Friday, February 11, 2005

WAKE UP, MY BROTHERS!

Wake up my brothers in Christ, it’s time we take our rightful position as leaders in our families and take charge. Let’s love our wives and children the way God intended us to. Let’s stop abusing them physically, emotionally and spiritually and start loving, nurturing, and caring for them. Let’s usher the presence of God in every area of our lives, be it as sons, husbands or fathers. In the book of Proverbs, chapter 24 and verse: 16 The Bible says, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief”…therefore, Men Of God, get yourself up from where the devil my have knocked you down and be a man!

Here I give to you what I would consider God’s ten most wanted men.

Here we go...

1. The man who puts God’s business above any other business (Matthew 6:33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

2. The man who brings his wife and children to worship rather than sending them (Hebrews 10:25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

3. The man who is willing to be the right example to every person he meets (1 Corinthians 11:1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

4. The man who thinks more of Sunday school than of Sunday sleep (1 Peter 2:2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

5. The man who gives what he should to the Lord’s work and lives on what is left (2 Corinthians 9: 6, 7) But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

6. The man who goes to church for Christ’s sake rather than for himself or someone else (John 4: 24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

7. The man who has a passion to help others rather than to be helped himself (Philippians 2:4) Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others

8. The man who has a willing mind rather than a brilliant one (2 Corinthians 8:12) For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

9. The man who can see his own faults before he sees the faults of others (Matthew 7:1) Judge not, that ye be not judged.

10. The man who is more concerned about winning persons to Christ than about winning worldly honors (Proverbs 11:30) The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Now, I ask... Are you in?

Elder J. A. Vazquez

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