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Issue #470
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August 28, 2017 |
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Dear Friends,
Thank you for your encouragement and support. We pray you will be blessed daily through the Word. Please freely share this email with others.
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LEGACY: God Has the Final Word Scripture The day will surely come when God, by Jesus Christ, will judge everyone's secret life. Romans 2:16 (NLT) Because of God's special favor to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful. For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have - Jesus Christ....But there is going to come a time of testing at the judgment day to see what kind of work each builder has done. Everyone's work will be put through the fire to see whether or not it keeps its value. 1 Corinthians 3:10, 11, 13 (NLT) I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. And now the prize awaits me... 2 Timothy 4:7, 8a (NLT) Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV) |
|  LEGACY: God has the Final Word |
| Jake got up in the middle of the funeral service, peered in the casket, then sat back down. His wife was so embarrassed that she asked him, "Why did you do that?" "With the nice things he was saying about Clem, I thought we were at the wrong funeral." When Don and I were in youth ministry, it was sometimes quite an experience talking to certain parents. We occasionally wondered, are we discussing the same kid here? Many speakers and writers have noted the contrast between the legacies of the families of Max Jukes and of Puritan pastor Jonathan Edwards. I've summarized the track records of their descendants below. Jakes family legacy Edwards family legacy 440 lives of outright 300 clergymen,missionaries, debauchery or theological professors 310 paupers & vagrants 120 college professors 190 public prostitutes 110 lawyers 130 convicted criminals over 60 physicians 100 alcoholics over 60 authors of good 60 habitual thieves books 55 victims of impurity 30 judges 7 murderers 14 presidents of universities numerous giants in American industry 3 U.S. congressmen 1 vice-president of the U.S. We build our legacy every day. Each act of kindness to make another person succeed and have a better life becomes part of our legacy. Being good citizens and helping to make our country strong are worthy uses of our energy and time. As Christians, our supreme objective in life is to produce many spiritual children. We are then to nurture, build precept upon precept, teach the word, instruct in righteousness, and encourage. We need to get people on the right path and teach them how to walk on it - and how to stay there. God has the final word about everything including our legacy. When He makes a judgment call He is always one hundred percent right. There are no "Yeah, buts" allowed. The greatest reward we could ever receive is "Well done, good and faithful servant." May that be our legacy! |
Everyone leaves a legacy, whether it is intentional or not. Those who are more intentional about it usually leave a better legacy behind.
Everything you are and possess today, whether good or bad, will pass down to those who come after you.
You have a destiny. You don't have to beg God to bring it to pass. Just Relax! Seek to know Him better and obey His voice - AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF SMACK DAB IN THE CENTER OF HIS WILL!
Unlocking Your Legacy
by Paul J. Meyer
I never ran a marathon to win the race. The breaking of the tape was for younger legs and fleeter feet. But I always ran to finish. That's the way God intended us to run the race of life. To let up and lie down is to miss the joy of the apostle Paul, who could write that he had "finished the course."
p. 246
My prayer for you and me as we mature is that the vision and passion for a strong finish will intensify, and that absolutely nothing will stop us from doing it up right. Press on, persevere, and point toward home. Oh, to be able to shout with the Savior, "Tetelestai! - It is finished!" so that the watching throng knows we gave it our best shot.
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Keep the Fire! by Don Anderson
Once we're convinced that God longs for a deepening relationship with us, not some kind of power performance from us, what's next? How do we transfer that knowledge onto the treadmill of human life? How can it make a difference in us and to us?
I think that we must first look honestly at ourselves and evaluate exactly where we stand with the Father. Do we know Christ as Savior, or are we somehow trying to work our way into heaven? If God thought for a moment that we could do it ourselves, he would not have bothered to send Jesus.
If we are sure of our salvation, however, then we'd better look closely at the things we are doing, and more importantly, at the motivation behind them. How are we spending our time? Are we doing things with God, instead of just for Him? Are we often on our knees, talking with Him? How rich is our fellowship with Him in His word? Does our life focus on getting to know Him better and better, or has our schedule become so jam-packed with Christian activities that we've just about forgotten Christ? Are we burying ourselves in busyness because we feel guilty about the dryness of our relationship with the Lord? Are we striving to stick to the subsections of the law instead of basking in the freedom of His grace? Is our obedience forced or willing, grudging or grateful, engendered by obligation or enkindled by love?
Everyone must peer into his own heart and answer these questions for himself. Only you and God truly know your motives, practices, and the depth of your shared relationship. "I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve" Jeremiah 17:10 (NIV).
God Wants a Relationship...Not a Performance
by Don Anderson
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Prayer Requests
& Praises
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1. Pray: For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
2. Praise: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 (NKJV)
3. Pray: But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
1 John 3:17, 18 (NASB)
4. Praise: ...so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)
5. Pray: So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless. Ecclesiastes 11:10 (NIV)
6. Pray: We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work. John 9:4 (NASB)
7. Pray: For continued success of the Preservation Project.
8. Pray: Philippines radio & OnePlace.com broadcast.
Prayer: Lord, I find myself singing "Channels Only" this morning: "Emptied that Thou shouldest fill me, a clean vessel in Thy hand; with no pow'r but as Thou givest graciously with each command. Channels only, blessed Master, but with All Thy wondrous pow'r flowing thro' us, Thou canst use us ev'ry day and ev'ry hour."
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Counting my blessings,
Pearl Anderson
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
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