HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR, or should I say to all men, “WAKE UP” NEW YEAR!

I believe this coming year is going to be a most pivotal and challenging year for all Christian men and their families. The forces of darkness have arrayed themselves to do whatever deceitful and devious things possible to adversely affect the coming elections.

They have made their plans. The have set their snares. They have the main stream media on their side. This great country is hanging in the balances.

Their leader is Lucifer who will possess a false Messiah. He is calling for a one world government, a one world currency, a one world religion and will make himself the ultimate one to be worshipped. The problem for him is whether the USA is still conservative enough
to throw out his evil agenderists in leaders of government, including the White House.

Bible believing men must stand up and be counted. It is no longer time for “business as usual!”

It is imperative we gather our families around us each day, the best time is following the morning and evening meal, and pray together for the sake of our families and nation. We must, by the grace of God, repent on behalf of our nation for all the sins that grieve His Holy Spirit.

This is the time to wake up, to be on the alert and to cry out to God to save us from falling. We must not compromise, morally or spiritually for our God reigns and He is well able to
cause all his enemies to fall into their own snares.

Joel 2:13 says, “Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”

Keep praying. Colin Campbell

TOUGHEN UP!

Men, in order to finish our race victoriously, we must at all costs, learn how to overcome trials and temptations. In every situation, we are either winning or losing. Hebrews 2:10 says, “For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.”

John 19:30 says, “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”

Men, we must not expect everything to be handed to us on a silver platter. Our Sovereign Father allows us to be tested and tried in the wilderness of our earthly lives. We must not expect there will be no trials in our marriage and raising our children. There will most definitely be trials and testings, in order for God to “prove us” to find out what is really
happening in our hearts.

Do we really trust God to get us through whatever difficult we may be facing? Do we really know God’s Word in our hearts, or is His Word only in our heads? Unfortunately, many Christians are failing in the storms of life because God’s Word is not even in their head, let alone their heart!

We cannot expect to finish the “race of life” and expect to receive a crown if we do not meditate on God’s Word day and night. (Psalm 1). We cannot expect to hear the words, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21) if we have not learned how to walk in the Spirit.

If it was good enough for Jesus our Lord to be tried and proven from the beginning of His life on earth to the end on a cruel cross, it’s good enough for us!

Men, we must not be wimps in marriage, fatherhood or anything else. We must toughen up.

Be encouraged. Colin Campbell.

FINISH THE RACE WELL

FINISH THE RACE WELL.

1 Corinthians 9:24 says, “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”

Men, fatherhood never finishes until your life is over. We begin fathering when the children start coming. Every young father should do all he can to assist his wife during “the baby years.” It is important for the father to regularly hold his baby and do his best to relate by speaking, smiling and singing.

As a loving husband, he should take every opportunity possible to assist with the extra chores that come with each newborn. Baby bonding is extremely important.

Following the baby stage, the father should seek to be involved in every possible way with his children’s lives. As important as it is for children to learn to do chores, the father should realize that all children innately love fun. A wise father will seek to be a “fun father” with his children. It is wise for a father not to be a “sober-side,” but vice versa, not to be all fun without seriousness.

Be involved and available in every stage throughout your children’s lives, even when they are grown and married with their own children. Be a great finisher! Remember, fatherhood is not finished until you are finished!

Be encouraged. Colin.

FINISH THE TASK

FINISH THE TASK.

Men, I believe it is manly to not only start something, but more importantly, to finish it!

Luke 14:28-29 says, “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him.”

The Christ who lives ...within us is the “author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2. Philippians 1:6 reminds us that “Being confident of this very thing that he with hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

If Jesus Christ, our great Captain, believes in finishing things, then all I can say is that this should make a big difference in us who profess we follow Him. It means to finish what we begin.

Let’s say the tower that we began to build was our marriage. Did we not first sit down and count the cost as to whether we had what it takes to perform it and complete it until “death do us part”? It is an indictment that over 50 percent, in the church, have not had sufficient fortitude, discipline, will power, love and courage to keep building until the conclusion of life.

What about the tower of raising a family for God? Did we sit down and count the cost? Again, many Christian men, for whatever unscriptural reason, haven’t got what it takes to have more than one or two children. Even then, they leave them to day care and public schools to raise.

It’s high time to have a recap on what we need to finish.

Be encouraged. Colin.
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THE DAY OF GOD’S POWER

THE DAY OF GOD’S POWER.

What a testimony it would be for Christ if Christian men were the most enthusiastic workers in the nation’s work force? I could not, in the slightest way, imagine Jesus Christ doing the work God gave Him to do with a grudging attitude.

Jesus said, “My meat is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work” (John 4:34). Jesus likens His work to sustenance. Psalm ...110:3 says, “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power… thou hast the dew of thy youth.”

The Hebrew word for “willing” denotes spontaneity and abundance. This is the same attitude as enthusiasm. This is a Messianic Psalm and the Messiah in you and me has the dew of youthful freshness.

We do not have to wait for the millennium to let the world see how fresh, youthful and enthusiastic Christ is in us. Let today be "the day of His power" in you and me. Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell.

"A capable, intelligent and virtuous woman,
who is he who can find her?
She is far more precious than jewels and her
value is far ABOVE RUBIES or pearls ."
Proverbs 31:10

HAPPY NEW YEAR

TOUGHEN UP!

FINISH THE RACE WELL

FINISH THE TASK

THE DAY OF GOD’S POWER

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