First Person Speaking

Posted on 2022/02/21 by JimR, Chaplain

Last week my wife and I sat down to listen to my mentor, Dr. Kelley Varner speak in the Christian Leadership Institute class concerned the life of Elijah. It can be found on the page that still exists at:

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Dr Varner passed over in June of 2009, yet his teachings are still just as powerful. If you don’t know of him view his page for media and books. Take note I don’t advertise for his still existing ministry. I simply am saying you would benefit from the Word of God in it.

Now for the reason of this writing. Of the hour and thirty minutes of teaching my wife and I listened to one thing sprang out at me. Dr Varner said something to the fact that we should take note of. We should be learning to speak in the first person to situations that come upon us or anything we speak to in the moment of need

There is scripture to back what I’m saying, but for the time of this writing I will relegate the scriptures to another writing.

Jesus would get up early every morning to confide with the Father. His time with Him was to strengthen the relationship and to get understanding of the next step in His ministry on this Earth. If He had not, one wonders could there have been a misstep towards the ultimate goal of His sacrifice on the cross in the end. I have lots of questions of my own. You can probably come up with some of your own.

The point of the matter is that when Jesus left the morning conversations with the Father, He spoke in the Father’s stead during the days ministry as He traveled about. You never hear Jesus invoke the name or ask God to do certain thing. He did not heal or raise people from the dead or speak words of life from the third person stance. He spoke them in the first person. He had been given the authority to speak as God for God His Father from one sole reason. Relationship.

Relationship with our Father is very much the most important aspect of our lives to perform the ministry for which we are called. We cannot act on His behalf without it. We have to know that our relationship is with right-standing. With that being so we can speak with authority. We need not ask God to do it.

To some this is foreign doctrinal thinking. I’ve seen service after service where we speak to situations by asking God to do this or that. Why? Why do we ask God to do it? We should have come into a service “prayed up” as it were with our relationship with God intact to the point that we act in His stead by speaking directly to the issue at hand, seeing results coming from the channel of our spirit that will be open to God’s passage of the answer directly to the situation.

We will not be the actual reason the situation is corrected. We simply have an open channel in our spirit by our relationship with God to allow Him to find passage from the eternal realm to the finite realm in which we stand. No one can take credit for the act except God. Our only act is to have relationship with God through which He may find that passage open to fix whatever is wrong.

No more begging God to fix a problem while we lay hands on people. It is imperative that we develope a solid relationship with God wherewith we can speak to a situation allowing God entrance from the infinite to the finite.

Once I have time to research the scriptures I will add them to this writing I will write a post to confirm what is written here.

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Death’s Door

Posted on 2022/02/07 by JimR, Chaplain

My cousin related to me of a friend that died this past week. Another of her friends had posted a note on her Facebook page concerning death.

Most people don’t concern themselves with death until a certain age. That age is dependant on one’s

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relative thoughts on what “old age” is. For my dad death was an early event in life. He told me when I was in my 30’s most all Rowe males died before or by the age of 60. I’ve said this many times before that my response was I was not buying into that mentality. So here I sit at 71 years old and still in good health and presently working a job, although retired from twenty-eight years of Civil Service. Not only that I’m presently the Director of Emerge Chaplain’s Response Team for disaster relief. I consider myself still too young to be dying any time soon.

Still, when I reached a certain age I was confronted with the fact or my mortality. Yes. I will die. But I have certainly heard from God and it concerns His will that I remain for yet a while till I have finished what I was placed on this earth for.

In earlier years death came to my bedside on more that one occasion and I had to rebuke it. I knew then I was to perform a calling upon me by God so I was not going anywhere. God showed me how to break the curse upon my family my present age is my evidence that I have broken it.

So I wrote the above to preface the response I had for my cousin on Facebook. That is what follows below. It was my experience with the death of my middle brother. I’m the oldest of five sons and the three middle brothers are gone now and only the youngest and I remain.

Teresa, I understand. I sat next to Mike after Debbie came to tell me he had passed. I was not there at the very moment but was there within a minute or so. I sat quietly with my hand on his left forearm in the room where a hush had come.

So many things went through my mind. No more talks, no more quick glances when we saw something no one was supposed to see, but we did. He and I got a laugh or two when that would happen and believe me it did. No more riding around just looking at nature and talking to neighbors or friends. No more talking about cars or going to the races across the street from where he lived at the Virginia Motor Speedway.

But the biggest “no more” was the pain he suffered from at the end. Mike died from lung cancer.

Peace overwhelmed me that he no longer was in pain. Mike told me several times in those last years that a near death experience had taken away his fear of dying, so I knew he went peacefully knowing where he was going.

Dad always said he didn’t want to die without knowing his sons were saved. Mike at the time of dad’s death was the hold-out, but I did see that for dad. Your friend was apparently close, and I know your brother, mom and dad were aware you were there with them when they passed over.

It was good to be there.

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Sam Webb, Evangelist

Posted on 2022/01/31 by JimR, Chaplain

I met a man during the weekend at Pennyrile Campground/Lodge just outside of Dawson Springs, KY. His name is Sam Webb.

He was a dishoveled man whose hair looked a frightful mess. His clothing was mostly bed clothing with a sweater. He was sitting on the balcony of the motel style building in his wheelchair. He’d lost a leg from some issue he had that I know not of. I say that he had to be cold, because the outside temperature at that time was in the upper 20’s.

He was pointed out to us by a couple who are members of the Lion’s Club that had brought him a hospital bed and mobilized wheelchair. The married couple tended to think he was a bit mentally off. They kind of tilted their heads as to say without him seeing that said he was fearful of “the monster”. But I beg to differ. They did say he would likely talk to us, so we called over to him and he waved so we walked over to him.

I asked could we talk in a warm place and he said yes, but not in his room. He had a room mate who was sleeping and he didn’t want to wake him. There was an atrium nearby that was heated so we went there. Every one that worked at the Lodge like him and they took extra measure to ensure he was taken care of.

As we sat to talk he did ramble a bit, but he was coherent. In the conversation we understood his situation as it unfolded. He was in the beginning stage of Alzheimer’s. He’d had several heart attacks and strokes. He had to fight in his speech and with his memory.

Then came the revelation that he had been an evangelist earlier in life until he become disabled. In fact he related to us he had met Evangelist R.W. Schambach with whom he had spoke. He said he was told by Evangelist Schambach that he was called to the ministry, which he took to heart and soon after began preaching. As we swapped stories I spoke guardedly with him till at some point I found out his belief system was rooted in Pentecostalism. Then I spoke openly of how I prayed in tongues during a hurricane when I heard a tornado coming. That was when he opened up to tell us of his ordeal during the tornado he had encountered in December.

He said they got word to seek shelter in place to ride out the winds since there was no where to go. It was coming too quickly to escape. So he and his room mate tried to get into the bathroom, but he could not get through the door. The winds were reaching a peak where he felt the house giving way and at some point he thought he was going to die. His wheelchair lifted off the floor as though the next stop would be in the hereafter. His conclusion of having survived has left him with an inextricable comfort in not fearing death anymore.

Yet even so he is afraid to sleep for fear of what he calls “the monster” will come back during sleep and take him away violently. Death is not his issue. It’s the “how” part that he’s not wanting. That being another tornado.

When the wind subsided he said it got very quiet and for a time and then came the voices calling for help to come get them. There was a baby crying up over them for they lived on a lower level in an apartment building. People were crying, calling for loved ones doing whatever one could do after such a catastrophe. He said it was horrible.

His story was not one that was any different than others we talked to. Some spoke of living in a mobile home where the walls seemed to breath in and out during the height of the winds. One woman found her husband five houses down the street. I don’t think he survived. There was something like 17-20 lives lost during the onslaught.

I could speak of more, but we must know this final thing before I stop. God is in control of all things. Even in disaster. Despite the loss of life. Despite the loss of material things those that remain that we talked to are resilient and fighting their mental overload from losing everything and some having lost family.

You have to remember this happened on the 10th of December. A Christmas for this town was ripped from their intended schedule. There was no Christmas for them. They lost it all. Yet those that remain are finding that there is something to look forward to after such a devastating turn of events.

Yes, there is still fear of the unknown, but there is also faith for a better tomorrow. I pray for this town as they move forward. Won’t you?

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My Trip to Dawson Springs, KY

Posted on 2022/01/30 by JimR, Chaplain

Friday morning I left for Dawson Springs, KY. This little town took a direct hit from a tornado that was a mile wide and traveled 200 miles. It literally destroyed much of the town. Some 450 homes are gone. This is a typical small town where most everyone knows everyone for the most part. Most are poor, some middle-class, few else. It has a bit of a feel of the town I grew up in.

It has a small town hall, fire department and police department all housed in the same small building. The church we partner with is in an old 5 and 10 Ben Franklin store front. There’s a Methodist church around the corner and a few other small churches about the area. But Redemption City is true to its name. It is redeeming the town for God. The pastor is very hard at work with volunteers to rebuild.

I made my second trip out there this weekend to fact find so we can assess their needs. Below is my commentary on my FB page. I am the Director of Emerge Chaplains Response Team. God has comissioned me to go to these places and assess and deliver the needs back home so we can start putting together those needs and get them to the area.

I’m going to post some of the pictures we took while there on this page for you to see why we went.

I made it back home this afternoon safely. My car had a good coating of salt so I had to stop at the car wash in Beulaville for a complete washing including the undercarriage. It was 11 degrees coming through the mountain passes with slick roads from a light coating of ice. Still, I drove home from western KY to home in eleven hours. When you have a wife like Libby waiting for me back her I ain’t wastin’ any time getting home.

But the end result is this. There are still displaced people living in various camp grounds around the area and FEMA is bringing in camper trailers. The pastor we partner with there will get as much as we can to help. His request would be LOWE’S gift cards. No matter what amount he can use them to buy building supplies. We are sending him a dining trailer for his group of volunteer builders to have a place to sit down to eat.

People there are fearful that this could mean the end of their little town of 2500 people as many of them may not come back to live there because of the memories that haunt their minds of that night around 10:35 pm. I can be graphic of the things my volunteer Chaplain and myself were told by different ones we talked to. One said he could not sleep because he’s afraid another tornado will come while he’s sleeping. He calls it a monster. Another said they watched the walls of their house breath in and out from the pressure before it blew apart on them.

I’m broken hearted with stories. And you know why? Because they have no home to lay their head, but I get to come home to my wife and home still here. You see what I saw and you will know God has blessed you.

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What A Strange Day

Posted on 2022/01/23 by JimR, Chaplain

I find myself with no tasks on my agenda for today except to read a book, watch TV, nap, or as I always do, enjoy my wife’s company.

The Cheap Detective is on presently with Peter Falk. It’s a movie parody of Humphrey Bogart movies. It has an all star cast. It came in third it’s opening week behind Grease and Jaws 2. Funny movie.

Then there’s the book I’m reading. ENLISTED, Navigating Your Prophetic Assignment, by Charlie Howell, III. It’s a very good book. It has to do with recognizing the calling of a Prophet. Not just someone who operates occasionally in the gift of prophesy. It’s an area of teaching I have known for years of being mentored under Dr. Kelley Varner. The difference is nothing in what is said between the two. Only I got practical demonstration under Dr. Varner.

The gift of prophesy being used in a service by someone is to lift up and edify (same thing either way). To operate in the office of a Prophet, however, is to give direction and correction. The office of a Prophet is to give aim to people in the direction they should go or tell them things about themselves that no one else knows.

I was given a word by God to give to someone once and I knew what, when and where about someone and I gave it only to be corrected in front of the congregation. It was to be in the office of a Prophet that this word was to be given. Dr. Varner was gentle with me in doing so, but I have seen him declare the validity of a word given to be not so by another individual around the same time frame. I learned by practical application from these episodes. I sometimes still wonder was I really to be groomed for the office and not the gift. I still see things about people. What’s to say I’m not, although I claim no fame to the office. I do know from more than two or three my younger son is called to the office of a Prophet. I still encourage him to follow that path.

I’ve been given visions even at an early age. God took me up in a vision when I was a young teen while in Church one Sunday. He showed me the people in the church pews. He said to me something that saddened me. He said not all these people sitting there were His. Only a few where truly His. He said to not worry myself. Every church in the world has a mix of those that are not His and those that are. Then I was reminded of the wheat and the tares growing together till the harvest when they would be separated. I was to be the grain to be harvested into keeping. Even now at my old age I still know this to be so. It’s my sureity of my faith. I was saved, I have been being saved and I will be saved in the end.

I’ve encountered men of God more times than I can count, but I’ve also encountered the enemy of our souls first hand more than once. I don’t understand why, but I’m never afraid of the enemy, except to say that I know he’s defeated. I’m like David of old who when confronted by Goliath ran toward him with five smooth stones of which one was loaded. That one met its mark and killed the enemy. The enemy lost his heard that day. Respect for the five-fold ministry has always been in me and David knew even one of those as smooth stones had the ability to end the enemies forward march.

I guess my unusual day does have meaning. I’m old and still have much to say. It’s what keeps me going. I love God. I’m His. He is mine. Wheither I’m here or standing in His presence all is well. I’m eternal because of the sacrifice He made through His Son Jesus. My sin has been removed for all time and I recognized my name was written in the Book of Life over 2000 years ago. I accepted that gift. Today is your day if you have not opened your gift. Today is your day to know for sure you are one of those that He knows personally. Don’t be someone that occupies a pew. Be one that occupies themselves in God.

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How Does God Hear?

Posted on 2022/01/21 by JimR, Chaplain

This is just a short note for the evening. First off, don’t think I’m ranting. I’m not. I used to listen to rock music way back when I was in my 20’s via a set of headphones. A lot of times it would be at night when all was quite. I got warned the volume was too loud and it would ruin my hearing. Well, it was loud enough for most anyone in the room to make out what I was listening to.

Then I played drums, too. For twenty-five years I played drums in our church worship team. I was in the corner of the room where the sound seem to converge. I had a Peavy column speaker with four ten inch woofers and a horn tweeter laid on its side at a 45 degree angle towards my left ear. After some Sundays I could not hear well till about Tuesday. We played loud and hard. I broke or threw sticks sometimes so that should give you some idea. We had a horn section to my left and a B-3 Hammond cranking up on two Leslie speakers on either side of me as well. Throw in the bassist and a couple of other instruments and you can understand where I’m at in that corner.

Well, fast forward to today. I have moderate hearing loss in my mid-range, both ears and severe loss in the high end range in my left ear. I also have tinnitus that I’ve grown to put out of my thinking most of the time. I now have hearing aides. So. I am well aware of what loud music will do to a person over time.

Now to my point. Our church has a driving music force for a worship team now with a loud sound. The person running the board has to turn down the sound, but we have a floating control board a guy walks around with that turns the sound back up. When I wear my hearing aids I can change the programs in them on four levels by clapping my hand to my ear. It’s the percusive action to my ear that changes the program from the clapping. To say how loud the music is in the service when I walk in and stand for a minute or two there is enough percussion in the air to change my hearing aids program just from the sound being so loud. So I can’t wear my hearing aids in the service. I’ve seen people leave because it was too loud.

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There is something all musician’s understand I think. It’s called dynamics. It’s the building of sound to certain levels according to the mood of the music. That is not understood by young inexperienced musicians. I can’t blame them. I was the same way. Why do you think I have to wear hearing aids? So it’s not a rant or condemnation. It’s a simple statement of fact. I still love loud music, but I also understand the nature of God.

So, how does God hear? I’m not going to belabor this, so I will simply say. God is not deaf, nor does He have any level of hearing problem. He can hear in the loud music or in the soft music. People are directed in worship by the level of the music. When we celebrate, then loud music is appropriate. However, when there’s an altar call or worship sets in the dynamics of music should follow to the softer side to settle people’s minds to listen and hear the Spirit speak. We need to be more decerning in God’s desires for the moment.

God can hear in the loud and the soft, but just how does God hear? He hears the heart. Volume has nothing to do with how or what He hears. He hears your heart. What does your heart say?

Luke 6:45 – A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Once again it’s not how loud, or soft for that matter, that you speak. It’s what your heart speaks. God hears that before it ever gets out of your mouth. Or through the skill of a musician’s hand or voice in music.

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Say It With Unction

Posted on 2022/01/13 by JimR, Chaplain

I’ve said it as a rule. I don’t like to write unless there is some sort of inward motivation to write something. So, here I sit for a moment with nothing in particular to say, yet deep down I find there is something particular to say. Kind of an oxymoronic moment so to speak.

When you have Christ living inside you He can be quiet sometimes. I figure that’s the reason I feel I have nothing to say. But we must remember something for these types of times.

I Timothy 1:6 –  Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

I’m more after the “stir up” the gift part here. The Greek word translated “stir up” denotes the kindling of a fire, as by bellows.

Anyone who has ever tended a campfire knows that stirring up the glowing embers of a dying fire can cause those embers to flame up again and burn more brightly. Timothy was to see to it that his spiritual gift did not grow cold through disuse; he was to “stir it up” and keep the fire going.

I see in this type of stirring the creation of a heated fire that can bring metal to a melting point so it can be further shaped by someone like a blacksmith forming a horseshoe.

In our lives when we feel least like we have something to say we need to stop all else and begin to stir ourselves. I know there is something deep down inside of me that is glowing, yet in need of the bellows to be applied to cause a flame to come up from the embers of a simmering fire. Yes, even embers bring heat, but when the wind of the Spirit is blown upon the gift inside of us the embers allow the rising up of a flame.

Jesus died for us. I had no particular reason to say that, but it fans a flame inside of me to remind me freshly that my eternal being is entirely based on that one foundational truth. He died for you and me. It comes to life when you say it.

If there is no particular unction that you feel, just stop a moment and let the wind of His spirit stir you up and you will feel that something to say. God, I love you. You’re my everything. My all.

There. . . I have now gotten unction to say something. Don’t you feel it?

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Proper Perspective

Posted on 2022/01/08 by JimR, Chaplain

I’m winding up another week as we all are. We’ve all encountered circumstances of one nature or another. It has been a trial to some and not so much to others. The point of it all is this. If negativity has invaded your space did you turn it from a circumstance to a challenge? My perspective is when circumstances come to bring me down I take them as a challenge to defeat. How do you view yours? Take the following circumstance that I had mid-week.


I was in a meeting Wednesday evening and from the very start, I felt I was being distracted (attacked to be honest, by the enemy of my soul). My new computer tried to give me problems. But we got through the meeting and I could say I was overwhelmed, but I took that bull by the horns and turned it into my challenge of the week.

The next day I talked to God about it and He told me what to do. The results are I have gotten a letter done to send to my Chaplains and created a large email group of twenty-three and it’s been sent out for a response to test it to make sure it is getting to all of them. I’ve already gotten a response from some. I still have two more lists to complete and one more email group, but I know where I’m heading. God called me to this ministry I’m tackling at present and I’m still on this riding it to the end.

For a year coming up now since God spoke to me to become a certified Chaplain under the American Chaplain’s Association, I have found each step brought a clearer vision of what I’m called to do. I hear people saying all the time that they don’t know what their calling is or they don’t know what they are supposed to be doing. I don’t fault them for saying that, but my first question would be are you moving?

Let’s take a car as an analogy here. If you have a car and it sits in the driveway and you never take the key out to it, start it, and drive it out on the road how are you going to get somewhere? My wife asked me way back at the beginning of her endeavor to know God as to how I knew God talked to me. I kind of take it for granted I suppose since I’ve held conversations with God since I was a very young man. You’re going to laugh perhaps, but my first question to her was did she pray. She said yes. Then comes the kicker. I asked did she stop at some point and listen. She looked a bit stumped at that question.

I then kicked into teaching mode. When you converse with God it can’t be a one-way communication. At some point, you have to stop talking and listen. So, I told her when she prayed if she would find time to be quiet she would hear Him speak. Well, not too long after she came back to me and said she heard God say something, but it was only one word essentially. He told her to look for the key. Then she asks me what the key is. I told her that was her quest. Not mine. I told her to search for the key to look for. God didn’t tell me to look for the key. He told her to look for the key.

Not long after we attended a memorial service for a mutual friend of ours from our younger days back home. The minister got up to do his usual conveyance of condolences to the family and tie it to scripture as we all know too well. But in his speech, he said “Jesus is the key”. My wife’s face was instantly lit up as she turned to me and said “JESUS is the key”! She had found the key. To fast forward this, she now holds her own conversations with God daily and sometimes He tells her to go tell someone something they need to hear from someone else as a witness of what is transpiring in their own heart. She has become very sensitive to God’s voice. That’s one of a thousand reasons why I love this woman. She is dogged to learn more all the time. She never gives up on anything.

She also knows very well the principle of turning circumstances into challenges. If you want to know what your calling is, you need to put the key in, turn it and then put the car in gear and get moving. Once you start moving you will find God will take the wheel. God doesn’t want to be the co-pilot. He wants to be the pilot. But you have to be moving. If you are questioning what your calling must be, ask yourself first if you are moving or not, and if you are not, get your pat and charlie on. Some of you will understand that phrase. We use to say that when we had to walk because we couldn’t get a ride.

I share my life’s story to give you hope. Not to polish my reputation. I don’t have the itch to preach. I just have a desire to spread to you what God can do for you in like fashion as I have found by doing.

Stop standing still. It’s time to move. Review your perspectives and regroup if necessary. But most of all move. God can direct movement, but if you continue to stand still He can’t. Your calling depends on motion. Another avenue to explore then will be will then open for you to explore.

I moved with the ministry I was under for thirty years that had a budget of over half-million dollars a year. Their ministry grew because they moved forward constantly. Then it became my turn to step up. Now at seventy-one, I find myself ordained as a minister of the Gospel and a nationally certified Chaplain in charge of close to fifty Chaplains with over 300 more in the wings to indoctrinate into the field God has called me to for Disaster Relief. Folks call it what you want about me, but I plan on in the next two years to see the ministry I’m servant to grow to the second largest disaster response ministry only to Samaritan’s Purse.

And with all that, I count is all dung if I don’t follow His will in all of it. After all, it’s God’s Kingdom appearing in what He’s called us to. Never put yourself on a pedestal. You’ll fall off. Walk softly with what you’re called to. I say what I say because it amazes me what He can do when you set your perspectives straight and follow God’s voice. We become His vessels of dispensing His life and will in this earth before men. Don’t ever make yourself the focal point of all that goes on. But count yourself privileged to be the carrier of the importance of the dispensation of His will in the earth. That, my friend, is the proper perspective.

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Leprosy

Posted on 2022/01/03 by JimR, Chaplain

Yesterday in church I sat to the side throughout the service listening to Pastor preach his message. He typically has a monthly theme. This month is “REAP”. It’s a time for harvest.

He’s been reading the book I’m writing up to this point. My book titled “Suicide – Satan’s Killing Field”, is yet to be published.

I’ve determined that the killing field is this world (Satan’s particular order and arrangement of governments). The earth is the Lord’s and its governments in spite of Satan’s demented theme to kill and destroy.

I referenced the Cambodian Kymer Rouge extermination of millions of its citizens in Cambodia as an example of what Satan has perpetrated in this earthly realm. These killings don’t get as much publicity as the Holocaust of Jews in Germany during WWII. Folks, this earthly realm is Satan’s killing field. This very realm in which we live. Do you still not feel the brunt of this? Idi Amin was the dictator of Uganda for several years in the ’70s and was known to violate all human rights by executing those who opposed him. It may be a smaller scale, but sum up all the despotic rulers of this world under Satan’s control and you see the killing field gets larger and larger.

My book describes leprosy as sin. Moses, Miriam, and others experienced leprosy because of their unbelief. Leprosy was also told about in the New Testament in which one instance had Jesus taking a meal with a known leper.

Leprosy is noted by its whiteness. I’m not referencing it. Go find it for your own study.

John 4:35 – Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are WHITE already to harvest.

Jesus came to provide a way through the world’s corruption by virtue of His death, burial, and resurrection. The harvest He speaks of is this world that is white with sin. It has been so since eons ago. His resurrection brought about the new birth of our spirit to combat the effects of sin.

Sin has taken enough of the people of this earth. It’s time to put a stop to it as sin has come to its fullness and we are responsible to go into the field and harvest. We are required by scripture to go and make disciples.

Once the harvest is brought in the whiteness of sin is taken away it is then replaced with the whiteness of righteousness. Know the difference.

Are you making disciples?

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2022

Posted on 2021/12/31 by JimR, Chaplain

2022. For us baby boomers still around I find it amazing and blessed to still be alive and well on planet earth. Many of us are still strong. . .at least mentally. Physical strength isn’t a solid requirement to work smart at our age.

I thank God for life even more abundant than any of my family before me ever had. It’s kinda funny I’m being told I am experiencing physical issues only people that reach my age get to know about. Cataracts, hearing aids, taking Flomax (ha!), balding. Uh no. I’ve been bald since I was in my late 20’s. Scratch that last one.

However, God has been extremely good to me. That I cannot deny. I speak the same for each of you that reads this for the coming year. We will have a lot on our plate in 2022 from our disgraceful government. But God is in control even over that. So we’re good no matter what.

You become what you make of it. I am not going to complain. I’m after still building my relationship with God as He leads me into my calling and seeing all the accomplishments that will happen as I walk closer with Him.

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