MINISTRY UPDATE – Summer 2007
Exciting breakthroughs continue to happen here at Precious Testimonies. God has opened doors for our Precious Testimonies video broadcasts to be viewed weekly on the Internet. That’s right! Every Wednesday morning, 8 AM EST, people around the world can go to our ministry website and watch a half-hour broadcast of believers sharing how they became born again, giving glory to Jesus for what He has done in their lives. Viewers are being presented the Good News of the Gospel…all to the glory of God.
Furthermore, technology is rapidly evolving to where it will be commonplace to be able to watch our video broadcasts on cell phones as well! How exciting it is to be used of God to help fulfill the Great Commission.
Of course, without the prayers of God’s people, none of this would have happened, we believe, nor will it be sustained, without your ongoing prayer support. Thank God for each of you who continue to pray for this outreach. Truly, your on-going prayer for this outreach is both needed and so greatly appreciated. Again, we thank you, and we know…Jesus thanks you as well!
For you prayer warriors, we have a matter that we ask you to keep lifted up to the Lord. For those of you who have Internet capability, most likely you have heard of www.YouTube.com It allows people to put their own video footage on the Internet, and we are seeking the Lord’s will regarding whether we should be utilizing this technology as well. Ideally, we would like to see the Lord raise up one person who would sense God’s call to put Precious Testimonies video footage on websites such as www.YouTube.com. One person could literally be putting a fresh, new Jesus-glorifying testimony on the Internet on a daily basis…if this person wanted to take the time to do it for God. With your prayers, we’ll be trusting the Lord to have His way in this matter.
We’re also asking that you prayer warriors keep us lifted up in prayer to have ongoing wisdom and discernment – (especially discernment) - as to whose testimonies we should publish on the website and whose we should not. Over a year’s time, we receive a number of testimonies that we don’t have peace about publishing, for different reasons. We always feel twinges of pain when we have to tell the authors of those testimonies that we don’t have peace to publish what they have sent us.
May God’s richest blessings fall upon each of you who are reading this, and our prayer for you is that you are keeping it your number one daily priority in asking our heavenly Father what He would desire you to do on His behalf. We are Christ’s Ambassadors because we belong to Jesus Christ. We are His representatives on this planet. There is no higher privilege than introducing Jesus to others who are lost in their sins. There is no higher privilege than to help a struggling brother or sister in Christ get through their fiery trial. There is no higher privilege than helping disciple a new brother or sister in Christ in God’s Word. There is no higher privilege than you prayer warriors covering this earth with your Holy Spirit assigned prayers. Angels wait for their assignments from above as God uses your prayers to commission them to help advance His kingdom in the lives of people. What a glorious privilege – what a high honor it is to be an Ambassador for our Jesus. Don’t ever let the devil sidetrack you from this priceless, heavenly calling!
Your “paycheck” down here for being faithful to your call will most likely be very small…but the unspeakable joy God will reward you with through eternity is simply too great for any of us to fully comprehend at this time.
If you happen to be battle weary in your ministry call…ponder this for just a brief moment. Do any of us have any comprehension of just how much joy we bring to God and the angels of God when one soul get’s saved? ...When one soul repents down here of their sin? Jesus hints to us in Luke 15:10 what evidently happens in heaven quite frequently:
“Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Do you suppose there is agony in hell when Satan and his (fallen) angels see you and I weary in our ministry call to the point of wanting to simply give up…then all of a sudden get a burst of unction from the Holy Spirit to pick ourselves up off the ground and get back out on the “front line” for Jesus? You gotta’ know there is...
Blessed to be a blessing,
Norm & Kathleen Rasmussen,
Directors
Dear Reader - are you at peace with God? If not, you can be. Do you know what awaits you when you die? You can have the assurance from the Holy Spirit that heaven will be your home, if you would like to be certain. Either Jesus Christ died for yours sins, or He didn't (He did!). Are you prepared to stand before God on the Judgment Day and tell Him that you didn't need the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross to cover your sins? We plead with you ... please don't make such a tragic mistake.
To be at peace with God; to make certain heaven will be your home for eternity; to make certain that you are in right-standing with God right now ... please click here to help understand the importance of being reconciled to God. What you do about being reconciled to God will determine where you will spend eternity, precious one. Your decision to be reconciled to God is the most important decision you'll ever make in this life.
If this Ministry Update has touched you in some special way, would you please share it with us? It is always a blessing to the ministry staff and to those who support this outreach to hear how God is touching lives through this ministry. Please identify the title of the testimony, and the author's name, and Email us at: ptoffice@precious-testimonies.com
We want to thank each of you who allows us to publish your testimony, for those who faithfully pray for this ministry, for those who care about loved ones and forward these testimonies and other ministry writings to others, and for those who help under-gird this ministry financially. You are so vital to this outreach, and we can never thank you enough.
Like most other evangelistic ministries, we rely on the Lord to place it on people's hearts to sow into this ministry He has called us to. Would you please pray and see if the Lord would have you make a love offering to Precious Testimonies? It doesn't have to be a large offering either. No gift is too small, and every gift you give in helping us reach lost souls will be generously rewarded on the Judgment Day, the Bible promises.
For those who sow a gift of $20.00 or more to the ministry, we'll send you a complimentary copy of the book: Real Life Stories. It is a precious 176-page book revealing how Jesus Christ has impacted the lives of 67 ordinary people in some very God-glorifying ways! It's a delightfully encouraging book for those who are going through a difficult time in their life.
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(Precious Testimonies is a non-denominational 501-C-3 ministry, and financial love offerings to this ministry are tax-deductible. A summary of financial love offerings can be viewed by clicking on the following link: Financial Summary).
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Thank You, and God bless you!