Dear Friends & Family,Nations...Souls…Eternity…These words bring to mind themultitudes who hang in the valley of decision. I believe theseare the same words that tugged at the heart of the Father God
when He contemplated the decision of sacricing His most
precious Gift to rescue a lost humanity. Between our loving God
and His creation separated by sin is a bridge built on sacrice.
The freedom we possess as Christians and the security of our
heavenly destination was made available to us by a speciccondition: a blood sacrice from the holiest Lamb of all. Eventhe God of this universe had to sacrice something to save Hispeople from a lost eternity. Can you imagine sacricing your
own child for the sake of a sinful world? He chose us; He choseto give up what was most precious to Him; He chose to laysomething down because He saw the precious fruit that was
on the other side of that costly sacrice.When Abraham looked at his son on the table of sacrice,
he too had a decision to make. The Bible says that Abraham“looked up and saw the place in the distance”. He saw what his
sacrice would produce. Through his obedience, a nation was
birthed which carried the very Seed that would one day redeema nation once destined for darkness!John 12:24 “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls tothe ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies,it produces many seeds.”Friends, if we look at only what is in our hands right now, we
will not nd the answer. We must see with eternal vision the fruitthat will be produced through the sacrices we make today.
With every promise in the Bible, there is always a condition. Wecertainly do not have a “works-based” Gospel; but we do servea jealous God that requires something from us. His priority is
our heart - and to have rst place in it. Where our treasure is,there in fact, is our heart. A true sacrice is something that has
your heart attached to it. You can give without loving, but youcan’t love without giving. Just as God tested Abraham, He willtest us to see where our heart is. At what point do we draw theline with God? What are we not willing to give Him? Is there
something we are not willing to sacrice?
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay downhis life for his friends.” It is very easy to say with our mouths thatwe would lay down our life for Christ. However, He is not justasking us if we would die for Him- He is asking if we will live forHim! A true leader will not ask you to do something that he is
not willing to do himself. Thankfully, we serve the True Leader
and we can trust Him, as Abraham did, that no matter what He
asks of us, He will provide. Let me assure you this: when God
does the providing, there is no such thing as lack.
I ask you today, what is on the other side of your sacrice? With
Abraham, it was the birth of a nation. With the Father God, itwas the salvation of a nation. I believe in these last days Godis placing His people in position to see the multitudes savedin a day, cities and nations reaped in one day! However, thereis a gap between the desire and the manifested reality of this
vision: a bridge built on sacrice. God has already provided Hissacrice through Jesus Christ. It is now our turn to lay down our
lives and to live lives of complete abandonment for Him! Do notstay on one side of the gap just praying and hoping for thesedreams to be realized. Build the bridge! Be the bridge!
We urge you to seek the Lord; ask Him what seed He would
have you plant into this ministry. This is one crucial form of
sacrice that will produce priceless eternal fruit. Everything youdo counts for eternity when you do it unto the Lord. We love
you and pray that you see the magnitude of harvest that you are
connected to through your personal sacrice! God bless you!
Ministering by His grace and for His glory,Doug & Janet Rowland
M I N I S T R I E S I N T E R N A T I O N A L
grace& glory
July 2009
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