20th January, 2008
It’s Late Into The Night - Souls In The Balance
I have again been face to face with a computer screen for about twelve hours. I am such a “geek”! New programs to learn, new designs to make and time just flies by.
I want to say that I am praying for victory in all our lives. The life of a Christian is so different today than it was a few years back. The message has not changed! The method has and so has the approach. I see so much here in Santa Cruz that often I wonder if people knew that they could be set free if they would just believe. Believe in the One True, Holy God, that loves them so much that He desires to forgive them of all their sin. I see so much in the “dirt” that I come home and pray that God would just breathe on this community and America as a whole.
There are so many “weak” Christians today that have relaxed their “standing” of beliefs! It is all comfort and pleasure! I like comfort and pleasure is really a nice addition to life, however, souls are on the scale and the weight of sin is outweighing the truth of forgiveness! My heart is heavy with the burdens of the lost. So simple, so easy, to reach out to God and be set free. Comfort and pleasure sneak up and snatch away the truth of a relationship with God. As sin grows in this country, like aides and cancer, there is cure that grows up higher than all! Nothing is higher than the Cross of Calvary and certainly nothing is greater than the Christ who died there for you and I. Tell it loud and tell it clear: Jesus cares and wants you to be delivered, happy,and living a fulfilled life!
Peace
Dennis
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27th December, 2007
Walking Worthy
Through prayer and many nicks on my shins for failing God, I have come to the most important conclusion: I cannot walk worthy of my calling without His Holy Spirit leading me at all times. If I am going to live in the Spirit I must walk in the Spirit. If I am going to walk in the Spirit then I must live in the Spirit. I must surrender all that I am to Him and hope that He will have mercy on my prideful and unworthy soul. Coming into His presence in prayer knowing that I have failed Him in some way, always gives me the uneasy feeling of that I have been thinking above what I ought to think! I owe Him so much for what He has done for me! Not just for me but for this world of sin and despair. He could have started all over again and who would have argued? Adam and Eve? The devil, himself? The angels? The heavens? No, not even amongst the One True Godhead! He is so just and loves us so much that He has given us chance after chance to repent and ask for forgiveness. I have decided to make forgiveness the focal point of my ministry! I want to forgive and I want to be forgiven. I want to see mankind in heaven! This is a tall order! But my prayer is that I would see the God miracles in this San Francisco/Monterey Bay Area! I have no rhyme nor reason why God called me to do what I do, but I must walk worthy of that calling! So I invite the Holy Spirit, again, to walk by my side and keep me from being ignorant about God’s will!
I saw the movie “Coal Miners daughters” today. One line stuck in my spirit: I may be ignorant but I am not stupid (This is a paraphrase so I do not use the word that segregates a certain community of people). I laughed at this!
Then I saw this in my spirit: I do not want to be ignorant of God nor do I want to be stupid in my ways serving Him!
Peace
Dennis
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6th November, 2007
Forgiveness Not Unforgiveness
We must remember to forgive each other daily. He forgave us when we were at our worst or close to it! We do not have to have an unforgiving heart. Jesus stated that a man’s heart is most evil. That out of it comes the worst of the worst. But since Calvary we have the ability, not in ourselves, but by letting Him enable us to forgive others and ourselves. Take a moment as you read this and search your heart, is there anyone in there being held captive.
Forgiveness is a healing for the soul and heart. By holding in bitterness and having an unforgiving heart you may become sick, depressed and fearful. Let go of what is in there and be free in Jesus. Many books have thousands of pages written about the subject of Forgiveness but in its complexities the simplicity of it takes one decision: You being willing to say “I forgive those that have offended me.” Ask yourself, “How good did I feel when I was forgiven?” I would suggest strongly that you felt really good! Well, when you forgive someone it feels real good also. By the way, God feels good also when you do this.
Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer
Peace
Dennis
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