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Topic: Missionary (10/19/06)
Each year of my born-again life forms a new layer of experience and understanding. Sometimes it may be from willful sin wreaking havoc for me and my loved ones. It is so hard to overcome the consequences of sinful choices, and I learn that the price is too great to pay.

Sometimes it is from right choices that overwhelm me with joy. It is so much better to “do it right” the first time. The Word teaches that to the Lord, “obedience is better than sacrifice.”

God wants our obedience to be out of love for Him, showing us that when we love and follow Him, we are drawing from the Source of all peace and joy. As a willing child of God (we received Him as our Savior) we will have to repeat each difficult lesson until we “get it,” and no longer have to stumble, fall, and drag ourselves up again.

What an amazing place of victory, peace, and joy! Once you have experienced standing on higher ground, you never want to fall again.

I think my attempts at being a missionary in earlier years were unfruitful because I had not yet achieved a vision from that higher plane. Now I am a visionary, a missionary with a vision.

I can see more clearly His sacrifice on the cross, His love, His provision, and His faithfulness to His children.

When I am filled with the awesome awareness of His presence in my life from His Holy Spirit, it overflows to those around me, and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ comes naturally, and people listen. Oh, what a wonderful Savior!
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Birdie Courtright
10/29/06
Keep sharing! Others see and hear what He does for us and that's the greatest testimony there is--that He reaches inside each one of us on a unique level and we are changed from Glory to Glory! Your stories of what He has done for you will inspire many others.
Donna Powers
10/29/06
A very inspiring testimony. This was very well done. Keep writing!