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  9-01 True Doctrine Is A Testimony 9-02 True Forgiveness 9-03 Cutting A Covenant 9-04 Desiring Whatever He Gives 9-05 Not Just For Us 9-06 What Difference Does It Make? 9-07 Amy’s Vision: Beyond The Cross 9-08 The Honor Of Jesus 9-09 Only Of God: What Fellowship Is 9-10 Your Best Helpers 9-11 “The gods” 9-12 “Having The Spirit” 9-13 “Receive Us!” 9-14 “But I Say Unto You . . .” 9-15 Receiving God’s Messenger 9-16 Judgment Within “The Congregation of the Mighty” 9-17 Satan And Jesus Reaped What They Sowed 9-18 The Seed Of The Woman 9-19 Beyond 9-20 “It” 9-21 Slow Down 9-22 Preparing Your Heart 9-23 What Does He Want Me to Do for Him? 9-24 An Old Sermon on Love 9-25 The Knowledge of God 9-26 Mark 10:17–22 Part One: Something Lacking 9-27 Mark 10:17–22 Part Two: Following Jesus To Pentecost 9-28 The Water of Life 9-29 The Nature and the Body 9-30 Everything Else is Just Gravy

 

Random Thought
9-5

Not Just for Us

Good morning John.

Today I was organizing and mailing out various tract and CD orders from the Isaiah58 web site that came in over the past couple of days.

When a person orders a CD from the site, I usually add one or two old CD’s (those that went un-purchased) to that person’s order since it does not really add anything to the postage, and so that people can hear live meetings.

This morning as I reached into the box, of perhaps 50 to 100 of those left-over CD’s, the sweetest feeling came over me. I could have picked any of the CD’s in that box! We have things of real value! Things that go unclaimed among us just might be golden nuggets of life to someone who is hungry for reality in the Spirit. Many have never heard what is on a CD that we have hundreds of extras of. Tears came to my eyes when I thought about how rich we are in spirit, that we have such things of value. Where would we be without those gifts from God, without each other, without this truth? It’s hard to even wonder. I am thankful, after your wonderful message last night, for you, for the saints who came before us and paid a price, and for every child of God whom Jesus has put into my life right now.

And beyond that, I am thankful for soberness, for sanity, and for the readiness of mind and heart to want to get this truth to God’s wandering sheep.

Gary

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Amen, Brother Gary!

God has chosen, for His own good reasons, to wonderfully bless us and give us a special work to do. I pray that we walk worthy of our calling. Our situation calls to mind one of the things God told father Abraham when He first spoke to him, in Genesis 12:1–3. God told that good man that all the nations of the earth would someday be blessed by the blessing that He was giving him. In other words, God was not blessing Abraham just to bless Abraham. And we can be assured that God has not blessed us just to be blessing us.

We have a holy calling upon us, and a work to do. May God give us the strength and wisdom to accomplish it!

jdc