WORTHLESS

"Yes, everything else is worthless

when compared with the infinite

value of knowing Christ Jesus

my Lord."

(Philippians 3:8 NLT)

So, you finally accumulated some money

in the bank:

or some stocks and bonds,

or some trophies or ribbons for

your trophy case,

or some friends in high places,

or some skill,

or some knowledge

or some other satisfaction.

They are all worthless.

The only thing worth having is a 

"knowing" [Not about, but close

personal relationship.] with

JESUS CHRIST.

 

TODAY'S QUOTE

 

“If you keep filled with the Holy

Ghost and God’s love, you can

pray short and believe long.”

- Dr. F.E. Yoakum -

WHAT A CONTRAST TO TODAY

"A great wave of persecution began

that day, sweeping over the church

in Jerusalem; and all the believers

except the apostles were scattered

through the regions of Jedua and

Samaria."

(Acts 8:1 NLT)

"But the believers who were scattered

preached the Good News about Jesus

wherever they went."

(Acts 8:4 NLT)

"Meanwhile, the believers who had

been scattered during the persecution

after Stephen's death traveled as far

as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of 

Syria.  They preached the word of God,

but only to Jews."

(Acts 11:19 NLT)

"And because of my imprisonment,

most of the believers here have gained

confidence and boldly speak God's

message without fear.  

"Its true that some are preaching

out of jealousy and rivalry.  But 

others preach about Christ with 

pure motives."

(Philippians 1:14,15 NLT)

Did you catch that.  In the early church it

was "most of the believers" who did the

preaching.  Not just some professionals

who do the preaching like today in the

picture above.

Further, the preaching was not just

"sermons" like today.  True, there of

course were "sermons" preached.  But

the Greek word for preach is;

"kerusso ... to herald ... proclaim, publish."

 

The picture below could just as easily be

a picture of a New Testament believer

preaching, that is, simply telling about

Jesus.

And then we wonder why the church of

today is not as effective as the church

of the New Testament.  [Not to mention 

that today we work in the power of the 

flesh instead of the Power of the Holy

Spirit.]

 

TODAY'S PROMISE

"Don't worry about anything;

instead, pray about everything.

Tell God what you need, and

thank him for all he has done.

Then you will experience God's

peace, which exceeds anything

we can understand.  His peace 

will guard your hearts and minds

as you live in Christ Jesus.

(Philippians 4:6,7 NLT)

 

AT THE NAME OF JESUS

"Therefore, God elevated him to 

the place of highest honor

and gave him the name above

all other names, 

that at the name of Jesus every

knee should bow,

in heaven and on earth and

under the earth,

and every tongue declare that

Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father."

(Philippians 2: 9-11 NLT)

Perhaps my favorite Scriptural truth.

In a world that is attempting to disregard

Jesus Christ and go their own way.  One

day EVERYONE, past and present will

bow before him admitting that Jesus is 

Lord of all.

What a day that will be.

The signs of the times indicate that

it will be very soon.

 

TODAY'S QUOTE

A.W. Tozer said;

"So we have had monasticism,

scholasticism, institutionalism

and they have all been indicative 

of the same thing: absence of

spiritual power."

 

NEEDED WIDSOM

"If you need wisdom, ask our generous

God, and he will give it to you.  He will

not rebuke you for asking."

(James 1:5 NLT)

I know.  You always know the answer to

the problem at hand.  But I don't.  After

working on small engines on and off for 

over 70 years and being a retired auto

technician you would think that I could

handle almost any mechanical problem.

But not so.

The lawn mower above belongs to an 

acquaintance.  As you can see it is the 

combination of several different lawn

mowers.  And it has a lot of "Mickey

mousing", or back yard engineering on

it.

Really I enjoy that kind of thing.  I have

to dream up a way to fix things out of 

my scrap pile.  But, the thing is a John

Deere underneath.  One of the problems

was the need of a switch.  After ordering

the correct switch [according to the parts

list.] the factory part came in.  BUT,

nothing about it matched the connector,

the wires or almost anything else.

Without a wiring diagram and knowing the

circuitry of the new switch I was at a total

loss.  [It had four wires to go to five 

terminals in a completely different order.]

This of course called for a lot of prayer.

The Lord had to be in control because I just

guessed at the way to wire up the switch.

PRAYISE GOD.

It worked the very first try.