Willingness...Is it there or not?

Malachi 1:10
"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands.

    In the book of Malachi we find a desperate situation where the LORD is disappointed and angered at his own priest because of several very important reasons.  The priest of the Lord, who were supposed to represent Him, had fostered an attitude that clearly said, "2nd best is ok for my God".  The priest of the LORD were accepting "less than the best" from the people as offerings for God.  The priest accepted and offered on God´s altar animals that were known to be stolen, sick, lame, and defective animals.  The prevailing attitude was like this, "If it´s sick give it to the Lord!". "If it´s lame, give it to the LORD".  "If we don´t have an offering it´s ok to steal one and to give it to the LORD".

    God is God and no one should dare take His glory lightly.  God told His priest that they might as well get up and close the door to the temple because they were lighting useless fires on God´s altar.  If we today are not giving God our very best then our offerings will likely not be acceptable to the Lord.

   Who's altar was it? It was God´s sacred altar with which He had decreeded specific ways that offerings were to be made in His honor.  It was not a decision simply left up to the priest of God, but was decreeded by God himself.  When the priest began to accept and to encouragae and instill an attitude of "2nd best is ok for our God" then the LORD himself stepped in and said that even the secular governors of the land would not accept such unaccetable offerings.  God said, ""Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands."  Does the Lord accept the offerings that come from your hands and from your heart? Is the LORD most often angered and disappointed that there is a prevailing lack of willingness to make acceptable offerings to Him.

   The Lord Jesus spoke of doors that would be opened and doors that would be closed, but he also spoke of who is known to him and who is not. Look at what the book of Luke has to say...

Luke 13: 22-30

The Narrow Door

   He said to them, ²⁴"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. ²⁵Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.'
      "But he will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

 ²⁶"Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'

 ²⁷"But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'

 ²⁸"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. ²⁹People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. ³⁰Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."

In effect Jesus is saying that there are many who claim to know Him, but they choose to not honor him with their lives or with their willingness and their offerings.  Once the doors are closed they will not be opened for those who gave the Lord only their "2nd best"! You are encouraged to give the LORD you absolute best all of the time, with both a willing and a faithful heart. Are you willing to give Him your best offerings?

  Nearly 300,000 people have visited this ministry`s website and many are frequently "entertained", but very few are actual givers to the Lord.  The time for games has long since passed and the Lord is seeking willing givers for His ministry.  The Lord truly does not need your gifts or your sacrifices but He ask them of you as a way that you express your honor for Him.  Will you honor Him today with your firstfruit and best offering?

  

Exodus 17

Water From the Rock

 ³ But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?"

 ⁴ Then Moses cried out to the LORD, "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

 ⁵ The LORD answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. ⁶ I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷ And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

In my own way, whether right or wrong I know not but I was seeking to know that God was still with us as Mighty 300 Ministries. I was asking for "water from a rock" because I been feeling like this picture:

I felt like a tree growing and hanging on in a very hard place. We are surely blessed to be alive yet without financial support for life and ministry. We are blessed that we have roots that won't give up and they run deep seeking the water of life yet times get tough. We are blessed to receive sunshine yet we endure great storms. We stand firm yet hard pressed on every side concerning resources for ministry and life itself. We know this is where God has planted us and it is for a reason. The main reason is that you might see how God indeed provides for His servants who depend upon Him fully.

The note below is how God often works among us by speaking into the spirit and dreams of those we work the closest with on the other side of the world. See Pastor Suku's note that sprung forth like water from a rock in a time of great thirst.

The Amalekites Defeated

 ¹⁰ So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. ¹¹ As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. ¹² When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. ¹³ So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

 ¹⁴ Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."

 ¹⁵ Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner. ¹⁶ He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the LORD. The LORD will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation."

   These Valiant Warriors that God Himself has chosen are now holding up my right and left hand while others Valiant Warriors like unto Joshua are battling the enemy.  The LORD is indeed our Banner and our hands will be lifted up to the throne of the Lord from generation to generation as He give victory over the attacks of the enemy.

    I thank God for Valiant Warriors and friends in the hardest to reach places on Earth. Places like Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Africa, Myanmar, Indonesia and other places where men serve surely at the risk of their own blood.

YOU CAN HELP KENYAN CHURCH TODAY!

As founder/director at M300 Ministries, I spent some time this morning with a broken heart and tears after receiving a ministry report from Kenya and then one from Myanmar. Later in the afternoon I thanked God that I can still be broken hearted over things like 5 pieces of tin roofing and the needs or orphans and widows in the hardest to reach places on earth.

Dear Beloved Brother Wayne,

Calvary  greetings in the awesome Living God , almighty Father. Who is the creator of the universe, and He is good for His mercy endured forever.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine , making request for you all with joy for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now being confident of this very thing that He who has begun a good work in you will complete  it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Thank you inexpressibly for your  kind efforts and struggling to see that my believers have well secured from this critical situations of severe rainy or sunny climates which befalls upon us.

Yesterday Afternoon at 3:.35 pm Monday , surprisingly,  God opened another blessing door based from your fervent and true prayers also your Free Chapel saints for us.

Some one  called MAGADALENE   FROM NAIROBI I would kindly name  as A BLESSING DOVE FROM HEAVEN phoned me when I was in my prayer room, She requesting to talk with pastor Aminga

I immediately responded ……… her first question was that, Do I know m300 ministries ?

I  answered CAPITAL YES.

And gave me a  bit short message that you talked with her about my needs and she promised to assist 5 iron sheets ………….praise the  highest God !!!!!!

Honestly as per our discussion of this morning  at 11:35  am, it has adduced confidence and hope that we are going to have them because she is finding the appropriate this iron sheet will reach me soon either by M-Pesa or the buses coming to my area.. God bless the giving hand.

We this Morning my all congregation fall down- knees prayers for you, your m300 ministry and Magdalena of bread celebration center.

By faith and hope we depend only God to continue opening His heavenly opulent treasures  to this vital issues. …………palms 25:1-22 ‘’ To you O, Lord , I lift my Soul…’’

Greet  us  your kind and precious family and you Free Chapel Saints in blood-Love,

You can assist with the roof for this church building in Kenya by donating here:

In His Blood-Covenant ministry,

 

Dear Wayne and m300 ministries USA,,

First of all, I would like to say thank you for praying for me and the ministries I am laboring for the Lord in Myanmar. Our ministry is doing well and progressing by defending children (orphans) and keeping them in training some young men from Myo people with the purpose of to ministering back Myo by sending them as missionaries of our own. There are some faithful servants of God in our Church like , Bro.Aung Shwe,Peng Lian and Boy Ling who has been faithfully serving the Lord among Myo who believes in Animism through the prayer of God's people in our Church.

By coming Thursday of this week I will be starting lecturing in our Church  with the two subjects on Evangelism ,life of Christ and . OT introduction.From this year on, if God will we will be reaching Animists brothers and sisters who live in the Land of  Myo people but belong to Rakhine. Myo people need Jesus Christ, need pastors, preachers, evangelists, missionaries, school teacher as Myo people have no education at all. Being uncivilized is the present stand of Myo people. Of course our Church mission fields are Myo, Asho Chin and North Chins and Rakhine State.

I thank God for my wife Mahn for helping me in a wonderful way. Thank God for extending her help into the ministry I am serving the Lord by serving orphans and some young men from Myo young people recently who joined our training in the Church.And also thank God for His wonderful helps during the time of registering children at Public School. By last Thursday I could finished up regarding their school.

In last Tuesday we were moved to another house due to unable to lease continually our previous house. I was waiting the Lord and the landlord granted me a months, but  it was not the way of God’s purpose in my life that I ought to move to where we do live right now with 16 orphans (Orphan Children Ministry) and with my family.

As I couldn’t effort for the better place for children our house has no electric power, no water tanks that cause us insufficient water to be used,  no proper roofs (dripping water especially girls bed room), we have no guess room whosoever visit us are requested to take a sit  outside or kitchen which we do extended by bamboos. There is only one toilet that cause children problem every morning when they got to make it fast because they have to be school at 7 AM, everyday. There is a problem of flooding whenever the rain took even at least for 30 minutes, if the rain took more than 30 minutes the water would definitely get inside the house. Nine boys are sleeping in one congest room that cause them hard to breath well. There are so many land leeches and mosquitoes on our compound that sucks human bloods that could eventually cause us disease. Especially my boys have no proper mosquito nets, this year. My kids need clothes, medicines, educations, foods, mosquito nets, purified drinking water to prevent from getting dengue fever. We were cooking with Dry Leaves and Coconut Covers and branches.

   Will you sow a seed here? 

I thank the Lord for His provision and direction throughout these two years of serving Him by caring orphans. I should thanks God during hardship and difficulties as I should give thanks in time of success. So, I praise the Lord, because it is well with my soul.

Brethren, I would be thankful if you could kindly pray for me and children over here that have no sponsors.

Thank God for you were there whereby I could share what the Lord has done here in Myanmar.

Sincerely in Christ,

I, Alexander Castellanos, write as a M300 Valiant Warrior serving our Lord Jesus Christ in El Salvador, Central America. We live at the service of our Unique, True and Powerful God, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us permanently in our spiritual struggles so that on the day of the trial of the Lord we will forever be by His side.

The mission to preach Christ is a very edifying work and is a comfort, especially because it maintains our strengthened souls, with the certainty that has given us a very large and true salvation; this salvation is available for all people who are willing to understand and obey the commandments of Christ, the Savior of the world.

I am writing these lines and as I do so it is with the combined experiences that God has allowed us to preach His divine message for more than 35 years. This has been a work of many episodes: good, pleasant, and fabulous spiritual fruit, especially because the Lord has used not only myself but also my wife and my three daughters. So many souls have come  and surrendered their lives at the feet of Christ receiving and obeying His Holy Gospel.

In all these experiences which are so unique and stimulating, the moments of suffering have been present. El Salvador lived a civil war for twelve years (1980-1992) in which eighty thousand people were killed. We preached the gospel in the midst of that war. To attempt to talk about each of these episodes of this fratricidal struggle, would amount to huge spaces of written materials, as well as large amount of time in hours work. There are many books that have been written on this subject by renowned Salvadoran writers who were witnesses of these facts. In spite of these times of great hardship, the Lord used and afforded us many opportunities so that His word was preached and many souls found relief in the Lord.

For us it was never easy to preach the message of God in the midst of the circumstances of war.  Many times we were innocently caught in the midst of the firing of lethal weapons between the sides in conflict (army and guerrilla). We moved in the middle of situations of extreme violence and danger in each of our evangelistic journeys. Our three daughters accompanied us and God preserved us. We were never victims of the impact of a bullet or a bomb; however, there were Christians who did die. Some were found in areas where armed confrontations happened and some of them died innocently.

Eighteen years have passed since the peace treaty was signed... However, generations of children and adolescents who grew up in the latter war years grew with the nectar of violence, to the extent that they formed gangs. These gangs have caused much damage to the nation and are now operating on a global scale. In El Salvador daily there are an average of thirteen people found dead throughout the four cardinal points of the country due to gang violence and extortion.

The extortion by organized crime groups is now the "dish of the day".  Honest and innocent people are innocent victims of crime and brutality. The gangs practice kidnapping and extortion requiring the payment of sums of money which are practically impossible to pay. Unfortunately many extorted people have had to pay with their lives.

Such is the case of our beloved brother Rafael Antonio Lopez Lara, who was brutally murdered on Sunday, April 25th, 2010.  He was preaching at a worship service at his local church where he was shot seven times by an unknown murdered.  He died in the doorway to his local church.  Of this sad event I've already written a comprehensive chronicle, which I hope has been read by you. I repeat what I said in the chronicle, our brother Lara was very faithful to the Lord as a Christian and as a servant.  His death was something that filled  faithful Christians with much regret and was a great loss to Christianity in general.

Three week after this event a preacher of one of the churches in the city of San Miguel (this city is three hours from San Salvador, capital of the country) called me by telephone. He  told me that the previous night his uncle had been murdered. He was a victim of  one of these extortion groups. Obviously they had no funds to pay the amount of money that was being extorted from them so the extortioners proceeded to murder this common worker man. These extortion events occur daily in our country and they are countless in number. These infamous criminal acts that occur here daily are a fact of life for us who minister and for the people who we minister to. In some countries kidnappings occur where vast sums of money are extorted. In our country we have kidnappings for vast sums of money when rich people are involved but in our country there is a unique and harsh reality that the common man cannot escape.

It has become vogue to kidnap common everyday people as a line of work and in these cases seemingly small amounts of money are extorted but these seemingly small amounts of money are in many cases not able to be paid by those who are extorted. The great and tragic result is that in third world kidnappings sometimes people are murdered because their family cannot pay "the daily rate" of $20 or $30 per victim. This type of evil is rampant and the common man is at equal danger to the rich man. Pray for this situation with us. Enter fasting prayers with us that the Lord who loves justice and mercy will cause a n end to this evil in our midst. 

Living in such hazardous conditions of insecurity have led preachers of the churches to take security measures during the Sunday worship, as well as during the days of the week.  It is prudent to use caution when out on the street evangelizing and when gathered to worship.  In churches where offerings are given to the Lord it is now reasonable to have some form of security. We know that God did not intend or desire this but it is the effect of sin in the world. This is a paradox to our Christian Ministry. Our mission is to openly share Jesus Christ, projecting ourselves openly as servants and as a church, preaching the message of God to the lost that they might know the truth of God and receive the salvation of Jesus Christ; however given the adverse conditions of real dangers that we face it can make us doubt the unknown person as a visitor in our worship meetings. It is very sad to tell you this, but it is a reality. When a visitor appears we have to be wise as serpents yet harmless as doves. Pray for this with us that discernment and wisdom from God will prevail.

There are many other factors that contribute to our economic suffering as a nation,and also within the Church. We as national missionaries are victims of all of these sad life conditions. Unemployment prevails in El Salvador and statistically 57% of the population with work capacity do not have any employment. This factor contributes to the increase in crime and is a grave socio-economic problem. In addition, since 1 January 2001, the President of the  El Salvador at this time decided to dollarize our economy. In other words he chose to enter the US dollar, as "our national currency", which made the basic basket of daily food, increase significantly in cost. The US dollar is an expensive currency and time has proven that the nation of El Salvador cannot live at the level of that currency. Everyone here says we won at Colon  (antique coin) but we spend $ as if we win them at and equal rate as the people who live in the United States. It is also notable to point out that the churches to whom we preach are a very poor Churches. Within the membership there are many older people whom we must help with a bread ration monthly.

Coupled with these real and serious difficulties at the beginning of the year 2010 we as a missionary family totally lost our monthly support. Our supporting church of many years "decided to do something different" and our monthly ministry support suddenly dried up.

Our brother Wayne Gaines, Founder/Director at Mighty 300 Ministries has reached out to us to encourage us into 100% faith based ministry. We have known brother Wayne for many years and our family's were all blessed during the dual earthquakes in El Salvador to work together serving, rebuilding and helping the needy of El Salvador. Wayne was with us and was caught up in the second 6.6 earthquake where we all learned yet again to live by 100% faith is pleasing to God. As part of the M300 Ministries Valiant Warrior ministry we have an account on E-giving where you can be a blessing to our family and our ongoing ministry.

We are now living by 100% faith in the goodness of people who are willing to show us his love by their donations. Many times we do not have a  single dollar to live or to work with and this is the case at the time of this writing. In spite of everything, we have not stopped preach ing the Word of God. We have not been stopped by these economic constraints. We were not stopped during the El Salvador civil war during those twelve years years of death and violence, we continue teaching the message of salvation, the message of our Lord Jesus Christ risen, who lives forever and who gives the Eternal Life. That’s our strong conviction of 100% faith.

We dread having to expose to you our reality of life, economically speaking. We do this only in order that you might consider and take our needs into your prayers and into your giving. Our financial burden is a very pressing consciousness; if you are at your fingertips, we beg you to open yours hearts to us.  When you give to us and to this ministry your willingness of mind and heart should be that you will be contributing to the risen Christ and supporting preaching of a risen Lord in this nation of El Salvador. Our desire is that God touches your heart deeply making it much more vigorously in tune with our own sufferings. Your help will give us the ability to create a much stronger outreach and to see many more souls delivered. into God's kingdom.  God lead and bless your efforts and decisions!

Because Christ is Alive!

Alexander y Silvia Castellanos

35 Year Veteran Misionaries

El Salvador, Central America

alexsil@telesal.net

Ministry Excitement Report

Month of May 2010

Mighty 300 Ministries Welfare Trust, Bangladesh

Dear Brother in Christ,

Greetings you on behalf of my ministry and my family. I hope and pray all are well with you as we praying for you and your family.

I beg to draw your kind attention at my ministry report the month of May.

I want to thanks God for giving His provision upon M300 Ministries Bangladesh.  Our God is so faithful to us, He is “ All in All” He is our Father, Abba, Our Savior and Lord. The ministry is going well. Though things are not gong according to proper plan but still we have to give thanks to the Lord as Bible says in 1^st Thessalonians 5; 16-18 “be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

According our vision In (Proverbs 29:18) by maintaining an unwavering focus on lifting up Jesus Christ before men so that He may draw men unto Himself.  so that we carry the gospel to every listener in target area of the ministry in Bangladesh. This purpose provides opportunity to every one to say “Yes or No” to the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. Amen,

I am trying to introduce my Jesus Christ along with my leadership team and with my volunteers to different community people and build it’s relationship with local leaders who lead their society from different angles through their faithful prayer.

Thanks God for given an opportunity to serving Him, so that we might able to arranged an outreach program dated on this month May 26^th to 4^th June 2010. We were able to reached 5 villages with more than 300 people through this opportunity to share Christ and 100 of them have received Christ through their faithful prayer.

I got an opportunity to share the gospel in a big ”Hindu’s Light of Festival”  where lot of people came from different villages and some Hindu community. I praise the Lord for given this wonderful opportunity to spread His Mighty Name among them. Thanks God for helped me to introduce Him among these people during this time.

We prayed for several people who need pray and they personally received Christ through their faithful prayer. We met people individually at some villages. I am amazed to see their faith on Christ. 

We called some villagers  and some children who is living different villages. I shared gospel among the, more than 100 people came to meeting and they spent their time for Christ. Some of them did not agree to hear this good news; some of them refused but most of them heard the gospel and prayed with us to Christ.

We arranged some games with hundreds of children in different time and they were encouraged to get this opportunity to meet together and I introduced Jesus Christ , who is He and He is how much love children , they praised Him and prayed with me to Him. they got opportunity to make friendship with Christ and after that they enjoyed with some games. we distributed some prizes among them and they show their talent in different way.

Thanks God for helping us to spread His mighty name in Bangladesh. Though we do not have any ability or any source of income to help them toward their Salvation but we have been praying for our all needs.

MWTB is faith-based gross root Missionary Organization, have been reaching un-reached people. Trying to Church Planting, Outreaches, Crusades, Helping abused & Neglected Children and widows.

 We believe without taking care of their physical needs it is not complete Gospel. And without perching the Gospel, the Social work is also not fulfills their spiritual needs. We have been doing this twofold Holy stick Ministry. We are committed to preaching the word of God and helping poor and depressed people of this area. OUR PASSION IS TO HARVEST THE SOULS AND SHARE THE LOVE WITH ACTION.

 Thanks God for helping us to spreading His Mighty name among the people in Bangladesh in different area.

Note: Just like in Pakistan we are not able to work on Facebook. The govt. of Bangladesh has closed Facebook for temporary for some security. We are praying for reopen it.

Now only email and Skype is the way to communication with friends.

Please pray for it so that God speaks into their heart for reopen this site for the people of Bangladesh

Please keep us in your prayer. we are praying for you. I am waiting eagerly for your kind response.

God bless you abundantly

Yours Faithfully

Suku Ranjon

M300 Ministries Bangladesh.