Exloring Life Eternal

“If my life is motivated by an ambition to leave a legacy, what I would
probably leave is a legacy of ambition. But, if my life is motivated
by the power of God’s Spirit in me and the awareness of the indwelling
Christ, if I allow his presence to guide my motives, that’s the
only time I think we really leave a great legacy. I hope I would
leave a legacy of joy - a legacy of real compassion.”

James Bryan Smith
“Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven.”
Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2000, end page.

Rich Mullins: A Reflection of God’s Reality, 1955-1997

As a Christian musician, singer, and songwriter, Rich Mullins
ministered to audiences around the world, had more than 90 song
recordings, and was nominated for more than ten Dove Awards by
the Gospel Music Association. “Awesome God,” one of Rich’s worship
songs, is still sung in churches across America. Yet, when fans
asked him for his autograph, Rich signed two words - Be God’s.

Rich had a passion for South America, Native Americans, and needy
children worldwide. The proceeds from many of his musical tours
went to support ministries that served these groups. Rich desired
to bless Native American children with the love of God and give
them opportunities to explore the arts. Leaving the music scene
in Nashville behind, he returned to college to pursue a degree
in music education. Rich spent the final two years of his life
living among the Navajo in Arizona. He taught music to the children
on the reservations and demonstrated the love of God to their
families. When he died in a car accident in 1997, some of the
children from the reservation attended his funeral. They sang
“Jesus Loves Me” in their native language, a song that Rich had
taught them.

SOURCE:
Caleb Project
“Eternal Impact - Discover Your Role in God’s Worldwide Purpose.”
(Littleton, CO: Caleb Project, 2005, workbook pages 32-33)
<http://www.calebproject.org/store/product%5finfo.php?products%5fid=2529>

“Love, but take care what you love. Loving and possessing God is what constitutes a happy life. A man is what his love makes him, it transforms the lover into the image of the object loved. That love needs a medium of expression, that need is supplied by prayer…the affectionate reaching out of the mind for God. Our desire for God is the only road that leads to happiness!”

Taken from: "Augustine on Prayer."
You may purchase the book at:
http://www.monksofadoration.org/bk/bookrv3.html

More links to catholic prayers & comments on prayer:
http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/links.html

Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them.

John Welch, the holy and wonderful Scotch preacher, thought the day ill spent if he did not spend eight or ten hours in prayer. He kept a plaid that he might wrap himself when he arose to pray at night. His wife would complain when she found him lying on the ground weeping. He would reply: “O woman, I have the souls of three thousand to answer for, and I know not how it is with many of them!”

Power Through Prayer
by E. M. Bounds
ch. 7
Much Time Should Be Given to Prayer

More encouragement to pray available from:
Intercessors Network <intercessors.network@comhem.se>

Alexis de Tocqueville once said of Islam: "I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad .... Its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress ...."