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M I N I S T R I E S I N T E R N ATI O N A L
Dear Friends & Family,
Nations...Souls…Eternity…These words bring to mind the
multitudes who hang in the valley of decision. I believe these
are the same words that tugged at the heart of the Father God
when He contemplated the decision of sacrificing His most
precious Gift to rescue a lost humanity. Between our loving God
and His creation separated by sin is a bridge built on sacrifice.
The freedom we possess as Christians and the security of our
heavenly destination was made available to us by a specific
condition: a blood sacrifice from the holiest Lamb of all. Even
the God of this universe had to sacrifice something to save His
people from a lost eternity. Can you imagine sacrificing your
own child for the sake of a sinful world? He chose us; He chose
to give up what was most precious to Him; He chose to lay
something down because He saw the precious fruit that was
on the other side of that costly sacrifice.
When Abraham looked at his son on the table of sacrifice,
he too had a decision to make. The Bible says that Abraham
“looked up and saw the place in the distance”. He saw what his
sacrifice would produce. Through his obedience, a nation was
birthed which carried the very Seed that would one day redeem
a nation once destined for darkness!
John 12:24 “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to
the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies,
it produces many seeds.”
Friends, if we look at only what is in our hands right now, we
will not find the answer. We must see with eternal vision the fruit
that will be produced through the sacrifices we make today.
With every promise in the Bible, there is always a condition. We
certainly do not have a “works-based” Gospel; but we do serve
a jealous God that requires something from us. His priority is
our heart - and to have first place in it. Where our treasure is,
there in fact, is our heart. A true sacrifice is something that has
your heart attached to it. You can give without loving, but you
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July 2009
“I believe in these last days we
will see cities and nations
reaped in one day!”
can’t love without giving. Just as God tested Abraham, He will
test us to see where our heart is. At what point do we draw the
line with God? What are we not willing to give Him? Is there
something we are not willing to sacrifice?
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down
his life for his friends.” It is very easy to say with our mouths that
we would lay down our life for Christ. However, He is not just
asking us if we would die for Him- He is asking if we will live for
Him! A true leader will not ask you to do something that he is
not willing to do himself. Thankfully, we serve the True Leader
and we can trust Him, as Abraham did, that no matter what He
asks of us, He will provide. Let me assure you this: when God
does the providing, there is no such thing as lack.
I ask you today, what is on the other side of your sacrifice? With
Abraham, it was the birth of a nation. With the Father God, it
was the salvation of a nation. I believe in these last days God
is placing His people in position to see the multitudes saved
in a day, cities and nations reaped in one day! However, there
is a gap between the desire and the manifested reality of this
vision: a bridge built on sacrifice. God has already provided His
sacrifice through Jesus Christ. It is now our turn to lay down our
lives and to live lives of complete abandonment for Him! Do not
stay on one side of the gap just praying and hoping for these
dreams to be realized. Build the bridge! Be the bridge!
We urge you to seek the Lord; ask Him what seed He would
have you plant into this ministry. This is one crucial form of
sacrifice that will produce priceless eternal fruit. Everything you
do counts for eternity when you do it unto the Lord. We love
you and pray that you see the magnitude of harvest that you are
connected to through your personal sacrifice! God bless you!
Ministering by His grace and for His glory,
Doug & Janet Rowland
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