Dear people, I have a passion for every one of you to see the same

From one of you!
My friend of 40 years, Lynn, called me and mentioned she had not won anyone to the Lord for a while and she was going to the local rescue mission last night. Over the phone I prayed that God would give her a soul to win. I also told her to let me know the person's name later. She was surprised by what I said. Surprised, that is, until she led a woman named Kay to the Lord last night. Kay's stepmother had been witnessing faithfully to her. I was so excited, but not surprised.(Me too, Sumner)

Kind sir, kind lady, "the harvest is plenteous" God said so. "The laborers are few" We, the 50 mil Christians in the USA,  can and must change the world, one soul at a time.

TO GOD BE THE GLORY, HE DID IT. As I do every 2 or 3 weeks, I went to the black barber college to get a hair cut. The manager, who prayed with me to receive Christ a month ago, always picks out a barber who knows how to give "a white folks haircut'. Our pet joke there. He took me to a fairly new lady barber student. She had never cut a white man's hair. He taught her how to cut my hair and they cut it together and did a terrific job. As I always do, I gave her a tip double the average tip there. Then I gave her "Your Ticket to Heaven" Immediately, she said, "I need that." "We all do", I replied. I told her how God loved her and sent the Lord Jesus to suffer and die for our sins, paid our debt in full, was buried, rose again and was seen alive by hundreds of people.  By now she had tears and said, "Yes", she understood it and gladly prayed with me to receive the Lord Jesus, as her Savior, her face beaming all over.

The Christian lady barber in the next chair said, "She needed that."
And I found out she had been miserable. I left there weeping with joy and praising God for what He did and the way He worked it all out.

Next, Celeste and I went to a very big home improvement store. Two lady employees helped us find what we needed and I gave them each, "Your Ticket to Heaven". One was very openly a Christian, the other very open to the gospel which I shared very briefly.  Just then the Christian lady pointed to a group of about 10 employees and said, "Go give that man one, he is the big boss here" I gave one to all. You should have seen the response. It was over whelming and all said, I will read. including the big  boss. I kiddingly told the big boss, Frank, and pointed to the two ladies, they told me to especially give you one " Oh, how thrilling to see God work. He said, "They were right, I need it."  That was all that was appropriate to do at the time. I will go see him personally very shortly.

We came home and I went to work in the yard. Three teens agers. on their way home from school, came by. "As is my custom" I gave each "Your ticket to Heaven." One of the greatest moments of my life occurred as I told them how God loves them and the Lord Jesus suffered and died for our sins, paid our debt in full was buried, rose gain and was seen by hundreds of people. Never have I seen God open the eyes and hearts of three people together, as He did theirs.

They prayed out loud with me right there on the sidewalk to receive the Lord Jesus as their savior. I wish you could have seen their faces. They showed they had been saved. I gave each of them my book, "How on earth can I be Spiritual" and they promised to read it. One did not have a Bible and I gave him one and told them to start reading the gospel of John, three chapters a day.

Dear People, the next president is not going to change the world. We Christians are the only ones who can, one soul at a time.

We must give the gospel through a tract or talk, to EVERY person like God told us. Oh how I love you dear people and LONG for each of us to see God work it all out as He did for me all day today. ABC Sumner

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God is a holy God, and the priest stood in the holy place to come to Him, for there he was in the pace of fellowship with God. There he was occupied only with spiritual things and worshiped the Lord. This is the place where prayer ascends to God and gets through to Him. To get our prayers answered we must spend time in fellowship with God "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (Jn. 15:7). This takes time. It means shutting ourselves up alone with God, spending time alone with Him in prayer, fellowshipping with Him, delighting ourselves in the Lord. It means to "set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth" (Col. 3:2). This is talking about sitting together in "heavenly places in Christ Jesus " Eph. 2:6). We have been raised into the heavenlies; but only as we enjoy this fellowship and spend time there in spiritual things will we see God answer our prayers.

 

A person can be in fellowship with another person but because they are hundreds of miles apart, they are not having fellowship with one another. We may be in fellowship with God, having no unconfessed sin in our lives, yet we do not spend time in the holy place, fellowshipping with Him. Therefore, we do not get whatever we ask of the Lord. We need to abide, to dwell, and to spend time in God's presence to get our prayers answered.

 

Being in the holy place also depicted being in God's will. When God told the priests to go into the holy place, He said, "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon" (Ex. 30:1). It was God's will for the priests to go in and offer up incense. To get our prayers answered, we, too, must be in God's will, and we must pray in His will. "And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, he heareth us, and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him" (1 Jn. 5:14-15). Until a person has learned to pray in God's will and according to God's will, he will not see his prayer answered. There must be submission in the heart and mind of the believer when he prays. If the Lord Jesus is our Example, as He is, then we also need to be able to pray from the depth of our heart, "Not my will, but thine, be done" (Lk. 22:42b). We must subject our personal desires, ambitions, pleasures, and everything else to God's perfect, sovereign will so that we will trust God "that all things work together for good to them that love" Him (Rom. 8:28). If we get our prayers answered, it must be according to God's will, in the holy place, in fellowship with God, with no unconfessed sin in our lives.

 

"Americans have the watches; Africans have the time." WOW "Take time to be holy"

Yesterday, I handed a lady "Your Ticket to Heaven" she snatched it out of my hand and said emphatically, "I need that" and turned away. It was obvious she did. She will read it

 

"My son, forget to my (word) law but let thine heart keep my commandments. For length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee" Pro 3:1, 2.

A must to get our prayers answered

The second prerequisite for coming to the altar of incense is in Ex. 30:18-20, where God said,

                Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass,
                to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of
                 the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
                 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
                 thereat: when they go into the tabernacle of the congregation,
                 they shall wash with water, that they die not.

The priests had to wash their hands and feet before entering the holy place to worship, to offer incense to the Lord. This was so essential that God said they had to do it. "lest they die." We saw that the laver is the place of confession of sin for the believer before he can come into God's presence to worship or serve Him. He must be cleansed from the daily defilement of sin" (Ps. 66:18). This is another reason why some believers never get their prayers answered.

We should be washed before we can pray to God, for He will not hear us with unconfessed sin in our lives, and our prayers will go unanswered.

Some today who have grudges, envy, jealousy and animosity in their hearts are cheating themselves from seeing victory in their lives and from seeing God answer their prayers. "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open unto their cry.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil" (Ps. 34:15-16). God says we should pray (Lk. 18:1) and that He is a God who hears prayer (Ps. 65:2), but the prayer must come from those who have been washed--who are saved and have confessed their sins--before they come into his presence. Not just the unregenerate have "the face of the Lord...against them," but so do His own children who are walking in disobedience with unconfessed sin. To have our prayers answered, we must go to the laver and confess and forsake every sin.

This is almost unbelievable, but so true today "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not ashamed at all, NEITHER COULD THEY BLUSH" Jer. 6:15. Here is the way to react to our sins. Read Ps 51 and see how David confessed his sin. Christians need this kind of confession to get prayers answered and  to become "a man after God's own heart".

Could this be why you have not had your prayers answered? Is there some inward, secret sin, known to no one but you and God, that is hindering your prayers? Confess it to God and forsake it; then come boldly to the throne of grace and you will find "help in time of need" (Heb. 4:16). Some have prayed for divine healing of their bodies, others have asked for power to witness, while still others have asked for better jobs, better health and finances, but all has been in vain simply because there is still unconfessed sin in their lives.

"Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seek me early (earnestly) but they shall not find me" Pro 1:27.

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how your going to live now"

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