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Christ up Close and Personal youth bible study. God desires for you to know him in an intimate way! (Youth Anointed 4 Christ Outreach Ministry) www.youthanointed4christ09.blogspot.com

"ENTER TO WORSHIP, EXIT TO SERVE"- blog tour

About the Author:
Ronald K. Gray
Author & Speaker

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Ronald Gray serves the Kingdom of God through sharing the uncompromised Word of God. He has been faithful to his call since 1974. He is on the board of International Outreach Ministries and Charles Simpson Ministries. He is the Director of Mission Growth for IOM leading short-term teams to various countries in the world. Ronald began his ministry with Gulf Coast Teen Challenge in Pensacola, FL. He has served as an Associate Pastor and Senior Pastor. Ronald and his wife Sharon, have lived in the Mobile, AL area since 1995. He and Sharon have two daughters and four grandchildren. Ronald has traveled extensively in the United States and in over 38 countries, spreading the message of the Kingdom of God. Many people have received salvation, healing, restoration and deliverance in their lives.

WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT?
1. What is the book about? While the book’s title puts it in the praise and worship section in book stores, the book is more about the total life of the believer. Nehemiah10:39 is the core scripture for the book’s teachings. Nehemiah had gone to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls and also rebuilt the temple, restoring worship to the people. Worship was centered around sacrifice. I use the different groups pictured in Nehemiah to talk about fundamental areas of the believers life. The scripture says they would not forsake the temple of God. We have forsaken the house of God today. We are so busy with our agendas, we have left the true reason for worship. God is looking for something real from our lives, not just our words.



2. Why Enter to Worship and Exit to Serve? The life of the believer comes from our life in God. We bring to Him a sacrifice of our monies, our gifts, our fruit and lay it at His feet. The premise for most Christians today is what can God do for them instead of how can I worship God with all that is within me. The scriptures teach us that everyone has something to offer. When we worship in the fullness of our lives, God then fills us to be able to affect our world. We then exit to serve God through proclaiming His Word, serving those around us and exalting His name in all the earth. Everything we do in church is to help us fulfill God’s calling on our lives in the world.

3. Why do you talk about money? The very first thing that was brought into the temple was an offering of grain or corn. This is symbolic of money. I go to Kenya every year and they trade their corn for other items such as meat, oil, etc. God is interested in our money. He speaks of money more than He does either prayer or heaven. I think there has been a lot of negative about money and there has been a lot of error through the years. I hope that what I teach in the book is balanced. Many pastors have said this teaching has helped their churches understand the truth about tithes, first fruits and seed offerings.


4. What do you think is the most important chapter of the book? In over 35 years of full time ministry, I have never heard anyone else teach about porters. In Nehemiah 10:39 it lists porters between priest and singers. I thought that was very interesting and researched porters. It is basically a janitor. So between priests and porters are janitors. Servants that do the basics. People who do ordinary things to keep ministries going. God wants servants. That is a concept that is lost in the big time world of church ministries today. Jesus came to serve. I believe that we can make a difference in our community, our neighborhoods, and our world if we are willing to lay our lives down to serve God.


5. What do you hope to accomplish with your book? I hope that ordinary believers will recognize they have something to offer. We can bring our monies and touch the nations. We can bring our gifts and see the power of God touch people and their needs. We can offer our fruit and not wait for the pastors or elders, but be instruments to bring life to those around us who are seeking a relevant relationship with Jesus. The five fold ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher were never supposed to do everything in the church. The church is supposed to be equipped for ministry. Everyone should be able to proclaim the message and everyone should have praise for the God we serve. That should not happen just on Sunday mornings between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. We should be able to give God praise in our homes and throughout the week. I truly believe this can be the church’s finest hour.


6. Where are these resources available to purchase? You can obtain this book and many other resources on my web site at RonaldGrayMinistries.org.

7. Are there other available resources connected with this book? Yes, I taught my book at a conference and had it professionally recorded on video and audio. These sessions are great for small groups and Bible studies. There is a Study Guide to help the leader go through the sessions. The book and the video provide different insights that will help people to grow into maturity.

This book has openend my eyes to the True worship that God is seeking and the part that the people of God are to play! We need to serious about the worship of God and the service of God how else can we please Him?
Minister Michelle Ragland
Gods Anointed Women of the Word Ministries

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Be Holy For I AM Holy

“For I AM the Lord your God you shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I AM Holy.” Leviticus 11:44
God our creator is a Holy God and He is calling those that belong to Him to be like Him. We are but a mere clay shell in the hands of our creator, carrying His precious Spirit on the inside of us. He is a pre-existent being, “that was and is and is to come,” before the world was formed He was, and everything in it came out of Him. God created this world and everything in it to glorify Him, to show the true essence of who He is in every aspect of life. We were all created to show His holiness, wisdom, unconditional love, unity of family and righteousness in the way we live and relate to others. They (the trinity) created you in their image and their likeness, to be a physical representation of God on this earth, not just in physical form but in your living.
Lev. 20:7 God is calling us to be holy
“Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.” There is a standard God has called us to and if we are to be representatives of him before our Church, family and community and be the Light of the world we must walk in holiness, love, self control, respect and goodness.
Romans 11:16-17 Being Grafted in/ Jesus the First Fruits
“For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17) And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree.” God is calling us as being a portion of the first fruits which is Jesus who was Holy and we being the branches we are grafted in solely by our faith in Christ. Those who do not believe of the root which is Abraham are then cut-off or broken off and so the remnant of them that remain solely by faith must live (according to the call of God) holy.
Romans 12:1-2 Living Sacrifices
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” We need to walk with a transformation taking place every day by our minds being renewed. Every day we live, everything we do, with everything we are. All of our members (legs, arms, eyes, mouths, ears, and heart), talents and gifts God has created us to please Him with our lives.
)We were not put here to be made happy but to make sure that His will is done on this earth that He would be glorified. Our reward for living a life consecrated and holy is seeing Gods face and hearing well done thy good and faithful servant”, so while we are here in this foreign land let us represent Him well and love all mankind by living, serving and restoring the love for God and holiness into the hearts of others with all He has given us!
Minister Michelle Ragland
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Email: gawwmin@yahoo.com
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Events up & Coming!

New Saint Douglas Baptist Church
1729 Ridge Road Boydton, VA. 23917
March 7th 2010 @ 3pm
Missionary Program
Guest Preacher:
Minister Michelle Ragland
Saint John Baptist Church
1532 Cow Road
Buffalo Junction, VA 24529

Walking in Victory Retreat" Dec. 11th & 12th, 2009

"WALKING IN VICTORY WOMEN'S WINTER RETREAT" 2009

"We are Gods Anointed Women, We are Walking in Victory!" 1 John 5:4-5

"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world- our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"

On Dec. 11th 2009 at 6:00pm we began our first annual Women's Retreat with praise and worship lead by Pastor Marion Chandler of Halifax, VA who has just released a new Gospel CD titled, "Guiltless Blood" to hear title track :

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G.A.W.W. Secretary:

Sis, Crystal Coleman was worship leader for the first night and she did and outstanding job with blessing God.

God blessed us with His presence and at our 12 midnight prayer service His presence was still in the building. Thanks to all who attended: Ship of zion Ministries, Pastor Deborah Poaty, Minister Rita Taylor, and others from Raleigh, NC. Second Baptist Church Women's Ministry, Women from Saint John Baptist Church from Virginia, Women from Clayton, NC, Cornerstone Christian Community Church, Co-Pastor Teresa Betts, Minister Angela Harris & songstress Gloria Evans from Oxford, NC. Divine Habitation Ministries, Pastor Joann Allen, from Henderson, NC, Divine Worship, and Praise Dancer Leslie Brame from Warrenton, NC. Thanks be to God for all the great things He had done in those two powerful and Awesome Days!

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!

HE CAME TO DIE, HE DIED TO SET US FREE AND HE ROSE TO GIVE US VICTORY!
THANK YOU JESUS BECAUSE YOU CAME!
Minister Michelle Ragland
Web:www.godsanointedwomenoftheword.com
Email: gawwmin@yahoo.com
Merry Christ- mas!

Greeting in the Name of Jesus christ.
I hope you do well.I thank you for what you and your Ministry are doing for the orphans children of Burundi.I tried to call you on the number you send to me withouth success,there was no connection the number I called was (252-425-3773)
Please could you tell me how I can proceed to get in (The state code).
I want also to thank you for collecting clothes and other needs for orphans .
What we are doing, is to pray God to provide the means for shipping them .
This will not help only the orphans we look after,but also others without assistance.
It'll be a blessing for our country.

We wish you happy Christmas and blessing new year 2010.I end by informing you that we are preparing a dinner with orphans children on Christmas day .
Please send our best wishes to the members of God's Anointed Women of the Word and others.

Yours in christ
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Blog tour Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story by Frank Bell

About the Book

Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story by Frank Ball (WinePress Publishing)

Eyewitness reaches people who seldom go to church or read their Bibles.

Of the millions of Americans who don't go to church, 56 percent consider themselves Christian. If they knew what Jesus said and did, they would know the importance of networking and reaching out to help others. While Bibles sit on coffee tables and bookshelves at home, gathering dust, people pick up Eyewitness and don't want to put it down. Not only does it use language that is easily understood, it pulls readers into the story, almost like walking with Jesus in the first century.

The Bible has sold more copies than any other book and continues to sell year after year. Continuing in its footsteps is the Eyewitness series written for the average person.

Flash back to first century AD. One man appeared who shook up the world. Four men testified to what they saw and heard. The details of Jesus life were recorded by four of his closest followers. Each account is written from a different perspective and only one of the four tells the events in chronological order. Therefore, for centuries, the accounts have been told in out-of-sequence fragments.

Eyewitness compiles the information from the Gospels and hundreds of other Bible verses into one chronological story laid out like a story without reference or verse. The result is a seamless combination of the four gospel books that will appeal to customers across the board, even those who would not normally purchase a Bible.

About the Author

Frank Ball was the Pastor of Biblical Research and Writing at Anchor Church in Keller, Texas, for three years. After thirty years of research and teaching the life of Christ, he began a twelve-year project to analyze every gospel story about Christ and put the events into chronological order. Ball meticulously considered almost twenty resources, including the Greek and Hebrew texts, the opinions of other Bible writers, and different translations, to make sure his translation was correct. Using the gospel of John as the chronological backbone, he determined an appropriate time setting for every event.

Ball believes there is no greater role model than Jesus. The better we know him, the more we can be like him. "It's impossible," he says, "to love someone you don't know. The Scripture arranged in this easy-to-understand order helps us to know Jesus. It allows us to be more of an 'eyewitness' to the events of Christ's life, and in doing so, to be more like him."

Ball has always been a great student, especially in math and the sciences, but hated English. He excelled in high school; however, because his family was impoverished, he was unable to attend college. After high school he took a menial job that supported his parents and siblings. In 1968 he married Kay and they had three sons. Kay passed away in 2005. Ball currently lives with his family in Fort Worth, Texas.

When personal computers became available, Ball embraced systems analysis and business administration. He devoured reading material on the high-tech industry and was a successful business executive until he made a commitment to full-time ministry in 2002.

In 1995, despite his dislike of English, Ball believed God was redirecting his life, and he devoted himself to writing—which has, ironically, become his passion. Knowing the challenges he faced without a secondary education, Ball became self-taught by voraciously reading books as if they were college texts. He studied as if he were preparing for tests.

Ball says that this project wasn't his idea at all. He just had an unexplainable desire to do this chronology, and along the way he realized that God had a plan. Using his Eyewitness Stories version of the Gospels as a foundation, Ball assembled the gospel information, as well as more than two hundred other Bible verses from the Old and New Testaments, to create what he believes is the accurate order of events. Ball believes the combined stories resolve some of the discrepancies that some say exist in the Gospels.

 
 

 

1. The gospel stories have existed for some two thousand years. Why put them chronologically together now?

Nine out of ten Americans own a Bible, but the people who most need to hear the message don't often read the book. They believe Scripture is outdated and too difficult to understand. Would they read the story of Christ if it were presented as a single story that is easy to understand? Most of them say they would, so Eyewitness answers that need.

 

2. Why do the Gospels appear to have conflicting stories?

At a crime scene, eyewitnesses always have different testimonies about what happened. Because each gospel writer had his own point of view and spoke to a different audience, the information is actually complementary, not conflicting. The apparent conflicts disappear when we use each viewpoint to compile a complete and compelling story.

 

3. How was writing and recording events different two thousand years ago?

We now use a computer keyboard to rapidly type and edit text that prints on our laser printers. In the first century, writers had only their parchment scrolls in which every word was hand written, one character at a time. Cut-and-paste editing and simple rearrangement of details into chronological order didn't exist. Writers naturally put down information as it came to mind, giving us a flow of thought that isn't always in date sequence.

 

4. What is the significance of John's gospel being the last one written?

If John were to introduce his book to us today, he might say, "Let me tell you the rest of the story." There wasn't much need to repeat what had already been written, so he gives us clarification of events that were already being told and retold, as well as eyewitness reports that are found nowhere else. Unlike the other writers, who were not always chronological, John unfolds most of his story in date sequence in relation to the Jewish feasts. This gives us a chronological guide for putting all the biblical information in order.

 

5. In what way do you think the readers of Eyewitness will have a clearer understanding of the nature of God?

Jesus said, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father." If we can see what Jesus is doing and hear what he is saying, we become eyewitness of God's nature. Because the words in Eyewitness are more like what we would read in a novel, readers are able to visualize themselves as present at the gospel events. It's the next best thing to actually being there, walking with the other disciples.

 

6. How many different Bible translations were necessary to complete this project?

Hundreds of scholars have invested countless hours in the production of good translations. In the development of an easy-to-read wording for Eyewitness, translators' handbooks and more than fifteen popular translations, as well as the Greek and Hebrew texts, were considered.

 

7. Is the Bible flawed in presenting the life of Christ in four separate books?

No, not at all. Each author's report has its own perspective and meets a different audience need. Matthew points to the fulfillment of ancient prophecies to prove Jesus was the Son of God. Mark, the shortest of the Gospels, is the quickest to read. Luke, being a physician, gives many important details. And John adds clarity, chronology, and new information. Eyewitness was written for those who don't read the Bible and for people who are helped by seeing how the story unfolded, chronologically.

 

8. Why do you think Eyewitness appeals to people who seldom attend church?

Even professed atheists and agnostics have questions about the meaning of life and what happens after we die. Eyewitness isn't a book of difficult-to-understand rules that threatens punishment if we don't do everything exactly right. The life of Christ is presented in a way so people can easily understand the value of loving our enemies and helping people in need.

 

9. Where can we find out more or purchase a copy of Eyewitness?

Please feel free to visit my web site at www.eyewitnesstools.com.