If You Could See Me Now

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If You Could See Me Know

“ … eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9

Four years ago today, our granddaughter, Lindsay “Bear” Groen received her new heart and entered into the presence of our Savior.

After six weeks at Children’s Hospital Boston, her little body recovering from two open heart surgeries and a cardiac arrest in between, the Lord mercifully and graciously called her home into His presence.
Our family refer to this season in our lives as the best-worst six weeks of our lives. As gut-wrenching and heart-breaking as it was to see Lindsay and our kids face one of the toughest trials of life, we all witnessed the power and presence of God in our lives in ways that today still seem hard to put into words.

Walking this journey of grief has been a lesson for all of us. There are days when it appears to get easier. Then there are days when the pain, heart and questions come ragging in like a flood. Yes, there are still tears. We all are grieving at different stages.

But we do not sorrow and grieve without hope. We take comfort that Lindsay is in the arms of Jesus and enjoying HIS presence. The words of this contemporary song describe it well … Indeed if we could see Lindsay now … WOW!

Our prayers have all been answered
I finally arrived
The healing that had been delayed
Has now been realized
No one’s in a hurry
There’s no schedule to keep
We’re all enjoying Jesus
Just sitting at His feet

My Dad, Mom and Lindsay …
Together with Jesus

Is you could see me now
I’m walking streets of gold (sorry Jimmy DeYoung J)
If you could see me now
I’m standing tall and whole
If you could see me now
You’d know I’ve seen His face                                        
If you could see me now
You’d know the pain is erased
You wouldn’t want me
To ever leave this place
If you could see me now

My light and temporary trials
Have worked out for my good
To know it brought Him glory
When I misunderstood
Though we’ve had our sorrows
They can never compare
To what Jesus has in store for us
No language can share


Lindsay Bear – We miss you so very much! We look forward to the day when we will all be with Jesus and you! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

GPS – God’s Positioning System: Song of Solomon 1-4; Psalm 119:49-56; Proverbs 16
Compass Pointers: The Lord wants our precious time, not our spare time. Anonymous
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 20:5; Level 2: Proverbs 20:1-7
Anchored to the Rock: No heart thrives without much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it. John Berridge

Celebrate His Presence

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Celebrate His Presence
Here is another paraphrase from Leslie Brandt’s Psalms Now. It is a paraphrase of Psalm 96:
God is here; God is now!
It is a time for celebration!
Our praises need not be confined to old songs.
Nor need we great organs or massive choirs to honor His name.
Let us create new songs of praise to our God.
Let us discover new ways of proclaiming His greatness and glory.
The elements about us reflect His majesty.
The roaring sea and all that inhabits it,
   the wind bends the trees,
   the creatures that fill air and land,
   the mountains that probe our skies,
   the rivers and lakes that slake our thirst,
   the great planets and stars that light up our night,
   all these reveal God’s beauty and splendor.
And out of this comes that fashioned by man’s mind and hand:
rockets and computers, art, architecture, music, literature.
Wherever one turns, God’s power is manifested,
God’s presence is made apparent.
Let us celebrate His presence in our world today.
As you worship Him today, take some time this morning to celebrate HIM! Think about HIS splendor and glory! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Chronicles 9; Psalm 119:41-48; Proverbs 15
Compass Pointers: To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance. Jean Vanier

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 20:5; Level 2: Proverbs 20:1-7
Anchored to the Rock: Let the day have a blessed baptism by giving your first waking thoughts into the bosom of God. The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. Henry Ward Beecher

Generous Farmer

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Generous Farmer
Luke 20: 9-16
When we demand from God we rob him of the joy of generosity. This idea threads its way through a parable Jesus taught. The story is about a farmer who hired out his land to workers and left on a journey that kept him away all summer. At harvest time he sent someone to collect some of the fruit, but the workers refused. Three times the farmer patiently asked to no avail. In a last ditch effort he sent his son hoping the workers would respect him, but they took him out and killed him in a hostile take-over scheme.
The problem here is entitlement. Like the workers, we can easily fall into the trap of thinking that God owes us. When we have spent time and effort we expect payment. That’s the way we are. But we must not forget that it is never God who owes us but rather we who owe him. The hymn writer Isaac Watts expressed it this way:
But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give myself away—
’Tis all that I can do!
But let us not forget the generosity of God. He loves to bless his children (Matthew 7:11). In fact, he gave us the greatest gift ever given when he gave us his son Jesus. Such a gift can never be deserved. So, let us remember to be grateful. When we stop trying to put God in our debt we restore to him the joy of generosity. – Jason Walsh is Youth Pastor at Whiting Bible Church and a new contributor to Freedom Fighter
GPS – God’s Positioning System: 1 Kings 1-2; Psalm 119:25-32; Proverbs 13
Compass Pointers: The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.  Stephen Charnock
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23
Anchored to the Rock:  Five minutes with Him in which the soul is touched by the forces of eternity will mean a day full of spiritual vigor. God can do much in five minutes of a man’s time if no more can honestly be spared. He can do nothing in five minutes for the man who should give Him sixty, but who is slothful. G. Campbell Morgan

His Finger in the Dirt

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His Finger in the Dirt 
“This they said to test Him that they might have some charge to bring against Him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more He bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before Him.” John 8:6-9 (ESV) 

I serve under the kind of Pastor who, just outta the blue (but Holy Spirit driven), will change the order of service on Sunday morning, that morning!! All you who are in charge of the audio/video presentations in church give me an AMEN!! Pastor Paul Ort is as unpredictable to serve under as it must be with Bill Welte. They both have had no problem “throwing us under the bus” when the mood seems to strike them and I wish (in love, of course) that our Heavenly Father would take away their assumed CDL licenses. It is an ugly “THUD!!” first thing on a Sunday morning. But truth be told, what gets changed at a moment’s notice can be meant for the edification of the body of Christ. As Pastor Paul puts it to me, “Well one has to be ready to pray, preach or die!” 

Well if one is to be ready to preach at a moment’s notice then one should be aligned with the correct focus of God’s Word. Our church’s Wednesday night Bible has been an interesting one. Pastor Paul has been going through a book titled “Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions” by Ken Ham and having us searching through Scripture in order for us to hone our skill at defending the faith. This past Wednesday night he started off with the genealogy that we find in the beginning of Matthew. I was not one for looking into them in past studies but as of recent I have come to realize their importance no matter how much they seem to put us to sleep. Fear not, however, that is not where I am going this morning. 
Pastor then had us turn to John 8:3-11, he made reference to Deuteronomy 5:18/Exodus 20:14 and reminded us of the consequence we find in Leviticus 20:10. In the book, which Pastor is going through, it had posed this question by the naysayers, “Why didn’t Jesus keep the Law by having the adulteress woman stoned?” Well the bottom line to that argument is the men who brought the woman to Jesus did not provide adequate witness (Deut 17:6, 19:15) nor did they bring the man who allegedly was with her. It does take two to commit the physical act of adultery. Then Pastor Paul pondered what the Lord was writing in the dirt with His finger. 

It is thought that Jesus may have been writing out the Ten Commandments. But then maybe, as Pastor suggested, He may have been writing the sin of each one of the men who wanted to stone this woman. And maybe the Holy Spirit drove those men to just drop their stones and depart from His presence. Therefore, I submit to you today that this may be an illustration of how we will face our Heavenly Father when we are brought into His presence and He opens His books to see what has been written to our account. Those men just may be an illustration of our adversary standing behind us reminded The Father that we know fully and willingly violated His precepts that Moses carried down from Mt. Sinai. “They don’t deserve Heaven!!” the adversary shouts from the back. 

But the refreshing part here is…Jesus as our intercessor. Sometimes in a world where truth can be spun out of control, like in this present day or back in the time where Christ walked the earth, a cool level head prevails. I cannot think of anyone with a cooler level head than Jesus. Yes, we do not deserve Heaven and yes, we deserve to be stoned but with the provision of a perfect sacrifice in Christ Jesus by the Father gives us a Savior who can look the adversary in eye and say unto him…”Well then you throw the first stone.” I can only imagine the sound of the stones as they all hit the ground. THUD…Thud…thud. As the sound guy, I hope it will be a joyful noise. – Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and is a regular contributor to Freedom Fighter

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 1 Kings 3-4; Psalm 119:33-40; Proverbs 14

Compass Pointers: “Even in the face of man’s sin and lost condition, there is still that basic potential in the soul and nature of man that through grace can become more like God than anything in the universe.” I Talk Back to the Devil   A.W. Tozer

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23

Anchored to the Rock: To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther

My Dad, My Hero

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My Dad, My Hero
I know that I have written about him before, but I just had to write about him again. Today my Dad would have been celebrating his 89th birthday. My Dad went home to be with the Lord in September of 1986 – which will be 25 years this year that he has been in heaven.
My Dad was an incredible man. He grew up in a very abusive family and in his early teens had to move in with his Aunt and Uncle. From his testimony, my Dad was an alcoholic from an early age, and was on a collision course with destroying his entire life.
It didn’t hit me until earlier this month … but I don’t have a clue how my Mom and Dad met. They were from two completely different schools, geographic areas, and quite frankly, all of my Aunts and Uncles on both sides of my family are with the Lord.
My Mom trusted Christ in her early 20’s at Second Mennonite Church in Philadelphia, and she prayed my Dad into the kingdom. I do remember that Pastor Walter J. Dick, (former director of Montrose Bible Conference) led my Dad to the Lord.

My Dad’s conversion was amazing. He never ever struggled with alcohol again. Was he perfect? No. In fact the one thing that he battled his entire Christian life was his struggle with cigarettes. For whatever reason, he did battle with that until the day the Lord took him home.

There are lots of reasons that I miss my Dad – but I guess the thing I miss the most is the ability to just look him in the eye to say thanks for leading me to Christ. At age three after a Sunday evening service at the same church where he was saved, My Dad and our Pastor, Curtis Lehman, shared the plan of salvation with me and I asked Jesus to be my Savior and Lord.

If you have a Dad that is still alive – don’t take him for granted. Keep connected with him. He’s not perfect – and guess what – neither are you! Thanks, Dad, for being my hero! Happy birthday! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 1 Chronicles 26-27; Psalm 119:9-16; Proverbs 11
Compass Pointers: “We are justified if we have accepted Christ as Savior. But present communion with God requires continual bowing in both the intellect and the will. Without bowing in the intellect, in thinking after God; without acting upon the finished work of Christ in my present life; and without bowing in the will in practice, as the waves of the present life break over me, there is no sufficient communion with God. Without these things I am not in my place as the creature in a fallen and abnormal world. These three things are absolutely necessary if there is to be real and sufficient communion with God in the present life.” Francis Schaeffer

Navigation Rules to Memorize:  Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23
Anchored to the Rock: Prayer is the putting forth of vital energy. It is the highest effort of which the human spirit is capable. Andrew Murray

Did God Really Say?

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Did God Really Say?

Genesis 3:1

This is an entry for those who know they have been running. If you are the kind of person I’m referring to you know that your life is in conflict with the life you should be leading. You have been faced with choices and you have chosen to walk down dark paths for some attractive reason. You have been justifying your choices by hiding behind doubts that hearken back to the Garden of Eden–whispers like “did God really say?” (Genesis 3:1)

The seed of doubt planted in any mind can grow into a full blown destructive lifestyle. For some, it begins with a hurt and the whisper goes something like this: “How could God let this happen?” This seed grows most quickly into the specter of unbelief.

Others who long so desperately to feel they belong will practically sell their souls to feel someone accepts them. The whisper for these may be, “How do you know the Bible is God’s Word? Yes, these are the kinds of people it warns about. But, when was the last time following that book ever paid off for you?”

Faith is not the complete absence of doubt. Acting on faith often must be in spite of our doubts. I believe that certainty is something increasingly rare today and achieved only by those who have conquered their doubts through repeatedly experiencing God’s faithfulness. Indeed, these people would neither claim to have all the answers to life’s problems, nor would they pretend the path of faith is smooth and easy. But, whatever else they have, they all have this in common: they can tell when the whispers of doubt are in the wind and they fight them off with the truth of God’s Word.

Hear now encouraging words spoken by the prophet Isaiah:


Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. – Jason Walsh is a new contributor to Freedom Fighter and is Youth Pastor at Whiting Bible Church

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 1 Chronicles 23-25; Psalm 119:1-8; Proverbs 10

Compass Pointers: When I am sore beset, I seek some quiet place,
Some lonely room or barren windswept ill,
And there in silence wait apart
Until I see again the smile upon God’s face;
Until His presence floods me like the dawn,
And I can hear His whispered, Peace, be still,
And know the strength to do His will.
I turn to take my load and find it gone. Antoinette Goetschius
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23

Anchored to the Rock: Prayer is putting forth of vital energy. It is the highest effort of which the human spirit is capable. Andrew Murray

Don’t JUST Do It!

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Don’t JUST Do It!

Are you a reader of Scripture?  Do you have some plan for consistently reading God’s Word?  It is a key piece of the living the Christian life, but it’s more than that.  It’s food for our souls.  We can’t neglect Scripture and expect to live healthy Christian lives.

That pursuit of spiritual health is at the core walking with our Lord.  The early church leaders wanted new believers to get started well on their journey with Jesus.  They wanted them to start healthy and stay healthy.  Those leaders had discovered for themselves that a Christian life without God’s Word wasn’t the path to spiritual maturity and health.

The practices observed in the early church didn’t allow for short cuts.  This life we enter with Jesus is, as Eugene Petersen called it, “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction.”  We have a manual for this new life—the Bible—and we can’t possibly live life well without it.

So, let me offer you what I’d like to call the “forgotten jewels” of our study of Scripture.  The first of the two jewels is memorization.  Consider a familiar little line of scripture from the Psalms: I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (Psalm 119:11 ESV)  I know very few people who invest time in scripture memory, and that’s a very sad thing.

Let’s not spend time trying to prove the value of scripture memorization.  Rather, let’s understand its importance for our walk with Jesus.  It brings stability and security to our lives in ways that simply reading God’s Word can’t do.  Most of us think we can’t memorize scripture.  My experience tells me that “can’t” isn’t the issue.  The truth is that most of us just don’t want to do the hard work of sticking with it.
Don’t just read God’s Word; store it in your heart!

The second “forgotten jewel” of Scripture is meditation.  Do you remember that little word seen so often in the Psalms—Selah?  You’ll see it seventy-four times, and it always means the same thing.  “Think on this.”  “Consider this.”  It’s an invitation to meditate on Scripture.  The psalmist offers us the invitation to let a thought from Scripture settle in our souls, to become part of us, to transform us.

Reading God’s Word is good for us.  Storing it up in our hearts through memorization is better for us.  Allowing it to transform us through consistent meditation is best for us.  The combination of the three brings radical transformation.  Reading, memorizing, meditating are tools for our journey with Jesus that will make us more like Him.

Good.  Better.  Best.  Selah! John Strain is Senior Pastor of First Baptist Toms River, NJ
GPS – God’s Positioning System: 1 Chronicles 21-22; Psalm 118; Proverbs 9

Compass Pointers: One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works. Joni Eareckson Tada
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23

Anchored to the Rock: The men who have done the most for God in this world have been those who have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, is opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. E. M. Bounds

What A Wonderful Savior

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What a Wonderful Savior
“We know that this man really is the Savior of the world.” John 4:42

On this glorious Lord’s day morning, I remind you of the words of this great hymn, What A Wonderful Savior, written by Elisha Hoffman back the 1800’s. The words are powerful:

Christ has for sin atonement made – What a wonderful Savior!
We are redeemed! The price is paid!  — What a wonderful Savior!

I praise Him for the cleansing blood – What a wonderful Savior!
That reconciled my soul to God – What a wonderful Savior!

He cleansed my heart from all my sin – What a wonderful Savior!
And now He reigns and rules within – What a wonderful Savior!

He walks beside me all the way – What a wonderful Savior!
And keeps me faithful day by day – What a wonderful Savior.

He gives me overcoming power – What a wonderful Savior!
And triumph in each trying hour – What a wonderful Savior!

Refrain
What a wonderful  Savior is Jesus, my Jesus!
What a wonderful Savior, is Jesus, my Lord!

Take some time this morning to praise Him for His mighty work in your life! – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Samuel 24; Psalm 117; Proverbs 8
Compass Pointers: There are people today who, though they disdain the church, Christianity and religion, have limitless admiration for Jesus Christ, and are ready to listen to what He said, and to what is said about Him by persons they have learned to respect. John A. Mackay (1889-1983)
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 19:23; Level 2: Proverbs 19:20-23
Anchored to the Rock: Many of us cannot reach the mission fields on our feet, but we can reach them on our knees. T. J. Bach

If Jesus Came To Your House

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If Jesus Came to Your House
Here’s an old poem that I recently came across that should cause you and me to think today. What would we do if Jesus came to our house for a visit?
If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two —
If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do.
Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored Guest,
And all the food you’d serve to Him would be the very best!
And you would keep assuring Him you’re glad to have Him there —
That serving Him in your own home is joy beyond compare.
But – when you saw Him coming, would you meet Him at the door
With arms outstretched in welcome to your heavenly Visitor?
Or would you have to change your clothes before you let Him in?
Or hide some magazines or DVD’s and put the Bible where they’d been?
Would you turn off the radio and hope He hadn’t heard?
And wish you hadn’t uttered that last, loud, hasty word?
Would you hide your worldly music and put some hymn books out?

Could you let Jesus walk right in, or would you rush about?
And I wonder – if the Savior spent a day or two with you,
Would you go right on doing the things you always do?
Would you go right on saying the things you always say?
Would life for you continue as it does from day to day?

Would your family conversation keep up its usual pace?
And would you find it hard each meal to say a table grace?
Would you sing the songs you always sing, and read the books your read,
And let Him know the things on which your mind and spirit feed?

Would you take Jesus with you everywhere you’d plan to go?
Or would you, maybe, change your plans for just a day or so?
Would you be glad to have Him meet your very closest friends?
Or would you hope they’d stay away until His visit ends?

Would you be glad to have Him stay forever on and on?
Or would you sigh with great relief when He at last was gone?
It might be interesting to know the things that you would do
If Jesus Christ in person came to spend some time with YOU! – Lois Blanchard Eades

Something to think about today, brothers. What you do is Jesus came to visit YOU at your house? – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Samuel 22-23; Psalm 116; Proverbs 7

Compass Pointers: Make no small distinction in your conduct between small things and great. William Taylor
Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 18:10; Level 2: Proverbs 18:1-8
Anchored to the Rock: When the knees are not often bent the feet soon slide!

What Am I, Offensive? Part 4

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What Am I, Offensive?
Part Four
“And He said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”   Luke 17:1-4 (ESV)
Before I finish this discourse about offense I would like to recommend that you took a look at John Bevere’s book, “The Bait of Satan. A lot of I what I have been highlighting about the issue of offense was discussed in his book. It was, and still is, a great tool for me to go through when I have those moments where I seemed to have taken a nibble on the bait and found myself stuck with some unwanted fruits. It has made me refer to God’s Word for counsel on more than one occasion. With that said let’s get back into Joseph’s life and his reaction when it seemed like he could have gotten all kinds of offended.
Remember that moment with Potiphar’s wife that we find in Genesis 39: 11-18?  We have Potiphar’s wife getting offended when Joseph turns down her advances, she throws a hissy fit and it’s off to prison he goes. Those prisons were in the true sense of the word prison. To paraphrase Bevere on Joseph’s thoughts, “He may have been sitting in the dark and damp of his cell saying to himself, “I served my master with honesty and integrity for over ten years and this is what I get? I’ve been more loyal to him than his wife. I’ve been loyal to my God and fled from that nutty woman’s sexual advances for the whole time I have been serving his over inflated ego and this is my reward? A dungeon!!”
The one thing that we can notice is no matter what his circumstances were after being sold into slavery was that Joseph remained in obedience to God. As a young man of 17 his dreams opened his eyes that he had found favor with God but he lacked the discernment that the authority he was to receive was given to serve and not set him apart. It took his time in prison for the refiner’s fire to begin to do its work in Joseph. When the opportunity presented itself he was able to interpret the dreams of Pharaoh’s former cupbearer and baker. Now the baker didn’t fare out very well but the cupbearer did. We can find this in Genesis 40: 20-23 as yet another moment where Joseph could take offense but when opportunity once again arises, in God’s perfect timing, Pharaoh has a dream that none of his wise men or fancy magicians could explain.

Enter the restored cupbearer. Joseph finally gets to take a shower, put on a decent tunic and is presented to Pharaoh then finally we get the much needed interpretation to Pharaoh’s dream. And had Joseph harbored in any offense against his brothers when they came looking for food when the famine that Joseph foretold Pharaoh came we would not have the book of Exodus would we? So when it was all said and done we get to read this marvelous passage in Genesis 50:19-21, “But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.”(ESV)
So offense will come, it will be our response to it that really matters. Being offensive to an unsaved world will come, our response to it still will matter. The bottom line here is that a dead man cannot be offended. If we are truly dead to self and alive in Jesus, we will find the strength to turn the other check. We will wear our armor in the honor of God’s glory knowing that the chink’s on the breastplate, on the helmet, on the sheild and maybe even on the shoes were done in the defense of knowing His truth and defending the victory that was already won on the Cross. — Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and a frequent contributor to Freedom Fighter
GPS – God’s Positioning System: 2 Samuel 19-21; Psalm 115; Proverbs 6

Compass Pointers: “Once you leave the place God has chosen for you, your root system begins to dwarf. The next time it will be easier for you to flee from adversity because you have been careful not to root yourself too deeply. You end up coming to the place where you have little or no strength to endure hardship or persecution.
You then become a spiritual vagabond, wandering from place to place, suspicious and afraid that others will mistreat you. Crippled and hindered in your ability to produce true spiritual fruit, you struggle in a self-centered life, eating the remains of the fruit of others.”  The Bait of Satan   John Bevere

Navigation Rules to Memorize: Level 1: Proverbs 18:10; Level 2: Proverbs 18:1-8

Anchored to the Rock: When a good man falls, he falls on his knees.