[Lawrence F Vincent]

Dear brother Arun Thomas,
the contents of your post are most encouraging and strengthening. Your choice of words like “wonderful relationship”, “eternity made available once more” and “a transformation that reflects more and more each day the beauty of Christ”, reveal your personal experience that is shared with impressive authenticity. Your contention that “This in itself becomes a message to the corrupted dying world that life is within reach and simply and easily available” is profoundly powerful. The concluding positive note adds synergy to your beautifully expressed thoughts. I thank you and congratulate you for this excellent post.
Lawrence F Vincent

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Thank you for the kind appreciation sister.

Regards
Lawrence F Vincent

[Lawrence F Vincent]

I guess, Christian experience of eternal life in the present will vary from person to person but with a definite pattern that is clearly discernible. This is is my experience in brief: there is continued guidance from conscience that monitors my moral abiding. There are also special promptings that culminate in providential succor in which I could be the beneficiary of a Godsend benefactor or the other way round. In either case, the joy experienced is indescribable or could best fit the description ‘eternal’, because it remains forever. For example, if one were to be used by God to be his instrument to alleviate the misery of a helpless person in dire need, the joy experienced is heavenly and remains forever unlike a temporal joy of some material gain. The most amazing aspect is the providential magnification and multiplication of our little effort to produce a huge effect that becomes an invaluable help for someone.
Biblical understanding serves as reproof for our moral values and provides clarity against confusion caused by false teachings as well as our own mind.
The best way to encourage others is let our joy infect them. Their ultimate learning will come from their own God experience.
LAWRENCE F VINCENT

[Lawrence F Vincent]

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[Lawrence F Vincent]

Dear brother Peter Osahon, the thoughts you shared are most useful and helpful. This quote is powerfully inspiring and touched me deeply: “I know whom I have believed” (2 Tim 1:12). Thank you very much. I gladly endorse your conclusion that the fruitfulness of our ministry will depend on how well we have understood God’s plan as well as the knowledge of what has already been accomplished in this regard.
Regards
Lawrence

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Dear Rev Lola, your conclusion is indeed the crux of God’s task to all those who come to believe: that everyone on the face of the earth gets an opportunity to receive the good news just like them. On the last day there will be none who would be able to say “we did not know”.
Regards
Lawrence

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Thank you brother Arun Thomas for your kind appreciation.
Lawrence F Vincent

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Dear sister Hephzibah, it was apt that you pointed out the resistance we face from satanic forces and there’s no denial. In fact, that is the challenge, while the key as you rightly pointed out is putting on the armour of God.
I completely endorse your observation that moral behaviour and other blessings are gifts from God to all those who partake in true and proper worship. In this regard I recall how our Lord clarified to the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, that the Father expects us to worship him in spirit and truth, which is again explained by Paul in Romans 12:1 as ‘offering selves as living sacrifices holy and pleasing to God.
Unwittingly, Satan drives us to be ever alert and as we seek refuge in God we also learn to escape delusion and deception by being rooted in Christ.

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Thank you sister Hephzibah for you response.
Regards
Lawrence

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Dear brother Arul Sam, I endorse and share your lament and also thank God for your tender heart that suffers at the pain of others.
The odds against which we are all called to strive, are undeniable as you have rightly pointed out. But I am very glad for your sustained hope and positive outlook and zeal for the growth of God’s kingdom. Your deep awareness of being God’s workmanship is truly a wonderful gift of God and a rare privilege. The inspiring and strengthening verses from the Bible that you have aptly deployed, reinforce your convictions and contentions. God bless you.
LAWRENCE F VINCENT

[Lawrence F Vincent]

Thank you brother Arul Sam for your response.
Lawrence F Vincent

[Lawrence F Vincent]

The gospels present us with the best ever picture of ‘God with us‘ and every believer’s yearning is to work with and for Jesus, who is the image of the unseen God. Our Lord who has the power to do it all by himself, chose to make us coworkers and partners. A little child’s joy can increase manifold when given the opportunity to help a father or mother in their task. This is equally true of the greatest task of ushering God’s kingdom on earth.
‘Foretaste of heaven’ which is the privilege of believing servants, is undoubtedly a continuous reward that sustains all our evangelical efforts. However wonderful and joyful this experience may be, we also realise deeply that it is just the tip of the ultimate that is still to come. This itself is a great encouragement for the ministry of the church whose only mandate is to continue the work started by our Lord and sustain the forward direction till he comes again.
We are indeed striving for the revelation of the final glory while enjoying minuscule assuring foretastes that keep us going without losing heart. What can be better than this: we are striving for an unseen reward encouraged by foreseen tastes. Is there any other parallel to this? Seeing light at the end of the tunnel is one thing, but being sure right from the word go by virtue of regular beautiful sparkles of light is something fantastic and most motivating. Nothing can be more encouraging than the “already but not yet” and that’s why it’s God’s own chosen way.
LAWRENCE F VINCENT

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