Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this fabulous day, one of the fabulous Fridays of October. Praise the Lord for the way He makes all things beautiful in His season and in His time. Praise the Lord that He is the Lord of all seasons and the Lord in every season.
Pray for Sunita, who is flying out to Israel tomorrow. Pray that the Lord will prepare the way before her, that she might enter the country easily. Continue to pray for Laureen and her team as they move westward. They will be in Ohio tonight, spending some time with our friends, Allen and Sande Jones in Cincinnati.
I had a very pleasant phone call from Atlanta the other day -about a young man by the name of Brandon. He went to Orissa, India with us,with a team from Ohio some time back on a short term mission. He and his team stayed at my mom's house. While there, the Lord touched deeply and dearly, and he was moved. I hadn't heard from him since his return to the States, years ago to finish college. He has since then finished his studies at Asbury Seminary, married, has a child, and is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. He felt the call of Christ to go back to Orissa as a full-time missionary, and he has been approved to follow Christ's call to Orissa. He will be working primarily among the Christians who have been persecuted and tortured there. Brandon is one among three couples who have been to my mom's house in Orissa and have been called to full-time missions. They have all followed through on the call. Praise the Lord for the way He works to supply for the need. When I hear the stories and the testimonies of those who love the Lord with great abandon I get excited about Jesus and His Kingdom. Praise the Lord for those who seek after Christ with a great passion. I did read the following story sometime ago:
April 17, 1964 something unique and noteworthy took place in America… That event was the introduction of the Ford Mustang. On that day the following events took place:
1. A Mustang had been chosen as the pace car for a stock car race in Huntsville, Alabama. When it drove onto the track, thousands of people scaled the retaining wall to get a better look at it and the race was delayed for over an hour.
2. A cement truck crashed through the plate-glass window of a Seattle Ford dealer when the driver lost control of his vehicle. The reason: He was staring at the new Mustangs on display there.
3. A Chicago Ford dealer was forced to lock the doors of his show-room models because too many people were trying to get into them at the same time.
4. A Texas dealer put a new Mustang on a lift to show a prospective customer the underside of the vehicle. By the time his demonstration was over, the showroom was filled with people, and he had to leave the Mustang up in the air for the rest of the day.
5. A New Jersey Ford dealer had only one Mustang and 15 eager buyers, so he auctioned it off. The winner of the auction insisted on sleeping in the car to be sure the dealer didn’t sell it to someone else before his check cleared.
Why did they do all this?
Why did people behave in such bizarre ways over a simple car? I mean they...
* crammed into showrooms and scaled retaining walls at races just to get a look at it
* One man slept in their newly purchased car
* And another man lost control of his vehicles because of the sight.
They did all of this because of a Ford mustang!
BUT it was THE car they wanted to see.
It was THE car they wanted to have.
It stood for everything they ever wanted in a vehicle .
Once We find Christ in a deeper way , He becomes the desire our hearts. He satisfies our deepest desires. He grants us the thrill of knowing Him and serving Him. In Psalm 84 it is written:
1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
In Christ,
Brown
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