Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Join in the Calling by Todd Pierce
Hey all -
These are some quotes from Romans 10 as the writer is expressing his desire in life and encouraging the other believers to join him in the calling. "Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted to the righteousness of God."
"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
"How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written:
How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
I am not real sure what things were like in Paul's day, but it seems like the people of God were faced with similar struggles that we have today. I know that each of you reading this have a heart for God and want to be a part of His work on the earth right now. But we, like the people who received the letter from Paul, are living in tension between our earthly labors (i.e. making a living) and doing the work of the ministry. I believe with all my heart that each of you have a full-time ministry right where you are at. Our Father wants to use you in every aspect of your life. But, there is still a huge need for people to be sent to preach, so people can hear and be saved. I am gifted and called to preach and have been given massive opportunities to reach the people who don't know the truth. I have been sent by my Pastor and church (Andy Taylor), but I am writing this to ask for your help in being mobilized. We as a ministry have been given opportunities all over this planet (30 states, Russia, Mongolia, Bolivia, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada) and my family and I are in agreement that we should go. We are in real need of funding, so please ask our Father if this is the work you should support. If not, please commit your year-end gifts and 2012 finances to some ministry that is preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to the lost. We are gearing up for a wild 2012. Let me know if you are on board.
Todd Pierce
Hey all -
These are some quotes from Romans 10 as the writer is expressing his desire in life and encouraging the other believers to join him in the calling. "Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted to the righteousness of God."
"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."
"How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written:
How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!"
I am not real sure what things were like in Paul's day, but it seems like the people of God were faced with similar struggles that we have today. I know that each of you reading this have a heart for God and want to be a part of His work on the earth right now. But we, like the people who received the letter from Paul, are living in tension between our earthly labors (i.e. making a living) and doing the work of the ministry. I believe with all my heart that each of you have a full-time ministry right where you are at. Our Father wants to use you in every aspect of your life. But, there is still a huge need for people to be sent to preach, so people can hear and be saved. I am gifted and called to preach and have been given massive opportunities to reach the people who don't know the truth. I have been sent by my Pastor and church (Andy Taylor), but I am writing this to ask for your help in being mobilized. We as a ministry have been given opportunities all over this planet (30 states, Russia, Mongolia, Bolivia, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada) and my family and I are in agreement that we should go. We are in real need of funding, so please ask our Father if this is the work you should support. If not, please commit your year-end gifts and 2012 finances to some ministry that is preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to the lost. We are gearing up for a wild 2012. Let me know if you are on board.
Todd Pierce
Labels: calling, confess, heart, preach, righteousness, salvation, saved
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Word of Encouragement by Todd Pierce
Hi family, we are closing in on the end of this time set aside to seek our Father in prayer and fasting and I want to encourage you. Please allow me to share where I am personally. I have told many of you that part of my focus during this time is to contend for the supernatural. Many people have a hard time distinguishing magic tricks from the supernatural of God. Remember that the sorcerers and magicians did many of the things that Moses could do. Again, Jesus said that there would come a day when people would come before him declaring the supernatural things they had been doing and Jesus would tell them to depart from him because the things they did were unauthorized. Remember when the disciples came to Jesus with excitement and went on and on about how the demons are even subject to them? He told them not to get caught up in rejoicing over that but consider the miracle that your names are written in the book of life. I believe they and we have already experienced the greatest miracle and that is that we can become sons of God by faith. That we become the righteousness of Jesus as He became sin for us.
I am continually asking our Father to take me as I have emptied myself and use me for His purposes. I want to be a son who so closely resembles my Father that my very presence produces life in other people. Woe unto me to not preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. Jesus was the Word of God made flesh and he dwelt among men. He instructed us to be/do the same. The Word of God should so form who we are that we emanate who God is, in the flesh. Jesus was the one and only begotten, but we are to be his imitators. We have the honor, responsibility and the joy of showing people who He is by letting our bodies be vessels of honor. It is supernatural for natural men to desire these things. It is supernatural that a sinner such as I would have the ability to manifest the presence of a Holy God. It is supernatural for the power of God to open the eyes of the blind so they can see the truth of God's love for them. It is supernatural for the prison doors to be opened and have people let out of bondage to lives of freedom. Although I would like to see the people I pray for immediately rise up healed and the discouragement I struggle with to be lifted, my hope is in the Lord. In all of it, we will confess His goodness.
Consider these words and begin to thank Him for the supernatural act that has already taken place in you and ignite the joy of your salvation. Return to your first love. In Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul offers this prayer and it is now my prayer for each of you. I love you. Todd
"For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen."
Hi family, we are closing in on the end of this time set aside to seek our Father in prayer and fasting and I want to encourage you. Please allow me to share where I am personally. I have told many of you that part of my focus during this time is to contend for the supernatural. Many people have a hard time distinguishing magic tricks from the supernatural of God. Remember that the sorcerers and magicians did many of the things that Moses could do. Again, Jesus said that there would come a day when people would come before him declaring the supernatural things they had been doing and Jesus would tell them to depart from him because the things they did were unauthorized. Remember when the disciples came to Jesus with excitement and went on and on about how the demons are even subject to them? He told them not to get caught up in rejoicing over that but consider the miracle that your names are written in the book of life. I believe they and we have already experienced the greatest miracle and that is that we can become sons of God by faith. That we become the righteousness of Jesus as He became sin for us.
I am continually asking our Father to take me as I have emptied myself and use me for His purposes. I want to be a son who so closely resembles my Father that my very presence produces life in other people. Woe unto me to not preach the Gospel of the Kingdom. Jesus was the Word of God made flesh and he dwelt among men. He instructed us to be/do the same. The Word of God should so form who we are that we emanate who God is, in the flesh. Jesus was the one and only begotten, but we are to be his imitators. We have the honor, responsibility and the joy of showing people who He is by letting our bodies be vessels of honor. It is supernatural for natural men to desire these things. It is supernatural that a sinner such as I would have the ability to manifest the presence of a Holy God. It is supernatural for the power of God to open the eyes of the blind so they can see the truth of God's love for them. It is supernatural for the prison doors to be opened and have people let out of bondage to lives of freedom. Although I would like to see the people I pray for immediately rise up healed and the discouragement I struggle with to be lifted, my hope is in the Lord. In all of it, we will confess His goodness.
Consider these words and begin to thank Him for the supernatural act that has already taken place in you and ignite the joy of your salvation. Return to your first love. In Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul offers this prayer and it is now my prayer for each of you. I love you. Todd
"For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen."
Labels: healed, imitators, joy, love, salvation, supernatural
