The man that will have God's best becomes at once the object of the personal attention of the Holy Spirit. Such a man will not be required to wait for the rest of the church to come alive. He will not be penalized for the failures of his fellow Christians, nor be asked to forego the blessing till his sleepy brethren catch up. God deals with the individual heart as exclusively as if only one existed.

If this should seem to be an unduly individualistic approach to revival, let it be remembered that religion is personal before it can be social. Every prophet, every reformer, every revivalist had to meet God alone before he could help the multitudes. The great leaders who went on to turn thousands to Christ had to begin with God and their own soul. The plain Christian of today must experience personal revival before he can hope to bring renewed spiritual life to his church. 

A.W. Tozer.

 What is God trying to do with His believing people?-the Bible calls us a remnant according to grace, believers taken out of the great, teeming swarm of so-called religious people in today's world. I am inclined to join others in wondering if the Lord is postponing His coming because He is trying to get His Bride ready? For years it has been the popular idea in evangelical Christianity that the whole body of believers in Christ would rise like a flock of frightened birds when the Lord comes. But A.B. Simpson and William MacArthur and others in the past generation said, "Oh no! The Lord will take with Him those who are prepared and ready for His coming!" I do not presume to give an answer satisfying to everyone in our churches. But I know that many Christians are too smug about this, saying in effect: "I am converted to Christ through grace, so I can live as I please!" Of some things we cannot be dogmatic; but we know this for sure-God has no halfway house between heaven and hell where He takes us to fumigate us!

 A.W. Tozer

 

 Oh God, Let me die rather than to go on day by day living wrong. I do not want to become a careless, fleshly old man. I want to be right so that I can die right. Lord, I do not want my life to be extended if it would mean that I should cease to live right and fail in my mission to glorify You all of my days!...

Please, Father, help me to finish well. Amen

A.W. Tozer

 The Burning Bush experience!

In Discipleship class (Sunday school) a question was brought about the burning bush.

The first thing I thought about was 1 Kings 19:11-13

I believe that most Christians would love to have a Burning Bush experience like Moses Exodus 3:1-6. But we need to remember when the LORD Speaks to Elijah in 1 Kings 19:11-13. It was not in the strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks or an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake, a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire, BUT sound of a low whisper. And when Elijah heard it.

The Burning Bush experience would be great. But we must humble ourselves and be still and just listen for The Lords Voice. We must take the time out of our day and read the Word of God Praying and meditate on it. Slow down and listen.

 Jonah 1:1-6

Jonah Flees the Presence of the LORD

1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

4 But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 6 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

(ESV)

Have we become like Jonah? Have we become afraid of calling out evil and running away?

The pagans are crying out, looking for something they cannot find.

But have we gone down to the inner part of the church building and fallen asleep?

Must the pagans come down and wake us up and throw us overboard to get us to do God's will?

Now, God is probably not telling us to go into a city and tell them that in 40 days they will be overthrown.

But we have been told to tell the world that the wages of sin is death and that they must repent of their sins and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Now, we don't need to go out with big signs and billboards causing massive disturbance.

We should be like Stephen in Acts 6:8

And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

We need to remember: 2 Timothy 2:24-26

And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

(ESV)

“What do you mean, you sleeper?

That finger is pointing is pointing at me.

From the the 5 acres wood shop heres my truck and the model T pickup  

I used Oak and Bocote with Danish oil.

New Odin photos