Forwarded from Gideon Rescue Co. (Meredith Pool)
I’m thinking about how important it is for us to plant seeds and share the Story of Salvation. Think about this…..Can you imagine being in heaven and you’re walking down those golden streets, the glory of God shining all around, and joy filling every corner of your soul. As you soak in the beauty of eternity, someone taps you on the shoulder. You turn around, and there stands a face, maybe familiar, maybe not, just beaming with a joy that mirrors your own. And then, with a voice full of immense gratitude, they say, "I’m here because you shared Jesus' salvation with me." Can you imagine the overwhelming joy of that moment? The sheer, uncontainable joy of knowing that something you said, something you did, helped lead someone to the eternal presence of God through the Holy Spirit’s divine help? That moment isn’t just a possibility, it’s a promise of what God can do through you. Our lives on this earth are fleeting, but the impact we can have is eternal. Every time we share the message of Jesus, every time we extend a hand, offer a word of hope, or live out the love of Christ, we are planting seeds. Seeds of salvation, seeds of grace, seeds that can blossom into the most beautiful harvest of all, a soul saved for eternity. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus gave us the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." This command isn’t just a duty; it’s a divine invitation to partner with God in the most important work there is, the work of bringing people to Him. But let’s be honest, sharing our faith can sometimes feel intimidating. We might worry about saying the wrong thing, or we might think that someone else, someone more qualified, more eloquent, should be the one to share the message. But the beauty of God’s plan is that He uses each of us, in our uniqueness, in our imperfections, to reach others. How about the story of Andrew, one of Jesus’ disciples. In John 1:40-42, we read that Andrew, after meeting Jesus, immediately went and found his brother Simon Peter and brought him to Jesus. Andrew wasn’t a preacher; he didn’t have a pulpit. But he knew the power of simply saying, "Come and see." And look what happened! Simon Peter went on to become one of Jesus beloved disciples that brought many to the kingdom of God. All because Andrew was willing to share the salvation he had found. Each of us has that same opportunity. We might not be called to preach to thousands, but we are called to share with the one who is right in front of us. Maybe it’s a family member, a friend, a coworker, or even a stranger or in a disaster zone . We don’t need fancy words or theological degrees. We just need a heart willing to say, "Come and see the Savior who changed my life." And one day, in that glorious place called heaven, the fruit of your faithfulness may come full circle. Someone might walk up to you, smile, and say, "I’m here because you shared Jesus' salvation with me."
That moment, my friends, will be worth every struggle, every effort, every conversation, every prayer. It will be the culmination of a life lived for Christ, a life that made an eternal difference. So let’s go out with renewed purpose and courage today, knowing that our words and actions can echo into eternity. Let’s share the love of Jesus, trusting that God will use our small acts of faith to bring about His great harvest.
And may we all look forward to that day in heaven when someone taps us on the shoulder and says, "Thank you. I’m here because of you." Hallelujah 🙌
That moment, my friends, will be worth every struggle, every effort, every conversation, every prayer. It will be the culmination of a life lived for Christ, a life that made an eternal difference. So let’s go out with renewed purpose and courage today, knowing that our words and actions can echo into eternity. Let’s share the love of Jesus, trusting that God will use our small acts of faith to bring about His great harvest.
And may we all look forward to that day in heaven when someone taps us on the shoulder and says, "Thank you. I’m here because of you." Hallelujah 🙌
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Forwarded from Sunday Laws Are Coming
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38, 39.
Christ might, because of our guilt, have moved far from us. But instead of moving farther away from us, He came and dwelt among us, filled with all the fullness of the Godhead, to be one with us, that through His grace we might attain to perfection. By a death of shame and suffering He paid man’s ransom. What self-sacrificing love is this! From the highest excellency He came, His divinity clothed with humanity, descending step by step to the very depths of humiliation. No line can measure the depth of this love. Christ has shown us how much God can love and our Redeemer suffer in order to secure our complete restoration. He desires His children to reveal His character, to exert His influence, that other minds may be drawn into harmony with His mind.
Christ, our Saviour, in whom dwelt absolute perfection, became sin for the fallen race. He did not know sin by the experience of sinning, but He bore the terrible weight of the guilt of the whole world. He became our propitiation, that all who receive Him may become sons of God. The cross was erected to save man. Christ lifted on the cross was the means devised in heaven for awakening in the repenting soul a sense of the sinfulness of sin. By the cross Christ sought to draw all to Himself. He died as the only hope of saving those who, because of sin, were in the gall of bitterness. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, a new principle of mental and spiritual power was to be brought to man, who, through association with divinity, was to become one with God.
To break down the barriers that Satan had erected between God and man, Christ made a full and complete sacrifice, revealing unexampled self-denial. He revealed to the world the amazing spectacle of God living in human flesh, and sacrificing Himself to save fallen man. What wonderful love! As I consider it, I weep to think that so many of those who claim to believe the truth are encrusted with selfishness....
I marvel that professing Christians do not grasp the divine resources; that they do not see the cross more clearly as the medium of forgiveness and pardon, the means of bringing the proud, selfish heart of man into direct contact with the Holy Spirit, that the riches of Christ may be poured into the mind, and the human agent be adorned with the graces of the Spirit, that Christ may be commended to those who know Him not.—Manunoscript 91, June 26, 1902, “Christ’s Sacrifice for Us.”. UL 191.1-UL 191.5
Christ might, because of our guilt, have moved far from us. But instead of moving farther away from us, He came and dwelt among us, filled with all the fullness of the Godhead, to be one with us, that through His grace we might attain to perfection. By a death of shame and suffering He paid man’s ransom. What self-sacrificing love is this! From the highest excellency He came, His divinity clothed with humanity, descending step by step to the very depths of humiliation. No line can measure the depth of this love. Christ has shown us how much God can love and our Redeemer suffer in order to secure our complete restoration. He desires His children to reveal His character, to exert His influence, that other minds may be drawn into harmony with His mind.
Christ, our Saviour, in whom dwelt absolute perfection, became sin for the fallen race. He did not know sin by the experience of sinning, but He bore the terrible weight of the guilt of the whole world. He became our propitiation, that all who receive Him may become sons of God. The cross was erected to save man. Christ lifted on the cross was the means devised in heaven for awakening in the repenting soul a sense of the sinfulness of sin. By the cross Christ sought to draw all to Himself. He died as the only hope of saving those who, because of sin, were in the gall of bitterness. Through the agency of the Holy Spirit, a new principle of mental and spiritual power was to be brought to man, who, through association with divinity, was to become one with God.
To break down the barriers that Satan had erected between God and man, Christ made a full and complete sacrifice, revealing unexampled self-denial. He revealed to the world the amazing spectacle of God living in human flesh, and sacrificing Himself to save fallen man. What wonderful love! As I consider it, I weep to think that so many of those who claim to believe the truth are encrusted with selfishness....
I marvel that professing Christians do not grasp the divine resources; that they do not see the cross more clearly as the medium of forgiveness and pardon, the means of bringing the proud, selfish heart of man into direct contact with the Holy Spirit, that the riches of Christ may be poured into the mind, and the human agent be adorned with the graces of the Spirit, that Christ may be commended to those who know Him not.—Manunoscript 91, June 26, 1902, “Christ’s Sacrifice for Us.”. UL 191.1-UL 191.5
Forwarded from Sunday Laws Are Coming
We are to copy no human being. There is no human being wise enough to be our criterion. We are to look to the man Christ Jesus, who is complete in the perfection of righteousness and holiness. He is the author and finisher of our faith. He is the pattern Man. His experience is the measure of the experience that we are to gain. His character is our model. Let us, then, take our minds off the perplexities and the difficulties of this life, and fix them on him, that by beholding we may be changed into his likeness. We may behold Christ to good purpose. We may safely look to him; for he is all-wise. As we look to him and think of him, he will be formed within, the hope of glory. – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 3}
Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand. And let us do all that we can to help others to gain heaven. We are to have an intense interest in Christ Jesus; for he is our Saviour. He came to this world to be tempted in all points as we are, to prove to the universe that in this world of sin human beings can live lives that God will approve. – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 4}
Let us not talk of the mistakes and defects of others. Let us speak the words that Christ has given us to speak. Let us seek for the blessings that Christ has placed within our reach, that we may be made capable of receiving more and still more of his grace, and that we may be filled with a living, active, growing faith,—a faith that believes the promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 9}
Let us strive with all the power that God has given us to be among the hundred and forty-four thousand. And let us do all that we can to help others to gain heaven. We are to have an intense interest in Christ Jesus; for he is our Saviour. He came to this world to be tempted in all points as we are, to prove to the universe that in this world of sin human beings can live lives that God will approve. – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 4}
Let us not talk of the mistakes and defects of others. Let us speak the words that Christ has given us to speak. Let us seek for the blessings that Christ has placed within our reach, that we may be made capable of receiving more and still more of his grace, and that we may be filled with a living, active, growing faith,—a faith that believes the promise, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” – {RH March 9, 1905 Par. 9}
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Col 3:1-5 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When…
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Col 3:1-5 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Col 3:1-5 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Forwarded from SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
Born in 1483, Martin Luther was a monk burdened by guilt and the impossible weight of earning God’s favor. But as he studied Scripture, light broke through the darkness. In Romans 1:17, he discovered that “the righteous shall live by faith.” Grace was not a wage to be earned—it was a gift to be received.
That truth set his heart ablaze.
In 1517, Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenberg, challenging the corruption that had hidden the gospel beneath rituals and fear. His courage unleashed a movement that called the church back to its foundation—Scripture alone, Christ alone, grace alone, faith alone, to the glory of God alone.
Luther was not seeking fame, but faithfulness. He believed the power was never in the man, but in the Word of God. And that Word still reforms hearts today.
🔥 “The Word did everything,” he said, and it still does.
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That truth set his heart ablaze.
In 1517, Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenberg, challenging the corruption that had hidden the gospel beneath rituals and fear. His courage unleashed a movement that called the church back to its foundation—Scripture alone, Christ alone, grace alone, faith alone, to the glory of God alone.
Luther was not seeking fame, but faithfulness. He believed the power was never in the man, but in the Word of God. And that Word still reforms hearts today.
🔥 “The Word did everything,” he said, and it still does.
#ReformationDay
#31October
Forwarded from SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
*Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.*