Warren Smith & New Age Deception

Just a quick post to share something I stumbled across on the internet that I found encouraging. Warren Smith was delivered out of the New Age movement, and has some good information and exhortations for the body of Christ in these last days. I'm sharing a couple of them, and pray they will bless and encourage you as they have me. His website is called Mountain Stream Press, and you should check it out if you are not already familiar with him:

(http://www.mountainstreampress.org)

 

 

 

 

Let's continue to redeem the time. Now that I'm working on my 5th decade, I try to get some exercise in the morning before work, and I look for videos I can watch while hitting the NordicTrak or the elliptical that will help me run this Christian race with patience (Hebrews 12:1) that I "may obtain"  (1 Corinthians 9:24). Time is short, and multitudes are stumbling off into eternity without Jesus Christ. We must tell them.

The Mercy and Fear of God



For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

(Psalms 103:11)

 

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

(Psalms 103:13)

 

The Lord gave us a wonderful day down at the Des Moines Downtown Farmers Market today. It was our first time out this year, and we were really blessed to be able to share the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ yet again with our friends and neighbors out on Court Avenue.

 

The place was packed, but we got a sweet parking spot in the Walnut Street parking ramp, and the north corner of 4th & Court Avenue (in front of Bail Bonds) was wide open, with a string quartet playing beautiful music softly on the south side of the intersection.

 

Adam & Bob

Mary passed out all her tracts, and I spoke on the relationship between the fear of the LORD and the mercy of the LORD.

You can listen to the audio HERE.

Lots of encouragement from the believers out in the Market, including Adam and Bob, a couple of brothers who came up afterward and blessed me, not only with their encouraging words, but by praying for me. Thank you Lord, for the love you show to us through the body of Christ! By the way, Adam shared a bit of his testimony with me, and turns out he knows my preaching buddy, Jim Bagbey. Later, via email, I asked Adam to share a his story of how he came to know the Lord Jesus, which I have included at the end of this post. Please check it out. 

Time is short, and none of us knows when we'll be launched out of here and into the glorious presence of our mighty Savior. Let's exhort one another to love and good works, and live for Him who did die on the cross to rescue us from the consequences of our sins.



Will you love their souls enough to set aside your fears and
tell them of Jesus Christ, mighty to save?

Take a look at the view of the Market from my preaching spot today. All these dear souls, created to know and love their Creator God, but so many rejecting His offer of mercy and forgiveness. Will you pray for them with us? May God soften their hearts and open their ears, and may they be found in Christ on that Day. Maranatha!

Adam's Testimony: I was addicted to pain killers for most of my adult life.  Through good genes I was given the ability to make people like me, and used that character as a way to manipulate people to get what I wanted.  Outwardly appearing worldly success contributed as well.

In 2006 I had a small business partnership as a (then) Qwest agency.  The agency would pay us up front "spiffs" to obtain new business as well as residual income for those customers we kept in our base of business. I met with Mr. Jim Bagbey at his office in 2006 and convinced him to use my service.  He was attracted to the price structure but even more attracted to the fact that he would have a direct point of contact that was local in case he had any issues with his phone service (phones aren't usually very important to business owners until they lose their service, and we all know what a hassle it can be to try to dial an 800#.)

During our meeting Mr. Bagbey asked me a question: "If you were to die today, where would you go?" "I would go to heaven, because I go to Church" I replied.  He spent the better part of two hours evangelizing to me that day and explaining the importance of a relationship with Jesus Christ.  Although my heart was un-receptive, I figured that my spiff was going to be about $1200 for his signature so I went along with it.

A couple of weeks after he signed up he had some issues with his phones.  His issue would require hours of my time and I had already gotten my $1200 and didn't think it was worth 8% of $400 a month for me to take the time to give him the service I had promised just weeks earlier, so I flaked him off.

I received an email shortly after that that said "Adam, I want you to know that I love you, but I feel that your integrity is off.  Please stop using my name as a reference, I no longer wish to have you as my agent".

6 years later in 2012 my addiction to pain killers had spiraled so far our of control that I began stealing to obtain my drugs.  I ended up in jail on May 3rd and got on my knees and accepted forgiveness and eternal life on May 13th, 2012.  Two days after I made that decision I went to the Bible study in the jail and there was Mr. Bagbey volunteering his time to lead it.  I got to apologize to him and we stayed in touch while I was away and now attend Church together at Walnut Creek South.



Mormon Missionary Encounter 5/7/13

I had an encounter over a friends house with some Mormon missionary boys that stopped by.  I was going to write an overview of the whole night and it was too long so I decided to do a video located HERE.  I have another meeting scheduled this Tuesday, May 14th so be in prayer for that.  The missionaries names are Elder Younger (the oxi-Mormon) and Elder Mealy.  - Frank

Delays, Delays....

Last Saturday, May 4, was the opening day of the 2013 Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market. But it was rain city, and cold, so we didn't make it down for any gospel outreach. And this Saturday, I have a class from 8-11:30 AM, so ixnay on the Market again. Delays, delays....

But I know that God has other people working down in Des Moines, faithfully pointing people to the Lord Jesus Christ, handing out gospel literature, and proclaiming the good news of the gospel. And I've been able to go out several times a week here in Marshalltown: passing out tracts downtown over the lunch hour, and hitting the high traffic corners with witnessing crosses.

Here's hoping and praying that you are taking the opportunities God gives you to faithfully share Jesus in your Jerusalem. As I've said many times to my brother Jim Bagbey, after a morning of preaching and sharing Christ at the DMFM...this may be the last chance we have to do this; we can never assume that the Lord will give us another day. The trumpet may sound, or I may step out of this life and into His presence in a heartbeat. So if the Lord delays His coming another day, don't YOU delay in faithfully fulfilling His command to GO!

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.   For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Remebering Pastor Saeed Abedini

This brother continues to suffer in Iran's notorious Evin prison.

His crime: preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Saeed: I never met you, and I don't know you, but I love you brother!

 

From the Internet....

RECENT PRISONER UPDATE
IRAN: Pastor Saeed’s Faith Remains Strong Despite Inhumane Treatment
Source: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)

American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is serving an eight-year prison term in Iran because of his Christian faith, has been suffering from internal bleeding for months. The injuries, which are causing him frequent fainting spells, are the result of repeated beatings in prison. Sources state that the physical abuse and psychological torture are intensifying…an inhumane and gross violation of Iran’s
international obligations. These troubling developments are of grave concern to Pastor Saeed’s wife, Naghmeh, who lives with their two young children in the United States. Prison officials want one thing: Pastor Saeed to recant his faith in Christ. And while they continue to try, his faith remains strong; a faith that is clearly sustaining him in his time of great need. For more about his story, check

http://www.persecution.net/ir-2013-03-21a.htm

Please continue to uphold Pastor Saeed and his very concerned family in prayer. Plead the blood of Jesus over his life, as well as the lives of other believers and human rights defenders there in Evin
Prison. May the Lord send His angels to minister ongoing strength and encouragement to them. And in cases such as Pastor Saeed’s, where required medical help is not being provided, may the Great Physician personally and supernaturally bring healing to their every wound.

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The Voice of the Martyrs Canada, P.O. Box 608, Streetsville, Ontario, L5M 2C1
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