In Luke 4 Jesus says, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor, to declare freedom for the prisoners….” Mark 16 says that He sends us to do the same thing!
According to Colossians 1:27, when you are born again Christ now lives in you. So, where is the presence of God? I’m not looking forward over here, or looking backward over there, or begging for it up there. I am relishing the abundance and living in the glory of His love and His life and His Spirit in me right now. I come boldly to His throne of grace and receive what I have need of from Him. I recognize that He lives in me, I live in Him, and His presence surrounds me.
When we receive Jesus in our hearts, He lives in us—His Spirit, His holiness, His righteousness lives in us. When we walk, He walks, when we talk, it’s like He’s talking through us. And when we lay our hands on someone, it’s like He is touching that person through us!
“Most people are begging God to do what He has already done, in most of their praying. Then, the rest of their praying they spend begging God to do what He told them to do.” — TL Osborn
As we celebrate RESURRECTION DAY, Kevin and Leslie and Eurasian delegates gather in Moscow for the 17th annual Moscow Evangelists Conference. Prominent on this year’s conference schedule and the “100 Tent to-do list” is addressing the need of Europe. More than 300,000 villages, towns and cities in Europe (which includes Russia) do not have a Gospel witness. In 22 European countries, less than 1 percent are born-again. A league of Tent 100 Evangelists is joining hands with Western European delegates fulfilling Hudson Taylor’s prophecy of a revival spreading from the West of Russia through Europe!
In many European cities this Easter season, attendance in Mosques will surpass church attendance. Join with us as we strategize for the release of dozens of Bright, Yellow and White Miracle Life Tents across Europe! France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Bulgaria, Spain, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland and many other countries are joining this effort! You can too!
Can we do something about the desperate situation in Europe?
Just 25 years ago a small band of missionaries, nationals and our partners answered a call to raise churches and tents across the Ex-Soviet countries. Today, these churches are alive and well with millions serving Christ. Even President Putin claims Russia is a Christian nation with Christian values. Yes, it is possible to reach into Europe with Good News and restore hope to the continent that once gave the nations, including America, Christianity!
We sense the urgent need to act and we count on your involvement. One Pastor told us that the Lord took him to heaven showing him fields of people he had never seen along a winding road. Jesus told him, these are your people! He later called and said, Kevin you’re the only missionary couple we support! I’ve got news for you. You work and I get the fruit!
Folks, this is a team effort with team rewards! The upcoming Moscow Evangelism Conference costs $10,000, and Tent-Storming Europe will cost no less than $25,000 as an initial seed. Every gift you supply, large or small, makes a difference! Thank you for joining us in fulfilling Hudson Taylor’s prophecy of ushering in the last great awakening before he envisioned the Lord’s return!
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If Jesus needed miracles 2,000 years ago to confirm the words He spoke, don’t you think miracles will confirm the words we speak today? Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever!
Right now you and I can embrace the perspective that says NO giant of sickness and disease, NO giant that comes against the living God can exist in the presence of the One Who lives in us, Who believes in us, and Who goes about doing good and healing all who are oppressed of the devil!
Only humanity was created in the image of God. Only humanity was given the right and the ability and the authority to walk with the living God, to speak words as He spoke, to create as He created, to live as He lived, and to fellowship as He fellowshipped.
This is the day before Christmas. On this day approximately 2,000 years ago Joseph was feeling very out of place, because he could not find lodging in Bethlehem for his pregnant wife. There is Good News for those who feel out of place in today’s world. Those who feel like they have misplaced their destiny, or replaced it with an ordinary “just get by” existence.
There is a place where nothing is impossible for you. There is a place where sickness cannot stay. There is a place where you are equipped with more than enough to answer every need of every good work. There is a place where peace, dignity and love rule in your daily walk. There is a place where you do as Jesus did.
Jesus is inviting you to stand in that place if you are feeling out of place like Joseph. That place is not far from you. It is called the Kingdom of God. Jesus said it is at hand. Paul said it is within you. When you call on Jesus He comes to live in you, and He makes you the place where all things are possible!
William Booth is not a name most people recognize. He was a prominent Methodist evangelist living in mid-19th century London, England. One cold night as he returned home from a service, he noticed the poor and homeless sleeping under the London Bridge and was overcome with compassion for them. He decided at that moment that he had to do something to help them, and The Salvation Army was born.
In 1865 He and his wife Catherine opened The Christian Revival Society in London, and “Food for the Million” soup kitchens, which fed large bowls of soup and bread to the poor. They established lodging houses to shelter the homeless from the bitter winters.
Christmas was always the most demanding time of the year and everyone needed extra help and encouragement. Because of this, General Booth would send a telegram each Christmas Eve to his weary soldiers all over the world, to encourage them in their work.
In what would be his last Christmas, he composed a paragraph of heartfelt words to inspire his troops, but then realized the cost of sending it would be too much. He edited the paragraph into three sentences, then one sentence, then three words—and realized even that would be too many.
Finally, he decided to send only one word…one word that would continue to inspire his army to win souls, feed the hungry and give shelter to the homeless.
That word was simply, “Others.”
This Christmas season remember that Christ came to dwell in your heart and in the hearts of people. Allow Him to dwell in you and live through you—and let this Christmas be an “others-minded” Christmas!
