Wounded but with loaded gun and sharp sword.

 

Dear friends, 

 

Not out of need but in childlike curiosity I asked our Father in Heaven the "why" of some things of my life. A word poped out of my mind to put at ease my heart..."Patience", "a rendered heart must be patient.”

My conscience could not agree more with the Holy Spirit that always speaks to my heart loud and clear. I will use Chuck's words to explain myself better that which I pass unto you.

 

“Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven.

Heart-rending is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. 

 

It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud unhumbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.”

 

Let us thank God for our tribulations and count as pure joy when trials come our way, for the aim of God is to work a Jesus like patience as we go about in our life of witnessing.  

 

It is my turn to whine a little, thanking God for a life without option. 

 

Gerry Gutierrez.

 

PS. Pray for my next step into ministry as there is a lot of fight left in me but I need complete restoration of my health for what lays ahead of me and the doors of opportunity are wide open. Thank the Lord with me and rejoice with me for the last two weeks I spend in Tacoma with Nathaniel and Caleb and family. They were the best time in ten years.