He is my Shield

I just received the email below from the US Embassy Warden Message on travel affairs. I thought this email was interesting. Unfortunately, I will have to break all these rules starting tomorrow. Preaching the Gospel forces us to step out of our boats, to leave the safety and security of our houses and to obey Jesus no matter what the cost. My life is in His hands and it’s in Him I will solely trust (Gen.15:1, 2Sam.22, PS.23).

The U.S. Embassy issues this Warden Message to remind US citizens of the continuing threat of terrorist activity in Pakistan.  Due to security concerns, American officials in Lahore and Islamabad are instructed to restrict the frequency and to minimize the duration of trips to public markets, restaurants, and other locations.  Depending on ongoing security assessments, the U.S. Embassy places areas such as hotels, markets, and/or restaurants off limits to official personnel.

Current media reports suggest that dissension among factions within the Tehrik-e-Taliban terrorist group increases the possibility of terrorist attacks throughout Pakistan –  particularly in the NWFP province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).  A September 2 attempt to assassinate a Federal Minister of the Pakistani government in the capital further emphasizes the capability of extremists to target and attack individuals, even in high security areas.  Americans should bear in mind the importance of heightened security awareness in light of upcoming anniversaries of the 9/11 terrorist attack and of the September 20, 2008 attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

American citizens in Pakistan are strongly urged to avoid hotels that do not apply stringent security measures and to take measures for their own safety and security at all times.  These measures include maintaining good situational awareness, avoiding crowds, and keeping a low profile.  The Embassy reminds Americans that even peaceful demonstrations may become violent and advises Americans to avoid demonstrations. Americans should avoid setting patterns by varying times and routes for all required travel.  Americans should ensure that their travel documents and visas are valid at all times!

Please Note: I will be preaching on 9/11 to a crowd that they tell me will be around10,000. I believe with all my heart, that salvation will take place in the lives of thousands of Muslims that night. I believe as the word of God is preached, the Holy Spirit will hover over that vast dirt field removing the scales from their eyes. For the first time these precious people will bow their knees on that dirt field to the one true living God that loves them more than they could ever imagine! Their hearts will be flooded with Heavenly peace and joy like they have never known.

I kindly ask that you spend a few moments in prayer over the next few days for this crusade. Eternity is literally at stake for so many here. If God be lifted up, He will draw all men to Himself!

Desiring Jesus,

Your friend,

Bernie Moore

COMPEL THEM!

18But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ 20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and COMPEL them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”
I heard a famous pastor once say that the richest soil in the world is not found in the famous middle east where there is an abundance of oil, nor It’s not found in diamond rich soil of Africa, or in the gold infested mountains of all over the world? Rather, the richest soil on this planet is located in graveyards.  You see every graveyard is overwhelmed with lost dreams.  It’s here in this soil where the great dreams of men and women died with them.  Dreams that men had but made excuses as to why they could never pursue them or accomplish them. Unfortunately, it’s in this rich soil that we see the effect that our excuses had on us.  If we would have had the courage and the faith to chase our dreams then maybe our lives in some sort of way would still be speaking.
Jesus said repeatedly to “GO!” It wasn’t a suggestion, it wasn’t if you can find the time to fit it in your busy schedule, He didn’t say if you don’t have anything else to do, or if your bored, no Jesus emphatically and repeatedly said GO!  You don’t need to go through seminary (although it helps) and you don’t need wait until your life is completely in order before you go. There are people all around you that need to know that they are invited to eat at the King’s table and you and I are the one’s that the King wants to use to give the invitation.  I love how He says “Compel them”. That’s awesome! You get the sense that He is so desperate to have all those who have been rejected by the world to come in and not just eat but live with Him.  It’s one thing to reject an invitation to eat with an earthly king but to reject an invitation to eat with the King of all Kings is unfathomable! No matter where you are or how far you have to go, just GO and compel humanity to come in and eat with King of all Kings! Everyone’s name is on the invite list but it’s up to you and I to let everyone know that they are invited.

They all made excuses. One after another they made excuses as to why they couldn’t come to the Kings feast.  I wonder if we are much different. Every week we make excuses as to why we can’t go to church and partake in a Heavenly feast. Some say, I don’t belong to that religion, others may say I’ve worked really hard and really long this week and now I’m very tired, yet others may say we have tickets to the football game today, again there are some that say we will just go next week, I’m sure God understands.  God really doesn’t understand. From the days of Adam who gave God a good excuse as to why he partook in the eating of the apple until today we have learned that excuses have never gotten us anywhere. Someone once said that hell is full of people who had good excuses!
You know Jesus said in Matt 18:14 – Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.  The Father longs to have His children come into His house and eat at His table but first we must go to the highways and byways, to the utter most parts of the earth and compel all to come in and eat. So starting today, lets stop making excuses and lets chase our dreams and lets GO and COMPEL all to come in and eat with the KING of ALL KINGS!

Go After the One

4“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ 7I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

What a great picture of a great shepherd who upon finding out one of his sheep has gone astray he leaves the comfort of being with the ninety-nine and he embraces the challenge of climbing the mountains (that how Matthew puts it) putting himself at risk to go after one. One sheep that has gone astray and can’t make it back to the sheepfold on its own.  You may be thinking what’s the big deal? Right?  It’s just one sheep. That shepherd still has ninety-nine. Why risk it all to go after just one? Does it even make sense that you would leave the ninety-nine to go after one? What if while the shepherd is searching for the “one” that some of the ninety-nine go astray as well?  It just seems too big of a risk to leave so many other sheep in hopes that you find just “one”.  Someone else may say that’s a little irresponsible. That’s not being a good steward over the ninety-nine. Well it’s pretty obvious here that God is the great shepherd and in His heart He says that no one is to be left behind. The great prophet Isaiah said in ch.53 that we like sheep have all gone astray. And while we went astray, He went to the cross! Our great shepherd went to the cross to bring us back into His sheepfold. If one goes astray than He takes it upon Himself to go after him.  When He finds that one lost sheep, He says there is a phenomenal celebration that takes place in Heaven!

People ask me why in the world would you leave the comfort of your house and why leave your family to go to place that is so dangerous? Why risk your life to go to a place that doesn’t embrace you or the message that you believe in and live by? Well it’s really simple, just like you and I they are God’s precious sheep. They are His children and somebody needs to go to the mountains, the villages, the cities, the marketplaces and anywhere else where His children may be roaming, to tell these wonderful people that the greatest shepherd of all is looking for them because He loves them. He doesn’t need anything from them, He is not trying to punish them or take things from them, He’s pursing them with a reckless abandonment of love in His heart for them. That’s why He pursues them 24/7 even though most continue to reject Him, He simply loves them too much. And it’s His amazing love for the lost that allows Him to handle the continuous rejection from all those He is pursuing.
That’s why I have come all the way to Pakistan; I must tell all the lost sheep, all those hiding in the mountains of religion, that the Great Shepherd is looking for them because He loves them.
God risked everything and sent His one and only son to a people He knew were going to reject and despise Him but He did it anyway.  Because He knew that there were lost sheep, they had no shepherd…but Jesus willingly chose to abandon the comfort of Heaven to after the one! If He did it don’t you think we should? Together, by Gods grace we can all go after “one”.  And when we do than you will see, slowly but surely we can change the world in which we live.

Lord Save Me!

Matthew 8:24-27

And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

Jesus’ disciples were grown men and experienced boaters and fishermen and, yet, they were panicking and fearful for their lives. Certainly they had been in storms before but there was something different about this one. They had been in the boat all night and a storm arose quickly and had gotten so bad that they actually thought they were going to die!

You have to believe that they were trying everything they knew to try. They couldn’t navigate the boat in such a way that it could take on the waves. They may have been trying to throw the water out of the boat but the waves just continued to come crashing over the sides. Everything they tried quickly proved that their efforts were futile. They finished trying to save themselves and they all looked at one another realizing that there was only one option left: go to Jesus. But there is one problem; He’s sleeping. How could He be asleep? We are in the middle of a storm and He’s sleeping! Really! How can He possibly be sleeping? So they go to Him screaming, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” They were absolutely desperate. They couldn’t swim their way to safety. They couldn’t sail their way to safety. They couldn’t navigate their way to safety. They needed Jesus to SAVE them!!

Have you ever felt that way? You are in the middle of a big storm. The waves of life are crashing all around you and you feel like you are taking on water. You are slowly drowning. You don’t know what to do, where to go, or how to get out. The storms of life such as uncertain finances, loss of jobs, a tumultuous marriage, problems with kids, sickness, rejection etc… and you just don’t know what to do.

In the natural you try all the things you know to try, you try to talk your way out; you try to pay your way out; you try to work your way out; you try to study your way out; you cry your way out. If none of those things work then you attempt to ignore or mask the problems and the circumstances around you. But, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t ignore the storm that is slowly making you sink.

Meanwhile, you feel like Jesus is just sleeping while you are slowly drowning. You wonder to yourself doesn’t He care that I am perishing? Doesn’t He care that I can’t deal with this anymore? How do I know that He really cares about me and that He really loves me?

What do you do? Just like the disciples you scream at Jesus, “Lord save me! I am perishing!” There’s great news here: Romans 10:12-13 says,“For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Just remember, Jesus was in the boat with the disciples when they were going through this storm; a storm so bad that they thought they would die. Jesus was just waiting on an invitation from those guys to do something. And as soon as they got desperate enough they invited Him to take over. You may be going through different storms in your life right now. Please hear my heart when I say that Jesus is not sleeping while you feel like you are drowning, He is just waiting on an invitation from you and He will rise up on your behalf and do what you can not do, He will calm every storm in your life!

Don’t wait until it gets so bad that you can see death on the horizon, invite Jesus into your situation right now! Let Him take over everything in your life and watch Him calm every storm you face!

God Bless,

Bernie Moore

Sargodha Pakistan April 26 – Final Night

I am just on my way now to the airport in Lahore. It is 2:40am and I am still so humbled by all that has done tonight! Tonight was the final night of the crusade and I preached my heart out. The large crowd of 12,000 all Muslims were hanging on every word that proceeded out of my mouth. When I launched the boat out into the deep for Salvation we almost sank! Thousands responded! Pastors and church leaders wept at what they were witnessing. I myself had to hold back the tears as I felt the Holy Spirit hoovering over that great field!  Darkness was overtaken by the awesome light of God! The miracles tonight were in abundance. Including one lady who hadn’t walked in 18yrs!  The whole crowd erupted in praise! Another lady had a tumor on her stomach which she said caused severe pain in abdomen and back even to the point where she could barely walk! She said it was absolutely horrible! Well Jesus healed her and she started screaming in her Pakistani dialect, “I have been healed! Jesus has healed me!”  The tumor was completely gone! I was so amazed!  The crusade director said himself that he couldn’t believe how many miraculous healing’s had taken place!  This is how Gods hospital works, you come in sick, He is the great physician, He touches you and you go home!  There is no staying overnight in His hospital!  All who come in can go home saved and healed! What a blessing this has been. Sargodha will never be the same!

Sargodha Pakistan April 24 – Day 2

Today I preached in the morning to believers and tonight I threw the net of salvation out to the masses. They said tonight’s crowd was 7,000.
I am writing and I still feel like the fire of God is on me!  I just finished speaking at the crusade here in Sargodha and God showed up in such a poweful way!!
I preached on the precious cross of Jesus and how He built a brigde from earth to Heaven, only His bridge is in the shape of a blood soaked cross and He is asking everyone to take a walk across it!  I told them Jesus wants to rescue Sargodha and bring every man, woman and child to salvation! So I through them a life line in the way of salvation and boy was I ever amazed. Almost every hand in that awesome crowd went up. So I thought I made a mistake and gave the invitation all over again and the same thing happened!! Praise God!
Then I prayed for everyone needing a miracle. There we’re to many testimonies to mention but 2 that stood out were; a little girl 7 yrs old had a tumor on her neck which caused severe pain all over her little fragile body. When I prayed for the sick the tumor completely dissapeared and she had absolutetly no pain. She was so very happy!  The crowd was so excited for her.
Then an ederly lady who they carried on a bed and hadn’t walk for a couple years got up and walked up the platform and across the platform and gave Jesus a mighty praise!  She was so happy!!

Sargodha Pakistan April 23 – Day 1

I am on the road right now traveling west to Sargodha. We have about a 4hr drive.
Taking in the scenery it is amazing to see how much beautiful land is here and how the majority is used for agriculture.  The poverty is amazing and heart breaking all at the same time. Mud huts, decimated apartment buildings, clutter the side of the streets. But the 2 things that r everywhere are Mosques and animals! Mosque is their way of life and animals are their way of income.  Both are vital means of survival!  Its amazing that they will truly die for their god, Allah.  So they build nice mosques in the middle of no where just to have a place to worship.  Then the sirens come on 5 times a day to remind everyone to stop and pray. And we Christians can’t stop watching TV long enough to say thank you to the Living God who loved us so much that He freely gave us His son. Now that is Amazing. The Holy Spirit lives in our hearts and most may not even realize it.
You can certainly sense the darkness out here. But God is with us, He is our shield and our protector!  He has already gone before us!!

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