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The Action Report Paul the Apostle: Leading the Race My Precious Friend, Sometimes I still think I’m a 35 year old as I run in the hills, pump iron and prepare for the next missionary journey. But deep in my bones I know the reality—that the 16th of this month I cross the bridge into the land of 70 year olds. And like my granddaughter Kelsey says, “Saba (that’s Hebrew for grandfather), now 70 is old!” Yep! Reality. But thank God, with the passage of years has come experience—walking with Him to peaks and pits—through storms, temptations, tests, traps, mistakes and sins where His grace has gone before and His goodness and mercy have followed behind. My hero is the Apostle Paul (Jesus Christ is more than my hero—He is my very life!). Paul is the only one who ever said, “Follow me as I follow Christ” (see I Corinthians 11:1). Paul knew that believers—especially the young—needed a true example of purity, boldness, consistency, integrity, humility—death to self with only Jesus at the steering wheel. He met that challenge and God has told me to do the same as I have reached out from Israel to India, Canada to China, South America to Spain—the world. Teach the young to pay the price! To blanket this sick world with the offer of God’s love. To hasten the return of King Jesus. To finish the job! We have open doors around the world. Pray for wisdom and strength to both hear and do the will of God. In my last journey, we ministered to some 3000 young people and 1200 pastors in southern Argentina. Now we’re being invited to help train some 2000 more leaders in the north. Pray that whether with Jews in Israel or with Gentiles around the globe, the Spirit of God would allow me to echo the words of Paul, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” I invite you again this month to invest in this great work of God. I truly believe, when eternity swallows up time, you and I will be glad God used us together! With love and appreciation, Frank Related Articles · More Articles Jesus said many would come in His name and deceive the hearts of the simple, sinful and proud. Eastern mysticism and meditation is a big thing in the gullible West. And one day a “world leader” will appear on the scene with the persuasion of a god and the heart of a devil. Jesus warns His children to know the Scriptures, live in obedience to the Father’s will, and stay alert to the signs of the times. They laugh no more. Now God’s description of how He will destroy the old earth and create a
new one makes perfect sense. The splitting of the atom turned many skeptics into believers.
After all, look what man himself is capable of doing with the atom and hydrogen bombs. Now
the fear is that nuclear weapons are being placed in the hands of madmen who wish to annihilate
their enemies. God has blessed man with incredible genius. We stand in awe as we watch men and women in a room full of computers and high-tech instruments guiding and landing spacecraft on distant planets. At that moment, we appear invincible. But then a mammoth tornado comes—or a terrifying hurricane—or rains that flood whole regions and never listen to our shouts to “Stop!”—or the shake that removes from under our feet any confidence or pride we carry, and leaves us numb with hardly enough breath to even utter the paralyzing word “EARTHQUAKE!”. And man is helpless in the face of it all! |
