A good reminder of God's Love. Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at the church, the Pastor and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts. This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside, aswell as pouring down rain.
The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, "OK, dad, I'm ready."His Pastor dad asked, "Ready for what?""Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out." Dad responds,"Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring down rain." The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, "But Dad, aren't people still going to Hell, even though it's raining?"Dad answers, "Son, I am not going out in this weather."
Despondently, the boy asks, "Dad, can I go? Please?"His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful son." "Thanks Dad!"And with that, he was off and out into the rain. His eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.
After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wetand down to his VERY LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were totally deserted. Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered. He rang it again and again, but still no one answered.
He waited but still no answer. Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to leave, but somethingstopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him thereon the front porch! He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady.
She softly asked, "What can I do for you, son?" With radiant eyes and a smile thatlit up her world, this little boy said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbedyou, but I just want to tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS and His great LOVE.
"With that, he handed her his last tract and turned to leave. She called to him as he departed. "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!" Well, the following Sunday morning in church Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, "Does anybody have any testimonyor want to say anything?"
Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly lady stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from herface, "No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that Icame to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live.
So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, thenstood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about toleap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairsstartled me. I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away." I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly.
I thought to myself again, "Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me." I loosened the rope frommy neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder.When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life.
His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you! The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had longbeen dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice,"Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU."
Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my hand.As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more. You see---I am now a Happy Child of the KING.
Since the address of your church was on the back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here topersonally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell."There was not a dry eye in the church. And as shouts of praise and honorto THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated.
He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son...Except for One.
Our Father also allowed His Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He received His Son back with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named. Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.
Remember, God's message CAN make the difference in the life of someone close to you.
"Faith is the affirmation and the act that bids eternal truth be present fact."
Just 3 Words
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back -
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back -
1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity
Three things in life that can destroy a person -
1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness
Three things in life that you should never lose-
1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness
Three things in life that are never certain -
1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams
Three things that make a person -
1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work
Three things that are truly constant -
Father
Son
Holy Spirit
In conjunction with that, two weeks ago we had Ps. Joakim from Sweden to come over to city harvest and he talked a lot about how we being young as we are, can MAKE a difference in our schools , colleges, unis, or workplace. He gave many testimonies of young people changing other people's lives by just being living examples of Christ.
3 Basic Things i learnt were:
we as the temple of God:
1. The temple of God is visible
2. The temple of God is holy
3. The temple of God is prayerful
God has called us to be the salt and light of the world and YEAH that's what we should be, bringing flavour into people's lives that has the sweetness of God.
Be a visible Christian, be bold in proclaiming your faith!
Be holy for God is holy!
Be prayerful for God hear's the prayers of a righteous person!
To sum it up here's one testimony that touched my heart when Ps. Joakim shared with us.
New Generation Youth has established lots of their members in CFs around Swedish schools. One of them (4got which one) had a fairly small group of young people from NGY who were on fire for God and were prayerful. Valentine's Day was coming up so they decided to do something that could be meaningful to all the students in their school
So, they came up with this idea that they would personally cut out heart shaped cards and write a personal message to over a 1500 students (i think not so sure exact figure, roughly there). So they began their daunting task with faith and courage. And so they completed it just in time for 14th Feb.
On that day, they stuck all the hearts on every locker in the school. Each one was different though a few were similiar examples like,"Have a nice day!", "Smile!" and all those positive greetings.
Then there was this girl that only after two weeks that this project was done, she emailed the director of the NGY group and wanted to express her thanks to them. (This sharing soon became the testimony).
Apparently on that day, 14th Feb, she wanted to commit suicide. For months she had prepared to take her own life by overdose and that particular day she intended to go to school for one very last time and look around one last time. As she was walking to school, not a prayer, she however uttered to herself that if somehow by any chance that she was to be given a sign that her life had significance, she would spare her life, according to Ps.Joakim.
So, as she walked to school, she went to her locker to clear her stuff, she noticed that every locker had these heart shaped thingys with, "Good morning!", "Smile" and all that. Wondering what were they about, she turned to her locker to discover that she had one too and when she saw what was written she was astonished. It wrote,
"Your LIFE has a meaning"
She paused for a moment and kept on staring at the heart cutout card, she went back home and threw away all the stuff she intended to use to kill herself with. After informing the director of NGY group, weeks later she gave her life to Jesus Christ! Amen! Ps.Joakim was informed of the testimony and when he asked the director about the project, the director said that:
out of 1500+ cards we wrote personally, ONLY ONE had "your life has a meaning" and it ended on that girl's locker.
the odds of that happening...only God could be at work. Hallelujah!
So, every1 of us is capable of doing something great for God, we just gotta have faith and obey Him totally. No matter how insignificant you think you are, God has BIGGER plans for YOU.
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future"
Galadriel, LOTR
