“SOUP, SOAP, SALVATION!”

Decorative Soap

I have been told  that’s how the founder of the Salvation Army reached the people.

Flowers at Lake Taupo

“If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the LORD.” – Leviticus 18:5

“Isolation is a health hazard … reach out.”

So far as I know “Isolation is a health hazard … reach out,” has never been used as a church sign, but it has been suggested to be used as one.

“LONELINESS”

THERE IS ISOLATION FROM GOD.

Isaiah 59:2 says:

“But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you.”

What can we do? We must confess our sins.

In First John 1:9 it says:

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”

REACH OUT TO GOD!

THERE IS ISOLATION FROM PEOPLE.

There is no reason to be isolated from people.

People who have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ have a church family. There are also coffee shops, libraries, courses for adults and clubs to go to.

Remember also that there is Age Concern.

REACH OUT TO PEOPLE!

People who reach out to God, usually reach out to people and are healthy people. They want to reach out to people and tell them what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for them.

Notes taken from “Deine Zeugnisse – mein ewiges Erbe” by Alfred Christlieb, page 49.

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“Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.” – Spurgeon

There are two kinds of enemies.

There are enemies on the outside and there are enemies on the inside.

MOSES KILLED THE EGYPTIAN  (Exodus 2:12)

But about the enemies in his own heart he did nothing about.

THERE WAS ANGER IN HIS HEART.

Moses must have fallen into a rage and killed the man in a fit of temper. I remember reading that if people are making you angry that means that you are giving them control over you. Moses lost his temper. Is there not a saying that you can lose everything, except your temper?

THERE WAS IMPATIENCE IN HIS HEART.

Not long ago I learned that patience means to remain under the burden. I know that: “Lord, give me patience, but hurry,”  was written on a church sign. We need patience. “Patience, the ability to count down before blasting off.”

THERE WAS AMBITION IN HIS HEART

THERE WAS ARROGANCE AND PRIDE IN HIS HEART

“Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.” – Spurgeon

You must be familiar with the proverb: “Pride comes before the fall.”

Just to mention four of our enemies.

Let us remember:

Enemies on the inside are more dangerous than the enemies on the outside. If Moses would have fought the enemies on the inside he probably would not have killed the Egyptian.

He turned the order of God upside down in killing the man.

AT THE BEACH

To be known and knowing the people in your community is very important for doing business.

That’s what I have been told long ago and I have experienced it myself. A still vivid situation from some time ago popped into my head only today while walking.

You don’t get very far with people who don’t know you. But it is completely different with people you know.

If it is already so important in ordinary life to be known and to know the persons in your town, how much more important is it, when it comes to our spiritual life?

How encouraging it is to remember the promise in the Bible in Second Timothy 2:19, where it says, “‘THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS,'” especially when you deal with people you don’t know and people who don’t know you, and you don’t get anywhere with your requests.

Let us remember that our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ decides our eternal destiny.

THE CROSS

“Consequently,

Ephesians 2:19:20

Intr.:

you are

A.  no longer

a.  foreigners and

b.  aliens,

B.  but

a.  fellow citizens with God’s people and

b.  members of God’s household,

End:

built on the  foundation of the apostles and prophets, …”

THE CROSS

“Thus says the Lord:

Jeremiah 21:8

Intr.:

Behold,  I set before you

A.  the way of life and

B.  the way of death.”

End:

“Fostering relationships with nature,” is the article in the paper called. (Northern Advocate, Friday, February 12, 2016)

Reading that I am wide awake and I am going to tell you why.

BAY OF ISLANDS:

The Collins Concise Dictionary tells me this about nature:

There is the physical life that is controlled by man, and there is the physical life that is not controlled by man. I am learning that the whole system of existence, forces, and events of all physical life that is not controlled by man is called Nature. Plant and animal life is also called Nature.

Yes, I am all for “fostering relationships with nature,” but  I am more for fostering a relationship with the creator of nature.

What does it say in the first book of the Bible at the beginning? There we read, “IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”