👂Have You Heard?👂

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

                              ~ Billy Graham ~

Colossians 4:3 (KJV) Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: Verse 2 The Apostle Paul said to continue in prayer. Here in verse 3 he is saying pray for us. What do you want us to pray for Paul? Have you ever heard someone ask others to pray for them? Yet they never say for what? I understand that maybe they don’t want the whole world to know. Yet on the other hand we all need a group of people that we can trust to pray for us. Paul didn’t just say pray for us, oh no he told them what he needed them to pray about. “that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ” Paul said we need doors opened that we may tell others about what Christ has already done for them. We should all want those kinds of doors opened up to us. Just a few days ago a good friend of mine went to heaven. I met him back in 1992. He was pastor of a church here in town. I quickly noticed something about him. When he talked to me about those he had talked to about their souls, tears filled his eyes to the point that they ran down his cheeks.  As time went on we became good friends. One day I asked him if I could go with him as he knocked on doors and talked to others about Jesus, he said yes. I had read book after book about talking to others about Christ but seeing him do it did more for me than any book I have ever read. Here is what I learned. I couldn’t be like my friend Steve but I could learn from him and I did. I have a pasión for souls and I want to be real in this world. So real that when others' lives are falling apart they will remember I told them about Jesus, who loves them more than they could ever imagine. Jesus really lived and died for our sin problem. Salvation is a gift from God to mankind and all you and I have to do is accept it. Death is real and we all will die! What do you think will happen afterwards? I wonder what she was seeing? My mother n law died  a few weeks ago but before she died she did something. She had quit talking the afternoon before she died, that afternoon she did this. She lifted out her arms as if she was reaching for someone to grab her hand as if to help her; no sounds just a reaching out. She did that about 2 times and then she put her arms down beside her and never moved again. The next morning a little after sunrise she took her last breath, no struggle no fighting she just quietly left this world. Wonder what she saw? She was looking into the next world, hands outreached ready to leave. Paul said “Pray for us that God would open doors so that we may tell others of this good news.” Have you Heard?