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To: Bellflower

Hope you made some progress. I’m not sure I could keep my cool around those fools so it’s probably better I stay away.


32 posted on 03/14/2011 3:15:19 PM PDT by creeping death
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To: creeping death
. I’m not sure I could keep my cool around those fools so it’s probably better I stay away.

I know exactly how you feel. My biggest prayer before I first went out there was asking The LORD to please not let me be angry because I felt so much anger for them. I knew it would take God to control me. He did and more than I could have imagined. Before The LORD I decided to preach The Gospel with them and stay out of the politics of it all. They are so driven and constantly wanted to pull me into arguments around ideology so that they could dismiss what I was saying about their need for Christ. I kept telling them that I was not out there for politics but my purpose for being out there was to lift up Jesus. It is The Gospel itself that does the work. Our first priority is to, by the grace of God, get them saved and let The Holy Spirit begin to do His work on them from the inside out. Many, many of them are actually open to Gospel. Many of them are lost souls looking for a reason to live that is bigger than themselves. I went out there angry at them but came back with compassion for them.

33 posted on 03/14/2011 3:45:49 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.)
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