Faith in the Fog

Pete Briscoe was amazing and the students at SMU were fired up to change the world for Christ. Pete’s message was particularly moving as he talked about our need to share the hope that we have.

He preached from Mark 11 and the story of Jesus and Him overturning the temple money changers. Jesus quoted Isaiah 56 and Jeremiah 7 which Briscoe brought forward to the attention of SMU.

This temple was to be a house of prayer for the nations. The eunich, the gentiles, those who were not allowed into the temple would be welcomed. Jesus was ushering in that day.

Jeremiah 7 calls out the Jews for their immorality. They had run to the temple and called it their safe place while they indulged in sin. Jesus compared that time to His contemporary time and called them to the carpet for their sin and separating the world from God by their hypocrisy!

Amazing.

Can’t wait to see the impact of this amazing ministry!

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Just went and visited L at a suicide watch place. She still needs lots of prayer. She overdosed on sleeping pills Sunday afternoon. The police had been called when L had not answered phone calls. They went in and tried to revive her with smelling salts, but she wouldn’t come out of her stupor. The took her to Baylor hospital and then to the detox place. I am going by tonight to give her my books, Faith in the Fog of War Volumes I and II.

While visiting her I noticed a dramatic improvement in her overall wellbeing. She is doing better and the brightness of her eyes returned as for the first time in months she wasn’t intoxicated.

Warren and I prayed with her in Jesus name which she doesn’t mind and I asked God to open her eyes to His love while she has been apathetic about since I have known her.

Please continue to pray with us for her salvation.

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Pray for L

I need your help. My next door neighbor is L. She needs Jesus. Here is a brief description of her. She has 15 facial piercings and eight large tattoos including a sleeve tat. She is a pagan and whenever she wants to be religious, she will set up incense and worship in a wiccan way although she despises being labeled wiccan. She prefers no label. However, she has been in a drunken stupor for the past year and a half of me knowing her. As a pagan, she tells me she has no need for Jesus. Her worship of her pagan god is just as good as my worship of the Trinity. Last night she came over and asked if my roommate and I would help her load her gun.

Don’t worry, we didn’t help her do that.

We did talk about Jesus for an hour. She has come over several times in the middle of the night, sometimes with her boyfriend, sometimes alone in tears. Warren and I have shared Christ with her over and over again, but it seems that we are hitting a brick wall. Warren even broke out the evangecube.

 Her greatest quest is to find a man who will love her. She wants to be alcohol free, but she doesn’t want to at the same time. You know how that goes. Sometimes my prayer is “God, I want to want to do the right thing.” I love Psalm 86:11. “Teach me your way, Oh Lord, and I will walk in your truth. Give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name.” Notice the actor in these verbs is God. I want Him to take me over!The only way to break down that wall for a woman consumed by alcohol and false religion is prayer. Will you join me? Are you willing to watch God work?

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