Post by Jesse Morrell on Apr 5, 2006 17:42:46 GMT -5
Cook Communications has teamed up with Teen Mania Ministries to publish a teen devotional magazine. One of my articles, "A Plague to Worldiness" is featured in their most recent magazine.
Teen Mania Ministries is a great ministry that is having events called "The Battle Cry" all over the States. They are calling Americas Christians youth to take a strong stance against sin.
They have had entire cities oppose them. The city of San Fransisco opposed their event has "Hate Speech" because they stand against homosexuality. Their events are being protested but they keep marching on. It's a wonderful ministry.
The article that they recently published is this one:
A Plague to Worldliness
Ac 24:5 - "For we have found this man a plague"
Our prayer ought to be "Oh God make me a plague!" We ought to desire to be plagues to the darkness as the Apostle Paul was in his day. Everywhere Paul went the fire for God would spread, passion for God would spread, the truth of God would spread, hatred for sin would spread, and the cleansing blood of Christ would spread! This man was a plague! Can that be said of us the way we are currently living? May the Kingdom of God spread through us so rapidly and so widely that it will completely baffle and befuddle the powers and principalities of the air, that the devil won't know what to do to stop it.
Yes God make us all plagues to the system of the world! But of course if we are going to be plagues we will have the multitudes come against us to stop us from affecting, or should I say infecting others. The call of Christ is a call of complete abdication, a total abnegation of self-preservation and self-service. The Great Commission requires reckless abandonment and ruthless self-denial. There is no other way to see the purposes of God fulfilled here on earth. You will be thought of badly; they will think and say of you "there is something wrong with him" and will distance themselves from you. Others will attempt to cure you. Paul had every "cure" tested on him that the devil knew of. This man, this plague, was starved, beaten, stoned, shipwrecked, impoverished, abandoned, until finally execution was the only way to stop him from spreading the message of the new-birth. BUT HE WAS A PLAGUE! Glory to GOD!
Paul reached Jews, he reached Italians, he reached Asians, he reached Greeks, he reached Romans, he reached the high class, he reached the low class, and he reached the world for the Lord Jesus Christ! Even today millions are being inspired by the dedication and self-sacrificing of this man who gave all that he had to the furthering and establishing of the Kingdom of God. Oh Lord, make us plagues!!
Teen Mania Ministries is a great ministry that is having events called "The Battle Cry" all over the States. They are calling Americas Christians youth to take a strong stance against sin.
They have had entire cities oppose them. The city of San Fransisco opposed their event has "Hate Speech" because they stand against homosexuality. Their events are being protested but they keep marching on. It's a wonderful ministry.
The article that they recently published is this one:
A Plague to Worldliness
Ac 24:5 - "For we have found this man a plague"
Our prayer ought to be "Oh God make me a plague!" We ought to desire to be plagues to the darkness as the Apostle Paul was in his day. Everywhere Paul went the fire for God would spread, passion for God would spread, the truth of God would spread, hatred for sin would spread, and the cleansing blood of Christ would spread! This man was a plague! Can that be said of us the way we are currently living? May the Kingdom of God spread through us so rapidly and so widely that it will completely baffle and befuddle the powers and principalities of the air, that the devil won't know what to do to stop it.
Yes God make us all plagues to the system of the world! But of course if we are going to be plagues we will have the multitudes come against us to stop us from affecting, or should I say infecting others. The call of Christ is a call of complete abdication, a total abnegation of self-preservation and self-service. The Great Commission requires reckless abandonment and ruthless self-denial. There is no other way to see the purposes of God fulfilled here on earth. You will be thought of badly; they will think and say of you "there is something wrong with him" and will distance themselves from you. Others will attempt to cure you. Paul had every "cure" tested on him that the devil knew of. This man, this plague, was starved, beaten, stoned, shipwrecked, impoverished, abandoned, until finally execution was the only way to stop him from spreading the message of the new-birth. BUT HE WAS A PLAGUE! Glory to GOD!
Paul reached Jews, he reached Italians, he reached Asians, he reached Greeks, he reached Romans, he reached the high class, he reached the low class, and he reached the world for the Lord Jesus Christ! Even today millions are being inspired by the dedication and self-sacrificing of this man who gave all that he had to the furthering and establishing of the Kingdom of God. Oh Lord, make us plagues!!