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May 24, 2010
My goodness, time does not go by slowly at all!! As we age, the
speed of time increases rapidly!! Yeshua of Nazareth’s coming is sooo
near, is it not!! Years ago there was a song, “I Wish We’d All Been
Ready!”
Is your house in order, aligned with God’s plan for human salvation?
We do pray so, as it is THE MOST PRICELESS GIFT ever offered to
us!! We find it hard to believe that so many just pass it off as
nothing, when in reality Jesus’ request is for us to simply say “Yes,
come into my heart please, and forgive my sin!” Then follow Him the rest
of our lives here on earth.
Nancy is doing well, had some eye surgery and recovering very nicely
along with getting new glasses in two weeks. Myself, my new right hip
that was replaced is healing very nicely and we are both happy about
that for each one’s medical improvement!!
I wish to say something here that I don’t like to talk about
much, as am not into begging for money, rather trusting the Lord. Most
don’t know or understand that missionaries and pastors, when retired,
struggle to get by in their later years. PLEASE DON’T STOP YOUR
SUPPORT TO SOMEONE just because they retired… as we really
don’t do that completely! We know several who are struggling in their so
called “Golden Years!”
Never tell one of them, “You have enough to live on, and don’t
need my support anymore.” THAT IS NOT TRUE!” But we have been told
that, as well as others.
Enough said about that, you can pray about it, if you will, for all
of us.
We are planning to go to Arizona this fall to see our children and
grand-children, pending any more surgeries, which we pray won’t happen
to Jim for awhile. We haven’t been able to see them for some time due to
Jim’s spine surgery that kept us here while he was having a long
recovery.
Jeremiah 29:11-14.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob has never failed us in answering or guiding as we seek Him. We
have other friends returning to the field of overseas ministry, so
please keep them in prayer over their visas and other needs. Thank you!
Be faithful to your local church and the ministries there, as the
conditions of our churches are a reflection of our service to Christ!
Thank you for stopping in, come back often and drop us a line to let
us know how you are doing as well.
Shalome, Adonijah~~
Jim & Nancy Mercer
Pastor/Evangelist James
Mercer
sunnyjim11@hotmail.com
Web site:
www.gospelroadministries.org
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The Gospel Road leads to salvation through
Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Are you walking on that road?
If you
are not, please consider the following scriptures.
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| John 14:5 |
Jesus said unto him, "I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." |
| Titus 3:5 |
"Not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing
of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." |
| Acts 4:12 |
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." |
| Romans 3:23 |
"...all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." |
| Romans 6:23 |
"The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord." |
| Romans 10:9-10 |
"...if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe
in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is
with your mouth that you confess and are saved." |
| I John 1:9 |
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." |
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"Father, I have sinned."
Luke 15:18
It is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His
precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or
criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has forever taken
away all their sins in a legal sense, so that they no longer
stand where they can be condemned, but are once for all accepted
in the Beloved; but having become children, and offending as
children, ought they not every day to go before their heavenly
Father and confess their sin, and acknowledge their iniquity in
that character?
Nature teaches that it is the duty of erring children to make
a confession to their earthly father, and the grace of God in
the heart teaches us that we, as Christians, owe the same duty
to our heavenly Father. We daily offend, and ought not to rest
without daily pardon. For, supposing that my trespasses against
my Father are not at once taken to Him to be washed away by the
cleansing power of the Lord Jesus, what will be the consequence?
If I have not sought forgiveness and been washed from these
offences against my Father, I shall feel at a distance from Him;
I shall doubt His love to me; I shall tremble at Him; I shall be
afraid to pray to Him: I shall grow like the prodigal, who,
although still a child, was yet far off from his father. But if,
with a child's sorrow at offending so gracious and loving a
Parent, I go to Him and tell Him all, and rest not till I
realize that I am forgiven, then I shall feel a holy love to my
Father, and shall go through my Christian career, not only as
saved, but as one enjoying present peace in God through Jesus
Christ my Lord.
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a
culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is
the place for penitent confessions. We have been cleansed once
for all, but our feet still need to be washed from the
defilement of our daily walk as children of God.
~By Charles Haddon Spurgeon in
Morning and Evening |
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“ACQUAINT NOW THYSELF WITH HIM.”
Text: Job 22:21
If we would rightly “acquaint ourselves now with God, and be
at peace,” we must know Him as He has rightly revealed Himself,
not only in the unity of His essence and substance, but also in
plurality of His persons.
God said, “Let us make man in our own image”—let man not be
content until he knows something of “us” from whom his being is
derived. Endeavour to know the Father, bury your head in His
bosom in deep repentance, and confess that you are not worry to
be called His son; receive the kiss of His love; let the ring
which is the token of His eternal faithfulness be on your
finger; sit at His table and let your heart make merry of His
grace.
Then press forward and seek to know much of the Son of God who
is the brightness of His Father’s glory, and yet in unspeakable
condescension of grace became man for our sakes; know Him in the
singular complexity of His nature: eternal God, and yet
suffering finite man; follow Him as He walks the waters with the
tread of deity, and as He sits upon the well in weariness of
humanity.
Be not satisfied unless you know much of Jesus Christ as your
Friend, Brother, your Husband, your all. Forget not the Holy
Spirit; endeavor to obtain a dear view of His character and
nature, His attributes, and His works. Behold the Spirit of the
Lord that moved upon chaos and brought order forth; who now
visits the chaos of your soul, and creates the order of
holiness. Behold Him as the Lord and giver of Spiritual life,
the Illuminator, the Instructor, the Comforter and the
Sanctifier.
Behold Him as, like holy unction, He descends upon the head of
Jesus, and then afterwards descends upon you who are as the
skirts of His garments. Such an intelligent, scriptural, and
experimental belief in the Trinity of Unity is yours if you
truly know God; and such knowledge brings peace indeed.
--Charles H. Spurgeon |
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“I
drew them with the cords of a man, with bands of love…”
Hosea 11.4
Our heavenly
Father often draws us with the cords of love; but ah! how
backward we are to run towards Him! How slowly we respond to His
gentle impulses! He draws
us to exercise a more simple faith in Him; but we have
not yet attained to Abraham’s confidence; we do not leave our
worldly cares with God, but, like Martha, we cumber ourselves
with much serving. Our meager faith brings leanness into our
souls; we do not open our mouths wide though God has promised to
fill them. Does not this evening draw us to trust Him? Can we
not hear Him say, “Come, My child, and trust Me. The veil is
rent; enter into My presence, and approach boldly to the throne
of My grace. I am worthy of thy fullest confidence, cast thy
cares on Me. Shake thyself from the dust of thy cares, and put
on thy beautiful garments of joy.”
But, alas,
though called with tones of love to the blessed exercise of this
comforting grace, we will not come. At another time He draws
us to closer communion with Himself.
We have been sitting at the doorstep of God’s house, and He bids
us to advance into the banqueting hall and sup with Him, but we
decline the honor. There are secret rooms not yet opened to us;
Jesus invites us to enter them, but we hold back. Shame on our
cold hearts! We are but
poor lovers of the sweet Lord Jesus, not fit to be His servants,
much less to be His bride, and yet He hath exalted us bone of
His bone and flesh of His flesh, married to Him by a glorious
marriage-covenant.
Herein is
love! But it is love which takes no
denial.
If we obey not the gentle drawings of His love, He will send
affliction to drive us into closer intimacy with Himself. Have
us nearer He will. What foolish children are we to refuse those
bands of love, and so bring upon our backs that scourge of small
cords, which Jesus knows how to use! -Charles H. Spurgeon
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RELATIONSHIP
“And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He
received it not.”
--Mark 15.23
A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the
myrrhed-cup from His lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of
God stood of old, and as He looked down upon our globe He
measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery;
He cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation
would require, and abated not a jot.
He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning
sacrifice He must go the whole way, from the highest to the
lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross of the
deepest woe. This myrrhed-cup, with its soporific influence,
would have stayed Him within a little of the utmost limit of
misery, therefore He refused it. He would not stop short of all
He had undertaken to suffer for His people.
Ah, how many of us have pined after reliefs to our grief which
would have been injurious to us! Reader, did you never pray for
a discharge from hard service or suffering with a petulant and
willful eagerness? Providence has taken from you the desire of
your eyes with a stroke. Say, Christian, if it had been said,
“If you so desire it, that loved one of yours shall live, but
God will be dishonoured,” could your have put away the
temptation, and said, “Thy will be done”? Oh, it is sweet to be
able to say, “My Lord, if for other reasons I need not suffer,
yet if I can honor Thee more by suffering, and if the loss of my
earthly all will bring thee glory, then so let it be. I refuse
the comfort, if it comes in the way of Thine honour.”
O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of our Lord,
cheerfully enduring trial for His sake, promptly and willingly
putting away the thought of self and comfort when it would
interfere with our finishing work which He has given us to do.
GREAT GRACE IS NEEDED, BUT GREAT GRACE IS PROVIDED!!
From Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening, PC Bible Study. 08/18
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RELATIONSHIP 2
“And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.”
--Nehemiah 3.8
Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in
her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded
and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and
separate from its customs and spirit. (1 John 2:15—17 JFM).
The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make
the distinction between church and the world merely nominal.
Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable
literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are
currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive
the Lord’s peculiar people of those sacred singularities which
separate them from sinners. It will be an ill day for the church
and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete,
and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be one: then
shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in. Beloved reader, be
it your aim in heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain
the broad wall, remembering that the friendship of the world is
enmity against God.The broad wall afforded a pleasant place
of resort for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from which they
could command prospects of the surrounding country.
This reminds us of the Lord’s exceeding broad commandments, in
which we walk at liberty in communion with Jesus, overlooking
the scenes of earth, and looking out towards the glories of
heaven. Separated from the world, and denying ourselves all
ungodliness and fleshly lusts, we are nevertheless not in
prison, nor restricted within narrow bounds; nay, we walk at
liberty, because we keep His precepts.
Come, reader, this evening walk with God in His statutes. As
friend met friend up the city wall, so meet thou thy God in the
way of holy prayer and meditation. The bulwarks of salvation
thou hast a right to traverse, for thou art a freeman of royal
burgh, and a citizen of the metropolis of the universe.
From Spurgeon’s Morning & Evening, PC Bible Study. 08/20
PM
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"The
most of God's people are content to be saved from the hell that is
without. They are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is
within."
Robert M. McCheyne 1813-1843
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NO OCEAN CAN HOLD IT BACK.
NO RIVER CAN OVERTAKE IT.
NO WHIRLWIND CAN GO FASTER.
NO ARMY CAN DEFEAT IT.
NO LAW CAN STOP IT.
NO DISTANCE CAN SLOW IT.
NO DISEASE CAN CRIPPLE IT.
NO FORCE ON EARTH IS MORE POWERFUL
OR EFFECTIVE THAN THE POWER OF PRAYER.
~Linn
Carson, DaySpring writer
THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS
POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE. JAMES 5:16B (NRSV)
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Set
a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing
places, especially the eye and the ear.
William
Gurnall, 1617-1679
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A prayer of confession on behalf
of the USA
“Heavenly Father, we come before
you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil
good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our
spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited
the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness
and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it
choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We
have neglected to discipline our children and called it building
self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We
have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and
called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the
time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today;
cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!”
Prayer by Billy Graham, as aired by radio
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Beautiful Slide Show
"As
our President continues to serve this nation, let us all
remember to pray for his salvation, and for his whole family to
come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and be filled with
the Holy Spirit. Prayer should be offered also for wisdom (from
above) as well as understanding." ~Pastor James Mercer
We
have wonderful memories of our times in Israel! A friend,
Teresa Levine, has a very nice Bed & Breakfast in Haifa, The
Quiet Place. 
