Pray for Missionaries

"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field" (Matthew 9: 37a-38).
Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I pray all of you are doing well. I am currently thinking about more reading projects at the moment. In the mean time, I've been thinking alot about missions around the world. The Youth Minister at my home church takes the youth group to Mexico to help build a church building for one of the congregations there. My brother and both of my sisters have been on that trip and they all loved it! Infact all the teens I've talked with who went on the trip absolutely loved it! I'm so glad our youth ministry still goes there every summer. I know of a lot more mission activities that are conducted all around Mexico. There is a couple my church supports in Durango. There are Sunset graduates who are planting churches all over Mexico City (and the surrounding area), Leon, Guadalajara, Toluca, and else where.
Sunset as been sending lots of missionary teams and preachers all over the Northwest US and Northeast US for some time now. The Northeast, I believe, is the most populated area of this country right now.
The Continent (spelling error?) of Asia is possibly the one of the most populated Continents of the world. I think Asia has 60% of the world's population.
These and many more areas of our world need missionaries brethern! We need to do something about it. Who's going to go to these places to expand the Kingdom of Heaven's borders?
I want to do something about it. That's why I going to attend Sunset International Bible Institute in 2008 to be trained to take the Gospel Message to the Northeast or another part of the world where there are few if any churches. Let's pray for more and more workers for the Lord's harvest field.
Be blessed!
Zack
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord, therefore, to send out more workers into His harvest field" (Matthew (9: 37a-38).
Ps. In fact there are alot of our already established churches that are losing members. So, we need to pray for workers to work with established churches too. And we don't have a lot young people who are majoring in Bible or related fields. Nor do we have very many students at our preaching schools. God bless us as we strive in these endeavors!

Seeing The Unseen ch. 22

Hello, hello, hello everyone! I hope and pray everyone is doing well. I just finished reading Seeing The Unseen. The last chapter (tweenty-two) is on How Does Faith Give The Victory(?). Faith is defined perfectly by Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". And verse 6 says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him". I love this statement Beam makes, " Faith believes that God keeps His word, rewarding those who are His". We get faith by reading God's Word and believing it. As Romans 10:17 says, "Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the Word of Christ". We can have faith in the future. As Paul told the Corinthian Christians in 2 Corinthians 4:16 and following that we don't lose heart though our bodies waste away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. Faith also overcomes temptation. We must continually believe Jesus will help us beat temptation. We need to have faith to go on. And lastly we must have faith to die. No matter what we've done in our lives, if we gave our lives to Him we don't have to fear death. We belong to Him. What can we fear? Absolutely nothing! Praise God for that!
God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday! Peace.
Zack

Seeing The Unseen chs. 20 &21

Yo, yo, and hello! How's everyone doing today? I hope all is well. My grandmother is doing well. Her surgery went well and hopfully she'll be able to go home today.Thank you all for praying for her. Please pray she'll make a speedy recovery.
Now, let's talk about Seeing The Unseen. Are Good Angles Active In My Life (?) is the topic of chapter tweenty. Angels minister to us as Christians. The angel walking Peter out of the prison in Acts 12 is a good example of that, and a host of others in the Bible. God uses His angels to carry messages from Him to man. Another good example is when the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would carry, give birth to, and raise Jesus in Luke 1. God also uses angels to arrange blessings for humans. God answers our prayers. But sometimes we don't pray in faith. Sometimes our requests are outside His plan. Sometimes the answer is more important to us than He is. God uses angels to deliver us from harm.
The last chapter in the book is chapter twenty-one which talks about How Do God's People - Living And Dead- Help Us(?). We need to be there for eachother. Christianity is meant for community. We need to love eachother, care for eachother, and help eachother. That's what Christians do when they are in community together. Here are some ways the living help eachother. Our prayers affect eachother. In 2nd Corinthians 1:8-11 Paul talks about being in Asia and that he and his companions "... were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life ...". He goes on to say God got them through it to show them not to trust in themselves but in Him. And than he says "Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many". God saved them because people prayed for them and because they learned to trust in Him and not themselves. Also, our honesty brings healing. In James 5: 13-16 we read, "Is any of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefor confess your sins to eachother and pray for eachother so that you may be healed. The prayer of a rightous man is powerful and effective". We must confess our sins to eachother so that we can pray for eachother. To do that, we must trust the open doors to confession. We need to pledge to eachother that we won't tell anyone else what is said between the two. We must learn that confrontation of sin prevents defeat. Now, let's look at how the dead help us. They help us by standing with us. They comfort us. There is power in a large group.
Tomorrow we'll look at the last chapter in this book which talks about how faith gives the victory. Should be good. More on that tomorrow. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 19

Greetings one and all! I pray all is well with all of you today. I am prepared to talk about chapter nineteen in Seeing The Unseen. It discusses the question Why Does The Holy Spirit Live In Me(?). To answer that we need to have a proper perspective. We need to know that He lives in us. We need to know He leads us. We need to learn how to hear Him speak to us. There are six steps to do this. First of all, we need to love the Law of God. Second thing is obey it with rejoicing. Thirdly, hide it in your heart. Fourthly, understand what it means. Fiveth thing is to meditate on the Word and ways of God. And the sixth step is to reach a level of wisdom and deep understanding. We need to know that He represents us. We need to know that He strengthens us. We must not lose Him. And lastly we need to pray for the Spirit.
More tomorrow.
As always, please remember to pray for the AIMers, and my friends who are preparing for their mission fields in New Zealand (Elijah and Kristan Peters and their team) and Russia (Rob and Denyce Hindman and their team). And lastly please pray for my grandmother. She's going to have an operation tomorrow morning. Thank you all so much for praying! God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday! Until tomorrow...
Zack

Seeing The Unseen: Ch. 18

Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I hope all is well with all of you. I am now prepared to talk about How Does The Cross Defeat Satan (?) the next chapter in Seeing The Unseen. First we seen the purpose of the cross. Then we see God's limitations. Jesus suffered seperation in our place. We're saved by the blood of Christ. His death becomes our death. Jesus' crowning victory is in His resurrection. In it He made a public spectacle of Satan's forces.
All of that reminds me of a Steven Curtis Chapmen song, "It's my turn now". Great song!
"It's my turn now! It's my turn to give my life away"!
The Mavs won again tonight over the New York Knicks. Yeah! Go Mavs!
One of Final Four teams got beat over the weekend, the Texas Longhorns. Now I imagine this might be the first year all the top seeds make it to the Final Four. That would be cool. We'll see.
We'll see if Kevin Durant (Freshman forward for Texas) will go to the NBA or stay in school. The dude is an unbelievable player! Holy cow! He's amazing! The same with Greg Oden from Ohio State. He's a great and amazing player this year! He's a defensive force in the middle. Very intimadating if you go against him. We shall see.
More on Seeing the Unseen tomorrow. Please remember to pray for the AIMers and my friends going to New Zealand and Russia. More on that tomorrow as well. Until then, God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 17

Well howdy, howdy everybody! I hope and pray all is well with everyone today. I am prepared now to write about Why Does God Let Satan Hurt Us (?). This is the topic of coversation for chapter seventeen. Without a doubt (spelling error?) God's ways are way beyond our understanding. But, as the saying goes, Father knows best. Certainly one of the reasons why God let's the devil hurt us to make our salvation more precious than gold. We are put through the fire (so to speak) to burn away the impurities. The impurities are burned away until the goldsmith can see his reflection. That has great meaning for Christians, because God tests us like that until He can see the reflection of His Son, Jesus in us. Also, while we're in the fire we become malleable, formable to be shaped the way He wants us to be. It also increases our strength. It imparts value. And lastly, it makes us a valuable example.
This chapter starts off the last section of the book: Forces At Work For Us.
Tomorrow we'll look at chapter eighteen: How Does The Cross Defeat Satan?
Lastly, I'm sure many of you saw a few typing errors I've made in previous posts in this blog. I greatly apologize for all of them and will correct them in the next day or two.
God bless you all in Jesus' name today, and everyday!
Zack
ps. Katie and her group flew back from the Twin Cities back to Dallas and loaded her boyfriend's car up and drove from the DFW airport back to Lubbock. Thank you all very much for praying for them. I hope and pray their good works there will greatly inhance the body of Christ there in the Twin Cities area. Please keep praying for missionaries around the world and that the Lord of the Harvest will raise up more workers still for there is much more work that needs to be done. Thank you all again and God bless!

Seeing The Unseen ch. 16

Greetings everyone! I hope and pray all is well with you today. I am now prepared to talk about How Does Satan Use Families Against Themselves(?) . That is the topic of chapter sixteen in Seeing The Unseen. The family is at the fabric of everything in our lives. Family means everything to so many of us. The devil has wrecked alot of havoc in alot of lives by tearing at the fabric of the family. Divorce will rip families apart. Religious differences can be a barier (spelling error?) in many families. If there's a family that has had no exposure to religione before, and one family member becomes a Christian, and that one member starts talking about his knew found faith in Christ, and the other family members ridicule him for it, that can really put him down. On the other hand though, one family member can turn the rest of the family around and bring many others in the family to Christ. No dought family can either be a great encouragement, or a great discouragement. Family can lift you up or tear you down. Family can influence for good or ill.
That's the end of the third section: Forces At Work Within Us. Tomorrow we'll start the forth section: Forces At Work For Us. We'll begin that section by talking about Why Does God Let Satan Hurt Us(?) and How Does The Cross Defeat Satan (?). Those are chapters seventeen and eighteen respectively.
Well, today starts the NCAA Tournament. For 2 or 3 and a half weeks there will be college basketball. I think the Kansas Jayhawks will go all the way and win it all. My final four is Kansas, Texas, Ohio State, and Florida. Winthrop is my sleeper. What about y'all? Who's in your final four? National Champ? Sleeper team? Comments please. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen chs 14 & 15

Well hello there everyone! I hope this finds all of you well. I have just looked over chapters fourteen and fifteen in Seeing The Unseen. Chapter fourteen talks about how Satan uses pain to hurt us and chapter fifteen talks about how Satan uses religion to hurt us. The devil uses pain to make us angry at God and at the world in general. We get so angry that we just shut ourselves down to everyone including (and sometimes especially to) God. We loose faith and Satan has us right were he wants us.
In chapter fifteen we see how the devil uses religion to hurt us. Sometimes Christians can be brutel. We think we're just being "honest" when we tell something to someone that's just down right mean and turns the person off from Christianity. It's sad when that happens, but it happens more times than perhaps many of us would like to admit. It's sad but ture. I've seen it too many times.
Tomorrow we'll read and write about chapter sixteen and how Satan uses families against themselves.
I was looking at a friend's myspace website and saw a website for her's and her husband's mission team. It is imaginenewzealand.com I think. If that's not correct, please email me and I'll get the correct website. The friends of mine are Elijah and Kristan Peters. They are on a team of four families preparing to go to Auckland, New Zealand. I think they prepare to go there sometime this summer. Please pray for them that they'll find the support they'll need to go there and to stay there for the amount of time they've dedicated to this church-planting mission. Also, please be praying for Rob and Denyce Hindman and their team as they all prepare themselves to go to Moscow, Russia. Pray for the AIM students around the world right now and those that are still in Lubbock preparing to go on their mission fields. And lastly pray for my sister Katie and those she's with this week as they are in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota on a mission trip. Thanks everyone! God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack
"... The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field" Matthew 9:37-38

Seeing The Unseen chs 12 & 13

Greetings one and all! I hope you all have had a great day. I have looked over chapters twelve and thirteen in the book Seeing The Unseen.
Chapter twelve is called Why Do Christians Sin(?) and chapter thirteen is How Can Pleasure Be Bad(?). Chapter twelve talks about what and how Satan tricks us into working his evil plans. Chapter thirteen tells storys of how he's done those things in our world today. Tomorrow we'll read and tell about how Satan uses pain and religion.
Have any of you listened to Chris Tomlin? He's another great worship leader and song writer! His favorite song of his is How Great is Our God.
How great is our God!
Sing with me, how great is our God!
All will sing how great, how great is our God!
Powerful song! I love it!
What are your thoughts? God bless you all in Jesus name today and everyday!
Zack
Let us all pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out more workers into His harvest fields.

Catching Up :)

Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I must apologize for not blogging in the past few days. It was a crazy weekend, but that's no excuse. I have now finished chapter ten (How Do Christians Overcome The Demonic Today?) and chapter eleven ( Why Do Christians Sin?) in Seeing The Unseen.
Chapter ten talks about those who don't believe that demons are active today. They very much are actively involved in peoples's lives today. They certainly show themselves in African nations today, but they don't show themselves like that in the US. We must always be praying and be people of prayer to defeat the demonic powers in this world today.
Chapter eleven talks about how the devil destroys us. He destroys us by using other people and nature. He uses people who have great influence in our lives to negatively affect us. That ends the second section Forces At Work Against Us. Tomorrow we'll start the third section of the book Forces At Work Within Us. I'll read chapters twelve and thirteen and blog about them.
Until then, God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack

Blessed Be Your Name!

Greetings one and all! I'm very sorry, but I haven't finished the next chapter in Seeing the Unseen yet. So I'll do double tomorrow. I've been thinking about something to blog about.
I love Matt Redman! He's written a lot of praise and worship songs that we sing at church and hear on the radio. My favorite song of his is Blessed Be Your Name.
Every blessing You pour out I
Turn back to praise!
When the darkness pours out then, Lord
Still I will praise!
Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
Blessed be Your Name!
Blessed be Your glorious Name!
You give and take away!
You give and take away!
Still my heart will choose to say,
"Lord, blessed be Your Name"!
You give and take away.
You give and take away!
Still my heart will choose to say,
"Lord, blessed be Your glorious Name"!
Powerful! It gives me chills. Love it!
What are some of your favorite worship songs? Old or new.
I've got so many it's not even funny. I love them all. Old and new.
Please keep my sister Katie and boyfriend Jacob and their group as they fly tomorrow to the Twin Cities in Minnesota for a Spring Break mission trip. Today they drove in from Lubbock to stay with my parents and I. Tomorrow they're going to the DFW airport to fly to the Twin Cities. Should real exciting for them. Please pray they're all safe in flying there, safe while they're there, and safe flying back. Then they'll drive from Dallas back to school next week.
Thanks y'all! God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday.
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 9

Greetings one and all! I pray this day has been a good one for all of you.
Today we'll discuss Can Demons Still Possess People?. This is chapter nine in Seeing The Unseen. Demons are still here. They never left the scene after the New Testament was completed. They can't possess Christians. As long as we are following Christ, His Holy Spirit indwells us and demons can't possess someone who is Spirit-indwelled. As long we remember we died with Christ in baptism (Romans 6:3-4) then we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us. But we can be demonized. This is when a demon "assumes a position of extreme influence and inordinate power over the person's decisions and actions". In Ephesians 4:27 we read, "do not give the devil a foothold". Demons can still tempt us and take us off guard. When we're taken off guard we give the devil "a foothold" and he by-passes our defenses and we fall into sin. We will seem to have "inordinate control". We'll seem "irresistably compelled and helpless even when he or she isn't". But there is help for the demonized. We need God's overwhelming power to deliver us from this.
That is all for today. Tomorrow we'll look at How Do Christias Overcome The Demonic?
God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 8

Hello there everybody! I hope and pray all of you had a great day today.
I have read What Are Demons ? which is chapter eight in Seeing The Unseen. Mr Beam says that demons are the souls of the dead. That seems to be what the writers of the Bible all say about them. Read scriptures like Deuteronomy 18:9-13; Isaiah 8:19; and Psalm 106:28, and 37 in the Old Testament. And Luke 8:28, 30-31; Matthew 17: 15-18; 1 Corinthians 8: 3-6, and 10:1622 for example. Demons are really idols, false gods. Our God is real. We need to be careful in our present day not to engage in demonic activities.
Please get this book and read it. Seeing The Unseen is really good. Very scary (spelling error?), but very good!
Please be in prayer for missionaries around the world. And for the Lord of the Harvest to send out more workers for His harvest fields around the world! Thank you all! God bless all of you in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 7

Well howdy everybody! I hope everyone is having a great day today.
I just finished reading about What Do Satan's Angels Do ?. That is the seventh chapter in Seeing The Unseen. The children of God are not immune to the devil nor his angels. A good reading of the entire Bible will wake you up to that. Satan's angels killed God's people in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Not only did they kill during the Bible days, they can harm and kill you and me too.
In the book of Job, Satan caused the Chaldeans to take his livestock and kill his servants (1:17). The devil also caused Job to get sick with blisters (2:7). And also Satan caused Job's wife and friends to turn on him too. Satan can harm us useing bad people to harm us. He can use good people to bring us down. He can make us ill. He can use nature. He can destroy our possessions, and lastly he can kill us or those we love.
He can do all of this without miracles. He can manipulate and seduse us. Bad angels will do bad things to us. They have power, dominion, and authority. All of this is very sobering. Tomorrow we'll look at What Are Demons?.
Please be praying for the AIMers on their mission fields and those in Lubbock preparing for their mission fields. Pray for those from Sunset who are also preparing for mission fields. And lastly please pray for the Lord to send out more and more workers for the harvest fields. More on all of this tomorrow too.
Thank you all for reading today. God bless you all in Jesus' name today and always!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 6

Yo, yo, and hello everyone! I hope everyone had a great weekend and experienced great worship on Sunday. I am ready to talk about What Power Does Satan Have (?) which is the sixth chapter in Seeing The Unseen. The devil obviously has a lot of power. He can either possess us or seduce us. He incited David to take a numbered census in 1 Chronicles 21:1. Satan kept a woman bound for eighteen years in Luke 13:16 and a host of other things. There is no question about it, Satan "has tremendous influence on any person he is manipulating". We can never dought the devil's power. But, "God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it" (1 Corinthians 10:13). Satan isn't God. We dare not slander him. He must not look now, because he is after you, and he is after me too. Second Peter 2 and Jude 1 talk about the devil and false teachers alot. We would do well to study them and their relationship to what is going on in our world so we can combate (spelling error?) it more completely.
Tomorrow we'll look at the next chapter which talks about What Do Satan's Angles Do?.
I guess that is all for today. God bless you all in Jesus' name today and everyday!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 5

Greetings one and all! I hope and pray everyone had a great Sunday Morning of Worship to God!
I have read the fifth chapter in Seeing The Unseen. It discusses the question Where Did Satan Come From And Where Is He Now?. Ezekiel 28:12-17 gives a vivide discription of what appears to be the devil. It tells of his rise and fall, perhaps in the Garden of Eden. Mr Beam seems to think that the devil was the guardian of the Garden when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and thus when the devil fell too. I don't know if I agree with this or not. But in any rate Satan rules the world. He also rules the air. He is powerful, but Jesus still rules over all. That is important for us to remember. No matter what evil occurs on this earth God still reigns! We must never forget that! Our God reigns!
I was reading the report in the Christian Chronicle about population and church membership increases and decreases from 1980 through now (2006). There are a number of States that have rapidly increased in both of those (Florida and Georgia for example). There are those who decreased in both of those (like West Virgina). Then there are those who have increased in population and decreased in church membership (Tennesse and Arkansas). As many of you know by now, I am hoping and praying to attend SIBI in 2008. After that I would like to start a church planting mission team, join an already existing team, or join a church staff in an area where church membership has been faltering. Perhaps even join a church staff in an area where the population has greatly increased, but church membership hasn't gone up much (ie. Texas or Arizona for example).
I guess that's all for now. I'll write about the next chapter in Seeing The Unseen tomorrow. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 4

Hello, hello, hello everyone! I pray this finds you all doing well.
Chapter four is the start of a new section of Seeing The Unseen. And that is Forces At Work Against Us. Chapter four discusses Is There Really A Devil?. If we claim to believe in God and believe His Word, the Bible, then we must also believe there is a devil. I imagine there are quite a few of us who don't believe there is a devil. If this is true, the whoever doesn't believe the devil is real is simply naive and vulnerable. If we are completely unaware, then we are prime for the picking for him. We must always be aware of the devil and his wickedness because, ... For we are not unaware of his schemes" as Paul said very well in 2 Corinthians 2:11. So, yes the devil is very much real. If we don't recognize the devil's existance (spelling error?), when we set ourselves up a number of potential pit falls. If we don't know the devil is real how do we address whose to blame? And, "It's Not My Fault. Or, "Everything's My Fault. But if we keep in mind the devil is real we bring balance to our lives and "balance of blame". So, let's remember God is in control, the devil is real, but the devil is no equal of God's. Our great God is ALWAYS in control even of the devil. Praise God for that! God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Your thoughts please.
Ps. I love this time of year. March Madness is in full swing right now. NCAA confrence tournaments are going on as we speak. Soon the NCAA Tournament will kick off. Oh, I love March!
God bless!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 4

Hello, hello, hello everyone! I pray this finds you all doing well.
Chapter four is the start of a new section of Seeing The Unseen. And that is Forces At Work Against Us. Chapter four discusses Is There Really A Devil?. If we claim to believe in God and believe His Word, the Bible, then we must also believe there is a devil. I imagine there are quite a few of us who don't believe there is a devil. If this is true, the whoever doesn't believe the devil is real is simply naive and vulnerable. If we are completely unaware, then we are prime for the picking for him. We must always be aware of the devil and his wickedness because, ... For we are not unaware of his schemes" as Paul said very well in 2 Corinthians 2:11. So, yes the devil is very much real. If we don't recognize the devil's existance (spelling error?), when we set ourselves up a number of potential pit falls. If we don't know the devil is real how do we address whose to blame? And, "It's Not My Fault. Or, "Everything's My Fault. But if we keep in mind the devil is real we bring balance to our lives and "balance of blame". So, let's remember God is in control, the devil is real, but the devil is no equal of God's. Our great God is ALWAYS in control even of the devil. Praise God for that! God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Your thoughts please.
Ps. I love this time of year. March Madness is in full swing right now. NCAA confrence tournaments are going on as we speak. Soon the NCAA Tournament will kick off. Oh, I love March!
God bless!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 3

Greetings one and all! I hope and pray all is well! My parents are recovering from their trip very well. Hopfully they'll get back to normal shortly.
I finished reading chapter three in Seeing The Unseen. It discusses the question, What Are Angles? They are in deed among us though we won't know it until we get to haeven. Hebrews 13:2 says, "Do not forget to entertain strangers for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it". But angels aren't like people and their even more not like God. They can take on many different forms. But now matter what, everyone will see an angel when we die. Angels will carry us to our enternal destinations wheater good or bad.
Tomorrow starts the second section of the book which is Forces At Work Against Us and chapter four: Is The Devil Really Against Us?.
Have a great day everyone! God bless you all in Jesus' name today and every day!
Zack

Seeing The Unseen ch. 2

Hello hello one and all! I hope and pray all is well out there. My parents and Jim Corner made it home safe and sound yesterday afternoon. Thank you all for praying for them. They all had a great experience in Cameroun.
I read chapter two in Seeing the Unseen today. It covers What is Satan's Master Strategy For Destruction?. Beem says that Satan's master strategy for destruction is lulling us into believing lies and sudcing us into sin. We need to be truth seekers. We need to actively read our Bibles and seeking godly counsel from trusted Christian friends about what's on our hearts and minds. Because, if we don't the devil will surely trick us, and plant something in our hearts, and make us think that it's God that put it there. Second Thessalonians 2:10-11 our scary versus: "They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness". And also Ephesians 4:18-19 unviels the devil's strategy for destroying us. Saten darkens our understanding. When that happens we harden our hearts. Then we lose sensitivity. Then we are immersed in sensuality. And lastly and fatelly, we reach spiritual destruction. It's all a snow-ball effect. If we don't understand something and don't seek God out, then the devil comes in and clouds up our understand even further, and it spirals out of control from there. That is all on Seeing The Unseen for today. More to come tomorrow. This is one scary book. It is certainly one that is very telling though. Please go out and buy it. If you can't find it at a Christian bookstore, look up amazon.com and type in Joe Beam or Seeing The Unseen. Great book. Very thought-provoking.
I recieved the Sunset International Bible Institute alumni magizine in the mail today. I was looking through it and saw a man who graduated some years ago whom I had as a Bible professor at Harding. By his name it says, "training men to train men". That is what SIBI is great at as well as Harding and all of our Christian colleges and schools of preaching. Please pray for those who aspire to preach who are attending SIBI or any and all of our Christian colleges and preaching schools. Thank you! I make it a point to as well. I'm aspiring to attend SIBI in 2008 in the Fall and either be an Outreach minister or be a Missionary in the Northeast US.
It's my pray that this will work out. God bless you all in Jesus' name!
Zack