Dear beloved brethren and all who are led to this site:
Sean Morris and I just recently arrived from our trip to Ireland and Wales. We, along with Tucker, are currently staying in Arlington, Texas with a dear brother named Jesse Morris, Sean’s brother, and his dear wife Lindsay. Please pray that the Lord would mightily bless them for the gracious hospitality they have shown to the saints.
Our trip across seas was full of a number of ups and downs. On the positive side, we were able to see a number of lives drastically impacted by the gospel and the power of the Spirit of God, as well as witness and warn quite a few more. Most of the this impact occured in the houses of the people in which we were harboured. For instance, the first week we stayed in Dublin at a house of some dear brethren most of which were in their twenties. One night we stayed up with one of these brothers, that is Sean and I, through the night pleading of sin, righteousness, and judgement. Praise the Lord, this night the Lord was pleased to bless our efforts with such a taste of God’s presence that it seemed one could cut through the the air with a knife. Moreover, the atmosphere was so grave and quiet between words that it seemed one could hear the drop of a needle. We spoke to this individual for at least five or so hours, and in the middle of this meeting we all seemed to grow extraordinarily tired in a hurry. Due to the sudden approach of this tiredness, we felt the enemy could be trying to hinder this powerful work God was doing, and therefore we prayed for the protection and power of the Lord to come and awaken us very early into the moring. God heard, graced us with even more of his presence, and henceforth, we were up reasoning with this individual until six or seven in the morning, without a whimper of tiredness! In the end of the night this particular brother said it was “the most profound spiritual experience of his life,” among other things, and he has been on a new level seeking the Lord and studying his bible ever since. We praise the Lord for such a night!
Another memorable event occured as Sean and I stayed through the night on the cold streets of Dublin, Ireland. Around 3 a.m. this particular morning we were studying our Bible’s in a three story, 24/7 Mcdonalds. As we, with our protective, soundblocking headphones tried to focus on the word, a sudden wave of drunken youth came in our rather isolated area. If you all have not yet realized this, to have a bible out, especially the old KJB in a public place is an automatic attention getter and a good way to start a conversation! As we read our bible’s, people would, like in many former occasions, begin to talk with us! Some examples consist of a man, approaching us from Nigeria. He came and asked us a number of questions, all of which we answered the best we could, and we began to plead with this man of the straitness of the gate, and the narrowness of the way stating for instance, that we are living in a time, like the time of Noah, in which only 8 people were saved and not even all eight went to heaven! The Lord moved in this conversation, and the man was forced to leave after a reasonable amount of time, being unquestionably convicted by the word of God both to seek God and fear him. Later this night, a couple of young Irishman, around the same age as us sat near us being under the influence, and lightly esteeming our Bibles. Sean, in his most honorable way, began to warn these men of the hell that awaits them rather bluntly, except they repent. Both of these men, especially one, were absolutely, by God’s grace terrified and quite uncomfortable in their unregenerate estate. The one in particular I believe was scaredly stating, ”they were headed for hell” in a very serious way. We pled with them to seek God when they sobered up and to remember these things, lest they perish with the world. Lastly, I remember as we sat and read, some spanish girls came right up next to us and with a startled look on their face said, ” what are you doing?”, we told them we were Chrsitians reading the bible, and they said something like, ”what are Christians doing at 3 a.m. reading a bible in Mcdonalds?”, never quite able to cope with this unique experience they had of seeing two young men, studying the word early into the morning in a downtown Dublin, Mcdonalds. We pled with this group of four spaniards for quite a period of time, and at the end one of the girls told me she would began to read her bible again, having somewhat of a Christian backround and a lot of conviction, along with others that were seemingly convicted.
Furthermore, God opened up a church for me to preach a short message at one morning. Even though it was short, a number of people came up to me, one weeping, and with much conviction. I told them, as I tell everyone to seek the Lord, if haply you might feel after him, and find him though he be not far from every one of us! Dear reader, do you seek God? I guarantee, if you don’t seek God as the number one priority in your life you have missed the boat and are in danger of God’s eternal wrath. Therefore, in all reasonableness, seek the Lord, and you will find him, if you seek him with all your heart!
In conclusion, the state of the church worldwide is absolutely horrific,(Listen to Andrew Strom’s ”Contemporary Christianity” and David Legge’s “God’s New Thing” from www.sermonindex.net) and I do believe that it is time for the Lord to raise up a standard against this influx of iniquity in his professing church and the world. Sean and I, by God’s grace are extremely burdened to see the glory of God in his holiness exalted in his professing church, and consequentially the world. We desire to see the fear of God, which was so prevalent in the early church once again present when the saints of God meet together. Please do pray that God would began to visit and deliver his church out of this awful bondage and blindness that has overtake her no matter what the cost. Beloved brethren, I entreat you, please pray that God would raise up labourers, having discernment, established in the truth, and having the sentence of death in themselves that they might preach the Gospel in all its fullness and with all its might! Please pray that God would raise up labourers to preach in such measure that men will be no longer able to adhere to this lukewarm, halting Christianity that is sending religious men unknowingly to hell, and that men might know, no matter what their reaction, that there is a God in heaven who reigns among the sons of men!
PRAYER REQUESTS: Many of you all have probably heard that our dearest brother Jake and Vincent shortly into a gospel expedition to South Africa have been robbed and bereft of all of their belongings including passports, bibles, clothes, a car, and more. Please pray for these soldiers of the cross that they would stay strong amidst this trial, and that God would make their way clear before them, and provide all their necessities, to the end that they might without hindrance continue boldly proclaiming the glorious gospel. Futhermore, pray for our beloved Sean Morris and I that the Lord would in his own seasonableness open to us a door of utterance, and make our path plain before us, and in the mean time teach us his word.
Isaiah 62:6-7 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 67 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Sermon Suggestion: When the Saints Shout Hallelujah By: Rolfe Barnard
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Please listen to this powerful, and most needful sermon of our day.
Sincerely in Christ Jesus, Ryan Ringnald