How to share Christ with your neighbour

The very first thing I had to remember that it is not me that is winning souls for Jesus but the Lord bringing in souls that belong to Him. It is He who saves and convicts. It is He who changes a life from darkness into light. I just have to make myself available to HIM.

PRAYER
Pray before you go out to share Christ.
Spend time in the presence of God. You need to be a clean vessel through which the Spirit of God can flow.
You need His wisdom and His words in your mouth. Memorize these scripture prayerfully.
Ask the Father to open the door so that He will lead the conversation to GOD.
Do not force yourself on anybody but wait patiently for the right moment.


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God's plan
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God has a problem in that He loves man so much and desires to be in a relationship with man. However ... Sin is in the way.

Man's problem
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Man is sinful and although he tries through good works to reach God it is impossible because his good works fall short of the glory of God. Also Man is sinful from birth, we are born with our backs towards God. The Law of God reveals to us that we have sinned against God in word and deed. Man has a problem in that His sin has made a separation between him and God.
1John 1 :9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

God's bridge of love
1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried the load of our sins in his body when he died on the cross. God sends his Son the Lord Jesus Christ to die on the cross. When he died on the cross and rose from the grave, he paid the full penalty for sin. Sin = Death. Jesus died so that he could make a way open for us to GOD. GRACE = God's Riches At Christ's Expense.

To receive Christ or reject HIM
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name....

Man with his sin and guilt and lack of direction in his life is separated from God. Christ Jesus is the only way to God by receiving him. Receiving His forgiveness and eternal life.

The bible says Proverbs 28:13 "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."

You need to admit to God that you are lost and a sinner.
You need to repent from the way you have been living and turn a 360 degree turn from your old way of life .
You need to believe that when Christ Jesus went to the cross that He died for you on that cross so that He could set you free from condemnation of the law that says whosoever sins deserves death.
You need to receive through prayer and faith, Jesus into your heart and life.

Revelation 3:20 Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in.....

Romans 10:13 Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus will be saved.
John 10:9 Jesus said, "I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved.

Tell your neighbour about assurance of salvation.

You cannot confirm to your neighbour that He is a child of God, this is the work of the Holy Spirit. These things write I unto you that you may know that you have eternal life. The knowledge God gives in a heart is not man made knowledge but a confirmation that nothing will ever again separate you from the LOVE of GOD.

1 John 5:12,13
Whoever has God's Son has life... I have written this to you that you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may know you already have eternal life.

Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and men.

Tell you neighbour to seek God's face till He has assurance of Faith. Until God himself witnesses in His heart that he is a child of God.

You neighbour should follow these steps.
1. He should tell someone what Christ has done for him.
2. He has to study God's word and get to KNOW his God through scripture.
3. He should seek our Fathers presence every day.
4. He should seek to have fellowship with God's children.
5. 1 John 1 :7 "But as we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

Pray today that God will give you the right moment to share the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour with your Neighbour, friend or relative.
Richest blessings to you all.

Rom 1: 16 - 17 The Gospel of Jesus Christ, has divine power to change people.

When we are young we are given the bible stories from our Sunday school teachers. To many of us they just remain stories and when we grow up and out of home we forget them. The birth of Christ becomes Christmas tree celebration with gifts and toys for our loved one. His death and resurrection is an easter egg celebration. Our knowledge that we received remains infertile knowledge.

The gospel of Jesus Christ has Divine power. The power to take the worst sinner on this earth and reconcile them to God. My daughter and son returned from boarding school I had always shared Christ with them but never gone into depths about from where I had really been saved from. During the week I shared my testimony with you on face book and this opened the door for my children that I could share with them the Divine power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. My children have known me since they were born. They were not aware of the past that God had saved me from. Just before writing that piece on my testimony and on how victory could be obtained. My daughter told me that she had a "oral" at school. She had to write and talk about the person who has made the most impact on her life - her role model. She asked me whether I mind if she spoke about me. Dear friends I have nothing to brag about except this. The Gospel had Divine power in my life and had changed me to such an extent my children had no idea of the person I had been. When Christ Jesus went to the cross he took with him my sins and yours. The law of God had condemned me. I had sinned in so many ways against God, myself and my family. When the realisation of the fact that Christ had paid the debt of sin by dying on the cross for me became a reality and I was able to ask forgiveness and receive Jesus Christ into my life. Something happened that would have an effect on my life still 20 years later. When I asked my daughter what it was that made me her role model. Her words were. " Mommy, your faith in God. The fact that you persevere no matter what happens." "Mom, she said, it is the fact that you love God". Marelize my daughter had noticed the Divine power of God at work in me. Believe me 25 years ago no one would have seen that. It was Christ who came and changed me. Oh how I praise Him for this. I daily desire God's working and cleansing in my life. I desire that my children too would know the power of salvation through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have had the privilege as mother to lead them both to the Lord. We dear friends need not be ashamed of the Gospel. It is God's power unto salvation to them that believe. Have your children seen the Divine power of God at work in your life? When they look at you are you showing them towards God. Unless a man be born again, born of the Spirit of God, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. It is a prerequisite that, God's Divine power needs to change you and the Spirit of God enter you before you can enter into the Kingdom of God. Seek Him and you will find Him, when you seek Him with all your heart. Many blessings this week for you all.

Has the count down begun. (1 John 1:18) This is how we know it is the last hour.

When will the end be. Man has been speculating for ages. John tells his readers, that he does not write to them because they do not know the truth but because they do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. He warns them, the coming of the antichrist will happen. There have been many in their time and ours but he specifically points out to the last hour before the end of time. How will it be that we will able to identify that things are coming to an end. John clearly states that the liar is the one who will deny that Jesus is the Christ. Christ Jesus the Messiah who was to come and take away the sins of the world. He will state that all religions serve the same god. The antichrist is waiting in the wings to be inaugerated. To be made the world's religious leader. The European Union is busy with it's plans to form a One world order. One world government, one world money system, one world religion. To form one world religion he will try to indoctrinate us all into denying Christ. What do we have in common with other religions, absoluetly nothing. Two weeks ago Ireland handed over the keys of government to the EU by signing the treaty. Now 22 countries are part of the EU. Every six months the EU would change leaders, not much could be achieved by the constant change of leaders. One permenant leader would achieve more and faster. Two weeks ago a one world leader was chosen. The world has been divided into 13 regions. Without borders. Notice the influx into South Africa. What now, has the count down begun. Where do I get my information. Watching CNN and BBC Prime. We need to be WATCHMEN ON THE WALL. Dear friends, our christian faith is based on Christ Jesus. Born of a virgin. The Son of God takes on the form of a man. John 14:6 Jesus says, "I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus himself claimed to be God in the flesh. There were eye witnesses as to the life Christ lead on earth and what He taught. John 20:30-31 These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God and by believing in Him we have eternal life. When John the Baptist faith was waivering in prison it is Jesus who responds when John asks if He is the Son of God. Jesus tells them to go back to John the baptist and tell him what they have seen and heard. It was Jesus Christ who would take the sins of the world upon Him to the cross. It is Christ Jesus who died and on the third day rose again. Dear friends we know the truth to be the truth. Then why is it that many of us have the same spirit of the antichrist. 1 John 1:19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. Within our ranks, churches and pews are those who began with the same faith as we had but are being led astray and taking with them those who believe them and the lies of the antichrist. These people in the first place did not belong to us. Within them believing the lie. A religion without DEVINE POWER. The antichrist will come denouncing the Son and the Father. We are warned that whoever denies the Son is not from the Father. 1 John1 :24 See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you will also remian in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us - even eternal life. Beware children of God not to be misled by every form of teaching coming over the televison and test what you hear from the pulpits. Make sure that what you hear is not in contridiction of the word of God. Know the word, saturate yourself in the word. Learn scripture, talk about scripture , share scripture with your friend and neighbour. Let the word become part of your every day. So that when He Christ Jesus appears again to fetch His own that you may be confident and unashamed before Him at his coming. Dear friends how great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God. The reason the world does not know us is that it does not know HIM. Or even want to know Him. He who does what is sinful is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. There will come a day soon when the last hour will be upon the earth. Will you stand?

Victory obtainable for the child of God. Get ready for service

At the age of 18 years I was tired of life. I wanted to end it all. For the past nine years I had spent my life in children homes, Industrial schools, running away and sleeping on the beach to been in the homes of strangers. I felt rejected all of my life. My mother and Father and all 12 of my siblings had given up on me. No one wanted me. I was regarded a rubish. I killed the pain within me by taking drugs. Not even that could work anymore. The more I took the more sober I would become. Even alcohol could not numb the pain within me. I made a decision to take my life that day. I lifted myself on the balcony to jump over when a noise at the door startled me and I stopped what I was doing and went to look. Someone at that moment had put a tract under my door. It read, "Be assured of salvation". 1 John1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness". That day I met with Jesus Christ. I remember the room being filled with the presence of God, having no other way than to kneel down before Him and confess to God that I had sinned against Him. It was on that glorous day that I knew that I knew that I knew that Jesus Christ witnessed with my spirit that I had become a child of God. Thank you Father. For the past 18 years of my life I had formed patterns in my life. I found being a christian difficult. If things went wrong I would find myself in front of a house which could supply me with drugs to get high. Was victory possible?. I constantly fell into old sins and began to seek the scriptures for the secret to a victorious life. I want to share with you what I found and how it has worked.

I had to understand the process of sin. Friends the bible says that God's people perish because of a lack of knowledge. To understand the process you will understand how victory is obtained.

James 1:13-15
v13 Let no one say "I am tempted by God" We tend to blame God for the circumstances we are in. We blame Him for our hardships and our pain and our sin. When the actual destroyer has been satan, from the book of Genesis, satan tempted Eve in the garden, Adam partaking, both fell into sin (Rom 5:12) Therefore just as through one man sin entered the world and death through sin and thus death spread to all men, because all have sinned and falled short of the glory of God. Rom 3:23.
James 1 v 14 "Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed" Jeremiah 17 9-10 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure who can understand it. I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind to reward each man according to what his deeds deserve. Man's natural desire is not to please God. Because of the fall we are born with our backs naturally against God. Our desires are not to naturally serve Him. We try in our own strength and each time we fail. We will fall.
v 15 "Then when desire has conceived , it gives birth to sin and sin when it is fully-grown brings forth death.

Who is in control of your heart desires? The flesh or the Spirit of God. It is as if two dogs are within you a black and a white one. Continuously pulling towards the flesh. When the enemy (Flesh) is control you want to commit sin, it is a desire that burns within you. - You cannot control it >> You think about it and even begin to apply schemes and plans as how to sin without anyone knowing or seeing you do it. Forgetting that God sees everthing. Once the thought has taken hold of the sin it bears fruit and sin is committed. Sin when having grown fully brings forth death. Spiritually and even at times physical death.
Enemy in control>desire burns within you> you have no control to stop>Thoughts and plans to commit the sin come into action > the deed is done>brings forth death.

Victory is understanding the pattern sin has. You need to understand as I did that, there is someone who wants you destroyed. (John 8:42-47)
2 Cor 10:3-5,7 "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have DEVINE POWER to demolish strongholds. We demonish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and WE TAKE CAPTIVE EVERY THOUGHT TO MAKE IT OBEDIENT TO CHRIST.

The secret to victory is to take every thought which comes to mind to bring it into the obedience of Christ. It is like a bird flying over wanting to make a nest. If you allow it, it will make a nest. If you want to sin, the sin will be conceived and grow into the sinful deed , however. If you want victory over the sin you must TAKE THE THOUGHT CAPTIVE.
The thought comes into our mind to sin. It reaches the heart and the will, and once it is passes the will there is no stopping. The stopping must happen by stopping the thoughts as they come in. Dear friends this is hard. Especially when for the last 10-20 years you have learned to give in to your desires and to will sin.

Here is the answer:
Phil 4:8,9
Finally brothers whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

The thought enters the mind - (eg beautiful girl walks past mind says "What would it be like to..." The thought developes into a desire and sin is committed) But now there is a new way, we do a 360 turn around from the way we lived before and form new patterns. The thought still enters our minds but immediately we reject the thought and bring it unto the submission of Christ Jesus. Dear friends it takes the will of a man to have victory. If you want to be victorious it is possible. The story of the two dogs. The white dog representing the Spirit and the black dog the flesh and the desires of the heart. It is the one you feed that will win.

OTHER STEPS WHICH CAN BE TAKEN TO OBTAIN VICTORY
1. 2 Peter 3:1 The word stimulates us to wholesome thinking. Study the word, fill your mind with scripture which is the sword of God to cut off sinful thoughts. These scriptures will help you stand in the day of temptation.
2. James 4:7 Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Say NO TO SIN.
3. 1 Cor 6 :18 Flee from sexual immorality. >>>RUN think of Joseph fleeing from Potiphar's wife.
4. 1 Cor 15:33 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character". You need to stop seeing the friends that are leading you astray. Stop going to places where you do not belong.
5. 1 Cor 10:13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

IS VICTORY POSSIBLE? Most definitely, you must want it more than anything else on this earth. It takes, practise, practise and more practise. Stop the thoughts before it becomes sin and the God of peace will be with you. If this has helped please comment. Thank you for reading.

Tell my brothers....so that they will not also come to this place of torment. Luke 16:27-28

This account of the two men are true, this story is not fiction. It is foolish not to face the fact of death. Bear this in mind dear reader hell is real. There is life beyond death. In hell people are concerned about winning souls for God.

"As a tree when cut falls into the direction it leans, so men in hell are still the same kind of men when they lived" John Rice. The rich man lived his life in luxury, his main concern in this world was money and how to make a quick buck. He was concerned for his outer appearance, that people will notice him. All these things are not bad except he forgot about God. He did not expect to go to hell. He was known to be rich, and had want for nothing. You cannot buy your way into heaven. On the outside it appeared to everyone that He had it all.
Death dear friends calls our bluff and strips us of the mask we wear daily in our lives. On an appointed day which God had ordained the Rich man and Lazarus died. Lazarus is carried away by angels, whilst the other man finds himself in hell and tormented. What an awful realisation that you find that you lived your life a lie. The rich man does not question as Why he is in hell, his knows fully well that He rejected God. "It is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement of God." (Heb 9:27). The judgement for unrepentant is separation from God and His people. Destined to a pit of fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. A fire that never dies, where the soul lives in agony. The rich man looks up and finds Abraham afar off and begs him to send Lazarus to him so to dip his finger in water and cool his tongue because of the agony of the fire. Lazarus during his life time on earth had laid at the rich man's gate longing to be seen by the rich man, longing to eat from what fell from the rich man's table. The rich man showed no sympathy even though Lazarus was covered in sores. Did Lazarus suffer the consequences of sin. Maybe, but Lazarus had something different now. There was a moment in time and place that Lazarus had stopped what he was doing and repented before God. He could have heard the message in the town square. The people were talking about the coming Messiah who would take away the sins of the world. When Lazarus understood and realised his sinful state before God, he repented. His future hope for eternal life was in God, he had nothing more. Lazarus received only bad things in his life. The Word does not elaborate what these bad things were, but one can assume that the devil came to rob and steal what did not belong to him. The scripture only tells us that Lazarus now had faith in God and for His reward he was comforted in the afterlife. Abraham shared with the rich man that a great chasm ( a deep crack or space) had been fixed between those who were tormented because of their sin and those who were now in peace with God. It is too late once you and I are dead to try and crossover to the other side. The realization of an eternity in hell and now the rich man wanted to evangelise. How many of us walk past people we know daily and not warn them of the coming torment should they not repent. God sent Moses to bring the law to man, so that each of us can see where we have fallen short of the glory of God. (Read the ten commandments) Ex 20:1-21 Still men did not repent. He sent prophets to warn the people of His coming judgment, still words fell and fall today on deaf ears. Then He sent Christ Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice to die for our sins on the cross and to rise again. The rich man wanted someone to come back from the dead to tell his brothers to repent. How many people today wish to make contact with the dead to hear what they would say. Jesus came back from the dead, and still people do not want to repent. It's to late to Evangelise when you are dead. It is too late to repent when you are dead. Now is the time that the grace of God has given you to respond. I urge you, do not leave it too late.

Come out from among them, and be ye separate (2 Cor 6:17)

God's greatest desire is to live and walk amongst us. To be our God. To be a Father to us. His desire is that we get to know Him as we are already known by Him. Since we know these things we have been commanded to purify ourselves from anything which contaminates body and spirit. Walking in holiness out of reverence for our God. We live and work amongst unbelivers. It is not long before we are influenced into doing the very same things they do. The word of God no longer is our guide to making decisions rather we copy and excuse the very things that God hates. I had the task to visit a family who assured me that they were "Born Again" and great believers that Jesus was coming again they were fervant church members and do gooders. In the conversation they mentioned that their daughter had arrived back from Australia and had asked them to take her to a psalm reader, to tell her future. The whole family sat in as this women first consulted the "spirits" as to show her the young women's future. It seemed so interesting that before long the "Born Again" family all held out their hands to have their future read. The reason of my visit to this family was to warn them of God's coming judgement. I shared scripture showing them how much God hates the sin they have committed and that the word says; "The wages of sin is death". They all laughed it off. They again returned on several occassions to all have their psalms read, it seemed such fun, and oh so true. What the women failed to tell them was of God's coming punishment upon them. God dear friends, is not to be played with. It was not long when the mother who assured me of her status with God phoned to say that she had developed cancer and would I please come and pray for her healing. I waited on God in prayer and what came to me was "Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you". During my visit I had the difficult task of telling her that I could not pray for her. When asked why? I reminded her of the several times that I had warned her to stop the sin she was committing. I once again asked her if she understood that what she had done was sinful. She stopped for a moment looked at me and said, " I do not see anything wrong with what I have done'. What the psalm reader forgot to mention is that God was going to take her life. I left that home saddened that even though a person can profess to know God, God did not know them. She died shortly after that. Whilst her family were going through her belongings they found literature which I had given them against their sin. Some of the family members repented but others hardened their hearts. Please tell me what is wrong with this picture. What is wrong in the "Church". God's word is no longer a light unto their feet. Do not dear friend be yoked together with an unbeliever. What does righteousness and wickedness have in common. There is no such thing as a man made revival. When we as a people turn to God and lay off our sin and humbly begin to seek God, He will hear from heaven and send a God given revival to man. It is not too late to repent.

Lord I heard your speech and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work ..... Habakkuk 3:2

Falling into the hands of an angry God, dear friend I do not want to experience this. Habakkuk is burdened before God as he witnesses the sin of his time. The previous chapter the Lord reveals an appointed time which is to come over the earth. He, Habakkuk had to write it down so that a herald may run with in. In it, it speaks of the end. There is coming a time upon us and the whole world when the judgement of God is at hand. God's warning to man have gone on deaf ears. Man is puffed up in the knowledge that he thinks he has, he is arrogant before God and does just what He pleases. He plunders many nations, sheds blood through murder, destroys the land around him so that men and women and children are starving to death. Man's laws are unjust and used for personal gain. The ruin of many are plotted. "Woe unto him who gives drink to his neighbours" .... so that he can gaze on his friends naked bodies. Does all this not sound too familiar of the time that we are living in. This bad and terrible thing that is to happen "The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" Man will know God has had enough. God will turn the glory of man into shame. He will expose every deed committed. The cup of God's wrath is in His right hand. Habakkuk is afraid for the people of his time. He pleads with God to revive His work in the hearts of men.
A heavenly God sent miracle is needed in our time. We are facing the end of time and we continue in our lives to live as if nothing is about to happen. If you don't have a burden for the lost,and don't have a burden for the sins that are being committed in our time then we as the church are in very big trouble. Is sin preached, is holiness being preached, are men/women and children setting themselves apart for a holy God to be used by Him.
Is there a fire burning within your bones as it did Isiah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Paul and the rest of the disciples. Who felt in their hearts "Woe unto me if I do not preach the gospel". Where are the men and women who are thirsting and praying for a revival amongst God's people, are they already dead and gone to heaven. Where are the men and women pulling souls from the fire of Hell. Listen dear friend to what the Spirit of God is saying in Mathew 3: 10-12, "The axe of God is laid at the root of the trees that do not bring forth fruit every tree that does not bring forth good fruit will be cast into the fire".
May God have mercy upon me and you as we seek Him to revive men and women's hearts.

Do not say I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak Jeremiah 1:4-9

You have to read the whole passage I have given above to fully understand the expository of the whole verse. I have just taken a piece to grab your attention. Jeremiah was called and ordained by God (Psalm 139) way before he was born. The hand of God was laid upon his life. He was called to become the mouth piece of The Most High God. Jeremiah would be sent where to go and told exactly what to say. There are those amongst you who have been called by God to the ministry. It was ordained by our Father way before you even thought of Him. Then came that great and wonderful day when you found your self on Holy ground, under the conviction of sin, being cleansed by God. God's plan was in action. Like Moses, Isaiah, Elisha and Paul of Tarsus. You were called for a time like this. He lifted you out of the miry clay, Like Isiah 6:6-7 Then one of the seraph flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it He touched my mouth and said "See this has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for". Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" verse 9 says that God told him, "Go and tell this people...." You were ready and willing but you allowed Satan to steal from you the very purpose you were born. Dear friend there are all sorts of excuses even Jeremiah had one, "Behold I cannot speak I am a child" Lord I cannot do as you want me to, the path is too difficult to follow. You say now I am not worthy, everyone knows about the sins I have committed. Dear friends when the cleansing fire of God takes hold of you and God's anointing and the fulfillment of His plans come into being, no excuse will stand. Not because you are too young or too old and past your sell by date not even if someone tells you women may not preach, no dear friend absolutely nothing. You have been saved for a time like this. Stop making excuses and get on with the Father's business. Lay off the sin which binds you and causes you not to minister for God. Bring every thought into submission of Christ and His Word and overcome. Allowing God to bring you to the place on Holy Ground. The presence of God. When last did you experience His presence. I know that I know that I know that I have been called by God to fulfill a place in HIS story. I know that I know God has anointed me to preach. If I could not I would burst within me. You had the fire, God's people disappointed you and you blamed God. I plead with you, return to your first LOVE. Even if no one reads this and no one responds, I have being obedient to my Father. What about you?

Today could have been your last (Heb 9:27) Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement.

I'm not sure if anyone reads my blogs but just maybe someone tonite takes time out to read this. Tonite I dedicate this one to my Son, Basson, who could have lost his life today and that over a cellphone. Today I rode past a church and outside on the wall it had posted these words. "Life has many choices but Eternity has only two" Heaven or Hell. Surely this should be general knowledge. We are not going to live forever. There's a moment and time destined by God when this body of ours fails. Some die of old age and this dear friend is the grace of our God upon you. As a young person we would say to you, "Wow you have been given a life time to make the eternal choice, Heaven or Hell, and tell me dear friend what have you chosen"? There are those who are taken away in the prime of their youth. Car accidents, murder, heart attack, cancer. Most of these people ask WHY ME? They blame God. God is not to blame it is because of sin. Murder takes place because someone made the wrong Eternal Choice. Paul spoke about many dying before their time due to sin, God said "My people perish because a lack of knowledge". 1 Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

The choice lies with us. Reject or receive Him.

I invited a lady judge to my house for dinner. I was sharing the opposition women go through in the spreading of the gospel and her words were to me "If you have the truth it is your responsibility to share it" I'm sure she must be good in what she does through our courts, and wise at it too. These words have haunted me.

Today, might be your last or the next door neighbours or the collegue at work. You say, "I'm born-again", good for you then I say to you RESCUE THE PERISHING it's your responsibility to let the truth be known. Someone you know may die tonite without Christ. If only you have told them what you already know . God be with you as you remain obedient to the voice of God.

Isaiah heard the call of God, and said, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8

Reading the verses that preceed this one finds Isaiah unprepared and unable to speak for and on behalf of God. He did not want to be God's mouth piece. He points out to the fact that he has unclean lips which do not glorify God in conversations and he dwells amongst subborn people who too have unclean lips.

I do not believe that there is a preacher who has been called by God, who at some stage of his life felt like giving up. Tired of always having opposition for bringing the truth. Tired of ministering to people who refuse to change or submit under the authority of God.

Something happend to Isaiah. A seraph took a coal of fire from off the altar of the temple (heavenly fire) and touched his lips.

A fire not man made. A holy fire. The fire of God. Oh how I desire this fire to once again move amongst us and in us and through us. A fire which brings about holiness in the people of God. A fire that burns within our souls that we cannot be quiet. We will want to shout and make known to men the wonders of our great God. He anoints His people for service. He appoints us to take our place in society to be a Burning Fire a light that shines out to the unsaved.

I too have continually had to face opposition. Continually told to compromise the truth to become popular. Like Isaiah and Jeremiah we will never become popular with the truth. In the past men of God suffered malice, reproach, redicule from wicked sinners and worldly churchmen. Nothing has changed but God once again call you to allow Him through His Holy Spirit to cleanse you from all unrighteousness and to once again fill you with His Holy Spirit that you too can be His mouth piece to a dying world. God's grace be with you.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy Psm 126:5

A broken heart is a compassionate heart. It reminds me of many a mother who have sown their tears before the throne of the Father. Pleading with God to save her children. To protect them whilst they wander into the emenies terrority. It is a broken heart that drives one to prayer. It is the compassionate heart that sows the seed of truth. Mathew 20:14 "Jesus" He saw the people as sheep having no shepherd and "had compassion on them".

The consequences of sin is devastation. We just need to look around in society to see the vast amount of damage it is causing. Men and Women lost, without a shepherd to lead them. Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life. He wants man to have life and life abundently. The choice remains man's.

They crowned Him with thorns
He was beaten with stripes:
He was smitten and nailed to the tree
But the pain in His heart was the hardest to bear,
The heart that was broken for me
J W Van De Venter

Paul wept over sinners Acts 20:31 "Remeber, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears"


If you don't have the compassion of Christ then you need to see the lost sheep through the eyes of the cross. The Shepherd came to lost but they did not want Him. Let's weep before His throne for those who are suffering the devastation due to sin.

Please Father give us your heart for the loss. Make the loss see that they need YOU.

He that winneth Soul's is wise Proverbs 11:30

Soul winning is what every child of God has been called to do. Mark 16:15 The great commission Jesus said "Go ye into all the world". It is a way of life. It is living outward what has happend inwardly. Man being brought from death unto life through what Christ has done on the cross. The bible tells us that even the angels in heaven rejoice over one sinner that repents. Christ Jesus came for this very purpose that man can be reconciled to God. He suffered death on the cross and arose that man can enter into eternal life. Salvation is God's work. He seeks the soul, He draws them to Himself and then He gives man the choice between life and death.

So where do we fit in. Prayer, compassion and the willingness to say, "Lord here I am send me". I cannot be a bornagain Christian and live without sharing my faith. God gives us opportunities in our daily life to share our relationship with Christ and God the Father with others. I never forget how difficult it was to begin. At first you feel that you do not know what to say and then as you grow in your faith and you study the word of God and come to the understanding of God's plan, the easier it becomes.

Just by learning John 3:16 and by saying a quick prayer to God asking Him what you should say, God's Holy spirit will lead you to share. All you need to do is to be willing.

Greetings in Christ