Thanks to those who responded to my last post–giving me just enough encouragement to continue this blogging work into the future. I’ve always believed there to be value in this; I’ve just not always been sure others felt the same. Your words have encouraged me to keep going.
I am about to head out of town for about 8 days of rather intense ministry opportunity. Ten messages in three New England locations in eight days, with counseling and care for dozens of teens and a couple of pastors added in throughout.
Studies have shown that New England is now the most secular part of our country. It is the least churched region in America today.
But God is at work. In North Attleboro, Mass. and just north, are two good, growing churches where Christ is loved, the gospel is preached, and rich and sound doctrine is procaimed by pastors who love and live the truth with passion. Just north of Boston is another.
In Greene, Maine, there is a fine little church pastored by a young man with a passion for Christ and the gospel, who has a desire to become a part of something bigger than his little work: he wants to get into our family of churches, Sovereign Grace Ministries.
At the recent Together for the Gospel conference I met dozens of men who were leading churches throughout New England, taking them further up and further into the riches of grace.
So my labors over this next couple of weeks are but tiny drops in a bucket of heroic labors going on in a dry and barren region. God is at work through good and godly folks who are not counting their lives dear to themselves that they might run the race and finish the course laid out for them.
Pray for New England. Pray for America. Pray for revival–a true, deep, and profound work of the Spirit that will lead to the conversion of millions and the transformation of countless lives. It’s happened before; it can happen again.
Via con Dios amigo. We will be praying.
Prayers will be with you and for those you are ministering too. God Bless you.
Tim my prayers are with you and I will bend the knee in prayer with you for the revival of New England as well as all of America!
I was encouraged by this passage. I has reminded me that while the work of the Holy Spirit to bring revival in the heart of man, it is also true that God has been pleased to use His children to bring about that revival.
We need to stand strong in unity against the Enemy and his people in this work. This passage reminded me of this:
Nehemiah 4
1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building— if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” 4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 5 Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.
6So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.