Greetings once again in the name of Jesus!

 

After a few hours of sleep from sending the last e mail, I was awakened.  What am I going to preach on today?  I feel the Lord has put on my heart to talk about warriors!  I want to share my sermon with you, so if you want a brief sermon, continue to read on.

 

First, I prayed for my children who were sleeping on the floor beside me.  Each generation brings up the next generation of warriors.  Grace and I are committed to bring up Kirsten and Ruth to be better spiritual warriors than we are.  Let them learn about the battle and what is going on in the world, and not just the physical world.  Ephesians 6:12 tells us that the battle that is taking place is in the spiritual realm.  So, we better prepare them to fight!

 

The Lord put on our hearts not to run to Nairobi like a lot of our friends.  But to stay here and fight!  Every prayer that we have lifted on behalf of our Christian brethren, He has answered and protected them.  Praise the Lord!   Today, we need to teach them to reach out to those affected by the sins of others.  Even if people have not bathed in days, and are hurting because of wounds or emotionally, they need to touch them both physically and lift them before the Lord.   

 

Now, in the future, we are planning on both of these girls to marry, so they will need a couple of warrior men, so, how are you doing in your training? 

 

Ephesians 4: 13 says, “until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.”  Then Paul in the rest of his letter goes on to tell the people and us what to do and not to do to reach this full stature of Christ.  If we do the does and don’t do the don’ts, then we have a great reward waiting for us. 

 

But if we do the don’ts, then well, I guess we call that sin, don’t we?  Now what can the sin of one person do?  How does it affect the people around you?  Now take just a few hundred sinners and what can they do?  Well a few hundred sinning youth have succeeded in killing over 200 in the Eldoret area, displaced at least 65,000 the paper says, made orphans, destroyed family units, caused industry to shut down, prevented people from travelling, caused hunger and planes in Uganda not to be able to fly because the fuel could not get there and the list goes on.  In 1992 a group of young warriors did the same thing and now this generation is following the previous generation.  We have ministry to do; training the next generation so that this does not happen again! 

 

That ministry is to teach people about Christ, and pray with the help of God they will start doing the Do list and not the Don’t list! 

 

May each of you as read your Bible, be touched to Do the Does and put away the Don’ts.  For we each influence the next generation and those around us today.  If a few hundred can cause such chaos, what could happen if a few hundred Christians did                 (you complete the sentence as this is where I would ask the church what they as individuals should be doing and as a church).

 

That is in brief, and I am sure it will improve before it is preached. 

 

Be Blessed and Keep Praying!

 

In Service to Jesus,

The Gafner Family