You are a born again person! But
– You may be feeling incredibly lonely! Let me give you a practical pointer for overcoming your loneliness. Quit dwelling on it! Reach out and try to help someone who is lonely.

Luke 6:38 promises that when we give, it shall be given to us. There is a locked-in likeness to what we give. It is the law of the harvest.
If you want friendship
– You must show yourself friendly (Proverbs 18:24).

Why don’t you keep a stack of cards and a pen handy to write a little note of encouragement to a shut-in? Get a prayer list and intercede for others. Travel around the world by means of prayer.

There is no life so empty as a self-centered life! And there is no life so centered as a self-emptied life!! As you pour out yourself to others
– The Holy Spirit will continually pour Himself into you!

This week do one of these things each day:

1. Write someone an encouraging email, sms or a letter;
2. Do something good for one of your contacts or coworkers;
3. Pray for five people who are lost that God would save them;
4. Go on a prayer walk around a church or a mosque or a temple that the people there would get saved;
5. Call a new friend and ask how you can pray for him or her;
6. Share a meal with a stranger and share the Gospel;
7. Bless a servant of God with your grateful greetings!

(PR)

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Even before Titanic arrived on the big screen in 1997, people have been fascinated by its story, perhaps because there is so much to it.

Clearly, many mistakes were made that led to its sinking. Although it was called the unsinkable ship, it sank. And it sank relatively easily. 1,500 people perished in an icy grave. There were not enough lifeboats on board.

Many of them went out half-full –
– some with only four or five people when they had the capacity to carry at least 60. But one of the greatest tragedies about the Titanic is the fact-
– that while there was room in the lifeboats, no one went back to save anyone else. They had rowed out a distance from the sinking vessel because they were afraid of its suction.

Survivors said they could hear the screams of the people as the Titanic finally disappeared below the surface. Here were people in lifeboats that had room. They could have rowed back and pulled others in. Yet they did nothing about it. They waited for about an hour, and then they went back.

By then, they were only able to save a handful of people. They waited until it was too late.
Right now, there is a lost world around us. People are going down, and we have room in our lifeboat.

Do we care enough to go and pull them on board? Do we care enough to do something for them? Or will we say, “They should have gotten into the boat when there was time”?
Do you have a burden for lost people?

Are you involved in soul winning on a daily basis?
Are you supporting any evangelical mission?

(PR)

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Psalm 129:3 is a vivid description of personal suffering:
The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” (Ps 129:3)

Many other pictures of personal suffering are found in the Word of God: going through the storm, going through the furnace, going through a battle and carrying a burden.

Why would the psalmist use plowing as a picture of personal suffering?
For one thing, he felt as if people were treating him like dirt. They were saying, “You’re just like a dirty field, and we’re going to plow right up this field, and we don’t care how you feel.” If we live for Jesus, we can expect people to treat us the way they treated Him. They treated Him like dirt.

They are plowing on your back. The central truth in this picture is that plowing is preparation for a harvest. When people are treating you like dirt, when the plows of criticism and accusation dig in your back, remember:

God is preparing you for a harvest. What kind of a harvest?
That depends on the kind of seed you plant. If you plant seeds of revenge and hatred and malice, saying, “I’ll get even with them someday,” the harvest will be bitter.

You can plant the right seeds. But if you plant the seeds of the Word of God, letting love and peace and patience reign in your heart, you can say with the psalmist that the Lord is righteous–He will resolve my problem.

Then the harvest will be one of blessing, as in verse 8: “The blessing of the Lord be upon you; we bless you in the name of the Lord!”

If you want a harvest in your life, you must plow, plant and pour water. When people treat you like dirt, when the trials of life go right through your life like a plow, get ready for the harvest.

God has a great harvest of blessing for you!
So remember to plant the right seed.

(PR)

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“If you love me keep my commandments.” John 14:15.

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“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” James 2:26.

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“The LORD of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.” Zechariah 7:9.

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“Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Luke 12:15.
The story is told how a wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.
The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him.
She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune.
He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
However, a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

– if every one of us would make and pray the following commitment.
“Dear God, I am available today. Please use me today to be ‘as Jesus’ in some way, first to my family, and then in some way to every life I touch. Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus’s name, Amen.”

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