Church, what I'm about to say is not to smear the beloved Church of the LORD JESUS, but to help it wake up!

(Mark 13:34-37)
For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Think on it!  Crooked politicians "behind closed doors" do not run America, CHRISTIANS DO IN THEIR PRAYER CLOSETS!!! or by their absence thereof! 

Just Consider!  Evil  men and women have not put the world into spiritual darkness–born-again believers have...for only they have been entrusted with "the light of the world"!

PONDER THIS!  Many are the gripes we hear from the Church like: "they" have taken prayer out of schools! "they" are taking Christ out of Christmas and Christmas out of our society! "they" have "elected" a man of dubious background to be president of our nation–a man who declares that America is not a Christian nation!...etc.; but who really is the "they" that is responsible for all these things that so concern today's Christians?   Ponder this!  The only prayer that God will hear from the lost is "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner";  while HIS ears are open continually to those who belong to HIM!!!

I Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil.

YOU ASK, how can all this mess be the fault of the born-again believers?  Well, CONTEMPLATE THIS!  In the natural, failure to vote on election day gives those that you don't want elected an unopposed vote.  You might contend that you didn't vote because there was no one running that you could support.  Well...did you vote in your prayer closet? did you ask God to raise up Godly leaders?  If not, then your absence from your prayer closet helped give the ungodly an open, unopposed door! 

Matthew 6:6  
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

BUT YOU SAY, I have been praying for and about our nation and its leaders continually.  Well, REFLECT ON THIS, has not God been blessing you continually? and don't you think He would want you to continue these prayers until He wakes up the rest of His Church?

REMEMBER...

II Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

DON'T FORGET...God cannot lie and He will do what He has promised!!!

Maranatha,

Don

P.S.

ANOTHER THOUGHT:

In this day when the sodomites have boldly come "out of their closets," is it not time for the true Church to go "into their closets" and not to come out until they know they have the mind of the Lord for their lives?!? Jesus went aside to pray or "receive orders" before He did anything.  We need to follow His example and stop following "every whim of doctrine."

Mark 1:35  
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
 

Those of you who visit us on a regular basis know that we report on brother Reuben Rai and his ministry in Nepal on a regular basis–and we've watched his ministry grow as the Lord has blessed.  I'm confident that your prayers have played an important part in that growth: so, keep those prayers going up! 

Before we put up his latest WRAP, we thought it might be nice if we put forth a little information about Nepal.  I know that I had not heard of Nepal before Reuben began WRAPing with us–so, for your information, I've taken the following from the on-line Wikipedia encyclopedia.

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India. With an area of 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 30 million, Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass[5] and the 41st most populous country. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the country's largest metropolitan city.

Nepal is a country of highly diverse and rich geography, culture, and religions. The mountainous north has eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including the highest, Mount Everest. The fertile and humid south is heavily urbanized. By some measures, Hinduism is practiced by a greater majority of people in Nepal than in any other nation.[6] Buddhism, though a minority faith in the country, is linked historically with Nepal as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who as the Buddha Gautama gave birth to the Buddhist tradition. About half of the population live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day.

You should also note that because Brother Reuben sent several pictures, I've put part of his WRAP on this WRAP AROUND and part on the second WRAP AROUND for December to speed up the download process.

Dear Brother Don
Thank you so much for your prayer over the past three months. The Lord has been keeping us well. This is September, October and November ministry reports. Hope you would like to read it.

In September, we organize retreat program in Kathmandu for our ex-bible school students. The program motto was to know, the impact of the bible school, the reports of their ministry and, the best ways we can do together. During the retreat, many expressed their desire to do the work of evangelism and many ex-students shared the need of discipleship schools.

They were so enthusiastic and so encouraged that after they went back home they organized teams and started to preach the gospel, some started prayer meeting, other started disciple classes for new Christians, thus they won many souls to the kingdom of God.

After the retreat, we went to the nearby river, which had plenty of water to baptized. We baptized 7+7+17=31 people, we found that 3+10+2=15 souls accepted Jesus and 38000 gospel tracts were distributed in this three months time in different times, different places and in different churches and through different servants of God. It is really good to see new souls added to the Church (community of believers). Praise be to God.

We also rented a office room for our organization which is Church Boys United Football Foundation Pvt Ltd which was registered in previous year. We can do lots through this organization legally, specially in the sporting areas. Mediums of sports have brought some to Jesus and are actively taking part in God's work.

We had a training in Manahari near Hetauda city. We trained 14 person in Basic Bible School. We live to make disciple out of a new convert. This school was organized by a cluster of ex-students of the Bible School who were trained in previous years. After the school, students carried out the gospel to villages and schools with gospel tracts and short drama presentations and they preached Jesus. Let us continue to labor to make disciple because they are the ones to make world upside down.
Annual conference in Dasami was so blessed. Many people were touched by the Gift of the word of knowledge. We sang, danced and preached the gospel to many people in program, market and in villages. We distributed 160 English and Nepali bibles to needy Christians. I have some more beautiful photos, please click this link to view them.

http://picasaweb.google.com/reubenrita/SeptmebrOctoberAndNovember?feat=directlink

(Continued on DECEMBER WRAP AROUND #2)

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