Weekly Devotional

By Max Lucado
Dependable people are like diamonds. They are precious because they are so rare. Experience and know-how are great assets, but they are not much good without trustworthiness. Talent is wonderful, but by itself its not enough. Far better to be a faithful christian. Are you? Like Timothy and Epaphroditus , are you a role model for others? Determine to be a person others can rely on. Keep your word. Show up. Be consistent. Live for others. Take risks . Be a "go to" guy or gal. Make it your goal, by God's grace, to exemplify a life of spiritual steadiness.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

THE POST BELOW IS FOR PASTOR WILLIAMS

The blogspot allows us to type English and it is automatically translated into Telugu. The letter is an encouragement for the people Williams and his ministry team reach out.

The scripture from Acts 2:42 to 47 was typed

"They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. AND THE LORD ADDED TO THEIR NUMBER DAILY THOSE WHO WERE BEING SAVED!"

Why are we not seeing people saved everyday? Because we are not doing the things that the early church did, devoting our selves to the word, fellowshiping with other believers, to prayer, acting selfishly instead of giving to others that are in need. Our commitment has gotten to be to US, not to God.

Let us search our selves and find out that the only path we need to be on is Jesus Christ!

As Robert Rimmer says "God Loves you, I love you and there is nothing you can do about it!"

పస్తోర్ రేయ్, ఓర్ఫన్స్, విదోవ్స్ అండ్ అల్ బెలిఎవెర్స్ ఇన్ జీసస్ క్రైస్ట్

ఐ ప్రి థిస్ ఇస్ సయింగ్ వాట్ ఐ వాంట్ తో సి, విచ్ ఇస్, తాత వే లవ్ ఏఅచ్ అఫ్ యు వేరి దీప్ల్య్ అండ్ ప్రి ది నెక్స్ట్ కోప్లె అఫ్ మొంథ్స్ ఫ్ల్య్ బి, సో వే కాన్ కం తో విసిత్ యు.

విలియమ్స్, వే వే కం వే వాంట్ తో హెల్ప్ యు మినిస్టర్ తో ది కాంవేర్త్స్ అండ్ రీచ్ ఔట్ తో ది లాస్ట్. తో హెల్ప్ యు షేర్ ది గోస్పెల్. వే విల్ షిప్ మోర్ బిబ్లేస్ ఫర్ అస్ తో గివె తో ఒథెర్స్.

ఈఫ్ వే కాన్, ఐ వౌల్ద్ లికె తో సి అస్ హవె అ కోప్లె అఫ్ కుక్ ఔత్స్ ఫర్ ది కాంవేర్త్స్ అండ్ అస్ అం ఔత్రేఅచ్ తో ది లాస్ట్!
గివె ఎవెర్య్ ఒనె అ హాగ్ అండ్ కిస్ ఫర్ అస్.
"థెయ్ దెవొతెద్ తేమ్సేల్వేస్ తో ది అపోస్ట్లేస్' తెఅచింగ్ అండ్ తో ది ఫెల్లోవ్శిప్, తో ది బ్రేకింగ్ అఫ్ బ్రెడ్ అండ్ తో ప్రయెర్. ఎవేర్యోనే వ్యాస్ ఫిల్లెద్ విత్ అవే, అండ్ మెనీ వన్దేర్స్ అండ్ మిరసులౌస్ సిగ్న్స్ వేరే దోనే బి ది అపోస్ట్లేస్. అల్ ది బెలిఎవెర్స్ వేరే తోగేతేర్ అండ్ హద్ ఎవెర్య్థింగ్ ఇన్ కామన్. సెల్లింగ్ తేఇర్ పోస్సేస్సిఒంస్ అండ్ గూడ్స్, థెయ్ గావే తో అన్యోనే అస్ హి హద్ నీద్. ఎవెర్య్ డే థెయ్ కాంటింయూద్ తో మీట్ తోగేతేర్ ఇన్ ది టెంపుల్ కోర్ట్స్. థెయ్ బ్రోకే బ్రెడ్ ఇన్ తేఇర్ హోం అండ్ అటే తోగేతేర్ విత్ గ్లాడ్ అండ్ సిన్సురే హార్ట్స్, ప్రైసింగ్ గాడ్ అండ్ ఎంజొయింగ్ ది ఫవొర్ అఫ్ అల్ ది పీపుల్. అండ్ ది లార్డ్ అద్దెద్ తో తేఇర్ నెంబర్ డైలీ తోసే వ్హో వేరే బింగ్ సవెద్." అచ్త్స్ ౨:౪౨-౪౭
ప్రైస్ గాడ్
స్టీవ్

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Update From Our New Ministry Venture With Pastor Williams Ray in India

















The Bibles w
ere delivered to Pastor Ray, 60 complete Bibles and 80 New Testaments. Several of the pictures are shown. The Bibles were all given away within a week. They need more!

































The Jesus Video has been shown to some of the church members and prayerfully will now be used to evangelize the villages. We helped Pastor Ray to purchase a DVD player and also sent enough money for the orphanage to have a banquet (see pictures).





















Pastor Ray has bought cots for all the orphans, they were sleeping on the ground. They also have enouth food for at least the next 45 days.

The ministry team has churches in 29 villages that have approximately 1,000 to 3,000 people in each village. Each church has a minimum of 20 converts. Seems as though the fields are white unto harvest.

















Cheryl and I are trying to plan a trip for June to visit the orphanage and several of the villages and the churches to see how we can minister with Pastor Williams and the other ministers. Looking at the precious children, we are ready to love all of them. If you are interested in going, please contact us.

These seems to be a tremendous opportunity for us to expand our field of ministering from the prisons, street ministy and Bible studies, etc to foreign missions!

Enjoy the pictures and pray for the Lord's Guidance for you and for Three Fold Ministries!

Retreat Weekend at Rayburn Correctional March 6 to 8, 2009

If you missed last weekend, you missed a BLESSING! We thought we were going to minister to 75 inmates at RCC, BUT we were ministered to as much as they were. The weekend was hardly believable!

Friday night Dr Russell Bush at 89 years young preached, with praise and worship, testimonies and ended the night with the Lord's Supper. His message was perfect for the weekend! Jesus Christ and a personal relationship with him that is life changing.

Saturday we had praise and worship, and sessions on Relationships with wives or finances, Relationships with children and Relationships with others. There were 11 tables with one or more facilitators at each table. During the afternoon we did foot washing and every man in the room had his feet washed at least once. There were many relationships healed among the inmates.

Several of the facilitators testified later "I'm not taking my shoes off and have my feet washed!" BUT as the feet were being washed and the tears started flowing and hearts started being mended, THE SHOES of the facilitators came off!!! Ain't God Good!

Many of the inmates said Sunday morning that they were up most of the night praying and repenting and reflecting on what God was doing in their lives.

They came Sunday morning to the smell of "Hot, Fresh Donuts". The donut place nearly stroked out when I ordered 30 dozen donuts at 6:24 AM to be picked up in 45 minutes. BUT Praise the Lord, they had them ready when I got there. Many were crying because they had not had a donut in many years.

After the Donuts, we had a session on our Relationship with God and the facilitators started annointing and praying over each inmate at his table. And then the inmates prayed over the facilitators. Then people were praying for each other all over the room.

The morning ended with me having the privilege of Baptizing 3 inmates. Praise God!!

We have already schedule another weekend for the second weekend in December. PLEASE mark your calenders and don't let anything stop you from coming!

God Bless everybody that came and ALWAYS remember it is not about us, but about Jesus Christ and him Crucified and Risen from the Grave!

Steve