It’s been said, “The men who move the world are the ones who do not let the world move them.”  What we need are men, women, teens and young Christians who do not allow the world to dictate their choices and decisions.  We don't have to be consumers of the sin and ungodliness that the world and the devil is peddling and continually trying to sell and shove down our throats.  We need more Christians whose words and lives reflect the words of David in Psalm 63:8, “My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.” We need more Christians
who have a love for the Lord and a desire to follow His word no matter what the circumstance, situation or scenario might be. We need Holy Ghost filled believers whose gratitude for their salvation is fueled by the fact that they were once one breathe and one heartbeat away from hell, but are now heaven born and heaven bound.  Oh the life, power, strength, joy and glorious peace that is ours in Christ Jesus.  I believe that if we took the time to look back to where we once stood and then come full circle to where we stand in Christ Jesus being reconciled and redeemed that the many cold and indifferent hearts towards God would be replaced by hearts on fire for the Lord, and those hearts would burn like a three alarm blaze. I believe that if we would set aside the time to meditate upon the mercy and grace of God that our love for God would be as spiritual dynamite within our very being. Each individual Christian would be engulfed with a revival fire that was neither man-made nor derived from mere emotion. As clichéd as as it sounds we need and should have more Christians on fire for the Lord.  Sadly that does not seem to be the case at this present time in history.  Many have become loose and lackadaisical in their relationship and thus their commitment to the Lord.
 
I would like to present to you some questions and only ask that you be
completely honest and transparent not only with yourself, but more importantly with
Almighty God. It is past time that we get serious and sincere when it comes to our relationship
with our Lord.  Before we get to the questions I would like for you to consider this prayer,
“Search me O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any
 wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23-24.)
                                             The Questions
1. If your spiritual temperature were to be taken what would the thermometer read?
2. Has your Love for the Lord increased or decreased since you were saved?
3. Has your time in God’s word been replaced with other things?
4. Has your prayer time become drive-thru in its nature?
5. If the trumpet were to sound what condition would the Lord Jesus find your heart and             
     life in?
 
I want God’s people to be encouraged, strengthened and at the same time challenged in
a way that will draw them closer to the Lord.    

The Lord has lit a fire in me and my wife.  Prayer and The Pen Ministry. A concentrated time of prayer for the men of God and a card of encouragement to their wives. The plan is to use social media as a way to encourage folks to pray for God's men. We currently have a mailing list of over 50. 
My wife will be making the cards. 2020 will be the official start. We are excited about this outreach from A Call to the World Ministries. We are wanting God to be glorified and for many to be encouraged.

On Monday morning, September 29th, the Lord placed this on my heart-
The Prayer- A Call and Cry to God interceding on the behalf of the men.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Colossians 4:12
The Pen- A card sent to the ladies to Encourage and Edify.
 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Proverbs 16:24

We look forward to the Lord doing a Mighty work in 2020!

In Christ,
Bro. Tracy Killinger

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29

I recently read, “At a service conducted in London by Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, a hardened criminal came forward to the altar seeking salvation.  Dr. Morgan knelt beside him and pointed him to Jesus the Lamb of God who could cleanse him from all his sins, and he who had been a great sinner believed and was converted.

Then Dr. Morgan saw the Mayor of the city, a man of high morals and greatly respected, kneeling at the same altar, and to him, as to the criminal, he pointed out the Lamb of God who alone could take away sins.  In humble self-surrender, the Mayor, too, accepted Jesus as his Saviour.  A short time before this, the Mayor had sentenced the criminal to imprisonment; and there at the altar, the two shook hands while tears of joy ran down their cheeks.”

Sometimes we are quick to forget the wonderful truth of the “whosoever” in the Bible.  We like to compare ourselves to those around us.  We say, “I was lost but not near as lost as that man or woman or that boy or girl.”  The Bible says, “As it is written, THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO NOT ONE: THERE IS NONE THAT UNDERSTANDETH, THERE IS NONE THAT SEEKETH AFTER GOD. THEY ARE ALL GONE OUT OF THE WAY, THEY ARE TOGETHER BECOME UNPROVITABLE; THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT, ONE” (Romans 3:10-12).  A powerful reminder of where the redeemed in Christ Jesus once stood.
The way has been made for the saving of one’s soul, but the lost sinner must come to Christ. God the Father draws the lost while the Word of God and the Holy Spirit of God work in tandem to convict the lost of their sin (what a picture of the trinity!)  The price has been paid by Jesus Christ for whosoever to come. Thru Christ their debt of sin can be cleansed, cleaned and wiped away.  For the banker or the brawler, God has provided, for the highly esteemed and the not so esteemed, God has provided.  God has provided- “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16.)  God's Word brings forth a wonderful invitation, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18.)

Our time is short and our days are numbered and so we move forward by faith while nurturing a burden and brokenness for the lost. O let us be about prayer. O let us be filled with the Holy Spirit. O let us continue with a fire and fervency in our service for the Living God! O that we would take serious that which was serious enough that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

 Let's continue to pray for the “whosoever.”  Let’s continue to go to the “whosoever.” Never forget we were at one time a part of the whosoever, thank God for that!

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Psalm 5:1-3

My friend these words have such depth to them- David is not playing games. These words are not simply from the heart they have made their way up from deep down within. My prayer for myself and whoever else may read this is that we would find ourselves at such a place right now! No gimmicks, no games and no playing religion. Oh, to be a living sacrifice for the Lord to do with as He would and to give ourselves over to His will willingly. To come to such a place of desire for God should be the burning ambition of us all. Take a moment and read the verses slowly and deliberately again and again. Allow each word to have its moment. Make the verses your own prayer.

David has spread himself out before the One True God. He seems to be completely and utterly emptied of self. David has not come lightly- He is all in. He is not looking around he is looking up. He doesn’t appear to desire anything or anyone more than his Lord, his King and his God and they are all one in the same.

Come up close to the Lord, and anticipate Him meeting with you.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1

Dwelleth – Sit down, sit still, tarry
Abide- Lodge, spend the night, pass the storm

In the secret place God will give us the anointing of the Spirit-

Instead of pacing, pressing, pushing, pulling, priming and pumping- Instead of worrying, wondering and wilting you will come up out of the secret place with a fire in your bones and a hallelujah upon your lips not based on mere emotion, but on the Word and Power of God. You will not simply endure you will engage in true living.

You will:

A. Walk in the Spirit…Gal. 5:16 “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

B. Worship in the Spirit…John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

C. Witness in the Spirit…Acts 1:8b “Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth”

We will miss out when we leave out the powerful and precious secret place where we gather with Almighty God. The weight of our words and witness has nothing to do with position or prestige it has everything to do with the power of God.

Thanks for visiting and thanks for praying,
Bro. Tracy

"And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice."
Ephesians 4:30-31

I recently read that, “Bitterness creates a climate for the Devil.” The Devil is always on the lookout for opportunity and with opportunity comes an occasion to do his dirty work in the heart, mind and eventually the life of the born again.  We need to find the root and then allow God to do a work in us to kill the vine of bitterness. Our scripture says that we need to “put away” bitterness.  That tells us that an action needs to take place.

I have found that bitterness at times can be the root and thus the catalyst for wrath, anger and clamour which leads to evil speaking.  The mouth reveals what is swimming in the heart.  Many times it starts from the well of bitterness that is much like a festering wound.  We have a choice to make starting at this very moment to either grieve the Holy Spirit by continuing in our bitterness or choosing to walk in the Spirit.

Often time it is said about our country, “Look how far we have come.”  It breaks my heart to think how far we have fallen.  The Devil is fast at work in keeping the Word of God out of the mainstream of our country and off of Main Street as well. The fall of America can be traced back to America falling away from God.  President George Washington's words are being lived out before us, "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."

So, my friends, here we are as a nation that can be likened to a ship that is taking on water.  Once proud and mighty, a light that shone like a blast furnace around the world. We were blessed by the hand of Almighty God.  Our natural resources were plentiful. Our exports were abundant. Our minds were cutting edge when it came to machinery and ingenuity.  We were blessed.  Hard work was the norm as we were well acquainted with sweat and callouses. The freedom that was exercised in coming up with a good plan or business idea and knowing the fruit of such a venture was the American way.  We recognized the One True God.  We sent missionaries to faraway lands preaching and proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul led of the Holy Spirit wrote, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek” (Roman 1:16). America wasn’t ashamed of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. There was a genuine fear of God and a desire and reverence for His Word.  Woven through the very fabric of the foundation of this nation was godly principles.  We didn’t dare exclude God, but men in authority would seek the face of God and search the Word of God.  Humble in prayer while longing for heavenly direction from the King of kings.

Now- we kill babies at an alarming rate and protect animals. We need a brokenness about the state of our nation. We will be broken because a sport team didn’t win the championship. We don’t give a second thought about our nation drowning in a cesspool of sin. We will moan and mope about the most trivial things, but we give no thought to our nation spitting in the face of Almighty God.  God is nothing more than a running joke for the late night comedians to poke fun at.  We have become more and more resolved in our hatred of that which is moral and right.  We laugh at adultery and accept fornication.  We actually have to vote on same sex marriage.  We cling to sin like an animal feeding off a carcass. Hard work and pride in a job well done has been replaced with video games and day time television mixed in with government handouts (I am speaking of the men of our nation.) If you are a Christian, you are portrayed as bigoted, mean spirited, and cold hearted and fanatical if you believe in the God of the Bible and His Word.  When the born again say, thus saith the Lord when it comes to being born again and how to get to heaven they are told they are narrow minded, foolish and a fanatic.
I find it amazing that in America the agenda of so few has had an effect on so many. Why is this? Pulpits grew silent and thus man grew distant from God.  Consider this thought In regard to the word of God- Compromise is an easy street that leads to the back alley of the wrong side of the truth every time. My friend, America has had a climate change, but not what we read about in the paper or internet or that which we hear from the many so called experts on the various news channels. The climate change in America is spiritual. We have turned Away from Almighty God & His Word.
Lets pray for America!