Bishop August Francis's Blog – July 2013 Archive (8)

Being a witness is difficult enough without "feeling" stuff.  Sometimes the martyrdom of living for Jesus is that you can feel the pain when people are going the wrong way.  Sometimes its the feeling of being talked about, ridiculed and accused of things you are not guilty of.  Maybe your hurt is in being misunderstood.…

We want to "do the stuff"!  We want to see the power of the Lord work through our lives!  But, if the power starts working without an understanding of the necessary "how", we could be in deep trouble.

Jesus looks at more than just what we do but, HE looks at the "why".  Our motives are important to HIM, our loyalty and love…

We must get past our "precious" opinions of people, colors, wealth levels, etc., etc.  Jesus did not and does not give space for us to segregate who we minister the Gospel to, we have no selection process.  The Word is clear, "...preach the Gospel to every creature".

It took repeated visions and the voice of the Lord to make…

Jesus spent much time in prayer but still managed to get this done, so well that we are still talking about HIS deeds today.

If HE spent so much time in prayer and got the will of God done, don't we realize that we need to pray to see the Lord move today?  We have not yet realized that we war in the spirit, we war in the…

We deal with the overall subject of "Reach The Lost, At Any Cost".  This has been our Tuesday subject for some time.  Then we added a sub topic of "I Don't Want To Put You Out".  This deals with the way in which the Lord will rearrange our lives to accomplish HIS will.  The changes that HE makes in us are difficult to the flesh nature of man.…

We want to "do the stuff", we want to "get off our blessed assurance!  We want to work the works of God, as some put the question to Jesus.  We need a formula.

Many times we do want to accomplish the will of the Lord, but we move in our own strength.  We want to do the stuff, as John Wimber put it, but this must be…

Being a Christian is inconvenient and the will of the Lord will "put you out".

There are constantly things that the Lord will ask us to do that go against the grain of who we think we are.  When HE told these Jewish persons to go to Samaria, HE knew that he was telling them to lay their normal lives down to go to people who…

"Getting The Church Ready To Get Off Its Blessed Assurance"  We have been speaking about "When Are We Gonna Do The Stuff?"  But we can't do anything, the right way, until we ARE something.  And we can't be anything without a relationship!

Listen to this series and, prayerfully,…