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Category:
Religion
Publisher: Create Space/Amazon
ISBN-10: 1512069973
Pages: 209
Copyright: 12/24/2015
ISBN-13: 9781512069976
Price: $11.95 (eBook)
This is a book of mini messages written for the purpose of uplifting Jesus my Savior, in order to lift up the reader!
Some call these mini messages devotions, but whatever they are called; I call them good for the reader in that they are meant to feed the spirit and refresh spiritual energy for the journey ahead!
December 25, 2015
Forty-nine years ago today, I began a journey on the Narrow Path. A journey that would take me into a world that just two days earlier I'd have never imagined or even considered. God not only saved me on Christmas Eve, but between going to sleep that night and waking on Christmas Day, God called me to a lifetime profession of Him as Savior and servant to others. I was on my way to becoming a pastor.
That journey saw me take many interesting twists and turns. From being drafted, and nearly being on a plane to Viet Nam; to a miraculous discharge from the army (but not until I was in long enough to get enough of the G.I. Bill to cover my education for the ministry). And that education was a miracle in itself. I went from flunking out of Junior College three years before being drafted to fight in Nam, to return to college, and getting straight "A's" and gaining additional academic scholarships.
God did many awesome things as He led me down the path to the ministry. I have been through so many ups and downs, defeats as well as victories, that it took writing a book just to cover the lifetime of events and the ongoing spiritual war I went through, just to arrive where I am today, leading this fabulous online ministry and becoming an author. My prayer for each of you is that you not only be born-again, but that you are growing and going forward in your new life for Jesus. The greatest gift I ever received in this life was not life itself, but rather a second chance at life when I found that I was a sinner, repented of my sin, and asked God to let His Son live in my heart.
It has been an awesome 49 years, child of God, and I pray that each of you will one day reach a birthday of such glorious magnitude and be able to proclaim such as I, that the greatest gift you ever received was the gift of Grace when you were born-again into the family of God; and how you followed His lead down an uncertain path that led to blessings beyond compare; with the zeal to share His gift with others to disciple them for ministry too. I love you all, and wish only His best in your life, for your life and to your life!
Pastor Paul
Excerpt
It is important that you never forget to remind yourself that by the grace of God: YOU are not where you were when Christ came into your life. And while you may not have reached the place He intends for you to be [on some days]; YOU are still further down the path than YOU were the day before!!!
The need to remind ourselves of this awesome truth, will help to keep the devil - the liar and accuser of our faith - at arm's length, while sending him the true message of faith, "We know who holds our future, and it isn't the devil!"
There are going to be times, in every believer's life, when the devil works extra hard to make you question your standing and position on the path; by pointing out past and present failures! For this reason, I encourage you to do as I do and that is to prayerfully remind myself, and anyone in range of my voice, that I still a work in progress! After all, He is the potter, and I am merely the clay. He has the right to break me and remold me as He sees fit,
I am forever grateful for the fact that I have experienced the "ified's" of Grace: Justified [just as if I never sinned]; Sanctified [ the process of learning and growing to include failing and falling down, and getting back up and growing and going again]; and one day soon, I [like you] will be Glorified [when He takes us by the hand through that narrow door at the end of the narrow path]!
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