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DON’T QUIT - DO_{N’T QU}IT!

Romans 12:11-12 (The Message Bible)

Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, 12 cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder.

My family and I would like to congratulate Bro. Teody Galit and the WIN – Al Ain Men in Ministry in their 15^th anniversary. May the Lord of Glory that raised up the Man Christ Jesus also raise up men of power and faith until the Lord Jesus’ return. God bless us all today with men who are willing to stand in righteousness and holiness.

Men as well as women and children are also discouraged from time to time. They are just as human as everybody else. Even Jesus’ own disciples came to a point of fear and doubt many times in the Gospels. Nevertheless the Lord had chosen them to preach the gospel. Nobody is perfect except God. He is the one who calls us who also will DO IT!

1 Thessalonians 5:24 (NKJV) He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

The Men in Ministry has chosen the theme of “DON’T QUIT.” The only place in the Bible that allows men to quit is in the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 16:13 :

1 Corinthians 16:13 (KJV) Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

However in more modern translations it actually means to be brave or have courage!

1 Corinthians 16:13 (NKJV) Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong

1 Corinthians 16:13 (NIV) Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.

Being brave and courageous has nothing to do with strong emotions. It is by Doing IT! Do what? Do the will of God! Some of us fell into a habit of waiting for an emotion to overcome our lack of faith or courage. Fear or discouragements are both emotions. But in order to overcome emotions you don’t need another emotion or else you will still end up emotional. Instead, exercise your WILL (the power of choice) to overcome all emotions. If we choose to obey God’s word regardless of what we feel, we will become champions for Christ!

How do we understand the phrase, DON’T QUIT? Remove the letters N’T QU and you’ll end up with DO IT!

In the movie, the Princess Diaries, Amelia was reading her father’s letter as she was unsure of taking her place as the next ruler of his father’s home country. Her father said, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you'll be travelling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey."

The Bible tells us that brave men who choose to obey God will live forever!

1 John 2:17 (NIV) The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

DON’T QUIT is stated in the negative tense. DO IT is in the positive. You have to move forward and not stay still or retreat. The children of Israel were trapped in the wilderness and fearful of their lives as the Egyptian army was in hot pursuit.

Ex 14:10-15 (NKJV)

And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.11 Then they said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, 'Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness." 13 And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace." 15 And the Lord said to Moses, "Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.

At this point of the story the Red Sea was not divided yet. The reason for this is that they refuse to move forward. Are we still waiting for God to do a miracle before we walk in faith? As we walk in faith and not by sight then the impossible will happen. JUST DO IT! Do the will of God and godly emotions of joy and peace will arise.

May the Lord bless our ministry with men of faith who will choose to DO IT by faith and not by feelings. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder.

God bless

Ps Edward, Sis. Marlene, David John and Sally Joy

About Us:

OUR MISSION:

The heart of the WORD International Ministries is the adoption of a global strategy for church planting and leadership development to fulfill its commitment to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. To bring unsaved and nominal Christians to a saving knowledge of Christ and to train national leaders to proclaim the Gospel to their own people and to other nations.

OUR VISION:

We will thrust into the world as a Biblically sharpened and potent Spirit-filled force winning souls, planting and building communities of discipled believers equipped to preach the Gospel through transformed lives.

OUR PHILOSOPHY:

We are an international community of churches bound as one by a covenant to evangelize the world and fulfill the Great Commission through the power of the Holy Spirit, the love that flows from His Son Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the believers.

Through this ministry we build communities of families where lives, regardless of their origin or status, are drawn and transformed to reflect the image of Jesus Christ, and to shine like stars in a dark world for the glory of God.

For this we lay our lives, for this we bear the torch that lights a path for the generations to follow until our Lord Jesus comes.

What We Believe:

That the Bible is the inspired Word of God.
In one God revealed in three Persons, namely, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
That Jesus Christ is God’s only Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. That Jesus was crucified, buried and raised from the dead. That He ascended to heaven and is today at God’s right hand praying on our behalf.
That all people have sinned and come short of the glory of God, and that repentance is commanded by God and is necessary for forgiveness of sin.
That salvation is received by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
In being made holy through faith in the blood of Christ, through the Word, and by the Holy Spirit.
That God expects all believers to live a life of holiness.
In being empowered by and filled with the Holy Spirit subsequent to a clean heart.
In exercising spiritual gifts for the edification of the Body of Christ.
In water baptism by immersion, and all who repent should be baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
That divine healing is provided for all through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.
In observing the Lord’s Supper and washing of the saint’s feet.
In the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the bodily resurrection; eternal life for the righteous, and eternal punishment for the wicked.

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