Rally Day One

Well the first day of the rally was awesome. I'm not talking about the bikes or the vendors or the events but about Jesus. Everytime we do a rally or festival the Lord always shows me something. He gives me at least one person that comes by that truly blesses my soul. Friday a man by the name of James came up. We hand out bibles at the booth for free and he asked if he could have one. As we stood there talking he told me he was saved and asked if he could tell me about the night God not only saved his soul but his life as well.

James went on to say that he was in a crack house, high and drunk to the point that he could just barely hear stuff that was going on around him. He heard someone say "Lets shoot him and take his money". Instinctively he said he put up his hands when the shotgun blast went off. You see james is missing a finger, the blast blew it off, and his left arm is disfigured because of putting his arms up in front of himself, and the blast struck him in the chest. As they were putting him into the ambulance and taking him to the hospital he prayed to God to save his soul, and if he would, to save his life and he would serve Him for the remainder of his days of this earth. James closed out his testimony with "and that's what I've been doing ever since".

You see that's a blessing and wonderful testimony to the glory of God. God saved this man's soul and he's been about God's business ever since. I would have never met James if I just showed up at church to warm a pew, I would have never met James if I said I didn't have time to do these things for God, I would have never met James if I was concerned about worldy things and "getting mine". Get out of your four walls and see what God is doing and share the love of Christ and the gospel.

I pray that everyone who professes Christ as his or her Lord and Savior would have the drive to come out into the highways and byways of this nation and start spreading the Gospel. The Lord will bless you for it, even if the blessing comes from a saved crack addict.

Spring, gotta love it!

The smell of fresh cut grass, the laughter of kids playing outside and the sounds of a Harley being revved up. Ah the sounds of spring! We here at Hellfire love spring. It's when our blood really get's pumping because with the warmer weather comes the bike rallys and festivals. Opportunities to spread the word of God with a lost and dying world. A chance to be used by God to preach His word to those still lost in there trespasses and sins. An opportunity to be a servant to our Lord and Savior. It's opportunities we don't take lightly. We look out into the field of bikes and the people so lost in this world and their sin and you realize that the majority of them are headed straight to hell. Only God can save them and that's what we tell them. That without Jesus they will suffer the wrath of a just and Holy God. We give them the word which shows them that they're on a path to hell and that in order to be reconciled with God they must be justified by faith in Jesus Christ and the only way that happens is to repent and believe. Christ is their only way to salvation. Please pray for the Hellfire Ministries team that will be out there along with the other ministries.

Priorities

It amazes me at the churches who say “We need to send people out” but when it comes time to do it, no one goes. I’ve seen churches profess to want to be apart of spreading the gospel and are fired up at first but after 60 days they no longer want to go out and a size of 20 dwindles down to one or two. I’ve seen churches who run 300 people on a Sunday morning have 2 show up for an evangelism class on spreading the good news of the Gospel of Jesus. I’ve seen bible studies where only 2 people have shown up. Why is this? Is God not suppose to take priority in our lives? “Well we can’t make the bible study because we’ve got to do this and that”. So the “this” and “that” are taking precedence over learning about God and studying His word? I’ve seen teachers who take the time to prepare a lesson to teach just to have no one show up or if they do they just want to socialize instead of learn. Where’s our commitment to God? Every opportunity that we’re presented to learn about our Lord and Savior should be soaked up. I guess the main question is where are our priorities?