Denver Mission Trip

I hope everyone has taken the challenge seriously on focusing on your holiness the next couple of weeks. The reason this is necessary is to realize how helpless and hopeless we are without Christ. When we go to serve him we do it in the power of the Holy Spirit not in our own power.

The duty of a faithful missionary and I would go even further to say, the duty of a faithful Christian is to be open to the cleansing and calling of the Lord. As God cleanses each of us of the guilt and sins in our lives, and as He reveals the truth of His word in our hearts, we can't help but following Christ's leading and calling in missions.

I want to encourage everyone to be open to the cleansing of God in our lives. This cleansing (sanctification) is what prepares you to do the good works through Christ and for Christ. As you are sanctified or cleansed you begin to see the value of people and the insignificance of many of the things of this world. True Christians are attached to nothing and to no one excet Christ. They identify with the interests of other people who are in need.

I hope and pray you continue to focus on the cleasing of your lives.

Sing to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.

Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Psalm 96:2-3