Judgment Seat of Christ - Leonard Ravenhill

Yes, I have gone overboard, and I'm loving it!

Christ The Only Way-R.C. Sproul

ALBERT MARTIN SERMON JAM

Jesus didn't say what people wanted to hear, He spoke the TRUTH alone, if people left they left.

Community Prayer

Father,
Thank you that we can come together to worship You and grow in Grace. Thank you for LOVING us with a love that we cannot understand and for giving us Your Son Jesus Christ. Please empty our hearts of selfishness and fill them with Your Holy Spirit. Make us a witness for Jesus Christ this week as we go back out into the world. Help us to never forget that Jesus Christ bought us at the cross and we live for Him alone, and as we live for Christ alone we will receive the desires of our hearts.
In Christ Holy name we pray,
Amen

Corrie Ten Boom

I was SO blessed listening to Fervent Effectual Prayer by Corrie Ten Boom.

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Religion-and-Spirituality/-/Corrie-Ten-Boom-Sermons/15602#

10 Resolutions for Mental Health

10 Resolutions for Mental Health: "10 Resolutions for Mental Health from the Desiring God blog."
On October 22, 1976, Clyde Kilby, who is now with Christ in Heaven, gave an unforgettable lecture. I went to hear him that night because I loved him. He had been one of my professors in English Literature at Wheaton College. He opened my eyes to more of life than I knew could be seen. O, what eyes he had! He was like his hero, C. S. Lewis, in this regard. When he spoke of the tree he saw on the way to class this morning, you wondered why you had been so blind all your life. Since those days in classes with Clyde Kilby, Psalm 19:1 has been central to my life: “The sky is telling the glory of God.”

That night Dr. Kilby had a pastoral heart and a poet’s eye. He pled with us to stop seeking mental health in the mirror of self-analysis, but instead to drink in the remedies of God in nature. He was not naïve. He knew of sin. He knew of the necessity of redemption in Christ. But he would have said that Christ purchased new eyes for us as well as new hearts. His plea was that we stop being unamazed by the strange glory of ordinary things. He ended that lecture in 1976 with a list of resolutions. As a tribute to my teacher and a blessing to your soul, I offer them for your joy.
1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.
2. Instead of the accustomed idea of a mindless and endless evolutionary change to which we can neither add nor subtract, I shall suppose the universe guided by an Intelligence which, as Aristotle said of Greek drama, requires a beginning, a middle, and an end. I think this will save me from the cynicism expressed by Bertrand Russell before his death when he said: "There is darkness without, and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, no vastness anywhere, only triviality for a moment, and then nothing."
3. I shall not fall into the falsehood that this day, or any day, is merely another ambiguous and plodding twenty-four hours, but rather a unique event, filled, if I so wish, with worthy potentialities. I shall not be fool enough to suppose that trouble and pain are wholly evil parentheses in my existence, but just as likely ladders to be climbed toward moral and spiritual manhood.
4. I shall not turn my life into a thin, straight line which prefers abstractions to reality. I shall know what I am doing when I abstract, which of course I shall often have to do.
5. I shall not demean my own uniqueness by envy of others. I shall stop boring into myself to discover what psychological or social categories I might belong to. Mostly I shall simply forget about myself and do my work.
6. I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them the mystery of what Lewis calls their "divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic" existence.
7. I shall sometimes look back at the freshness of vision I had in childhood and try, at least for a little while, to be, in the words of Lewis Carroll, the "child of the pure unclouded brow, and dreaming eyes of wonder."
8. I shall follow Darwin's advice and turn frequently to imaginative things such as good literature and good music, preferably, as Lewis suggests, an old book and timeless music.
9. I shall not allow the devilish onrush of this century to usurp all my energies but will instead, as Charles Williams suggested, "fulfill the moment as the moment." I shall try to live well just now because the only time that exists is now.
10. Even if I turn out to be wrong, I shall bet my life on the assumption that this world is not idiotic, neither run by an absentee landlord, but that today, this very day, some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course I shall understand with joy as a stroke made by the architect who calls himself Alpha and Omega.

The Truth by Al Martin

I've never heard "Fire and Brimstone" preached so vividly...
My jaw is still on the floor!
If you need a push to get you to witness, this is it! People who are closest to me are not saved and I feel a burden on my heart. There is so much inside of me that wants to spill over and out to those I love, why am I not witnessing!

The High Priestly Prayer

John 17
The High Priestly Prayer
1When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
6 "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
20"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."

Prayer~Francis Chan

Heavenly Father,

Thank you for Your Grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle believing it at times. Thank you for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen

Prayer by Francis Chan from the book Crazy Love.

How Not to Change Your Man | The Mars Hill Blog

How Not to Change Your Man The Mars Hill Blog
by Liz Pak

If today you decided you wanted to change your husband, you wouldn’t be short of resources on telling you how to do it. Just a simple Google search on “how to change your man” turns up any number of purportedly helpful blogs, articles, and commentary on how to go about fixing all the things you might say are wrong with your spouse. [Ed.'s note: 558,000 results, to be precise.]


Let’s face it: No one is more prone to being affected by your husband’s sin than you are. It is no wonder then, that so many wives are insistent on changing the men in their life.
But does this hold up biblically? How does God call us, as wives, to respond to our husbands’ perceived shortcomings? Here is what the apostles Paul and Peter had to say on the matter:

“Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness.” Galatians 6:1


“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.” 1 Peter 3:1-2

Lightbulb! God does not call us as wives to change our husbands. We were neither created nor equipped to do so. Instead, he has commanded us to restore them, gently, by way of godly conduct. In so doing, we will not change our man, but instead will point him to the only One who can: our savior, Jesus Christ himself.
So a word of advice to all you ladies sick and tired of the sin in your relationship: Stop trying to change your
man. Instead, start freeing him to be changed by Christ.


Here’s a few things to do (and stop doing) to get you started.

Don’t compare.
Ever catch yourself looking around a room and musing bitterly how your husband doesn’t measure up to all the others? When you compare your man to someone else, you are believing the lie that the husband God chose for you is not as good as the one you could have created for yourself.


Don’t manipulate.But the kids really need to go to that expensive private school. That house is the only one that’s going to work for our family.
It’s one thing to submit one’s point of view humbly; it’s another to pull the insistent, hysterical wife card. Manipulating wives don’t want their husbands to lead them. They just want them to look like they do.


Don’t undermine.
Nothing cripples a husband’s leadership like an undermining wife. He tells the kids no more ice cream, she sneaks them sundaes behind his back. He speaks up at community group, she begrudgingly shuts down his ideas or points of view. When you undermine your man like that, you’re telling him you don’t respect or value him; when you undermine him in front of others, you’re saying no one else should either.


Do pray.
Start a habit of intentionally praying for your husband. Nothing will be of greater help to him than interceding for him before the Father. Make it a part of your daily routine, ask him regularly how you can pray and follow up on things you have already been praying for.

Do encourage.
Look for evidences of God’s grace in your man’s life. When you find some, tell him so. When he calls to let you know he’ll be home late, let him know how helpful that is. When he sits down to bible study with the kids, thank him for striving to lead your family spiritually.

Do study.
Study your husband. Learn what makes him tick, what inspires him, what blesses him. What kind of leader is he? What’s his love language? How does he connect with others? With the Lord? How does he work best? Sabbath best? When you begin to learn the answers to these questions and others, you will become more and more equipped to love and serve him as a helper suitable.
Does this list sound doable? Or unattainable? For those of you who may be discouraged (“Impossible! How can I stop comparing?!”) Take heart once more in the words of Paul:
“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6
As you’re striving to not change your man, remember: You cannot change yourself, either. But you can put full confidence in the one who will change you both. For just as the Lord is the only hope for change in your husband, so is He for you.