What is it about a muddy puddle that makes a child drawn to it? What is it about the muddy puddle that is like a magnet, and a child just has to step in it and dance!?
This question really struck me Thursday evening as my son, Ethan, and I were going into the Church for Bible Study. It had been a snowy, sloppy, warmish kind of day, and between the van and the Church was a rather large muddy puddle. As we passed, Ethan began to position himself for the big plunge! As I was on hand his impulsive desire to jump was quickly thwarted, and this question crossed my mind. Then in the few seconds before we entered the Church for Bible Study I realized that the Good Lord had just given me food for thought and sermon material!
We need to be like that muddy puddle! Not in respect the the muddy or even in respect to the puddle, but rather we must be like magnets that people feel need to jump into! As a Pastor and a Preacher it can be difficult at times to convince people of their spiritual needs, but if I could become like a muddy puddle I wouldn't have to convince people they would just want to jump in and get their spiritual needs met!
Everywhere Jesus went the crowds just happened. He was like a crowd magnet. He didn't have to announce His arrival into town. He didn't have to put up posters or make radio announcements! Jesus found some needy people and began to minister. The result: shortly afterward a huge crowd would begin to form, and He would have a congregation to preach to! Oh, to be more like Jesus! Oh, to be less like myself!
So my challenge this morning, evening and noon is that you change whatever needs to be changed in your life so that you are a magnetic muddy pool of spiritual desire! You get Jesus so He overflows and people will want the part that is slopping over!
Yours for magnetic Christianity,
Pastor Fred
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Bible Studies/Videos I've been working on:
- 5 Steps To Free Your Mind
- God's Plan of Approach: A study of Tabernacle Furniture
- Importance and Necessity of Water Baptism
- No Matter What Stay In The Fire
- Quick Fixes
- Shovel It over Your Shoulder
- Stewardship Part One: Time
- The Jeremy Foster Show
- The Name of God Revealed
- The necessity and Importance of the Holy Spirit
- VIDEO: A must see! Jason Sisco preaching "No Limits"
- What the Bible says about sin, the flesh and our Carnal Nature
Our Prayer Family: A List of Prayer Requests
- Newfoundland & Labrador! That a wave of God's Spirit would flood this great province!
- Your Neighbors, that Jesus would save their souls!
- Springdale, Newfoundland: Pray that God's Spirit would awaken souls to their need of salvation and continued spiritual growth. Also, pray that Pastor Fred can teach many Home Bible Studies.
- Pastor Fred and his family: Pray for Health, Strength, Inspiration, Revival and that God will lead him to many hungry souls
- The Country You Live in: Pray for Salvation, Revival, Missionaries and the Moving of God's Spirit
Weekly Prayer for A Country on my counter:
Please pray with me for the country that is in focus each week. Thank You and may God richly bless your prayer life.
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A Prayer for Canada:
This week Lord Jesus we bring the country of Canada. Let the revival of your Word and Name sweep across this vast dominion. Let all ethnic groups that now call this great land home become hungry for something more, and find YOU! Let the Church arise to become the bastion of Truth that it is meant to be. Let you people become the light and power that spreads your Gospel throughout all this land!
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A Prayer for Canada:
This week Lord Jesus we bring the country of Canada. Let the revival of your Word and Name sweep across this vast dominion. Let all ethnic groups that now call this great land home become hungry for something more, and find YOU! Let the Church arise to become the bastion of Truth that it is meant to be. Let you people become the light and power that spreads your Gospel throughout all this land!
We ask this all in the Name of Jesus Christ -- Amen!
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