"Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present...said to Jeremiah, 'We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord! We will certainly do everything we said we would,..just as we and our ancestors,..did.'" (From Jeremiah 44, NIV)
"We will not listen to the message," and, "We will certainly do everything we said we would," will certainly bring to pass in individuals and nations what Hosea 8:7 says, "They have sown the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. Their cornstalks stand there barren, withered, sickly, with no grain; if it has any, foreigners will eat it" (LB).
Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that His Followers are, "....the light of the world," and, "the salt of the earth." This is only true, of course, when King Jesus reigns in us. And if we are to see what August Franke declared, "A life changed, a Church revived, a nation reformed, a world evangelized," the Church must, "....listen to the message," and not, "....certainly do everything we said we would."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I repent of, "not listen to the message," and, "will certainly do everything we said we would." Amen.
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Will be sending Ukraine Relief on December 1.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
