Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
Jesus liked people who were nothing like Him…and people who were nothing like Him liked Him.
Surrender your worry. God has your future all figured out! Dr. David Jeremiah
Thank you for stopping by here for a CUP on this chilly day in the Desert! for all friends of the CUP in Northern New Mexico like Scott Flurry who said it was 26 below zero yesterday in Dulce, NM and this morning weather reporter Andrea Butera says it’s 34 below in Alamosa, Colorado!
WOW! yesterday in Minneapolis, Minnesota a water pipe was hit and 14 million gallons of water gushed all over downtown!
This is for my Buddy Jerry Cheesehead in Edgewood, NM……….
LOL! LOL! LOL! I’m not that great of a Football fan, however that is just a good one for us all to get a chuckle out of!
Pastor Mark Tross joins me on Saturday at 6pm for Dewey and Friends on KAZQ CH 32. My old radio buddy is with me talking about 2013. Just a reminder you can watch many of our TV programs and listen to our podcasts at www.fggam.org Pastor Bill Ruhl as I have mentioned has an excellent podcast up now about the Love of Giving! Bill is Vice Chairman of FGGAM, we are so thankful to our Lord for his leadership! This week I received a call from a man out of Santa Fe who is praying with his wife about being a monthly sponsor of FGGAM, and he asked about the Board of Directors. When I went through all the names he said, “You have an excellent group of people around you.” AMEN to that! PRAISE GOD! We hear a lot from Northern new Mexico, we received a love offering from a couple in Vadito, NM yesterday! Sharon and I have a special love for Northern New Mexico!
let me show you a picture of yesterday’s TV taping with Pastor Bill Ruhl and our Dear friend Rick Stambaugh…..
Rick is a Vietnam Vet, who we met at the gas station down the road from the house. He is a dog lover and Buffy and Reno have ministered to him in so many ways. Hear the story on the role FGGAM has played in his life and how he and his wife, Sandy. came back to the Kingdom next Saturday on Dewey and Friends.
I am thankful to the Lord for Buffy Anne and Reno. They show the love of the Lord to everybody….they have helped reach others for Him………
As FGGAM goes forth in using all that the Lord has given us to reach others for HIM, I want to share this with you from Bill Bright……..
Two Important Questions
There is no experience in life more exciting and spiritually rewarding than the adventure of fishing for people. As you follow the Lord’s instructions, your net too can be filled – even if you have never introduced anyone to Christ – even if you may be skeptical like Peter. But if you are also obedient like Peter, the Lord Jesus will honor you with the response of many people to your witness.
All over the world, I have asked two questions of millions of Christians – young and old, rich and poor, new Christians and people who have been believers for more than half a century. I have asked these questions of some of the most wealthy and famous Christians in the world. The answers are always the same no matter whom I ask.
- What is the most important experience of your life?
“Knowing Christ as my Savior is absolutely the most important experience in my life,” is the inevitable answer.
- What is the most important thing that you can do to help another person?
Again, the answer is always the same: “Help him to know Christ.”
I am sure that, if you are a Christian, you would give the same answers to these questions. Yet, how sad it is that so few Christians are sharing Christ with others. Obviously something is wrong. If you are typical of the majority of Christians today, you have never introduced anyone to Christ. You would like to do so, however, and you know in your heart that this is what God called you to do. Jesus calls to every believer, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”
When you begin to fill your nets with people whom you introduce to Jesus Christ, you will begin the most exciting, joyful and rewarding adventure life has to offer. Perhaps, like the disciples, you will leave the nets of your present student, business or professional involvements to follow Him in this great adventure of witnessing for our Lord in your Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and to the far countries of the world.
Great words from Bill Bright! AMEN! “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
” Trials rip away the flimsy fabric of self-sufficiency and become the raw material for God’s miracles in our lives.”
“A passion for Christ will enable us to rise above our culture and look unto Jesus.” AW Tozer
Let me share with you a few things before Shari comes in and shares with you…….I am going to try and rest today….I have been going 24/7 and have come down with a bad cold and need to Preach this Sunday at Rock Rio in Rio Rancho. I am feeling better this morning at 4:30am. Sharon and I went out for dinner last night for our Wedding Anniversary! Thank YOU LORD! please pray for healing for me, so I can be of clear mind come Sunday! AMEN!
Mistie Miles a Dear, Dear friend texted me yesterday that her Mother passed away yesterday of cancer. let us pray for the family. I worked with Mistie at KKIM. She is such a Godly women!
Let us pray for RJ who is looking for a job.
Also pray for Charles as He goes out for our Lord………Charles is from Minnesota!
Thank you for responding. God has been taking me to a new level of understanding, a level of GRACE, and kingdom living, the church I was going to has been taken over by one of satans legion, it was that, that brought me to living in grace/kingdom living. i would like to speak to the united state, it's my calling, Evangelism. I am on fire, and I will not STOP doing my fathers will, Pray for me!!!. THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS YOU: EVANGELIST CHARLES FREITAG
I want to thank my Dear, Dear friend Dave at the www.windomnews.com for publishing my recent write up in he Windom paper for Christmas! My hometown is so very special to me! Windom built a foundation underneath me that is still with me to this day, the people of Windom planted many seeds in my life that are bearing fruit to this day. My prayer is that I will plant seeds for our Lord back into Windom and all over for our Lord!
Go to our web site and hear podcasts from Pastor Bill Ruhl, myself and Shari Hardway Johnson! We are so blessed to have Shari with us today!
Psalm 8:1-3
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Somewhat less than one hundred years ago when I started down the road of salvation, in actuality it was 1996, I stood before the congregation of Victory Baptist Church to make my debut. Most had only known me for about 6 months, others had known me from my youth, but they hadn’t known a secret desire in my heart. That night I was about to share it with them from the platform. As I stood there clenching the podium with a white knuckled hand, using the other to clutch a microphone that trembled. I sang for the first time ever to a crowd of approximately one thousand people. Or possibly it was one hundred, but it seemed like one thousand to me. The song I will never forget was “When He Hung the Moon.”
This particular song struck a chord in my heart as a new convert. Forever and always my insecurities had left me feeling unworthy of the goodness of anyone. To think that the Lord, Who was ‘my’ Lord, and (as the song said) “from the beginning of time, I was on His mind, when He hung the moon,” left me in awe. This new found Friend that I had discovered now lived in my soul and not only knew what was behind me, but knew what was before me. He knew that the song that I sang that evening was the first of countless songs to be sung in the coming years to crowds in West Virginia, Ohio and as far as Tarlac City in the Philippine Islands. That was big stuff for this gal. But that’s the God I serve. He uses the least likely to confound the world.
God ordains it all.
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
It doesn’t surprise me that God can do anything, because He’s God, and I believe the Book; but it always surprises me when God does something with me. If you knew me growing up I was a wallpaper kid blending in with the room. A somewhat gifted artist, but again my insecurities would not allow it to shine. I don’t believe the insecurity part was happenstance either. I believe that God allowed that in my life to prevent a God given gift from being wasted on the world. God uses the weak things of this world to prove to us that it’s not about us, it’s about Him. He who controls the heavens, controls the earth as well.
I had that same feeling as my youngest daughter stood before the congregation and sang, “I Refuse to be Afraid.” I was in awe. As a young mother she’s grown closer in the Lord and I can see the ordination of God on her life in the ministry. Nothing just happens to us. It’s all a part of the plan.
So, what’s the plan for your life today? There is one. You are on His mind!