“Every soul belongs to God and exists by His pleasure. God being Who
and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable
relation between us is one of full lordship on His part and complete
submission on ours. We own Him every honor that is in our power to give
Him. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less.”
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Old Paths in Portrait
“With Harps And Viols
With harps and with viols,
there stand a great throng
in the presence of Jesus,
and sing this new song.
All these once were sinners,
defiled in his sight,
now arrayed in pure garments
in praise they unite.
He maketh the rebel
a priest and a king,
He hath bought us and taught us
this new song to sing.
How helpless and hopeless
we sinners had been,
If he never had loved us
till cleansed from our sin.
Aloud in his praises
our voices shall ring,
so that others believing,
this new song shall sing.
Refrain:
Unto him who hath loved us
and washed us from sin,
unto him be the glory forever. Amen.”
-Arthur Pierson American Hymnist/Minister 1837-1911
www.missionafricajk.net
With harps and with viols,
there stand a great throng
in the presence of Jesus,
and sing this new song.
All these once were sinners,
defiled in his sight,
now arrayed in pure garments
in praise they unite.
He maketh the rebel
a priest and a king,
He hath bought us and taught us
this new song to sing.
How helpless and hopeless
we sinners had been,
If he never had loved us
till cleansed from our sin.
Aloud in his praises
our voices shall ring,
so that others believing,
this new song shall sing.
Refrain:
Unto him who hath loved us
and washed us from sin,
unto him be the glory forever. Amen.”
-Arthur Pierson American Hymnist/Minister 1837-1911
www.missionafricajk.net
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Old Paths in Portrait
I Know Whom I Have Believed 2 Timothy 1:12
“I know not why God’s wondrous grace
To me He hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for His own.
I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart,
Nor how believing in His Word
Wrought peace within my heart.
I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing men of sin,
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him.
I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days,
Before His face I see.
I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I walk the vale with Him,
Or meet Him in the air.
Refrain:
But “I know Whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able
To keep that which I’ve committed
Unto Him against that day.”
-Daniel Whittle American Hymnist 1840-1901
www.missionafricajk.net
https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/
To me He hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for His own.
I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart,
Nor how believing in His Word
Wrought peace within my heart.
I know not how the Spirit moves,
Convincing men of sin,
Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him.
I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me,
Of weary ways or golden days,
Before His face I see.
I know not when my Lord may come,
At night or noonday fair,
Nor if I walk the vale with Him,
Or meet Him in the air.
Refrain:
But “I know Whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able
To keep that which I’ve committed
Unto Him against that day.”
-Daniel Whittle American Hymnist 1840-1901
www.missionafricajk.net
https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Mission Africa Update March 14, 2019
Friends: Our Updates
are sent to instruct, encourage, edify and act as a help in prayer. We
appreciate your receiving them, your replies, comments and prayer requests.
May the Lord bless
you friend!
Teaching and Prayer for
Africa:
May our Lord, who has blessed us with salvation in Christ help us to better understand “Of The Church” from the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689: “The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ; and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinance of the Gospel.”
May our Lord, who has blessed us with salvation in Christ help us to better understand “Of The Church” from the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689: “The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly manifesting and evidencing (in and by their profession and walking) their obedience unto that call of Christ; and do willingly consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of God, in professed subjection to the ordinance of the Gospel.”
Edited from Operation
World, Seventh Edition: About the nation of Guinea: “”The Christian population
is still a small minority and concentrated in Conakry and the southwest
forests.” (Guinea is 88.33 % Muslim, 6.90 % Ethnoreligionist and 4.47 %
Christian). Over 37 peoples are still unreached; pray for their evangelization.
The Church suffered serious numerical setbacks in the late 1900’s and early
2000’s. Some established denominations shrank significantly, and evangelism and
church planting slowed-probably due to nominal Christians falling away. Pray
for believers who will persevere, and pray against the enemy who seeks to
destroy these young or weak Christians before they can grow.” Jim ministered in
Conakry, Guinea last month-pray for conversions and movement in evangelism,
discipleship and church planting.
Teaching Links:
See “Rebuilding Our Churches With Bible Reading”by Jim Elliff at: https://www.ccwtoday.org/2018/01/rebuilding-our-churches-with-bible-reading/ and Christian Communicators Worldwide’s excellent website at: http://www.ccwtoday.org/.
See “Rebuilding Our Churches With Bible Reading”by Jim Elliff at: https://www.ccwtoday.org/2018/01/rebuilding-our-churches-with-bible-reading/ and Christian Communicators Worldwide’s excellent website at: http://www.ccwtoday.org/.
See Spurgeon Gems “What
The Church Should Be” by C.H. Spurgeon at: https://www.spurgeongems.org/vols22-24/chs1436.pdf and Spurgeon Gems’ excellent materials at: http://www.spurgeongems.org/. Please continue in prayer for good health
for our dear brother Emmett O’Donnell and his wife Ann.
See Chapel Library’s
excellent resource “Backsliding”, a free Grace Broadcaster at: http://www.chapellibrary.org/book/backfg and all materials at: http://www.chapellibrary.org/.
See “Seeker Friendly
Churches” by Grace to You at: https://www.gty.org/library/articles/A255/seekerfriendly-churches.
See “Are Small
Churches Less Fruitful?” by Desiring God Ministries at: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/are-small-churches-less-fruitful.
Our News and Prayer
Requests:
Please continue in prayer for Willie, as he is still undergoing treatment for
bladder cancer, and pray for good health and peace for his wife Trudy. Pray for
good health for Steff who is suffering with tinnitus and her brother Phil who
was cancer free but nodules have been found. Pray for dear Lillie who had some
of her intestines removed in January-for good health and to be disease free;
pray for her husband John who is taking such good care of his dear wife. Lillie
wrote: “I had
cancer surgery on 1/31/2019, God is keeping me. John has been a blessing. They
remove 10 inches of intestines and that was the mass in the Colon. Keep us in
your prayers. We love you and we all must keep continuous continuous prayers.
John & Lillie”Pray for much good fruit from the work in Guinea last month. See the attached photos.
Pray again for peace
and an end of the violence and killing in South Sudan, DRC (Kivu), Syria, Yemen
and Somalia. Pray that the Ebola outbreak in DRC (Kivu) will be contained and
completely stopped soon; efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak have been
greatly hampered by violence recently. Over 500 known deaths have occurred
because of Ebola there.
Pray for Howard, James,
Hadija, Rachel, Julie, Yusuf, Mende, Eric, Aisha, for students in Guinea and
Winnie-for salvation.
We thank the Lord for Church
Planting meetings and Evangelism scheduled in Arua the end of this month-pray
that God will bless and orchestrate these ministry times; pray that He will
save.
Our Materials:
See our website (in most countries) at: www.missionafricajk.net and if it isn’t visible and for latest updated materials see our blog at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/.
See our website (in most countries) at: www.missionafricajk.net and if it isn’t visible and for latest updated materials see our blog at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/.
See our new page at
Sermon.com (Jim’s sermons): http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=jrobinettesermons.
In the Savior’s church
by His grace and peace, your friends, with thanks, Jim and Kappy Robinette
Mission Africa
“And
also I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church,
and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18 NKJV
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Thoughts
by A.W. Tozer:
“The
Immutability of God
The immutability of God appears in its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of men. In God no change is possible; in men change is impossible to escape. Neither the man is fixed nor his world, but he and it are in constant flux. Each man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
God never changes moods or cools off in His affections or loses enthusiasm.
The truth is that there is not and can never be anything outside of the nature of God which can move Him in the least degree. All God’s reasons come from within His uncreated being. Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been changed.”
Knowledge of God
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.
…the man who would know God must give time to Him.
God can be known satisfactorily only as we devote time to Him.
God will respond to our efforts to know Him.
Love of God
If literally God is love, then literally love is God and we are all duty bound to worship love as the only God there is. If love is equal to God then God is only equal to love, and God and love are identical. Thus we destroy the concept of personality in God and deny outright all His attributes save one, and that we substitute for God.”
-A.W. Tozer American Minister 1897-1963
The immutability of God appears in its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of men. In God no change is possible; in men change is impossible to escape. Neither the man is fixed nor his world, but he and it are in constant flux. Each man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
God never changes moods or cools off in His affections or loses enthusiasm.
The truth is that there is not and can never be anything outside of the nature of God which can move Him in the least degree. All God’s reasons come from within His uncreated being. Nothing has entered the being of God from eternity, nothing has been removed, and nothing has been changed.”
Knowledge of God
The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.
…the man who would know God must give time to Him.
God can be known satisfactorily only as we devote time to Him.
God will respond to our efforts to know Him.
Love of God
If literally God is love, then literally love is God and we are all duty bound to worship love as the only God there is. If love is equal to God then God is only equal to love, and God and love are identical. Thus we destroy the concept of personality in God and deny outright all His attributes save one, and that we substitute for God.”
-A.W. Tozer American Minister 1897-1963
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