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Dear Visitor, I’m Thankful! I am always thankful to God for what the gift of His grace in Jesus Christ has meant to you—how, as the Christian message has become established among you. He has enriched your whole lives, from the words on your lips to the understanding in your hearts. And you have been eager to receive His gifts during this time of waiting for His final appearance. He will keep you steadfast in the faith to the end, so that when His Day comes you need fear no condemnation. God is utterly dependable, and it is He Who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord. Take On The Simple-Mindedness Of God. Consider, what have the philosopher, the writer and the critic of this world to show for all their wisdom? Has not God made the wisdom of this world look foolish? For it was after the world in its wisdom had failed to know God, that He in His Wisdom chose to save all who would believe by the “simple-mindedness” of the Gospel message. God’s values are not the same as Mans. For look at your own calling as Christians and ministers of this Gospel, you don’t see among you many of the wise, nor many of the ruling class, nor many from the noblest families. But God has chosen what the world calls foolish to shame the wise; He has chosen what the world calls weak to shame the strong. He has chosen things of little strength and small repute, and even things which have no real existence to explode the pretensions of the things that are—that no man may boast in the presence of God. Glory In The Lord! Yet from this same God you have received your standing in Jesus Christ, and He has become for us the true Wisdom, a matter, in practice, of being made righteous and holy, in fact, of being redeemed. And this makes us see the truth of the Scripture: “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” Walk In God’s Wisdom! It is these things that I talk about inspired by the writings of Apostle Paul in his first letter to the young church in Corinth, not using the expressions of the human intellect but those which the Holy Spirit teaches me, explaining spiritual things to those who are spiritual though insight may baffle the man of the world; Who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him except a sharing of God’s wisdom. The unspiritual man simply cannot accept the matters for, after all, you must be spiritual to see spiritual things. Work On God’s Foundation! In this walk, we work with God, and that means that you are a field under God’s cultivation, or, if you like a book preparing to go to print for His Plan. I, like an author who knows her job, by the grace God has given me, write the book; someone else builds upon it. I only say this, let the builder be careful how he begin to build on the work of Christ! The Foundation is laid already, AND NO ONE CAN LAY ANOTHER, FOR IT IS JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF. But any man who builds on the Foundation using as his material gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay or stubble, must know that each man’s work will one day be shown for what it is. Get Up…And Go Preach…The Gospel of Christ! Do you remember how, on a racing-track, every competitor runs, but only one wins the prize? Well, you ought to run with your minds fixed on winning the prize! Every competitor in athletic events goes into serious training. Athletes will take tremendous pains—for a fading crown of leaves. But our contest is for an eternal crown that will never fade. I run the race with determination. I am no shadow boxer, and you don’t have to settle for being nobody else’s shadow! I am my body’s sternest master, for fear that when I have preached to others I should myself be disqualified. A Reminder. I want to remind you about our ancestors. They all had the experience of being guided by the cloud in the desert and of crossing the sea dry-shod. They were all, so to speak, “baptized” into Moses by these experiences. They all shared the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink (for they drank from the Spiritual Rock which followed them, and that Rock was Christ). Yet in spite of all these wonderful experiences many of them failed to please God, and left their bones in the desert. Now in these events our ancestors stand as examples to us, warning us not to crave after evil things as they did. Nor are you to worship false gods as they did. The Scripture say—“The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” You Must Be Certain About Your Calling Into Christ Gospel! Neither should we give way to sexual immortality as did some of them, for we read that twenty-three thousand fell in a single day! Nor should we dare to exploit the goodness of God as some of them did, and fell victims to poisonous snakes. Nor yet must you curse the lot that God has appointed to you as they did, and met their end at the hand of the Angel of Death. These things that happened to our ancestors are illustrations of the way in which God works, and they were written down to be a warning to us who stand today so near to the end of the world. So, let the man or woman of God who feels sure of his standing today be careful that he or she do not fall tomorrow. Come Now, Let’s Break Bread! Come to the well of water flowing with milk and honey and surely the Lord will give the thirsty plenty to drink and the hungry plenty to eat. Be not weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap. Put on your breast plate of righteousness and the whole armour of God, draw your sword and get ready to put the devil behind you and step into your future this April 2010 at the Broken Hearts In Ministry Affair Griffin, Georgia! Sincerely, Resa Mitchell |
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