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01-31-2005, 11:19 PM
I was listening to this cd a friend made me called The Martyr's Prayer and I dont know how many people have heard it but it is totally awesome, and I was bored one day and while listening to it I decided to write it out and now I will share it with you and trust me it took lotz of patience!!!:) Emjoy.
The Martyr's Prayer
As joan of Ark was dying at the stake, she said this quote. "Every man gives his life for what he believes and every woman gives her life life for what she believes, sometimes people believe in that little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. When life is all we have we live it till its gone, but to live without belief, is more terrible than dying, even more terrible than dying young". What do you burn for? What do you burn for?
Jim Elliot said these famous words, years before he was martyred, that man is no fool, "He gives what he cannot keep, and to gain what he cannot lose". And he prayed, "God light these idol sticks of my life, and may I burn up for thee, consume my life my God, for it is thine, I seek not a long life but a full one, like yours Jesus".
Nate Saint, along with Jim Elliot and three others, American missionaries were all martyred by the Auka Indians in 1956 in Ecuador, it was only after many years Steve Saint, Nate's son, Nate was the pilot, found out all the details of what had happened, the killing of his father and others. "When I just read the account a few weeks back of the martyrs, it was an overwhelming thing to read it was painful, it was tragic, it was tremendously moving, one of the men, the last one, instead of running into the jungle where he could have easily gotten away, he just waited in the water, and at his broken dialex said, "Why are you killing us, we re not killing you"? And waited there till they came and speared him too. And no sooner had they killed the last one, each one began to hear singing, and they looked up and there were these beams in the trees, singing and praising God, then when they were waiting and hiding , waiting for retaliation, nobody came to come, they began to realize something is different about these people, that’s why they were so into the Gospel when they came back. It's an extraordinary story. Listen to what Nate Saint wrote years earlier, "people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world do we waist our lives as missionaries? They too forget they are spending their lives, and when their bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significants to show for the years they have wasted". Everybody’s bubble is going to burst, everyone us at the end of our lives-its gone! Than what? What do we spend our lives for? What do we pour ourselves out for? What do we give ourselves to? Having a full life is not necessary a long life. "I want at the end of my life to say I have fulfilled my purposes of God".
What’s it going to be like if one day you die and you make it into heaven, and you made it in, on that final day you look around that table you have heard all about, and its time for the marriage supper of the lamb, and angels are gathering around and they are placing everyone in their proper seats, they say, "Come here this is where you are seated for the marriage supper". And you sit down and you don’t recognize anyone around you but they are all former Christians all on fire for God, people that got saved in their life and they made it in, and across for you, a little girl and you look at her, and you say, "Hi, what’s your name?" And she says, "Rebecca". He said, "Rebecca, where are you from?" She says, "Rome". Then he said, “Rebecca, would you talk to me for a few minutes of how you got here?" She said, "Well I had a really hard life, my daddy when I was 8 years old, I had to go to this big arena and I watched lions eat my daddy, with my own eyes I watched lions eat my daddy, they killed him cause my daddy loved Jesus and I never cried so much in my life as I did that day, two days later they came back for my brother and I and took us to the same arena where my daddy died and thousands of people cheering, they paraded us into the arena and there was no one in that big arena but us and thousands cheering, and then I looked around and saw these doors opening up in the arena and at every door came lions and I had never been scared in my life, they told me that if I just denied Jesus I could live, but I couldn’t do that, He was everything to me, he was my reason for living. I died that day and the angels came and ushered me into heaven, and I have been waiting here for the marriage supper". "And how about, you whats your story?" Friends look at me,-you better have one. You better have one, you better be able to say something!
As a matter of fact did you know that 160 thousand people were martyred in 1996 for the cause of Christ? One minister was killed In Kali Columbia where building a church, why was he killed? Because car tell members, drug addicts were being saved, dealers were being saved. What did they do? They killed the pastor. (a girl speaking) “He told me just drop him off, but he said, "No, Just leave me here I can just walk". (Then a gunshot, which killed him) "And that was the last time I saw him". " With his death it encouraged us to want to do the same to lay down our lives for the Lord, and not just die for HIM, but to live for HIM, can be harder that dying for Him". *I want you to think about what this means....My life for the Gospel, My Life for the Gospel!*
We are going to see increasing opposition to the Gospel message in days to come in America, because gospel message is going to become increasingly biblical, the gospel message is going to become increasingly radical and revolutionary, and the gospel messages going to become a threat to this world system. The Gospel is going to become an increasing threat to worldliness, materialism, and greed, and the gods of sports and entertainment and fashion. The Gospel is going to become an increasing threat to the rising tide of Satanism and false religions and the results would be the same as in the book of Acts, uproar, persecution, and great moving of God.
I believe we have to the time of the accumulated prayers and the saints rising in one generation and God is going to answer all those accumulated prayers and remember all those covenants and is going to come down on you guys. " I am telling you kids that the great awakening is coming in your lives to this generation that is preceded by generation of mothers and fathers that have been crying out for the manifestation of a generation that would bomb the earth, I tell you what, we stand on the shoulders of four fathers and four mothers who paid the price".
What happened to those 11 Ruphians that went after Jesus and followed Him all the way to the cross, because we know what happened to Judas, but what happened to the rest of them? Andrew died in Greece, he was crucified on an X shaped cross, felt unworthy to die on the same type cross as his Lord! Bartholomew was preaching in India, he died a martyr’s death- fillyed alive with knives. JamesYelder was martyred first he was slaigned by Harod Agrippa. James Delesser was crucified in Egypt and his body was sawed in pieces. John the revelator and attempt was made by given a chalice of poison which he drank and God spared him and died of natural causes. Jude was killed, shot with arrows at Mount Arrowed. Matthew laid down his life for Jesus, history records that he became a missionary and disappeared during his labors. Peter was martyred, he requested that he might be crucified upside down and he felt he was not worthy to die as his Lord died. Philip died by hanging as he requested, and that his body be wrapped not in fine linen but in pathrusfor he was not worthy for even his body be treated as the body of the Lord, Jesus. Simon the zelet tradition said he died on the mission field as a martyr. Thomas traditions says that he was commissioned to build a palace in India, there he was killed with a sphere, as a martyr. "You guys inspire me, I want to be able to talk to them, I want to be able to look at them and I want them to look at me and say "well done steve".
Say this with me: Heavenly Father, search my heart, examine me even
Now, but this is my desire. My life for the Gospel.
Whatever it takes Lord, make it real that I may live
a life that makes sense in the light of eternity.
JESUS- *MY LIFE FOR YOU*.
The Martyr's Prayer
As joan of Ark was dying at the stake, she said this quote. "Every man gives his life for what he believes and every woman gives her life life for what she believes, sometimes people believe in that little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. When life is all we have we live it till its gone, but to live without belief, is more terrible than dying, even more terrible than dying young". What do you burn for? What do you burn for?
Jim Elliot said these famous words, years before he was martyred, that man is no fool, "He gives what he cannot keep, and to gain what he cannot lose". And he prayed, "God light these idol sticks of my life, and may I burn up for thee, consume my life my God, for it is thine, I seek not a long life but a full one, like yours Jesus".
Nate Saint, along with Jim Elliot and three others, American missionaries were all martyred by the Auka Indians in 1956 in Ecuador, it was only after many years Steve Saint, Nate's son, Nate was the pilot, found out all the details of what had happened, the killing of his father and others. "When I just read the account a few weeks back of the martyrs, it was an overwhelming thing to read it was painful, it was tragic, it was tremendously moving, one of the men, the last one, instead of running into the jungle where he could have easily gotten away, he just waited in the water, and at his broken dialex said, "Why are you killing us, we re not killing you"? And waited there till they came and speared him too. And no sooner had they killed the last one, each one began to hear singing, and they looked up and there were these beams in the trees, singing and praising God, then when they were waiting and hiding , waiting for retaliation, nobody came to come, they began to realize something is different about these people, that’s why they were so into the Gospel when they came back. It's an extraordinary story. Listen to what Nate Saint wrote years earlier, "people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world do we waist our lives as missionaries? They too forget they are spending their lives, and when their bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significants to show for the years they have wasted". Everybody’s bubble is going to burst, everyone us at the end of our lives-its gone! Than what? What do we spend our lives for? What do we pour ourselves out for? What do we give ourselves to? Having a full life is not necessary a long life. "I want at the end of my life to say I have fulfilled my purposes of God".
What’s it going to be like if one day you die and you make it into heaven, and you made it in, on that final day you look around that table you have heard all about, and its time for the marriage supper of the lamb, and angels are gathering around and they are placing everyone in their proper seats, they say, "Come here this is where you are seated for the marriage supper". And you sit down and you don’t recognize anyone around you but they are all former Christians all on fire for God, people that got saved in their life and they made it in, and across for you, a little girl and you look at her, and you say, "Hi, what’s your name?" And she says, "Rebecca". He said, "Rebecca, where are you from?" She says, "Rome". Then he said, “Rebecca, would you talk to me for a few minutes of how you got here?" She said, "Well I had a really hard life, my daddy when I was 8 years old, I had to go to this big arena and I watched lions eat my daddy, with my own eyes I watched lions eat my daddy, they killed him cause my daddy loved Jesus and I never cried so much in my life as I did that day, two days later they came back for my brother and I and took us to the same arena where my daddy died and thousands of people cheering, they paraded us into the arena and there was no one in that big arena but us and thousands cheering, and then I looked around and saw these doors opening up in the arena and at every door came lions and I had never been scared in my life, they told me that if I just denied Jesus I could live, but I couldn’t do that, He was everything to me, he was my reason for living. I died that day and the angels came and ushered me into heaven, and I have been waiting here for the marriage supper". "And how about, you whats your story?" Friends look at me,-you better have one. You better have one, you better be able to say something!
As a matter of fact did you know that 160 thousand people were martyred in 1996 for the cause of Christ? One minister was killed In Kali Columbia where building a church, why was he killed? Because car tell members, drug addicts were being saved, dealers were being saved. What did they do? They killed the pastor. (a girl speaking) “He told me just drop him off, but he said, "No, Just leave me here I can just walk". (Then a gunshot, which killed him) "And that was the last time I saw him". " With his death it encouraged us to want to do the same to lay down our lives for the Lord, and not just die for HIM, but to live for HIM, can be harder that dying for Him". *I want you to think about what this means....My life for the Gospel, My Life for the Gospel!*
We are going to see increasing opposition to the Gospel message in days to come in America, because gospel message is going to become increasingly biblical, the gospel message is going to become increasingly radical and revolutionary, and the gospel messages going to become a threat to this world system. The Gospel is going to become an increasing threat to worldliness, materialism, and greed, and the gods of sports and entertainment and fashion. The Gospel is going to become an increasing threat to the rising tide of Satanism and false religions and the results would be the same as in the book of Acts, uproar, persecution, and great moving of God.
I believe we have to the time of the accumulated prayers and the saints rising in one generation and God is going to answer all those accumulated prayers and remember all those covenants and is going to come down on you guys. " I am telling you kids that the great awakening is coming in your lives to this generation that is preceded by generation of mothers and fathers that have been crying out for the manifestation of a generation that would bomb the earth, I tell you what, we stand on the shoulders of four fathers and four mothers who paid the price".
What happened to those 11 Ruphians that went after Jesus and followed Him all the way to the cross, because we know what happened to Judas, but what happened to the rest of them? Andrew died in Greece, he was crucified on an X shaped cross, felt unworthy to die on the same type cross as his Lord! Bartholomew was preaching in India, he died a martyr’s death- fillyed alive with knives. JamesYelder was martyred first he was slaigned by Harod Agrippa. James Delesser was crucified in Egypt and his body was sawed in pieces. John the revelator and attempt was made by given a chalice of poison which he drank and God spared him and died of natural causes. Jude was killed, shot with arrows at Mount Arrowed. Matthew laid down his life for Jesus, history records that he became a missionary and disappeared during his labors. Peter was martyred, he requested that he might be crucified upside down and he felt he was not worthy to die as his Lord died. Philip died by hanging as he requested, and that his body be wrapped not in fine linen but in pathrusfor he was not worthy for even his body be treated as the body of the Lord, Jesus. Simon the zelet tradition said he died on the mission field as a martyr. Thomas traditions says that he was commissioned to build a palace in India, there he was killed with a sphere, as a martyr. "You guys inspire me, I want to be able to talk to them, I want to be able to look at them and I want them to look at me and say "well done steve".
Say this with me: Heavenly Father, search my heart, examine me even
Now, but this is my desire. My life for the Gospel.
Whatever it takes Lord, make it real that I may live
a life that makes sense in the light of eternity.
JESUS- *MY LIFE FOR YOU*.