From My Altar
1. I meddled with the mundane,
The worldlings' treasures I craved to retain,
And the lost I cared less to help,
Then I heard a call -
It was a Macedonian Call.
2. I got me a priestly parish,
Parishioners so kind my pocket to garnish,
Neglecting the Ark in benighted lands,
Then I heard a distant cry -
"Send us reliefs ere we die."
3. I ran to the altar,
My consecration I did utter,
"Lord here am I, send me tomorrow,"
Then I heard a whispery groan:
"Hasten now; every second counts!"
4. I rose from the altar,
Took up my flag and banner,
Away to ailing Africa!
Away to aching Asia!
Sailing to sick Samaria!
Mercy, mercy on Macedonia!
Not everyone who's following Jesus is actually following Jesus. Jesus mentioned what anyone who's truly following Him should do.
Luke 14:25 - And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
Luke 14:26 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:27 - And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
@davereimer I'm honored. Thanks so much.
This is me (in front and dressed in white shirt) in 2011 with some team members arriving at a mission field in Rivers State, Nigeria. The mission field is like my natural habitat and it gives me so much joy. Unfortunately, the brother behind me, Solomon Bassey, has gone home to be with the Lord. The lady beside him is Nancy his widow.
This is one of my memorable photos when in 2011, we led some hundreds of undergraduate Christian students to a rural mission in a riverine community called Emelogo and Adada in Abua/Odual Local Government Area, Rivers State, Nigeria. You can call it a risky voyage. But we saw it then as a big fun and passion to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank God there was no casualty.
Satan knows his boundaries, just like the seas and oceans. No matter how he threatens and rages, his proud waves can't extend to your territory. You're safe and secure.
Job 38:8-11
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" Job 38:8-11
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God bless you. Much love.
This is such a romantic but very spiritual scripture:
"Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." Song 7:11-13
God created man after everything was created. The first thing Adam did was to rest on the Sabbath before his works began. He was born into rest. The Christian life began when Jesus finished His work on the cross. We were also reborn into rest. We need to sit and rest in the finished work of Christ first, before we can progress in our walk with God.
Hallelujah!
"He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets." Colossians 2:15 MESSAGE
"And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." KJV
"When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities [those supernatural forces of evil operating against us], He made a public example of them [exhibiting them as captives in His triumphal procession], having triumphed over them through the cross." AMPLIFIED