COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

GOD IS GOOD! GOD IS MERCIFUL!

I trust you will take the time to prayerfully read the enclosed message. I preached The Gospel for Outcasts recently at Times Square Church. I am sending you this copy to use as an evangelistic tool.

There are so many people living in despair and hopelessness who doubt God’s love for them. Perhaps they have fallen into a satanic trap of sin. Others have once tasted of God’s mercy and forgiveness, but now they feel the Lord has forsaken them.

The prophet Isaiah warns us that in the last days God is going to “turn the world upside down.” He declares, “Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down” (Isaiah 24:1).

According to this prophecy, sudden judgment is coming upon the earth, and it will change everything in a single hour. Within that short span, the whole world will witness fast-falling destruction upon a city and a nation, and the world will never be the same.

COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

THE LORD BE PRAISED!

The prophet Isaiah speaks prophetically to our generation. He pinpoints a period in time when men will have “defiled” the earth, changing and transgressing the laws of their fathers. Simultaneously there will be great pride and haughtiness. It will be a time of unparalleled greed, leading to a great shaking of nations. This is all prophesied in Isaiah 24.

There is a unique experience common to every follower of Jesus. I’m talking about the tremendous spiritual letdown that follows a mountaintop experience of blessing or victory. We call these experiences “dry spells.” They seem like a deep plunge into spiritual darkness, an immersion in great testings, after we have experienced a special touch of God.

COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

GOD’S MERCIES ENDURE FOREVER.

I wish to give God praise and thanks for his goodness and mercy. First of all, I want to thank the Lord for giving me the opportunity to conduct ministers’ conferences around the world. In the past five years, we have had conferences in over 50 nations. We leave this week for Amman, Jordan, for an all-Arab summit. Arab pastors are coming from various Arab countries, including Iraq. These pastors and leaders are weary and in need of much prayer and encouragement.

The book of Revelation tells us that in the last days, Satan will rise up in anger and make war “with the remnant.” This remnant, of course, is the body of Christ, comprised of all “(who) keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (Revelation 12:17).

We in the church of Christ talk often about spiritual warfare. The war that is described in Revelation is a worldwide attack Satan has launched against the body of Christ: “It was given unto him to make war with the saints” (13:7).

COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF OUR BLESSED LORD.

We have just returned from our All-Arab Summit in Amman, Jordan. Pastors came from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Al-Ain, Morocco, Sudan, Iraq and Jordan. A number of these pastors came at great personal risk, especially the delegation from Iraq.

Here at Times Square Church, we sing a hand-clapping song that goes this way:

Send him on down, Lord, send him on down.
Lord, let the Holy Ghost come on down.
We need him, Lord, send him on down.

We sing other, similar songs, pleading with the Holy Ghost to come down.

But the truth is, the Holy Spirit is already here. He came down from heaven at the Upper Room at Pentecost. And he never left!

In the book of 1 Samuel, David and his men came home from battle to find their town burned to the ground. Ziklag, where David was headquartered, had been attacked by the Amalekites. To make matters worse, the enemy had taken the families of David’s army captive. All the wives, children and livestock were gone.

When David and his men saw this, they fell on their faces weeping. They were convinced their loved ones had been killed in a bloody holocaust. Scripture says they all wept until they had no more strength.

COVER LETTER

Dearly Beloved:

MAY THE PEACE OF GOD ABIDE IN YOU.

A Christian woman approached me recently with a rather emotional countenance and asked me if I had heard the latest news report. It was about an upheaval in Pakistan. “Can you believe what is happening? Every day is a bad-news day. Pakistan has nuclear capacity; terrorists could take over and some mad Ayatollah could launch us into nuclear war.” Shaking her head, she said, “I am really scared. Things are spinning out of control.”