Bittersweet Farm
Message 1. Why Study Prophecy?
Message 2. The Rapture of the Church
Message 3. The Judgement Seat of Christ.
Message 4. Crowns for His Feet
Message 5. Tree Forts and Starlight
Message 6.The Tribulation
Message 7. The Second-Coming of Christ
Message 8. The Millennium
Message 9. The Resurrections and Judgements
Message 10. The Eternal State of the Unbeliever
Message 11. The Eternal State of the Believer
Message 12. More On The New Heavens and the New Earth.
God is continually speaking, continually communicating. One of His names is Word. I believe if we would cultivate the habit of listening, we would have a more intimate and practically exciting walk with the Lord. In this message I start with a remarkable story about God guiding a man on the ALCAN Highway. Enjoy.
On a Sunday night in August I preached to the folk at Evangel about ways to increase and deepen their prayer experience. It was just a series of practical ideas. I hope you find them helpful. I would love to get your feedback.
As the days pass and we move into the season of autumn and then deeper toward harvest I think of the great Day of Harvest to come when we will so long to see fruit from our labor. If we could see the importance of prayer from the perspective of eternity, it would change the way we live and think.
Last month I was out on the porch after the Sunday evening service just listening to the night sounds and thinking about the day. God began to work in my heart in a very powerful way. The next Sunday I aimed my message at what God was showing me. Many who have listened to the message have told me that God was leading them in the same way. I have a very strong sense the God is doing something.
Just a few weeks after this message the War Room movie came out. God is stirring our hearts to pray in a new and fresh way and it is changing our lives and changing Evangel. Here are is the message that many have said was very helpful to them. I’d love to have your feedback on it.
Revelation Series: Message 2
The Time is Near (Rev. 1:1-3)
36 years ago I drove away from a little church in Ypsilanti with this little dark-eyed beauty in my car. That Saturday night we had no way of knowing the blessed life we would have. Four sons. Four daughters. Five grandchildren and counting.
We served churches in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. She has been a faithful ministry companion, her heart true to her Lord. She is a woman of simple and sincere faith. She is truly a God-fearing woman.
She is the most loyal person I know. She is not afraid to tell me what she thinks I need to know, but she will come to my side in an instant if anyone means me harm.
She quietly bore, nurtured, fed, bathed, nursed, clothed, taught, trained, prayed, wept-with, comforted, rebuked, disciplined, each of the children with selfless devotion 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If people didn’t understand or agree it did not phase her or discourage her from fulfilling her duties.
Every Sunday morning of our lives together I drove away from the house alone while it was still dark. When I rose to preach, she would be sitting there with the whole beautiful, scrubbed, well-behaved clan on the second row, baby included giving powerful, silent support to the Gospel I preached. You should have seen them on Easter Sundays.
She worked hard constantly six days a week to earn extra money to pay the bills. She was content with simple things, her tiny diamond, and an occasional trip to Walmart and Burger King. She made the girls clothes. She nursed each baby until the next one came.
She taught me to she her love for Bluegrass and Kentucky. She shares everything. She will never let me go hungry.
That Saturday night thirty-six years ago I had no idea the gift God had bestowed upon me. I just thought I had found a pretty Christian girl to marry.
We married like the forging of two great rivers. We needed all the help we could get. We had to cling to Christ and our convictions, but God has been faithful.
I love her today with a deep and seasoned love you could never have until you fought, prayed, dreamed, argued, sang, journeyed, saved, spent, worked, played, failed, forgave, and started-over with a thousand times. God must have had a tear in the corner of his eye when He gave this girl to me.
How mountain girls can love… Happy Anniversary Lois Pierpont. I love you Lois Gail. I will love you to the last beat of my heart.
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