Why should we hear the gospel twice when millions have never heard it once?  Pile the fact that 95% of Christians will go their whole lives without ever leading one soul to Christ.  What are you doing about this?

Someone who is in the will of God makes few choices, for his decisions are simply a continuation of the ones he already made.  It is those who stagger back and forth between God’s will and his own that feel overwhelmed and stressed.  But those who have already chosen to dwell in God’s will come to a decision already with an answer and in fact don’t even realize they passed through a decision, because no decision was needed.  It already had been made.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surounded about with so great a cloud of witnesses,  who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,  quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance;  and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, and bonds and imprisonment:  they were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated  (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

We literally stand on the blood of those who have gone before us.  Because of the 70 million Christians killed for their faith in 220 countries across 20 centuries.

That’s 70 million people or almost 96 people a day for the last 2000 years.
Martyrs since 1950: 13,300,000

Average annual martyrs since 1950: 278,000

When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.  Believe in yourself.  You are what you need to succeed.  The future belongs to those who believe in their abilities.  No dream is too big for God to accomplish it through you.

Will you be that person that makes history or simply lives it?  Winston Churchill said this, ‘History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.’

Your past number cannot interfere with your ability to harness today. Your future number cannot leave you absent in the present. Your present number cannot not neglect the past nor keep you from the future.

What is the importance of today? What about this moment? How important is the next 30 minutes? Sometimes we don’t put any value on today. It seems that we are only looking toward tomorrow and remembering yesterday. But what about the only day you really have. Now.

Eze 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
Eze 22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

What amazes me is this. God is always looking for a way out. Not to get out of His promises, or make His life easier, but a way out of having to pronounce judgment. The very act of sending His only Son was as such. He doesn’t want to send you or I to eternal damnation. So He looks for a way out. He provided another way.

What will He see when He weighs your life? Will He have a way out? Or will He have to pronounce judgment on you, and consume you with His wrath?

Have you ever wondered ‘will I be missed?’ Or ‘will life go on easily after me?’ I think those aren’t just questions for the pessimistic ones, or the those feeling sorry for themselves. I think they can be valid questions to ask ourselves, when thinking about what we really do for Christ and His cause. Will I be missed? Will the kingdom of God go on easily after me? Or was I more of a cancer and parasite? Feeding off of others and in fact ruining the reputation of the Church by my hypocrisy? Or will God need to raise up others to finish the work I started, the prayers that shook heaven, and the kindness that wrapped others in the warmth of God’s love? Will you need to be replaced? Or will we go on better that you are no longer living a complacent life?…

It seems that the next ‘best’ thing to true freedom is the acceptance of the bondage that needs to be loosed.  It is the relief of the struggle and fight that actually imitates true freedom, yet in this relief no freedom is truly found.  When the bondage is accepted as normal, okay, or in fact good it assimilates into the very core of who you are causing you to not only to change how you see yourself but what you become.

True freedom is freedom from the bondage not its acceptance.  Giving up on the fight is to give up on yourself and who you are.  It is like a person who gives up on life itself to accept the inevitable therefore losing their life but getting the relief that makes them feel free.  Bondage need to be broken off and destroyed, not accepted. 

As easy as it is to accept the bondage and to get free of the fight for freedom the inevitable is this; bondage that has been accepted destroys the desire and ability to battle the oppression. 

When I read the list of David’s mighty men, I am in awe.  These men served David with such devotion and loyalty.  One of them faced 800 men alone.  Another fought so long and hard his hand stuck to his sword.  These men were thieves and outcasts, yet became great.  They were inspired by David and his God.  God is looking for us to be great.  Common people inspired by who He is.  2Ch 16:9  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is committed to Him.

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