The seasons are changing and what a strange year it has been. Between the vocational changes and ministry start ups and everything in between it can leave you spinning. The year, looking back, indeed has the fingerprints of God all over it. He uses any and all means by which to bring about His will. I know I have been in His scope for some time now and I am just praising Him for it.

Walking with God can bring us seasons of hope and joy mixed with the miry clay of this fallen world. It can be difficult for a depraved man to always view circumstances through his Christian lenses however God uses those circumstances to increase our(my) faith. So here we are, entering October and as for the evangelism outreaches it comes to the point of indecision and uncertainty. I know beyond any doubt that God will provide witnessing encounters for us all and I pray we are all faithful in our approach to them.

How do we continue corporately to evangelize in the dark and cold of winter? This question is always before us year after year in our hemisphere. You will not find large congregating groups of people in the cold nights of December, January, February and March. So where do we go and what do we do? Perhaps a training program is one resource that could be useful. At this time many of the men are involved in various theological studies and I pray these will act to enhance the discipline of evangelism. We know we can trust the Lord to provide opportunities to witness to His elect.

Let us all be praying diligently and always without ceasing. Let us all be searching for the knowledge of God`s will for us in the heart of the upcoming winter. In these times it becomes so important to continue marching on in His grace and for His glory.

A Puritan Prayer:

A disciples renewal

O my savior, help me.

I am so slow to learn, so prone to forget, so weak to climb;

I am in the foothills when I should be on the heights;

I am pained by my graceless heart, my prayerless days, my poverty of love, my sloth in the heavenly race, my sullied conscience, my wasted hours, my unspent opportunities.

I am blind while light shines around me:

Take the scales from my eyes, grind to dust the evil heart of unbelief.

Make it my chiefest joy to study Thee, meditate on Thee, gaze on Thee, sit like Mary at Thy feet, lean like John on Thy breast, appeal like Peter to Thy love, count like Paul all things dung.

Give me increase and progress in grace so that there may be more decisions in my character, more vigor in my purposes, more elevation in my life, more fervor in my devotion, more constancy in my zeal.

As I have a position in the world, keep me from making the world my position;

May I never seek in the creature what can be found only in the creator;

Let not faith cease from seeking Thee until it vanishes into sight.

Ride forth in me, thou King of kings and Lord of lords, that I might live victoriously, and in victory attain my end.