Behold, Srujana from India!

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Ministry photos, the Church at San Isabel.

Gleanings from India, under the King of kings:

• Srujana Bharathi Moparthi.  She was born in a Church, delivered by her dad (& mom) alone because it was the rainy season and there was no way to get to a hospital or receive any help.  Her father lifted her to the Lord, dedicating her to Jesus Christ straight away.
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Pictures of our 10 days with this precious Woman of God, a priceless forever-daughter of ours in Jesus Christ, click here.  We were honored to the moon and back when she refused to leave our home without first bowing to touch our feet while we pronounced God’s blessings upon her & her going, as her “parents in the USA.”

– The Circle of God –

Spurgeon, 1858  (italic font mine)
“ … All things teach us, if we have but a mind to learn. There is nothing which we can see, or hear, or feel, which may not be the channels of great instruction to us …

Beloved, believe me, it is God’s providence, when his paths drop fatness, and when the valleys rejoice on every side. It is a part of his plan when the fields are covered with corn, and when there is grass for the cattle; but it is equally as much a part of the plan of his providence to reduce the earth to famine, and bring the human race to misery at certain stated seasons …

It is just the same with you in your own private concerns. There is a God of providence to you. Lo, these many years has he fed you, and has never denied you the supply of your wants. Bread has been given to you, and your water has been sure. Your children have been about you. You have washed your feet with butter, you have rejoiced; you have stood fast in the ways of God, and in the ways of happiness. You have been able to say, ‘Our ways are ways of pleasant ness, and all our paths are peace.’ You have not been, of all men, the most miser able, but in some respects connected with your life, and blessed by God’s providence, you have been the happiest amongst the human race; and now a dark cloud has fallen upon you. The sunlight of God’s providence has set while it was yet noon. When you were rejoicing in the brightness of your light, on a sudden a midday-midnight has fallen upon you, to your horror and dismay … Your penury, your sickness, your bereavement, your contempt, all these things are as much ordained for you, and settled in the path of providence, as your wealth, your comfort, and your joy. Think not that God has changed. It involves no change of the sun when an eclipse overshadows it … so it is with God. It may be that his purposes are moving onward to some great and distant goal, which yet we cannot see, circling around himself in some greater circle than human knowledge yet can guess; but this is certain, that, so far as we are concerned, God is the same, and of his years there is no end, and from his fixed and settled path he hath not swerved. His glory is undimmed, even when eye cannot see it. His love is just as bright, even when the shinings of it are concealed. He hath not moved to the right hand nor to the left. With the Father of lights there is no variableness, neither the shadow of turning. He abideth fast and fixed, though all things pass away. Let me confide then in him.

Now, did you ever notice that in providence the circle is God’s rule still. The earth is here to-day; it will be in the same place this day next year; it will go round the circle; it gets no further. It is just so in providence. God began the circle of his providence in Eden. That is where he will end. There was a paradise on earth, when God began his providential dealings with mankind; there will be a paradise at the end. It is the same with your providence. Naked came ye forth from your mother’s womb, and naked must ye return to the earth. It is a circle. Where God has begun, there will he end … God’s rule in grace is still the circle. Man was originally pure and holy; that is what God’s grace will make him at last, He was pure when he was made by God in the garden. That is what God shall make him, when he comes to fashion him like unto his own glorious image, and present him complete in heaven. We begin our piety by denying the world, by being full of love to God; we often decline in grace, and God will bring us back to the state in which we were when we first began, so that we shall rejoice in none but Christ, and give our hearts to him as we did at first. Hence, there must be an eclipse in grace, because even there the circle seems to be the rule of God’s gracious government …”

He leads us in paths of righteousness, for His Name’s sake.

What a familiar ring and view we have heard and seen tolling in recent months from the Living God, as He lays what looks to us to be ordained work before us (again)!  We see the Father’s Day message we relayed fleshing itself out in God’s speed: 

1.  It is written, “You shall be holy, because I am Holy.”
2. Do the works I set before you, the works created for you by Me since before you were born.
3. Behold, from My Throne, I am making all things new! (Despite decay or death, restoring them to their original state.)

Practicing what we preach,
WE’VE SEEN WHAT 2023 HAS SHOWN US BEFORE!

“Jesus is Coming!”  The harvest is plentiful and a lightning bolt from a Holy God is on the Way.  Hell is a choice far too many cherish and are vehemently defending.

Immediately prior to our Church-plant endeavor in North Dakota (October 2010), He revealed to us a nation that was literally demanding to be destroyed, God’s point of view via the Holy Spirit.  We begged for the grace and opportunity to tell people about the shed Blood of Jesus Christ, insisting that with His help, they would repent.

He provided all we needed to grant our desperate plea.  To our heartfelt dismay, only a precious few did repent and nine years later we entrusted the North Dakota labor to them; they continue with the same message to this very day:

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
John 3:17  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 
John 3:18  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” 

John 9:4-5  I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
 
Isa. 5:20-23  How terrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute what is bitter for what is sweet and what is sweet for what is bitter! … How terrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine … and deprive the innocent of justice!

Jer. 5:27-29  … so their houses are filled with treachery. This is how they have become prominent and rich, and have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to their evil deeds. They don’t argue the case of the orphan to secure justice. They don’t defend the rights of the poor. ‘Should I not punish them for this?,’ asks the LORD, ‘Should I not avenge myself on a nation like this?’ 

Isa. 32:7-8  Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just. But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.
 
“You will know them by their fruit,” Jesus Christ (Mat. 7:20).  Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door (James 5:9)!

“…Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners: do you feel that you are a sinner? If so, he came to save you. All you have to do—and that grace makes you do—is to believe that he came to save sinners, and therefore came to save you. Mark, he did not come to save all; he came to save sinners. All men who can claim the title of sinners, Christ came to save. If you are too good to be a sinner, then you have no part in this matter; if you are too proud to confess that you are a sinner, then this has nothing to do with you; but if with a humble heart, with a penitential lip, you can say, ‘Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner,’ then Christ was punished for your sins, and you cannot be punished for them. Christ has died instead of you; believe on him, and you may go your way rejoicing that you are saved now, and shall be saved eternally. May God the Holy Spirit first teach you that you are a sinner, then lead you to believe that Christ died for sinners and then apply the promise, so that you may see that he died for you; and that done, you may ‘rejoice in hope of the glory of God…’”  Spurgeon, 1858

We are praising God that, in reverence to Him, you have helped to carry us this far.  Together, we are co-missioned in God, laboring for the Rewards of Jesus’ suffering.

Heb 10:35  So don’t lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you. 
Heb 10:36  For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will you can receive what he has promised. 
Heb 10:37  For “in a very little while the one who is coming will return—he will not delay; 
Heb 10:38  but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him.” 
Heb 10:39  Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. 

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