By: Mike Helms
"Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (Acts 8:26)
I was thinking this morning of a road trip I took many years ago to sing at a church in Florida. I was living in Miramar at the time, (just south of Ft Lauderdale), and traveling to sing at a church in Gulf Breeze on the Panhandle. Most everything I did in those days was by sheer faith in the belief that I was called by God to do what I was doing. I was poor and drove a rusted out Datsun B210, which many openly questioned as it whether it would even make it to my next destination... (pieces would fall off in people's driveways!). It was a 1,300 mile, 21 hour roundtrip adventure, (Florida is a very long state). ...
By: Mike Helms
The moment Isaiah saw the Lord "seated on a throne, high and exalted", he saw himself as a worm. (All true revival begins with seeing the LORD, which quickly puts our spiritual condition in perspective!) Notice though that Isaiah couldn't use his "unclean" condition as an excuse to sit around and do nothing; a seraph flew to him, touched his lips with a burning coal taken from the altar, and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for." (Read Isaiah 6:1-10) How much more, then, are we made clean by Jesus, who, "by one sacrifice has made perfect forever those who are being made holy". (Hebrews 10:14) Like Isaiah, our guilt has been removed, yet in a perfect and complete way: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." ...
