LET US NEVER FORGET WE REPRESENT CHRIST TO THE WORLD

SOUL SEARCHING QUESTIONS FROM 

GUEST BLOGGER CAROL ROUND 

“So be very careful how you live. Do not live like people who aren’t wise. Live like people who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity. The days are evil”— Ephesians 5:15-16
Have you ever sat in a public place quietly observing others? Maybe it was at a mall or a park. Maybe it was while waiting at the doctor’s office for your appointment where you found yourself listening to the words of those around you, watching their actions and even judging their appearance. I know I’m guilty.

- However, have you ever thought about the reverse? 

- What if others are watching and listening to you? 

- Would they see Jesus in you if they did? 

- Have you forgotten you represent Jesus Christ in this world?

Read and reflect on the following questions and then answer the previous one (in bold):

         * If someone had observed me throughout the day today, would              they Know I was a Christian without having to ask me?

• * Where is God on my priority list?
• * Am I serious about my faith or is it just a game I play to make myself feel better?
• * Do I act the same way when I’m at church as when I’m with other friends or with my family?
• * Am I willing to make sacrifices in order to grow in my relationship with God?
• * Do I take time every day to consider the love of God, to remember what Jesus has done for me?
• * Am I willing to follow Christ and live out my faith even when it costs me something?
• * Am I willing to put others before myself?

• * Am I quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger?
• * Do I talk to God as much as I talk on my cell phone?
• * Do I know enough about the Bible to have a biblical world view? Or are my opinions formed through many other sources except the Bible?
• * Am I as excited to see someone come to Christ and be baptized as I am seeing my favorite football team score a touchdown?
• * How do I express my love for God in my everyday actions?
• * Do I spend so much time doing everything else that I have no time left for God? No time left for church? No time left to pray?
• * Am I willing to be stretched in my faith?
• * Being completely honest with myself, what change in my life does God want me to make?
• * Am I a more faithful Christian today than I was a year ago?
• * Do I serve others as if I were serving Christ himself?
• * Do I pray “Here am I Lord, use me;” or “Oh God, you’ve got to be kidding. Please find someone else.”
• * Do I fear God and nothing else?
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KEYS TO A GODLY LIFE PART 3/12 - CALL TO RIGHTEOUS LIVING

THE DAWN OF GLORY SERIES:

PLEASE READ THE PASSAGE, THEN - WATCH THE BRIEF EXPOSITION FROM THE PLUMBLINE VIDEO:

1 Peter 1:13-25

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 

20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you 21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word which was preached to you.

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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THINK ON THESE THINGS - FRIDAY

11-11-11

WEEKEND OF PRAYER BEGINS

A CITY ON OUR KNEES

If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land...2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB).


November 11, 2011 is Veterans Day as America celebrates those who wear the uniform as well as past service members. Just yesterday, we celebrated the 236nd Birthday of the United States Marine Corps (USMC)! All Veterans are revered in this great country and Marines hold a special place, in this Land of Free and the Home of the Brave.


God bless America and LONG may its flag wave.


Our citizenship however, is not of this world, but we are actually in transit to our future and eternal home - with the Father in Heaven. We do thank God for this great country which has given so much to the world - all in the cause of Liberty.


As in the case of July 7, 2007 or 7-7-7, these kinds of numbers like today: 11-11-11 carry significance. Over four years ago, THE CALL, a national prayer movement had a major prayer event in Nashville at the Tennessee Titan stadium, replete with shofars, intercession and worship.


Today, the THE CALL moves North to one of the most blighted and evil cities in America - Detroit! Together with local pastors of all races and backgrounds,THE CALL (led by Kansas City-based prayer leader Lou Engle) will be calling for fasting and prayer for not just Detroit but for the nation to return to its root - The Lord; righteous living; holiness and more (see video in this article) here:



Two days later, on Sunday November 13, we have the Annual International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. The Lord Jesus said ""Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. (Matthew 5:11) NASB.

Many in the secular world do not understand Christ, the Word of God and the Holiness of God. They have no idea what Repentance is. They mock and deride and scorn the People of God.


This Call to Prayer and Fasting, a constant command in the Bible, is being called hate speech, anti-American and unChristian by liberal social justice clergy and their moslem allies, none of whom follow Christ. But God has call us to a different thing in this new season....and it is actually an old thing - a Sacred Assembly.

In your own way, in the next several days, join in the Call for Prayer for the nation of America and then remember the saints who are persecuted for believing and boldly proclaiming the Name of Christ, across the globe, in the Name of Jesus, amen.

JOEL 2:15-17

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion, 

   declare a holy fast, 

   call a sacred assembly. 

¹⁶ Gather the people, 

   consecrate the assembly; 

bring together the elders, 

   gather the children, 

   those nursing at the breast. 

Let the bridegroom leave his room 

   and the bride her chamber. 

¹⁷ Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, 

   weep between the portico and the altar. 

Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD. 

   Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, 

   a byword among the nations. 

Why should they say among the peoples, 

   ‘Where is their God?’”