His Name Is The Lord

“Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds — his name is the LORD— and rejoice before him. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.”- Psalm 68:4-5

The life of a Christian

"Jesus told me to go. He never said I would come back. Isn't that the life of a Christian?"

-a Christian Evangelist, 70 years old

This is what Jesus said in Mark 8:35:

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me and for the gospel will save it."

Our best days

I just read a story about Christians who knew without a doubt they would be severely beaten because of their outspoken witness and worship for Jesus...but they did it anyway. They formed a circle...joining hand in hand and sang this hymn,

The best days of our life are the days when we can bear a cross.*

That day was the best day of their life.

May our best days come and may they come bearing a cross.

For the Name of Jesus Christ.

*Reference: Tortured for Christ by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, page 126

Our life is secondary

Hudson Taylor

"China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women … The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time—even life itself must be secondary."

His Name Is Exalted

In that day you will say:

"Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted. ~ Isaiah 12:4 (NIV) ~

Majestic Name!

O Lord, our Lord, how MAJESTIC is Your NAME in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1,9)!
(emphasis mine)

For the Name! God's Majestic Name! Amen!

If ordained praise can come from the lips of children and infants, why not ours today! (Psalm 8:2)!

How can you praise God today?

4th Quote

Let us be employed, not in the highest, but in the meanest, and not in the easiest but the hottest service- ease and plenty we leave to those that want them. Let us go on in toil, in weariness, in painfulness, in cold or hunger, so we may but testify the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24)---John Wesley ("A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part III" Works [BE], 11,315-316.)

More tomorrow...

Jesus save us!