Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

We trust everyone reading this is diligently doing everything they know to do to walk in obedience to the Lord DAILY.  No matter what challenges we are facing today, or will be facing tomorrow, God’s Word stays consistent regarding what God desires of His people:  To Walk In Obedience To Him.

Walking in obedience to God is the most secure place any human being can be, because God consistently promises in His Word that He rewards those who make it there NUMBER ONE PRIORITY to walk in obedience to Him. 

Things look pretty bleak at the moment regarding the economy and the many different ramifications people are faced with regarding the economy and all the concerns that come along with that … yet no matter what we may be facing in times ahead … nothing moves God to lessen the importance of our being obedient in our relationship with Him.  Satan delights in trying to put fear, hopelessness and anger inside us as we see changes across the global scene, yet God remains consistent through it all:  Stay obedient to the Father.  It pays HUGE dividends.  Both in this life, and in the next life to come.

God has entrusted Precious Testimonies with a HUGE opportunity to expand our ability to reach out to a much larger viewing audience.  That started in late August of this year, and we’ve been seeking the Lord almost daily as to which testimonies we are to place on Godtube and YouTube since that time.  Since we started videotaping testifiers nearly 15 years ago now, God has given us so many anointed testifiers, and now instead of being limited to just a few Cable TV Public Access stations to play their testimonies, the whole WORLD can view them any time of day or night that is convenient for them if they have access to the Internet! 

Furthermore, anyone having the ability to burn a DVD can copy them and essentially publish their own “testimony book” on DVD to pass to friends and unsaved loved ones just like tracts.

And perhaps one of the greatest blessings of all is that as long as GodTube and YouTube stays on the Internet, these testimonies will be available for God to use as He chooses to use them long after the testifiers have gone to heaven, praise God!

Going back to this matter of walking in obedience to the Lord … like most other believers in Christ, we too are watching closely the economic events in particular happening not only in America, but around the globe.  From a human perspective, it’s nothing short of troubling.  But God never tells His people to view matters on this planet solely from a human perspective.  He tells us to also view them through the window of His Word and the Holy Spirit. Believers in Christ must always remember that God is their ultimate provider and their security.  We are in this world, but not of this world.  Our citizenship is heaven, and therefore we have full rights to trust our King to provide for our essential needs down here until we are blessed to enter our eternal, heavenly home (His domain). 

We are not limited to have our essential needs met as those are, who are not YET citizens of our heavenly kingdom.  Through our trust in our King as our provider and our security, we have access to God of the SUPERNATURAL.  Where the unsaved have extremely limited means to have their needs met in times of leanness and hardship on this planet, those who have placed their trust in Jesus Christ has access to the God who promises that through our faithful, persistent trusting, NOTHING is impossible for our God! 

His Word clearly communicates to us that the only two things that keeps us from our ability to see Him do the “impossible” in our times of need is our lack of trust and our lack of persevering in that trust until the need has been met by Him.  Of course, it goes without saying that if God tells us that we must also persist in prayer and maybe even fasting to have Him effect a miracle for us, that AGAIN speaks of the importance of our obedience to Him, doesn't it? 

Many Christians living in the more prosperous parts of the world may never have seen much of God’s supernatural provision, simply because they have not had to in the past.  Should the financial infrastructure continue to slowly come apart painfully at the seams, Christians who will press in and determine to trust their Savior and Lord all the more will have miracle testimonies to share that they may not be able to fathom of at this present time.

It is in the hard times each of us face that we either turn away from God in our discouragement, frustration and anger … or press in and refuse to give up trusting (along with praying and fasting if that is also how He is leading in our specific situation) Him for our need/s to be met, that we most likely would never realize otherwise. 

Every angel in heaven knows something many of us Christians haven’t figured out fully YET here on Earth.  Trusting God to make a way when there seems to be no way manifests the glory of God that would otherwise not be manifested.  Outside of our obedience to God, when He thinks of us, there is nothing that pleases Him more than when we refuse to give up trusting Him to make a way when there absolutely seems to be no earthly way.  

Miracles can be emotionally costly.  Sometimes we need to have just about everything stripped away from us before we are willing to press beyond earthly barriers and constraints to tap into a dimension of God that unleashes glories to come that we simply cannot now fathom, yet one day will, if we continue to persevere in trusting Him when demons scream in our ear, “You fool. STOP!”

We must never forget the TWO most important aspects of our relationship with God to experience His life, and life more abundantly:  1: Obedience  2: Trust (faith)

In times of trial and hardship, it is so very easy to lose sight of the importance of our TRUST IN GOD.  It has been said many times in Christian circles, and bears repeating so we never lose sight of this important revelation:  God responds much quicker to our trust in Him than our need.  Like it or not, God will allow you and I to go without a lot of things if all we are doing is expecting Him to meet our need/s simply because He can (therefore He SHOULD ... goes our fleshly thinking). 

Ponder deeply what is about to be said:  But without being needy it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must wonder if He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who are desperately in need. 

If you know your Bible at all, you know that is not how it is worded in Hebrews 11:6.  Rather, this is how it is worded:

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 

Clearly, faith in God ... and persistence in our faith in God ... and obedience to God ... is what moves God the most.  Not our needs. 

As you probably know, God has been speaking to many of His people to include some fasting along with prayer as we approach the upcoming Presidential and congressional election.  Many people will be entering into prolonged fasting between now and election time.  We encourage you to seek God as to what He would lead you personally to do.  America has always been a huge thorn in Satan’s flesh, primarily because the U.S. has shown much too much favoritism to the Jews in his opinion.  We also have channeled way to much financial provision to help fulfill the Great Commission (in our enemy's opinion) as well as having assisted other nations in their times of need, when there has been no indication that they would be willing to be our allies, (and even sometimes when it appeared they could care less about becoming our ally). 

As this is being sent out, Satan is doing everything he can to severely cripple America’s economy, and in so doing, he then will be in a much better position strategically to CONTROL America (not to mention other nations around the globe).  In controlling America, he THEN is in a much better position to CONTROL the Body of Christ, which is his ultimate goal … world wide.  God is speaking to His people to hinder Satan’s schemes during these very critical times in our nation and around the globe.  We can do that most effectively through united prayer with fasting, and of course, making certain we vote, and doing everything the Holy Spirit leads us to do to help others show up as well to wisely vote.

As always, we so greatly appreciate your on-going prayers to cover this outreach, so please continue to keep us personally and our board members and their families as well on your prayer list.  We full well know that the enemy would like to see ministries such as this one put totally out of commission.

Blessed To Be A Blessing,

Norm & Kathleen Rasmussen,
Directors

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