Put on the helmet of salvation. Surround your mind with the thoughts of salvation. Words have power over our thoughts—speak the words of salvation!
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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We forget as believers that God has given us options to make our lives easier. We may declare the promises of God over our lives with the expectation that these promises are producing healthy results!
“Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.” Mark 11:23
My friends, the future is in your hands. It is not all up to God. It is not based on what life throws at you, and the devil cannot stop you.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7
Your future is not a mystery. I can sit down and talk with you and in one hour tell your future, because you will have revealed the seeds for your future during our conversation. If we really believe that what we are planting today is what we will see tomorrow, then we would start planting what we want to see.
When you have an encounter with Jesus Christ and surrender your life to receive Him as your Savior and Lord, it is not just an emotional experience. It is not just a rational, intelligent moment of decision. It is not just a cleansing of your past and passport to your future.
The seed of God has been planted in you in the same miraculous way that the seed of God was planted in Mary to produce the Lord Jesus! You have to say yes to His will the same way Mary did. She did not understand but said, “Be it done unto me according to your will.”
Peter describes this phenomenon by declaring: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” 1 Peter 1:23
You have a miracle in you! All His purpose and power is now able to grow and develop in you. This gives special meaning when we celebrate His birth at Christmas!
Let’s continue looking at two more ideas to cultivate your environment for a creative miracle:
#3 Cultivate your faith! Faith often defies logic and requires that we trust like a child. Faith is not foolish or arrogant, nor does it tempt God. Faith believes that God is not a man that He should lie. Therefore, faith takes God at His word.
The Holy Scriptures say that without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists, and that He rewards those who sincerely seek Him.
#4 Cultivate an awareness of Christ’s presence. Multitudes of people live in environments where they lack work, proper health care and money. In this environment the creative compassion of Christ shines!
Jesus was not just an ordinary man with healing power, He was God in human flesh. He was our model for life! He showed us how we can do the works that He does. Just like the little lad, bring what you have to Jesus and let HIM multiply it!
Scripture: Hebrews 11:6
Only one miracle is recorded in all four gospels authored by Jesus’ closest associates. The miracle of the five loaves and two fish is called a Creative Miracle. Five thousand men and their wives and children were fed from a young boy’s lunch. When Jesus saw that His vast audience was hungry, He told His disciples to feed them. The perplexed disciples timidly offered the one creative idea before them—a young lad’s lunch. How do we cultivate the environment for a creative miracle? Over the next two days we will look at 4 ideas to get you started:
#1 Cultivate your curiosity! How? Curiosity is defined as a desire to learn; a spirit of inquiry and an interest in others. I believe this miracle appears in all four Gospels for two reasons: first, a child with very little to offer took interest in others. Second, these gospel writers participated in the miracle themselves. As Jesus multiplied the lad’s lunch, their curiosity and interest compelled the disciples to participate in God’s creative miracle! Could it be that simple curiosity is the creative pathway to your miracle?
#2 Cultivate a lifestyle of participation. Allow yourself to get involved with God’s creative process. In this account, a seemingly insignificant child solved a crisis for 5,000 men plus their wives and children. A young boy with only his lunch! Could it be that this kingdom belongs to the children, as the Bible says, because children have the potential to receive all the possibilities that God offers?
Scripture: Matthew 14:15-18, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:12-17, John 6:5-13
Forgiveness has both a horizontal and a vertical aspect. Horizontal forgiveness releases us from judgments that bind us to unhealthy relationships. It is the gatekeeper to the unforgiving spirit. As long as we are alive, we will encounter hurt and disappointment. What we do with this disappointment will determine our future.
Vertical forgiveness begins at the heart of God and extends directly to our hearts. It is a supernatural force of divine love that has the power to lift every burden. God’s forgiveness can lift our perspective of our relationships and ourselves. It can cause us to rise above every offense and see things from a heavenly perspective.
Are you troubled in spirit? Right now reach out for God’s divine forgiveness and discover a new liberty and freedom in Him! You can be free, happy and loosed from the chains of an unforgiving spirit!
As a young person, I faced relentless teasing for my size, name and abilities. No one seemed to understand, not even my mother. One time I remember my mother saying, “Leslie you are beautiful and gifted, what are you so upset about? Straighten up!” Those words, although intended to bring peace, only drove my shame deeper and placed an unseen wedge in my heart.
Several years later I realized that whenever I was in my mother’s house, we would automatically disagree and sometimes argue. There was no one else in the world I loved more at that time and yet we could not dwell in peace. I wanted help. My friend suggested that I ask God to forgive me for judging my mother and, if possible, seek my mother’s forgiveness. When I asked my mother to forgive me for not being the daughter I should have been, I remember her response. She said, “Leslie, you’re my daughter. Forgive you for what? I love you.”
My mother had no memory of any wrong, which is often the case, and the reason we must learn to guard our hearts. Because as the Proverb says, the issues of life flow out of the heart. My release did not come in knowing that my mother understood. My release came when I understood I was forgiven by God and I had forgiven both my mother and myself.
