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"Restoring A Vision & Evangelizing Nations" RAVEN Ministries International is committed to taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world. Charles Spurgeon said, "If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. Let them go with our arms around their knees. Let no one go there unwarned or unprayed for." Taking Jesus to the streets. Amen.
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When we trust in Jesus and work together, we can do more than we could ever imagine! That is what we have found in nearly 20 years of taking the love of Christ and the message of the Cross to hurting people across this nation and beyond.
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"And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?" Luke 24:32
Jesus had risen from the dead, was alive and was seen among the living. He is alive TODAY. His blood shed for all. The word of His testimony on the road made these two hearts to burn within them. The truth was penetrating deep within them, piercing their hearts like a double edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). This is how the Word of God, still today, moves in our being. As Jesus opens the scriptures to us, as we search the word daily (Acts 17:11), our hearts burn within us. God's vision becomes our vision, God's eternal view becomes our eternal view. The holy Word of God is more than words on a page, they are the living, life changing, life-breath of God. We begin to see as Jesus saw and do what Jesus did (Matthew 9:35-36), right here, right now. i know my heart burns within me as he opens the scripture to me, how about you?
The living Word of God allows us to see with spiritual eyes, past human frailty, our own and others, and see how Jesus sees each person (James 5:20; 1 Peter 4:8). It teaches us to love as Jesus loved (1 Corinthians 13) It is a glimpse of how God sees us and loves us, and his desire that none should perish (2 Peter 3:9). It transforms (Romans 12:2) us by the power of God into more than we can be on our own, holy, righteous, ever being perfected in His image. Transforming us to do more than we could on our own (Matthew 19:26; Philippians 4:13). The truth is, the greater reality is what Jesus said, not what we see in the natural (1 Corinthians 13:12). God's word allows us to rub some of the darkness from the glass of our life, and peek through into eternity. God's word is eternal life.
When we are out in the world, the name of Jesus is all we have to stand on. When we are alone in the quiet and privacy of our home, Jesus is all we have. And that is enough. Jesus lived and died for us. When he opens the scripture before me, my heart burns. Burns to be like him, to know him more, to be with him, to hear him clearly, to see as he sees, to do as he wills, my heart burns at his presence in me. My hearts burning desire is to serve him and spend eternity with him. To live and die for him. How about you?
"For the Lord our God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." Deuteronomy 4:24
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"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved." John 3:19-20
"Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world." 1 John 2:15-16
God is clear about our relationship with him. What he wants from us and what he doesn't. How to be reconciled to Him through the finished work of Jesus on the cross. It has been long written down for the ages in the holy words of the Bible, it is the living word of God for us all.
Believe it or not, but do not be deceived, these days are evil and one day very soon Jesus will return (Revelation 22:20), at the day and hour unknown to us (Revelation 15:16, Matthew 24:36), and every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus is Lord. Each one will be judged by a Holy and righteous God for their lives.
Those who hate the light, hate Jesus, do evil deeds, they are condemned. Those who live in the flesh, who love the world and their own selves and their money more than God. Those are walking in condemnation, in darkness. i pray by the grace of almighty God that your heart is touched, your hard heart is broken and that you come to repent of your sins with a godly sorrow to Him and are saved. Cry out to Jesus. Believe on Jesus. That what is left of our vapour of a life here on earth is lived for Jesus and bringing others to him...amen. Begin reading the Bible...the Gospels of John and Matthew, the letter of Paul to the Romans. Read and know our God, hear his words for your life and pray.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:1-2
When we live and walk in the Holy Spirit of God, we are not condemned. When we hear God's voice and are led to all truth, our yes will be yes and our no will be no (James 5:12), and it will be God's will. We will be walking in the light of Jesus and the will of God for our lives. Amen.
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come." John 16:13
We who are in Christ, will be walking in the power he left for us and we will be overjoyed to bring his love and Gospel message to others. The message of Jesus and God's plan for the world from before time began, is not to be hidden from the world, it is to be shared. Shared by us who know firsthand the great mercy and grace of our God. One who thinks that his relationship with God is only between Himself and God is deceived. It is like the servant who hid his talent while the master (Jesus) was away instead of using it to multiply its worth. He was a lazy and wicked servant, cast into outer darkness where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth, Matthew 25:14-30.
"But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the utter most part of the earth." Acts 1:8
"Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever i have commanded you, and lo i am with you alway even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:19
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The time is quickly approaching for me to return to California. i know the Lord is providing me the opportunity to love on my family and new opportunities for ministry. i am most probably going to be pulling out on the 29th of October to start the approximately 3,000 mile trek. i will keep everyone informed of my whereabouts and doings as i go, by way of this blog and Face Book. The reason for this heads up is to ask prayer for the journey, beginning even now. For God to guide me and provide all needs in his mercy.
If the Lord puts on your heart to provide a donation for gas i would ask that you either: mail it to Deb Waddell, 1117 Shockney Lane, Ormond Beach, FL. 32174 OR you can donate it through the pay-pal option on this blog until the day i depart, just put my name in the item line an say it is for gas. You know i greatly appreciate all your love and prayers. Thanks..
i have been living by God's grace and mercy since coming to Florida in August of 2007. He has increased my faith enormously and i know he works in our lives through wondrous and various means. This upcoming time in my life i will continue to lean on our God for all i am worth. It will be a bittersweet time of leaving and arriving. i have come to love my family in Florida so much that it will be sad to leave. Then arriving back with my family in California will be a joyous time as well as a time of testing and trying of my faith and trust in God. Mom and Dad have special needs now and i am asking God that he give me the strength and wisdom to meet them in Him..
That's it for now...love you all...May God's grace and peace be upon you, amen.
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Just found out Dad has cancer, needs salvation and a miracle healing amen
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ROAD TRIP! Driving truck and trailer with Pastor Don and Robin (3 vehicles) to Amarillo! On I-1O outside Lake City! Please keep us in prayer!
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Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another, it is like talking the talk and not walking the walk. It is being a big fat liar, and no liar will inherit the kingdom of heaven. i am running into more and more "Christians" now-a-days that say they love God, say they know him, but to watch them they look, act, and speak in the flesh, just like the world God hates. i am talking about the body of believers here, not the lost.
How could God make it any clearer than by giving us His Word and His Holy Spirit? Why do people who say they love God resist and rebel against developing a relationship with Him? Why is it so hard to set that alarm clock 15 minutes earlier to spend time with the one you love more than life itself? Why can't people who say they love God cry out to Him? Fear Him? Not displease HIm? Why?
It is hypocrisy to say you know God, to say you love God and not read your Word, pray, and do what God says... "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron." 1 Timothy 4:1-2
It is hypocrisy to say you know and love God, then look like, act like and love the things of the world. It makes you a liar. "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world." 1 JOhn 2:15-16
"He that saith i know him, and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him....He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked." 1 John 2:4, 6
What is the deal?
The bride of Christ, kings and priests, saints, sons and daughters of a holy God, what greater honor is there than this? Why don't we act like it? All this worldly junk will pass away, the relationships, the stuff, all of it. We are here for such a short time, an eye-blink in this vapour of life. There is no greater joy than to serve God every moment of every day and know it will last for eternity. i cannot tell you what unshakeable peace that brings, what depth of joy it reveals to a heart that truly knows God, that abides in him. To know each day is in His hands, in his control and we do not have to worry or fear for anything. True freedom, amen. Because to know God and His Son Jesus (John 17:3) is truly eternal life right now. Each day walking in the Holy Spirit and seeing my life with God's eyes and doing his will in my life. Trusting Him and in faith, knowing without a shadow of a doubt, i am his. i pray that more Christians get it, that they crack open the word, get on their knees and follow Christ into eternity before it is too late..
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Serving God is a good life! All of it, through trials and victories, abundance and need, all of it is a good life, amen.
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Just before Jesus was arrested, he prayed, as was consistent with His life and character. This whole chapter is Jesus prayer for us. Jesus prayed for us! Before he died, he thought of us. On the cross, he thought of us. His prayer was not for the world, as verse 9 says, "i pray for them, i pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine." His prayer was for his disciples and for us who are disciples today, as verse 20 says, "....for them also which shall believe on me through their word."
JOHN 17
1"These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said:
Father the hour has come, glorify thy Son that thy Son also may glorify thee. 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him. 3And this is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 4 i have glorified thee on the earth, i have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, 5 and now O Father glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which i had with thee before the world was. 6 i have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world, thine they were and thou gavest them me and thy have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."
AMEN, AMEN AND AMEN...THANK YOU JESUS, MY LORD, MY GOD, MY SAVIOUR...
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