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Encouragement to you,

Identify yourself! In all things be an example of the believer. Our service to God is to be with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. For this reason we must train our heart, train our soul, train our mind and train our strength to acknowledge Him in all our ways that He may direct our paths. Wow! What a wonderful feeling that is.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

The Bible gives us the opportunity of a lifetime with the mechanics for casting all our cares on Him. His perfect peace comes because He cares for us. In less than three seconds you can safely hope in God and leave it in His hands. Look at yourself and you will see you are safe at this moment. As you walk away guard your back door with faith. Refuse the temptation of doing it yourself. Close your ears to Satan and tell him to shut up. Resist him knowing he has to flee. Tell him he should be worshipping the God that created him.

Luke is the official recorder of our Plan of Salvation.

Luke recorded a critical time in the Bible. When Jesus had done all He could He turned it over to men to perpetuate His gospel. I later became one of those men and was called to preach repentance and remission of sins in His Name. My ambition is to do a good a job as long as I can.

Luke’s words were: Then opened He their understanding that they might understand the scriptures. At that time His message became Open Understanding for the world to hear. With those words Jesus spoke His church into existence and we are a continuation of His church

The Past

The past is gone. I can only plan for my future. I must live in the present. There are times when the present stares me in the face and my undisciplined mind runs away from it. I don’t like it, I don’t want it, I am wishing for elsewhere to be.

Here I Stand.

God’s mercies are fresh every morning. He puts a night deposit into my account. I wake up with my yesterday gone. There is no back door into yesterday so I can’t change a thing. To worry about yesterday is all down time. I must look forward to what I can do today. Knowing this I start by acknowledging and accepting His mercies. This sets me free to create my future by first confronting it and then making plans to reach it. My future is in our Apostolic Message. I thrill at it. My pen has become stronger than my body so I will use it.

Summary.

In the last two years I have written seven books (under 100 pages-one is also audio on two CD’s) about various subjects that deal with living in the present time. They are well worth your reading. You can read one in a day. I had a wonderful time at the United Pentecostal Church Conference in Columbus, Ohio selling these books for the Pentecostal Publishing House.

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God has given us a Bible with 66 books written by 40 writers. There are many Godly characters and I respect them all. In my 56 years of ministry I have been inspired to preach about many of them. I am a 76 year old retired pastor but not a retired minister. The Word continues to thrill me.

Stay encouraged. Your reward is Great.

Albert Friend

Friend Family Ministries