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Yours truly is here at the library trying to do my regular daily personal Bible study (using my Dell Chromebook laptop). But I was contemplating of things including the ministry that the blessed LORD GOD has given me here in Jersey City. I am so indefinitely grateful/indebted to my GOD and my SAVIOUR the LORD JESUS for all these unbelievable things/gifts that HE showers on me every day. There was this concern I have on the activities here like the every day full-time ministry after having done the 2 week missions evangelism globally (Turkey) in the 1040 nation. What I was thinking (intentionally) of doing with the full-time ministry that the blessed LORD GOD has allowed me to do is full-time service (all-out) in a mission field (foreign). But at the present time, I am still here even after the March 22, 2019 turn around for the full-time ministry. And it has been 3 years since. Nevertheless, the blessed LORD GOD has allowed me to service HIM in a small way at Turkey (for two weeks). In the meantime, I am now doing regular Bible study with a JIL (JESUS is LORD) Bible study group on Tuesdays, and InterCP FO (Field Operation) prayer fellowship on Sunday evenings, and doing the FACRC (Filipino American Christian Reformed Church) church bulletin. And LORD willing, I will be going t Israel to do another two weeks of evangelism ministry.

So, yours truly is doing my personal Bible study of the book of Amos (and Revelation). I used this book as our scripture reading for the Sunday FO prayer fellowship (since I was familiar with it). The prophet Amos started out telling us his timeline – in whose reign he was ministering, namely Uzziah of Judah, and Jeroboam 2nd of Israel; and with the “roaring” of the judgments of the different Gentile nations, as well as those of the two kingdoms of the LORD, which are Judah and Israel.

“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it” (Isaiah 13:17)

As the blessed LORD GOD, FATHER in heaven gives HIS infinite grace in CHRIST JESUS without constraint, so has HE given me HIS amazing grace to go and minister to “the uttermost parts of the earth”.

It was about three years ago that the undeserved and glorious grace and tender mercies of the LORD GOD in CHRIST JESUS got a hold of my heart like that of Jeremiah’s “fire in my bones”, and won’t let go until HIS faithfulness showed itself in my going by faith to kick start the “gospel tracts distribution” ministry, along with the “gospel tracts distribution”; then just recently, the “10/40 Window nations” ministry, and LORD willing, full-time missions.

You see, it is never me or my, but GOD who is faithful – Deuteronomy 7:9. And as the LORD JESUS is GOD the SON, and is one with the FATHER, and the HOLY SPIRIT, He is well able to keep us – John 6:37. So, despite my “handicaps” (being overweight, and slow), the LORD gave me the strength to do the ministry; providing me with HIS daily grace and mercies in CHRIST JESUS. There were the ever-intrusive “fears” that the blessed LORD GOD had me overcome (like possible health complications when flying – which turned out to be just “fears”, and nothing more!) Then there is the finances “problem”. That too turned out to be inconsequential. As Dr. Charles Stanley used to say, “Obey GOD and leave the consequences to HIM”.

Then there are the seeming “problems” when you get into the field. I can think of one that is obvious, and that is the language barrier. I speak, write, and understand English and Tagalog (national language of the Philippines), but I never spoken nor understood “Turkish”. The missionaries there did try to teach us some basic words, but it is little help when you are actually talking to real people. So, as an answer to our prayers/needs, the blessed LORD GOD directed us to people who speak English as well as Turkish. Also there is the need for extreme pre-caution which was inculcated in our brains before we even got to the field – that you can not just share the good news because of the possible secret police activity. Nevertheless, it is (that ministry there) by GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT’s leading. Like one of our team who actually witnessed to a policeman who very kindly gave him and another team member a ride back to our hotel.

Just as what the WORD of GOD said, “Not by might, nor by power, but by MY SPIRIT, saith the LORD of HOST.” (Zechariah 4:6).

“But to us there is but one GOD, the FATHER, of whom are all things, and we in HIM, and one LORD JESUS CHRIST, by whom are all things, and we by HIM.” (1 Corinthians 8:6)

So, yours truly is presently doing full-time ministry (by the blessed LORD GOD’s grace and extended tender mercies in CHRIST JESUS), and is engaged every day, every time I watch my contemporaries (people who are believers who are engaged in full-time ministries whom I know who went to school and attended the same church with me at the same place that I was [same time], and are now doing far better than yours truly [me]). I can still remember when I was attending school the one contemporary who was at the same dormitory, and the same room as me, who was my dorm hall monitor – who is now pastoring a great church. And the other contemporaries who attended the same church I did back then (in the days), and are now serving as pastor and wife in the Philippines [as missionaries who committed their lives to the full-time service of the LORD – and are being so blessed by the LORD with a flourishing church].

And here I am just barely starting.

It was two years ago that the blessed LORD GOD has placed HIS “fire in my bones” grace and tender mercies in the LORD JESUS that prompted me to surrender to full-time service of the LORD GOD, the LORD JESUS, SAVIOUR/KING/CREATOR. You see yours truly was working two jobs then just to make ends meet – Fed Ex as a package handler and Papa John as pizza delivery driver. Then that “fire in my bones” was placed in my heart and it kept burning ever so, until yours truly decided to go full-time. Mind you, I was putting gospel tracts in cars and wherever I can then while working secular jobs. Then I was thinking to myself – LORD, how can I do full-time when I am working two jobs? Then the answer came as a blessing in disguise – CHF (congestive heart failure)! I wasn’t taking care of myself as I should (eating junk foods), and I developed CHF [congestive heart failure]. And I called in at work to tell them that I was checking in at the hospital. So I went. I was hospitalized for a whole week, and then it struck me – this is it. I won’t be going back to secular work anymore. I am going full-time in the ministry.

And from there on, things started falling into place. I got disability by the skin of my teeth (all by the good LORD GOD’s grace in CHRIST JESUS); and am now getting my retirement benefits.

All well and good, except my contemporaries were doing much better than me. My two friends are now serving the LORD as pastor and wife in a growing ministry – the pastor engaged in pastor-teaching with a great church in the Philippines, and his wife running a thriving garden ministry. They were into the ministry from 2015-2016 (5 or so years already). And the other contemporary is now pastoring a large conservative church in Texas. He has a nice family, and is a pastor-teacher who has been in the ministry since he left school (same university I attended) since 1984 (if I am not mistaken). He was serving as assistant pastor in Dr. John MacArthur’s church for a few years (about 17 years) until he served in his own church now (from 2003 which totals 35 or so years).

And here I am just two years into the ministry, and these people were into it for so many years and looks illustrious/prominent – the LORD blessing them with so much. Yours truly has been going out handing out gospel tracts almost every day (not to boast because it is all GOD’s infinite grace in CHRIST JESUS – GOD’s faithfulness), and I have very little to show for it. But there is the one thing that sticks out in all these – and that is, the very LORD GOD they serve is the very same LORD GOD I serve. We all serve the same GOD. Their GOD is my GOD. Their LORD is my LORD. What the LORD GOD does for them HE can do for me!

“And walk in love, as CHRIST also hath loved us, and hath given HIMSELF for us an offering and a sacrifice to GOD for a sweetsmelling savour.” (Ephesians 5:2)

It’s Sunday, and it’s the LORD’s day – so yours truly has taken the precious time to share this message; sort of my Sunday sermon. So, yours truly (me) has been studying the Old Testament book of Leviticus in a regular Bible study session with a friend, and has been confronting the horrible truth about ourselves (our nature) as sinful and fallen creatures. I learned that there were at least five offerings given by the people of Israel as sacrifices to the LORD GOD, who is holy, pure, and perfect. There is the burnt offering, mentioned first in the first chapter of the book of Leviticus. Then there is the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.

But before I continue, I must needs back track to when the LORD GOD revealed HIMSELF to Moses (back at the book of Exodus). If you are familiar with the Bible, GOD’s HOLY WORD, you know that the LORD GOD, the great CREATOR, has revealed HIMSELF to very few (at least to one person) throughout human history, Adam (and Eve), Cain (and Abel), then to Noah, then to Abraham – out of millions of millions of people. And with that changed, and continue to change the devastating course of human lives – and with that changing it for the better. You see, the blessed LORD GOD/CREATOR could have left us to ourselves to continue to destroy ourselves, or better yet, the LORD GOD could’ve destroyed us (which HE did with the global flood – Genesis 6) completely and HE would have been completely justified. The LORD GOD owns everything, and HE has the complete and uncontested right to do what HE wants with HIS creation. But, HE didn’t. GOD chose to save mankind (us). And HE chose to use one man to bring about HIS great salvation, namely Abraham. Through his lineage will come the MESSIAH – Matthew 1.

But going back to the offerings in the book of Leviticus, this was given by the LORD GOD to Moses as revelation of HIS nature, a holy and perfect sinless ALMIGHTY. And this is the way to worship HIM. You see, the people of Moses’ time, or even of Abraham’s time do not know the one true GOD. The millions of people on earth were idolaters – worshipping several gods that they do not even know; idols who can not see, speak nor listen/hear them. Even Abraham was an idolater before the one true GOD called/revealed HIMSELF to him (Joshua 24:2). So for the people of the earth to know the one true GOD, who despite showing HIMSELF through HIS creation:

“Because that which may be known of GOD is manifest in them; for GOD hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of HIM from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even HIS eternal power and GODHEAD; so that they are without excuse:” (Romans 1:19-20).

the LORD GOD picked/chose one man, Moses, out of the many children of Israel, and out of the many millions of people on earth, to reveal HIMSELF – both to the chosen people, Israel, and to the whole world. Most importantly, the blessed LORD GOD revealed to Moses to way for people to approach and worship the one true GOD.

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“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard and seen in me, do: and the GOD of peace shall be with you.” (Philippians 4:9)

Only by the goodness and grace of our LORD GOD in CHRIST JESUS that this guy (me) receives divine encouragement in my walk (life) – even in the ministry in missions – which this guy is looking forward to.

Here is the link to the late Dr. Bob Cook’s “Walk With The KING” web site – click here.

Dr. Cook told of a man who was doing the ministry in a much different way than his organization are used to doing, and they were getting upset with it – despite the success that the LORD GOD was obviously giving him. He was “walking by faith”. And this was what I needed that very moment – a boost from the LORD GOD’s affirmation on “walking by faith” – 2 Corinthians 5:7.

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“Great is our LORD, and of great power: HIS understanding is infinite” (Psalm 147:5).

Limitless supply of creativity – all from the LORD GOD , the great CREATOR of the universe, and SAVIOUR (LORD JESUS CHRIST) – that HE gives (generously and upbraideth not – James 1:5) to all men. And yours truly was given through the LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS by GOD the FATHER the same – the animation skill, and am using it to proclaim the good news.

You see, it has occurred to me that the next generation is more into social media than any other generation. This generation is constantly bombarded by the availability of anything digital – Google, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, etc… And yours truly thought it might be worth the try to use these things to get the most important message out, namely the gospel of the LORD JESUS.

NOTE: The video above in just one of the animations that the blessed LORD GOD granted me grace to do.

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“Then sayeth HE unto HIS disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the LORD of the harvest that HE will send forth labourers into HIS harvest.” (Matthew 9:37-38).

First things first, I want to give all the credit to the LORD GOD in CHRIST JESUS, for this special opportunity to be of some service to HIM in HIS kingdom. The ideas here comes from the LORD, by HIS grace alone.

I want to share the methods I use for doing gospel tracts distribution/street preaching; and I hope it would be of some help to you, the reader, to help you with the similar endeavour that the LORD places in your heart for a ministry like this.

Prayer is the foremost item you need to have, before you even attempt anything. Prayer from other believers, your own personal prayers, and quiet time prayers (in your war room).

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto GOD. And the peace of GOD, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through CHRIST JESUS.” (Phlippians 4:6)

Then you need to spend time in HIS HOLY WORD, the “sword of the SPIRIT”. That is our life source. Here is where you get your guidance/direction from the HOLY SPIRIT of ALMIGHTY GOD.

“NUN. THY WORD is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Psalm 119:105).

This, along with trust in the ALMIGHTY GOD.

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

It is the LORD GOD who opens the doors for you, who brings people your way to hear the gospel. “Not by might, nor by power, but by MY SPIRIT, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah 4:6).

The first item you need is the HOLY BIBLE, GOD’s HOLY WORD. And if you have any Gideon’s New Testament Bibles, that’ll be better. But have a complete Bible with you at all times – as much as possible.

P. S. It will be very helpful if you have scriptures memorized – “THY WORD have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against THEE”, “I will delight myself in THY statutes: I will not forget THY WORD.” (Psalm 119:11, 16).

Then make yourself a decent size poster board with scripture references and pictures that is eye-catching and related to your message.

And take plenty of gospel tracts with you. You’ll find that these gospel tracts will disappear fairly quickly depending on your location. You can buy the tracts from various gospel tracts distributors, and you can also get “free” ones from Gospel Tracts and Bible Society – click on this link for their web site. Or you can make your own, like I do, as the LORD gives you the resources – like abilities, ideas, financial, and material items – or even when you have limited resources. The LORD GOD is well able to provide for you – hasn’t HE given you life? Hasn’t HE given you HIS most precious possession, HIS SON, the LORD JESUS?

With all that, you might want to, even though you really don’t need to, use a tablet to play some gospel music to start off the activity. Yours truly (me) uses my tablet to play a video preaching to preach the good news to bystanders while I offer them the gospel tracts. Of course, you can do it the way the LORD GOD would have you do it – do the preaching yourself.

I also take a portable loud speaker with me that is blue-tooth enabled, which I connect to my tablet to resonate whatever I am playing in my tablet – in my case, the gospel preaching video. And I can place the blue-tooth portable loud speaker at a reasonable distance from my tablet.

Lastly, but not least, always keep your mind on the main/central focus of all this – and for who this is all about – and that is the LORD JESUS! “For we preach not ourselves, but CHRIST JESUS the LORD; and ourselves your servants for JESUS’ sake.” (2 Corinthians 4:5).

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. “How can they call on HIM in whom they have not believed? and how can they believe in HIM of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher.” (Romans 10:14).

“Or despisest thou the riches of HIS goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of GOD leadeth thee to repentance?” (Romans 2:4).

Just today, yours truly has found out about an old acquaintance from when I was at college (university to be exact) – my old school (alma mater), BJU (Bob Jones University) which in itself is a miracle from the LORD GOD – Tom Pennington, my hall monitor during my freshman year. This was during the years of 1982-1986 (about 38 years ago). Now Tom is greatly used by the LORD GOD as a pastor to a wonderful church at Texas, Countryside Bible Church, and is involved with Dr. John MacArthur’s ministry, Grace To You.

Also, another blessing from the LORD GOD are the lives of two people I knew when we were attending church formerly known as FFBC (First Filipino Baptist Church), now changed to Global Harvest Fellowship.

But why am I sharing these, you might ask? And what has the scripture above anything to do with this post? Well, everything. You see, these acquaintances were from way back. Now things have drastically changed. They were enjoying the tremendous blessings – reaping the goodness of the LORD GOD in their lives – because they were obedient to their callings.

While Johnny come lately here (that’s me) has been the prodigal son – the misfit. You see, the blessed LORD has been so gracious to me back when, but this fool (that’s me again) missed so many opportunities that the LORD GOD has given me – and many of them has come and gone. And as a consequence, I am in the state that I am. And yet, the most gracious thing is, the LORD GOD has still shown me tender mercies – Lamentations 3:22-23. All because of the LORD JESUS, my SAVIOUR’s faithfulness to me.

Isaiah said, “A bruised reed shall HE not break, and the smoking flax shall HE not quench: HE shall bring forth judgment unto truth.” (Isaiah 42:3). You really won’t appreciate what the SAVIOUR has done for you and to you in giving you HIS righteousness until you see your filthiness. “But GOD commendeth HIS love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, CHRIST died for us.” (Romans 5:8).

But I have a special GOD – Isaiah 45:18.

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the MOST HIGH shall abide under the shadow of the ALMIGHTY. I will say of the LORD, HE is my refuge and my fortress: my GOD; in HIM will I trust. Surely HE shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.” (Psalm 91:1-3)

There is a scare going on about this newly found virus that has gotten to a pandemic proportion. There is of course a cause for great alarm, and as you may have surmised from almost all of the news that extreme precaution needs to be taken. This so-called pandemic is not as bad or is not as worst as the ever lingering ATHVID-00 virus (which I call the “Atheist Virus”) that has existed since time began – Genesis 6.

We take measures to keep the Corona Virus in check by imposing “lockdown/quarantine” which limits the spread of this notorious disease producing canker; and hopefully eventually eliminate the threat. The same can be said about the other virus, namely the ATHVID-00, but this disease-producing toxin is far too dangerous and long-lasting. The Bible said that “broad is the way” – to the destructiveness made by this virus; and “many” are claimed by this deadly mindset.

But thank be to the LORD GOD, who made a way to defeat this malevolence – and that is the cross of the LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST — Romans 5:8.

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