THE MOTIVE FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING IS NOT EVEN TO BE HOLY, IT IS TO PLEASE GOD AND TO GLORIFY HIS NAME.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Category Archives: Be Encouraged
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In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.” – Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone
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No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.” – Oswald J. Smith
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Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfil the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.” – Oswald J. Smith
Russell (Bay of Islands)
By ferry to Russell
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Paihia (Bay of Islands)
A Trip to the Hole in the Rock.
THE JOURNEY BEGINS IN PAIHIA
THE JOURNEY BEGINS IN PAIHIA
THE JOURNEY BEGINS IN PAIHIA
“Had Water Today?”
“Had Water Today?”
“Had Water Today?”
Especially thirsty people appreciate a question like that. They are looking for a place where water is available.
Reading that question people who know what the Bible teaches remember straight away the invitation to the thirsty in the prophet Isaiah, where it says at the beginning of chapter fifty five, “‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters.,”
In the Gospel of John the Lord Jesus Christ invites the thirsty with a loud voice and says,”‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.'” (John 7:37)
Are you thirsty?
One of the Psalmists was really thirsty and he cried out, “As the deer pants for the streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” (Psalm 42:1,2)
Another Psalmist experienced that the LORD “satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.” (Psalm 107:9)
I have experienced that the LORD “satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.”
But I must not forget to answer the question at the beginning, “Had Water today?” Yes, I had my water today, I had a bottle of pump Water.
In the Gospel of John, chapter four, the Lord Jesus Christ is talking with the Samaritan woman and he says:
“‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.'” (John 4:13,14)
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The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ’s witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.” – Leslie Newbegin