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Monday, December 28, 2009

HOT Deals to Help Spread the Gospel in 2010

CHRISTmas was great this year wasn't it! So now why not start planning for 2010 and take advantage of all the great deals going on. I received an email a couple of days ago from dayspring.com and they are having a pretty good sale on their "Jesus is the Gift" line. So far it's up to 75% off and it includes household items, gift bags, and evangelism ideas and resources. They also have CHRISTmas cards that can be personalized that I used last year to help spread the Good News among my co workers on up to the General Manager of our company, it was great!!!

Also check out Christian book stores for deals that will help you advance the Kingdom through out the year too. I use cbd.com they have mugs for birthdays, pens, Scripture candy, journals, kids gifts, t-shirts etc...there are so many ways to share Jesus!

Proverbs 11:30

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that winneth souls is wise.

I know some of you took what you learned here and went for it- God was pleased by your efforts and your fellowman was blessed because of your love for their souls!!

Have a great week ahead and get in on those deals that will help make spreading the Gospel easier and less expensive for the upcoming year. Remember...


Be prepared, Be yourself, Be obedient and Be joyful

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Prayer for Everyone
Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters

We Thank You & We Love You
God Blesses You





Thursday, December 24, 2009

Would You, Could You, Give Your Gifts Away?

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I had a FB friend jokingly post that we could all just give our gifts away this year to total strangers. I then added yes, and we could tell the people as we gave them our gifts that- This is just a small example of what Jesus did for you when He died on the Cross! I thought that was a GREAT IDEA but just so I don't offend those who will be looking for me to wear those CHRISTmas socks on the 26th,I've decided that next year I'm going to buy gifts for strangers and use it as an Evangelistic tool!!!

What did you "give" others this year in the name of our LORD? I know some of you were working this CHRISTmas season to the utmost for the LORD!! Homeless outreaches, CHRISTmas card outreaches, etc.. I think God loves it when we bless each other, that's His nature and I also believe that a soul reached for God, is the greatest gift that we can give back to Him!

Merry CHRISTmas everybody!



Be prepared, Be yourself, Be obedient and Be joyful

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Prayer for Everyone
Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters

We Thank You & We Love You
God Blesses You





Saturday, December 19, 2009

Got Vision????

As 2010 approaches I want to encourage you all to spend some concentrated time with God and ask Him to give you a "Soul Winning Battle Rhythm" for the new year. What is a Battle Rhythm you may be asking. To me it's a specific method I use to to synchronize details so I can achieve my goals. It's doable, it's consistent, and it's intentional in it's objectives. If you are serious about being a Minister of Reconciliation in 2010 and beyond then I encourage you to go to God and ask him what Battle Rhythm will work best for you in your situation. I know we'd like to sometimes just fly by the seat of our pants but that's not a good way to maximize our time, talent, and resources. God told the Prophet to write it down, and run with it!

Habakkuk 2:2-4 (21st Century King James Version)
2And the LORD answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come; it will not tarry.
4Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.


As 2009 comes to an end now is a good time for some of us to take a good hard look at where we are NOW and where we are GOING for GOD. If you are reading this and something in you is jumping hot right now, then make up your mind right now that 2010 is going to be your year to be God's hands, feet, and voice!!! Write down what you want to do and present it to God. He will add, change, or modify it to fit His will for your life. Let me give you a peek into my 2010 Soul Winning Battle Rhythm. I plan to personally lead 25+ people to the LORD in 2010. I plan to map out and have with my husband and others a neighborhood outreach of some sort. I plan to put at least 25 tracts a month in strategic places. I plan to partner with a local street team to assist them in their soul winning efforts. You see what I'm saying?! These are just some of what I have envisioned for 2010. NOW is the time to go all out and do for God and your fellowman like never before. WHY? Because these are the last days?? No. Because these are our last days meaning.. tomorrow is never promised and if we are going to be aggressive for God 2010 is going to be the year for us to go all out for the King and His Kingdom. Be encouraged and....


Be prepared, Be yourself, Be obedient and Be joyful
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Prayer for Everyone
Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters

We Thank You & We Love You
God Blesses You





Monday, December 14, 2009

Evangelizing With Tracts

So you were at church Sunday and you were singing Yes...Yes...Yes... to the LORD's call for you to walk more fully in your calling to help reconcile the world back to God. Notice I didn't say Evangelist (-: We all have the ministry of reconciliation...are you a Christian? Great, than you are a Minister of Reconciliation.2 Corinthians 5:18-20
So Monday came and you felt that fire to tell somebody about Jesus but you kind of froze, that's ok and it's perfectly normal. Everybody doesn't start out diving in head first..some of us want to get in the water a little at a time and that's progress just the same!! So today I want us to explore the great ministry of tracts or "Pocket Preachers" as I refer to them.
Below are just some suggestions of where you and I can place tracts. Remember tracts are a great start but eventually your goal is to be able to share Christ in YOUR own words,with YOUR own testimony to His LORDSHIP. So with that being said let's see how we can let these Pocket Preachers do the talking...at first anyways (-:

* On Park Benches
* Letters and bills
* In Christmas Cards, Easter Cards etc
* Gas stations
* Restaurants (you could leave a tract with the bill and tip)A Favorite!
* Car windows
* Beer and soda cases (simply slide a smaller tract into the slit)
* Newspaper and magazine racks
* Fast food Drive Thru windows (hand one out when you pay)
* ATM machines
* Goody bags
* At Public Events
* Public Restrooms
* Amusement Parks
* Bank Deposit Container
* Attach a Few to Your Mailbox

Do you see the possibilities?!!! Tracts ROCK!!! Now once you are ready to hand them out to people do it as much as possible! This is one of the ways I give out tracts to people I say,"Can I bless you with this, if you don't need it will you pass it on for me?" I don't always know when somebody is Saved so that way we can ask them to pass it on if they are. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is definitely a blessing. I believe in what I'm promoting strongly and it comes through as you begin to pass these out. I always say Be Prepared, Be Yourself, and Be Obedient but I want to add one more Be Joyful. Nothing affects people more while doing any type of ministry, like the joy of the LORD.

Have a great week ahead and take full advantage of the warmness of this season to get your ministry of reconciliation ON! (-:


Prayer for Everyone
Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters

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We Thank You & We Love You
God Blesses You

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Friday, December 11, 2009

Share the Christ in CHRISTmas This Weekend

Ho Ho Ho...um no, no, no!LOL!!!
While we're out shopping and visiting, helping out our neighbors, or at church this weekend let's do all that we can to share JESUS as being the Reason for the Season! Invite somebody to church especially if you are going to have an evangelistic Christmas program! If you have some tracts and church brochures give them out every chance you get! People are WIDE OPEN this time of year so, while you and your family are enjoying the season, do a little Kingdom Expansion in the process..all those we touch for Heaven will be eternally grateful (-:



Prayer for Everyone
Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters

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We Thank You & We Love You
God Blesses You

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Divine Availability

26Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." 27So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopiand]">[d]eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah the prophet. 29The Spirit told Philip, "Go to that chariot and stay near it."

30Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. "Do you understand what you are reading?" Philip asked.

31"How can I," he said, "unless someone explains it to me?" So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture:
"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
33In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth."e]">[e]

34The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?" 35Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

36As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?"f]">[f] 38And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. Acts 8:26-38

Are you available to God? Yes, I know you have a full time job, kids, ministry etc...but are you available for more of the supernatural? Are you spending enough time with God that should an angel or the Spirit of God want to send you to the bathroom where a co worker is in there crying or into the cafeteria where someone is reading the Word but they don't understand and God wants to use you like Phillip? What about God wanting you to go the grocery store to aisle 5 because there is a woman in a blue shirt that is contemplating suicide and He wants you to go and talk to her. As Christians we should so expect God to use us in these divine ways. I remember God telling me to ask this stranger if she needed prayer while I was power walking on a trail. I stopped her and asked and she busted out crying. She was already a believer but she had been crying out to God for some answers, she needed to know that God cared. We prayed together..I saw her again a couple of weeks ago it had been almost 2 months since our encounter, she said everything we prayed for came to pass and she's doing great! Be open to God increasing the supernatural to you in the upcoming year. I have a stirring in me that God wants to use us in some fascinating ways this upcoming year. Ways that will leave us and the other person or people saying I know that was God!!!

Remember the 3 B's- Be Prepared to share Christ and or be a blessing, Be Yourself-relax, listen and enjoy it, Be Obedient to both the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. Love and blessings in abundance to you!!! (-:


Pray about it!!!

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Luke 14:23
An the lord said unto the servant,
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house may be filled.

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We Are Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters in Christ



Sunday, December 6, 2009

Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Pt 2

Last time we talked about God placing us in the neighborhoods where He wants us, living next to the people that He wants to pursue through YOU AND ME! What an honor!!! As Christians our lives, gifts, talents, money, and time no longer belong to us (as if any of it ever did ) but to Jesus the King..
Galatians 2:20 and 2 Corinthians 5:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Then we are ambassadors for Christ. We have God's message, are His authorized messengers, and speak for God, beseeching you for Christ, and in His name, to be reconciled to God by repentance and the obedience of faith.

I finished off last time giving some tips on how to reach out and one was just letting people tell you what ails them. So when I saw my neighbors outside ..I had a purpose and that purpose was to share Jesus and the Kingdom with them that was my focus, I didn't even think they might have some things to share. So I pull up to my house and my neighbors are outside drinking and talking, a daughter and her dad. So I start talking to them about the weather, anyone who lives in Va can tell you that this is the only state where you can experience all 4 seasons in a single day!LOL! We talked about CHRISTmas and how unattractive the commercialism of it is. Then my neighbors just started opening up..telling me about painful experiences, hard things, that they went through and it was hard to sit there without shedding a tear from time to time. I wanted to share Jesus so bad because I knew He was the answer! The answer to Eternal life for them and for their emotional healing as well. Then the door opened and I walked through it as they intently listened to me share with them how God saved me on the streets of NJ at 15. I began to cry as I do now when I think about how He pursued me and what Jesus dying in my place has meant to me. As I began to cry and just thank God the dad comes over and hugs me..I didn't even think about pulling away. I dried my eyes and thanked him and he smiled and walked back over to his daughter...there was a pause and then the daughter told me how someone shot her son execution style earlier this year. I just stood there listening...what do I say to that??? I didn't know what to say. The only thing that I could say was, what a man sows he reaps and that God is the Judge, jury and dispenser of justice. They agreed. This incident was still fresh in their minds, the rushing home and finding her son lying lifeless at her feet as she walked through her front door, the funeral filled with gunfire and fear. Two more young men gunned down just months later..how do you ask the greatest question ever to be asked..would you like to accept Christ as Savior? I didn't. After she talked I asked them if I ever shared with them how I met my husband and how God put us together. They said no with anticipation in their voices so I went on to tell my story. One day I'll be able to ask them the greatest question ever asked. I'm glad for now just knowing that we've shared our testimonies with most of them and they know that we care about them enough stop, listen, help them, and interact with them as much as possible. Mankind matters to God, and as Christians mankind being loved and being offered reconciliation with God should always matter to us as well.

I'm thanking God in advance for all of the opportunities that you all will seize to share Jesus love with your neighbors this week. Remember the 3 B's- Be Prepared to share Christ and or be a blessing, Be Yourself-relax, listen and enjoy it, Be Obedient to both the Great Commission and the Great Commandment. Love and blessings in abundance to you!!! (-:



Pray about it!!!

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Luke 14:23
An the lord said unto the servant,
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house may be filled.

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We Are Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters in Christ



Thursday, December 3, 2009

Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Pt 1

Today I want to talk some more about our neighbors. Like em or not God has strategically placed you and I right where He wants us. I know we like to think that our incomes got us placed where we are or circumstances positive or negative, but as a Kingdom citizen and Ambassador we are placed wherever the King places us. So with that in mind look at where you've been placed...what is in you that your neighbors need. What is in your neighbors that you need? Yes, you may need something, remember this occurrence
2 Kings 4:3
Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. This woman had to be a good neighbor because her neighbors gave to her, when she went to them for help. Please don't say within yourself, well I'll never need anything from them. Do you really know the God you serve? He will do whatever it takes to snatch somebody from the kingdom of darkness that means He will allow your battery to die just so you have to go to your neighbor and make contact. WHY? Because He's pursuing them....through YOU AND ME!!!! What an honor!!! We are God's legal representatives in the earth, He has given us His authority to represent Him to the world. He wants your neighbors saved just like He wanted you and I saved. Ok so maybe you and your neighbors have had some disagreements look what Jesus said way back in Leviticus 19:18
" 'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. WOW!!! do you know how many times neighbors are mentioned in the Bible? Well over a 100 times and each time God is telling us to treat them fair and admonishing us to dwell side by side with them securely. I can honestly say I'm thankful for my neighbors. They are a wild bunch, they party all night, play the WII in front of their houses til 2am and because my husband and I have made ourselves available to them for loves sake and the Kings sake they come and get my husband when someone is hurting real bad. They come and get my husband when one their boys are trying to commit suicide. They come to me for food or a ride, or just talk about God. WHY? Because God loves them, and wants to love on them through you and I. It's not about us..it's about God showering them with His love through tangible means. As Christians it is so important to be actively engaged in doing God's Word. He said You shall love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, soul, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Step out tomorrow, this week and so on and ask God how He wants you to affect your neighbors. Maybe it's buying some doughnuts for them. or cutting their grass, maybe it's just taking the time to sit and let them tell you what ails them..That's what happened to me today. I talked with my neighbors for an hour and a half and I'll tell you next Monday what happened..



Pray about it!!!

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Luke 14:23
An the lord said unto the servant,
Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house may be filled.

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We Are Humbled Brothers & Passionate Sisters in Christ