How will you wisely impact your community and the culture?
Got a good plan yet? If we get back to Bible principles then we'll start to see Bible results. Sure, let's do it God's way!
"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:10
Let's all 24/7/365 be prayerful unto a wisely non-inert lifestyle of being/giving a witness that glorifies God the Father!
Jesus lived here like that. He went from one place of honest prayer to the next and what happened in-between those spots? Effective living, teaching and life-changing wonders! Do you have a burden (heartfelt concern) for lost and saved people? Peaceful, purposeful, passionate and so kind.. valuable yet nonviolent everywhere He leads! Man, I want to know and live like that (like Him).
Q: Are ten thousand monks tucked away in a nice monastery more valuable for others than one regenerated follower of Jesus who has been set spiritually ablaze?
Nope! Is this the day to stay away from Him who calls you and from those He loves, or is this the day to simply pray and obey?
“And He (Jesus) said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.’” Mark 16:15-16
"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk." ~ Monk John Keats
"A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making." ~ Monk Harsha Bhogle
"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes." ~ Monk Gautama Buddha
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." ~ Monk Tenzin Gyatso
"Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." ~ Monk Tenzin Gyatso
Nice to hear, but I say let your kindness and Christ's compassion totally emerge from that sweet isolation because our time to shine is so limited. Yes, on out the door going to where the broken people live. Exactly where He leads you today!
Believers In Regards to This World of Lost People -- Should They Selfishly Raid It, Evade It, or Invade It?
Shouldn’t We Go With The Gospel? What Needs To Be Done, Christian?
Invade this Culture with Christ > Evade Christ and this Culture
Do the former! Go to Him, Go with Him -- Pray and obey!
Why merely go with your feelings all the time? Why create a sweet little Christian subculture only to withdraw yourself into that Christian bubble of sorts? What were you called to?
“The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration.” ~ Peter Marshall (the former chaplain to the US Senate)
Are we starting to see the beginnings of Judgement here? Perhaps. Are we going to just throw up our hands in defeat and say there’s nothing at all that we can do?
You and I in Christ can make a difference! Turn, trust, and let Him lead you as Lord today.
“You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. You are the light of the world – like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. ..In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.” ~ Jesus, Matthew 5:13–14, 16 nlt
Sup with salt and light? Are you a bright shining light, believer? Is your life real salty to make people thirsty for living water with truth? The world needs salt for flavor and preservation because it’s growing distasteful and more corrupt. This world needs light shining because it’s growing much darker than it has before. This world needs Jesus Christ who said He is the Way, the Truth and the Life -- the only way to the Father and into His holy Heaven.
Today we have the so called “Nones” who say they believe in nothing -- do we not care only to see them end up with nothing good? Is it only themselves, so SO flawed, that they each believe in as Lord?
“When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes in anything.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
Check it out. All can see this. The spiral has been downward, not upward. It’s gone from war to greater wars, from crime to greater crimes, from perversion to greater perversions, from immorality to greater immorality. Are we now starting to see the beginnings of Judgement in the USA? And in other Lands? Are we on the verge of having a one world money system? Are we on the verge of seeing a one world government? It’s time to wake up on all levels. There are seven short years in this world’s future that no reasonable believer will want to see. Will they be sooner than expected?
“Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have many men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” ~ Gen. Omar Bradley (Armistice Day address in 1948)
Instead of making things better, we have only made things worse. Modern humanity has simply come up with new ways to destroy itself.
Should Christians Isolate Themselves from this World of Lost Men and Women, or With Power via Believing Prayer.. Infiltrate? I Say Wisely Do The Later.. On Purpose.. By Faith. By Biblical Obedience Make an Impact for the Glory of the Son! Your Friends Will Thank You Later On!
"Fear not, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed. I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will uphold you with my victorious right hand." Isaiah 41:10 tlb
Turn, trust--be transformed. I say read the red and pray for the power.. to become a bright shining witness among the broken, bummed-out and the busted, among the hungry, humble and hurting, among the discouraged, dead and dying people here. People need to hear the bad news (We’ve all sinned and fallen short and God is very just). Need to hear it in order to appreciate the Good News and then we want to share the blessing and Blesser!
“Go.. tell” Mark 5:19
Jesus said "'Go home to your friends,' he told him, 'and tell them..'" tlb
"..go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been.” nlt
"As Jesus was getting into the boat, the demon-delivered man begged to go along, but he wouldn’t let him. Jesus said, 'Go home to your own people. Tell them your story—what the Master did, how he had mercy on you.' The man went back and began to preach in the Ten Towns area about what Jesus had done for him. He was the talk of the town." vv. 19-20 msg
Uhh indeed, the Good News is for sharing, not for hoarding. It’s for tactfully giving away, not for keeping it to yourself. We are blessed to become a blessing!
Sure! You ask what's this Mark 5 context all about? It’s about Christ as our focus. He comes into you to bless (won’t barge in, but waits for you). We repeated come to Him, and from the inside He keeps blessing in unique ways, and even leads each of us to become a blessing for others!
The Example Servant comes to accept us just as we are (1–20), but doesn’t leave us the way He finds us. Now we aren't better than, but we are better off. We turn, trust and invite Him inside and each become more us than we were before. Yes, become more you as you always wanted to become. Jesus went through a storm to get to two demoniacs (Matt. 8:28) who needed his help. The demons begged not to be sent to the pit (v. 10), the citizens begged Jesus to leave (v. 17), and one healed man begged to be allowed to go with Jesus (v. 18). The citizens were concerned more with financial profit than with spiritual benefit. Imagine asking Jesus to leave you!
We can come to the Example Servant as we are (21–34) and Jesus makes us into effective servants ourselves. All kinds of people came to the feet of Jesus. A well-known synagogue leader and an anonymous sick woman could find help there. Perhaps the woman’s faith was a bit superstitious, but the Lord still honored it. If you cannot grasp His hand, touch the hem of His garment. The first step of faith, no matter how weak, will lead to greater blessings.
The Example Servant will go with us (35–43) and change the world through each of us. One person at a time (yes, but sometimes many people individually changed at once). No situation is so desperate that Jesus cannot work in wonderous ways. Disease, delays, discouragement and even death are under His control. Jesus goes with you, believer, to the place you need to be. He helps you face disappointments and sorrows and then meets all your needs. No matter the trials or how depressing your situation may appear to you He speaks, “Do not be afraid; only believe” (v. 36). The Example Servant is working in you, for you and through you.
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Regeneration is far better than all attempts at the reformation of sinners! Why try to make em better and more moral on their lonely way to Hell? We ain’t better than, we be better off that so many and that’s why we live and and say it! Do we really have so much time to play around, or play church all religiously? We want them better off and blessed too asap!
Listen, If you Can’t Seem to Believe God for a National Spiritual Awakening or Biblical Revival for this USA.. Then I Dare you to Believe Him for this Inside of You Today! With All That I Am.. I Challenge You to Believe! Pray earnestly, Freely Receive, Boldly Share, Obey, and Stay In the Move of God.
- If He can be invited inside of you as Savior and Ruler. Guess what people! Awakening, provision and cleansing!
- If Christ is allowed in to live BIG on the inside as Lord. Impact, guidance and peace!- If He can get it to you (a biblical awakening that totally revives needy believers), then He can get it through you. Yep, revival anointing!
We can focus on Him today and be others-orientated at the same time. Why? Cuz the whole world needs Jesus!
“Is it possible that the best days for the United States of America are in our future and not just a part of our past? Is it possible for our country to make a change? I believe it is possible, because the Bible tells us that with God, nothing is impossible. However, our country is facing a spiritual and moral crisis. Here at home, politically correct speech reigns. And if you dare to say what the Bible teaches, you’re guilty of ‘hate speech.’ The family is under attack as never before. This is critical, because we can take almost every social ill in the country today and directly trace it to the breakdown of the family – and specifically the absence of the father in the home. We tamper with God’s order at our own peril. Then we have continuing conflicts in other parts of the world, including Russian and Chinese aggression. We have those powder kegs called Iran and North Korea. To me, this is a warning to the United States of America. I believe we have two options before us as a nation right now: judgment or revival. Judgment is coming to the United States of America, and to every nation for that matter, because we know from the Bible that a time of tribulation will come upon the earth. We know there will be an Antichrist. We know all this is in our future. But we don’t know when. I’m praying that before this time comes, we will have at least one more great spiritual awakening – a revival – in the United States.” ~ @GregLaurie
Independent of a relationship with the Jesus of the Bible it’s going to get much worse for people here before it gets better in the new millennium. Face it, there’s zero inherent goodness in humanity to build on.
Mankind, womankind.. we’ve certainly increased in scientific, medical, historical, educational, psychological and technological knowledge ..to an astounding degree in some areas. But we have not changed our own basic nature.
What if many only have their old nature to live with -- what will become of them? What if I only had my fleshly old nature inside and no new nature from the Lord. I’d be just as messed up spiritually as any outside. We all need a new nature from the Lord today.
It’s time to get your specific go from God and then go with God. It’s time to invade where He’d have you shine. Not a little bit! Believers like never before need to pray, obey and wisely infiltrate the culture gone sideways, rather than fearfully isolate away from it. People matter and there is a spiritual refreshing that comes from sharing your faith with the lost and the saved!
Did I tell ya? There’s indeed a certain overflowing joy, a certain refreshing and happiness that comes from sharing the Good News of the Gospel!
Proverbs 11:25 says, “The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed” (nlt). When you and I know the Lord and make Him known, when we reach out in love to others, when we put our main focus on the Lord and then consider the needs of others for their edification, it also blesses us!
Why be out on the take rather than live on the give (as the Spirit leads)? Jesus said, “Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back” Luke 6:38 (nlt).
He also said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” Acts 20:35 (nkjv).
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 (nkjv).
If “you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name. For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God? And, 'If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?'” 1 Peter 4:16-18 #emph.mine
Factoid: When the Lord talks about a nation (you know, like this great USA) having to hang a U-turn towards Him as each individual needs to do, guess what.. He first addresses his clear remarks to his own people. kurtwVs.medium.com
