Preaching the Kingdom in Baltimore:
Mat 4:16 The people who sat in darkness saw a great Light; and Light has sprung up to those who sat in the region and shadow of death."
Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Repent! Repent!
On the streets at Guilford Avenue in Baltimore, we've been preaching: "repent," but what does it mean to repent? These people need to know how to repent and what empowers them to do so.
Knowing they must stop doing what they're doing and knowing they must turn from what displeases God doesn't help them change the behavior, so we encourage them to change they way they think, to be empowered by the power of Christ. When we change how we think and allow God to influence our hearts,and allow the Holy Spirit to do the work, then we are given the desire and strength to do the right thing.
Php 2:13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.
Jo Williams and I encouraged Paul, a methadone user, to change his mind. When I asked Paul if he wants free from the methadone he, at first, said, no way! It's too painful and takes too long. Paul needed to change his mind. So, that's what we set out to do. Paul had to be encouraged with the Truth that 1- he's enslaved to the drug and 2-that Christ can set Him free and 3-that God can and will supernaturally give him the strength to endure and overcome.
We can do all things in Christ:
Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
We are empowered to partake of the Supernatural:
Rom 8:11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
As we prayed over Paul, the Holy Spirit continued to quicken his mortal body and sober him. Please pray for Paul's strength and total deliverance from dependence on these drugs. We're also praying for Trina who's hooked on crack-cocaine and has 7 children. We're praying for housing for Lilly, her 82 year old dad, and children.
God promises to supply all our need and we can ask anything and believer for this provision (Phil 4:19, John 14:14). Many in Baltimore are experiencing the gift of answered prayer. Many have received deliverance from drugs and provision for housing: all through prayer and the grace of God. Let us give God all the glory!
There's one more for whom we are praying: George is joyful, content, and excited. His I.D. is on the way and once he has that he can get housing. Two years ago, he lost his son and home in a fire. He's been homeless for two years now and is fully content and hopeful, trusting God to provide. George was too late for clothes and food, so we fed him, but he'll have to get fresh clothes later. The awesome thing about George is the glow in his eyes as he talks about Jesus and his journey with the Lord and the hope that he has since decided to trust Jesus.
I thank God for people like George, for Jaelyn, Johnnie, Mary and Marvin who truly appreciate Helping Hands and God's provision. (see pics on FB: Jaelyn and Johnny, two young children who prayed for Paul. What a blessing and testimony it will be to them to see him free! Amen.)
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Holiday!
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Happy Holidays!
Every day is a holy-day! Let us live every day -- holy unto the Lord! Amen.
Scotty, (Brian Scott, Raven York) will join us Saturday for an outreach in York where more than 1500 families have registered for this "celebration" event. The gospel message will be shared, toys and gifts will be distributed, and a meal, Bibles, and prayer available to those in desiring and knowing their need for Jesus. Please keep this event in prayer for souls!
Sunday, December 13, we joined Harvest Chapel and Helping Hands of York in a large homeless outreach and fed hundreds of needy people. Many received Christmas toys, coats, warm food and bagged lunches, a double portion, if they wanted. Those who received prayer and the gospel message felt the presence of God change their hearts and heal their pain. One guy, with whom we prayed received housing a few days later. Another lady who had a cast on her wrist felt her pain go away immediately. All praise and glory to God in Christ Jesus!
On Thanksgiving, I joined Scotty at Yorktowne House in York, an elderly home. We fed and ministered to a quite a few folks, mostly for those old aches and pains to go away, and some for healing. Several experienced the hand of God, the Comforter, touching them and providing healing and comfort in the name of Jesus! Glory to God!
One young girl was there who gave me a list of things that she wants for her baby shower. She's pregnant, smoking, and due in February. She had been living with her grandmother, but left to go back to an abusive boyfriend. Please pray for salvation, deliverance, and the healthy birth of this baby, in Jesus! Amen.
From Halloween to Thanksgiving, Janet and I had been in and out of the hospitals in Baltimore, praying for healing and salvation for many. Janet was suffering from a hernia and was healed. Please pray for her comfort during this holiday season, after the recent loss of her sister. Also, pray for my friend, Clara who lost her 45 year old daughter one night in September, her daughter, Karin, fell asleep and never woke. With the loving support of other Christians, Clara is staying strong and joyful, so we pray these people stay in fellowship, in Christ. Amen!
I'm remembering this: Jesus is the perfect gift!
Every day is a holy-day! Let us live every day -- holy unto the Lord! Amen.
Scotty, (Brian Scott, Raven York) will join us Saturday for an outreach in York where more than 1500 families have registered for this "celebration" event. The gospel message will be shared, toys and gifts will be distributed, and a meal, Bibles, and prayer available to those in desiring and knowing their need for Jesus. Please keep this event in prayer for souls!
Sunday, December 13, we joined Harvest Chapel and Helping Hands of York in a large homeless outreach and fed hundreds of needy people. Many received Christmas toys, coats, warm food and bagged lunches, a double portion, if they wanted. Those who received prayer and the gospel message felt the presence of God change their hearts and heal their pain. One guy, with whom we prayed received housing a few days later. Another lady who had a cast on her wrist felt her pain go away immediately. All praise and glory to God in Christ Jesus!
On Thanksgiving, I joined Scotty at Yorktowne House in York, an elderly home. We fed and ministered to a quite a few folks, mostly for those old aches and pains to go away, and some for healing. Several experienced the hand of God, the Comforter, touching them and providing healing and comfort in the name of Jesus! Glory to God!
One young girl was there who gave me a list of things that she wants for her baby shower. She's pregnant, smoking, and due in February. She had been living with her grandmother, but left to go back to an abusive boyfriend. Please pray for salvation, deliverance, and the healthy birth of this baby, in Jesus! Amen.
From Halloween to Thanksgiving, Janet and I had been in and out of the hospitals in Baltimore, praying for healing and salvation for many. Janet was suffering from a hernia and was healed. Please pray for her comfort during this holiday season, after the recent loss of her sister. Also, pray for my friend, Clara who lost her 45 year old daughter one night in September, her daughter, Karin, fell asleep and never woke. With the loving support of other Christians, Clara is staying strong and joyful, so we pray these people stay in fellowship, in Christ. Amen!
I'm remembering this: Jesus is the perfect gift!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
NEW RAVEN GEAR!
Orders are now being taken for the latest in RAVEN Gear!
The first to "fly" out...
The RAVEN Pendant
7/8" x 1-7/8" glass pendant / silver plated bail / 24" black ball chain
Pendants are made on demand and can be made TEAM SPECIFIC
$20.00 each // Part of the cost is going to help pay for Mardi Gras 2010
Please place your orders via PayPal here:include:
TEAM NAME / # of Pendants / Mailing Address
Pendants will be mailed as they are completed.
But, please be patient ... the process for completing the pendants is time consuming.
The first to "fly" out...
The RAVEN Pendant
7/8" x 1-7/8" glass pendant / silver plated bail / 24" black ball chain
Pendants are made on demand and can be made TEAM SPECIFIC
$20.00 each // Part of the cost is going to help pay for Mardi Gras 2010
Please place your orders via PayPal here:include:
TEAM NAME / # of Pendants / Mailing Address
Pendants will be mailed as they are completed.
But, please be patient ... the process for completing the pendants is time consuming.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
God Gives the Increase: Baltimore and York Outreach
ALL GLORY TO GOD
How often Christ wanted to gather his sheep...but, “..blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.” Matt 23:39
PLANTING and WATERING: GOD GIVES THE INCREASE:
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
I AM NOTHING: ALL GLORY TO GOD!
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
THEY ARE ONE!
1Co 3:8 So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
We prayed for unity; we prayed for one mind, one body and one Spirit. With the mind of Christ, we walk in the Spirit with one purpose, a mission for God: souls.
John Harris of York went along to minister to Lionel on Tuesday. We took him information for Teen Challenge. Lionel wants free and can not see any reason hindering him, considering that so many have gone before him and been set free. John testified of a formerly homeless man whom Lionel knows, who had a 30 year addiction and is now free and blessed with a place to live and recovery. Please continue to pray for Lionel's freedom from alcoholism.
Just after the time spent with Lionel, his friend Chris, was near-by and received the Word of God and experience the power of the Holy Spirit. Having formerly known of a God, but not knowing or understanding Christ as Lord, we spent quite a bit of time with him. Yesterday, he experienced God's presence and influence on his heart as we prayed for him and revelation. He confessed and received Christ as Lord and Savior, and also healing for a wounded ankle. We're praying for God to keep Him in His clutches, that His faith has been made sure, as we know God can.
Afterward, we headed to downtown York Mall, the square at Market and George, to preach the Word. John felt led to read from the Word of God in Ezekial 34:
Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Eze 34:3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, but you do not feed the flock.
Eze 34:4 You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.
...Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
Ezekial 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Eze 34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.
Eze 34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
Eze 34:15 I will feed My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Jehovah.
Here, we prayed for the city and the pastors, we prayed for souls and Divine appointments, then met Eli (his nickname,) who stayed for almost two hours, frequently ranting about how he can do whatever he wants...and still be saved because He accepted Christ...years ago.
Still, he admits to “sometimes struggle with lust...hey, they're beautiful women,” he said. And he knows that he does not always “listen to God,” but he reads the Bible.
We showed him Revelations 3, how he has to be an overcomer, “let him who has an ear hear,” and 1John3:9, how, those who have come to the Lord do not make a practice of sinning, how those who love God obey His commands (1 John 2:5). We know the Word will go forth to do what it is purposed to do; the Truth will set Him free. John talked to him about the type of ground God's Word is falling on and if it will produce good fruit. So, we're praying that the Word of God will not go void in Eli's heart, but take root. Amen.
John's wife, Michelle, added this Word of encouragement:
“My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,
knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.”
Later, I went to Baltimore to work with Janet. She has an incredible praise report of what God is doing. While we were praying for freedom from cigarette addiction for a lady at the homeless outreach on Sunday, not only was the lady at Gilford Avenue set free, but also another lady for whom we've been praying, finally ripped up, crushed and destroyed her cigarettes! Sick of them, she's been free for three days. Several weeks ago, we had prayed for a job and home for Kathy and she is now employed! After the homeless outreach, we went to church in Essex for a good Word. Lots of people were set free there, as well! It is awesome to see the Glory of God and His power setting the captive free and healing the broken-hearted. Praise be and all glory to God in Christ Jesus, our Savior and Healer. Amen.
How often Christ wanted to gather his sheep...but, “..blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.” Matt 23:39
PLANTING and WATERING: GOD GIVES THE INCREASE:
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
I AM NOTHING: ALL GLORY TO GOD!
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he who plants anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
THEY ARE ONE!
1Co 3:8 So he planting, and he watering, are one, and each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
We prayed for unity; we prayed for one mind, one body and one Spirit. With the mind of Christ, we walk in the Spirit with one purpose, a mission for God: souls.
John Harris of York went along to minister to Lionel on Tuesday. We took him information for Teen Challenge. Lionel wants free and can not see any reason hindering him, considering that so many have gone before him and been set free. John testified of a formerly homeless man whom Lionel knows, who had a 30 year addiction and is now free and blessed with a place to live and recovery. Please continue to pray for Lionel's freedom from alcoholism.
Just after the time spent with Lionel, his friend Chris, was near-by and received the Word of God and experience the power of the Holy Spirit. Having formerly known of a God, but not knowing or understanding Christ as Lord, we spent quite a bit of time with him. Yesterday, he experienced God's presence and influence on his heart as we prayed for him and revelation. He confessed and received Christ as Lord and Savior, and also healing for a wounded ankle. We're praying for God to keep Him in His clutches, that His faith has been made sure, as we know God can.
Afterward, we headed to downtown York Mall, the square at Market and George, to preach the Word. John felt led to read from the Word of God in Ezekial 34:
Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Eze 34:3 You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, but you do not feed the flock.
Eze 34:4 You have not made the weak strong, nor have you healed the sick, nor have you bound up the broken. You have not brought again those driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but you have ruled them with force and with cruelty.
...Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
Ezekial 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out My sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Eze 34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the lands, and will bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel by the rivers, and in all the places of the land where people live.
Eze 34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.
Eze 34:15 I will feed My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Jehovah.
Here, we prayed for the city and the pastors, we prayed for souls and Divine appointments, then met Eli (his nickname,) who stayed for almost two hours, frequently ranting about how he can do whatever he wants...and still be saved because He accepted Christ...years ago.
Still, he admits to “sometimes struggle with lust...hey, they're beautiful women,” he said. And he knows that he does not always “listen to God,” but he reads the Bible.
We showed him Revelations 3, how he has to be an overcomer, “let him who has an ear hear,” and 1John3:9, how, those who have come to the Lord do not make a practice of sinning, how those who love God obey His commands (1 John 2:5). We know the Word will go forth to do what it is purposed to do; the Truth will set Him free. John talked to him about the type of ground God's Word is falling on and if it will produce good fruit. So, we're praying that the Word of God will not go void in Eli's heart, but take root. Amen.
John's wife, Michelle, added this Word of encouragement:
“My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,
knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
But let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.”
Later, I went to Baltimore to work with Janet. She has an incredible praise report of what God is doing. While we were praying for freedom from cigarette addiction for a lady at the homeless outreach on Sunday, not only was the lady at Gilford Avenue set free, but also another lady for whom we've been praying, finally ripped up, crushed and destroyed her cigarettes! Sick of them, she's been free for three days. Several weeks ago, we had prayed for a job and home for Kathy and she is now employed! After the homeless outreach, we went to church in Essex for a good Word. Lots of people were set free there, as well! It is awesome to see the Glory of God and His power setting the captive free and healing the broken-hearted. Praise be and all glory to God in Christ Jesus, our Savior and Healer. Amen.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Crying Freedom in PA!
SET THEM FREE, LORD!
This is our cry for freedom for those we've been meeting on the streets. Some confess to be “fences sitting,” for whom we encouraged to get off the fence, which belongs to the devil! Cross over to the other side!
Praise God, a young couple to whom we ministered in Westminster have been seeking the Lord and have been blessed by it. Leroy and Kris are a young couple with a baby. They've found a church and jobs. Praise the Lord! We're still praying for their own place to live, knowing God will provide.
Here are a few Scriptures that Gideon and I have felt compelled to share on the streets.
Seek first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these thing will be added unto you (Matt 6:33).
re: Christ, the Word:
John 1:12 ...as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name.
Zechariah 4:6... Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Hebrews 3:8 Do not harden your heart as you did in the rebellion, when they tested me...
I had heard some bad news about some guys on Chestnut Street, so we prayed diligently all week for an opportunity to minister to them and for freedom for them. We see the progress. Lionel's been struggling with alcoholism for many years, but after several hours of ministry he's committed to getting detoxed and into rehab. So, we're praying for the mighty hand of God to strengthen him and deliver him. We know God can. Amen! Please keep praying for rehab for him.
On Maple Street, a young pregnant girl wants free from cigarettes. Another receives healing for a knee injury and we're praying for her grandmother with Alzheimer's, Esperanza. We're making good connections there with the Spanish-speaking community and hope to have help translating the Gospel message. Perhaps Luz (whose knee was healed) and Angel will join our team.
Here's the Maryland/PA schedule:
Tuesday: Baltimore Homeless outreach in Essex, MD w/ Compassion Ministries (5 p.m.-?)
(also: RAVEN Ministries, discipleship, on-line: www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com)
Friday: Westminster, Main Street (w/No Walls Ministries) (8p.m.-?)
http://www.nowallsministries.net
Saturday: York, PA, meet at Glory House, 12:30 p.m.
Sunday: Baltimore, Gilford Street exit, Fallsway Bridge, 2-3:30 p.m.
RAVEN International Ministries, church, on-line 6.p.m. (www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com)
Thank you for your prayers!
Php 1:3-5 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now...
This is our cry for freedom for those we've been meeting on the streets. Some confess to be “fences sitting,” for whom we encouraged to get off the fence, which belongs to the devil! Cross over to the other side!
Praise God, a young couple to whom we ministered in Westminster have been seeking the Lord and have been blessed by it. Leroy and Kris are a young couple with a baby. They've found a church and jobs. Praise the Lord! We're still praying for their own place to live, knowing God will provide.
Here are a few Scriptures that Gideon and I have felt compelled to share on the streets.
Seek first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these thing will be added unto you (Matt 6:33).
re: Christ, the Word:
John 1:12 ...as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name.
Zechariah 4:6... Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Hebrews 3:8 Do not harden your heart as you did in the rebellion, when they tested me...
I had heard some bad news about some guys on Chestnut Street, so we prayed diligently all week for an opportunity to minister to them and for freedom for them. We see the progress. Lionel's been struggling with alcoholism for many years, but after several hours of ministry he's committed to getting detoxed and into rehab. So, we're praying for the mighty hand of God to strengthen him and deliver him. We know God can. Amen! Please keep praying for rehab for him.
On Maple Street, a young pregnant girl wants free from cigarettes. Another receives healing for a knee injury and we're praying for her grandmother with Alzheimer's, Esperanza. We're making good connections there with the Spanish-speaking community and hope to have help translating the Gospel message. Perhaps Luz (whose knee was healed) and Angel will join our team.
Here's the Maryland/PA schedule:
Tuesday: Baltimore Homeless outreach in Essex, MD w/ Compassion Ministries (5 p.m.-?)
(also: RAVEN Ministries, discipleship, on-line: www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com)
Friday: Westminster, Main Street (w/No Walls Ministries) (8p.m.-?)
http://www.nowallsministries.net
Saturday: York, PA, meet at Glory House, 12:30 p.m.
Sunday: Baltimore, Gilford Street exit, Fallsway Bridge, 2-3:30 p.m.
RAVEN International Ministries, church, on-line 6.p.m. (www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com)
Thank you for your prayers!
Php 1:3-5 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making my request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now...
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