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Will You Lay Down Your Life? Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.I have called you friends JOHN 15:13, 15 Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, I will lay down my life for Your sake, and he meant it (John 13:37). He had a magnificent sense of the heroic. For us to be incapable of making this same statement Peter made would be a bad thing our sense of duty is only fully r...ealized through our sense of heroism. Has the Lord ever asked you, Will you lay down your life for My sake? (John 13:38). It is much easier to die than to lay down your life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling of God. We are not made for the bright-shining moments of life, but we have to walk in the light of them in our everyday ways. There was only one bright-shining moment in the life of Jesus, and that was on the Mount of Transfiguration. It was there that He emptied Himself of His glory for the second time, and then came down into the demon-possessed valley (seeMark 9:1-29). For thirty-three years Jesus laid down His life to do the will of His Father. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren (1 John 3:16). Yet it is contrary to our human nature to do so. If I am a friend of Jesus, I must deliberately and carefully lay down my life for Him. It is a difficult thing to do, and thank God that it is. Salvation is easy for us, because it cost God so much. But the exhibiting of salvation in my life is difficult. God saves a person, fills him with the Holy Spirit, and then says, in effect, Now you work it out in your life, and be faithful to Me, even though the nature of everything around you is to cause you to be unfaithful. And Jesus says to us, I have called you friends. Remain faithful to your Friend, and remember that His honor is at stake in your bodily life. ~ MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST

What’s Next To Do? If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. JOHN 13:17 Be determined to know more than others. If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. Put everything in your life afloat upon God, going out to sea on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and your eyes will be opened. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just... inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself begin to have spiritual discernment. When you know that you should do something and you do it, immediately you know more. Examine where you have become sluggish, where you began losing interest spiritually, and you will find that it goes back to a point where you did not do something you knew you should do. You did not do it because there seemed to be no immediate call to do it. But now you have no insight or discernment, and at a time of crisis you are spiritually distracted instead of spiritually self-controlled. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to continue learning and knowing more. The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you create your own opportunities to sacrifice yourself, and your zeal and enthusiasm are mistaken for discernment. It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfill your spiritual destiny, which is stated in Romans 12:1-2. It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice. Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22). Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been. If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know (John 7:17). ~ MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST

After our food distribution to the blind community in Liberia, West Africa, our team found the deplorable conditions many of the blind people live in. Their homes are delapidated and the rain runs through the roofs. They have no furniture, no beds, thus they sleep on the dirt or mud, when it’s raining, floors. Someone had to help them! The Liberian government doesn’t. So we are. We have started rebuilding their roofs to keep out the rain. We will build beds and get them matt...resses so they don’t have to sleep in the dirt. And we are going to get them some meat!! They hardly ever get meat to eat, so we are getting them some canned chicken. We rarely ask this butIf you would like to help with this project we would be very grateful! You can donate through PayPal to YouthVision International Inc. YVI is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are tax deductible. See more

The Staggering Question He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" EZEKIEL 37:3 Can a sinner be turned into a saint? Can a twisted life be made right? There is only one appropriate answer O Lord God, You know (Ezekiel 37:3). Never forge ahead with your religious common sense and say, Oh, yes, with just a little more Bible reading, devotional time, and prayer, I see how it can be done.... It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we see the activity and mistake panic for inspiration. That is why we see so few fellow workers with God, yet so many people working for God. We would much rather work for God than believe in Him. Do I really believe that God will do in me what I cannot do? The degree of hopelessness I have for others comes from never realizing that God has done anything for me. Is my own personal experience such a wonderful realization of God’s power and might that I can never have a sense of hopelessness for anyone else I see? Has any spiritual work been accomplished in me at all? The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. Behold, O My people, I will open your graves (Ezekiel 37:12). When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself. If the Spirit of God has ever given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He will only do this when His Spirit is at work in you), then you know that in reality there is no criminal half as bad as you yourself could be without His grace. My grave has been opened by God and I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells (Romans 7:18). God’s Spirit continually reveals to His children what human nature is like apart from His grace. ~ MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST

In Kasolwe-Kamuli district, we opened up 11 new youth clubs during our 3 days mission. These youth clubs are going to continue preaching the gospel in their com...munity and make disciples for Christ. The kingdom of God is at hand and we need to be busy like never before for the harvest is still plentiful and the harvesters are yet still few.