I hope you have noticed, and missed me, since I haven’t published much content lately.  I had three generic articles scheduled to be released during the week that I spent time in a foreign country doing mission work for my Church.  

Our group of twelve, including my wife and myself, spent nine powerful and encouraging days reaching out to the locals in that country.  It was my first trip to share the Gospel outside the United States.  I absolutely loved it!  It was 🔥preaching and teaching and seeing the lives that were changed with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Tiring, exhausting, filled with spiritual battles, but so fulfilling.  The great commission in action.  

Working with local churches we had the opportunity to reach out in homes in pre-arranged appointments to personally share our faith.  We faced many obstacles, however we fought and won many victories.  Seeing the faces that on first contact were questioning and even argumentative completely turned joyful and excited as they accepted Jesus Christ as their saviour.  Praying for a young man in his 30’s to receive Christ who had just recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis shook me to the core.  This young man had to be carried into the house by his brother-in-law. He was so weak.  Whether God heals on this side of death or not, his name is written down in the book of life.  His present may be sickness, but his future is heaven! 🙏❤️

Visiting a feeding program for children and teens in an area of intense drug and prostitution was truly heart breaking. 💔 I realized that the only real life these young kids have come from the generosity of strangers who provide food and a place of safety. This program is the hands and feet of Jesus.  Pulling young girls away from the lure prostitution, and boys from the poison of the drug trade is truly Christlike. Seeing these kids and the joy on their faces as we visited…..brought tears to our eyes.

Jesus told us if you do it unto one of the least of these, you are doing it unto me.  I was truly wrecked by what I experienced.  We did nothing but go, it was all the Spirit of Christ.  I will go again. Realizing that nothing in this world is as important as spreading the Gospel, something I knew, but something that in our hurried world I had allowed to falter.  Preaching and teaching to the Churches in the country, was the most relevant and Christ honoring endeavor I have undertaken in quite some time. No cameras or publicity, just Jesus.  Simple child-like faith in the Jesus of the Bible!  Praise God!

We in America are so blessed.  We have been given such grace and mercy from our Lord, and yet are we truly appreciative of that favor?  We need revival and a great awakening in the United States of America.  Our moral compass is broken. Join me in praying for a move of the Holy Spirit on our world.  Time is running out.  Our world seems to be falling apart, but it is really falling into place according to Bible prophecy.  Blessings, Maranatha!