VISIT TO THE CLINIC

Praise the LORD!!!

   The following is from an email I received and I loved it so much I just couldn't help but share it with my "family"!!! I pray you enjoy it and it moves upon your heart as it has mine!!!!!!!

It's titled, "Visit to the Clinic"


















































 ***I have no idea of who originated this, but GOD bless you for sharing it!!!***


 GOD bless and good day,
 Rev. Marshall Barth
 Vine of CHRIST Ministries

Least we fall

Praise the LORD!!!

   There was the day when we were all sinners, "There is none righteous, no, not one"(Romans 3:10; KJV 1900) and this my friends, we should not forget!!! Though the LORD forgives and forgets the life of sin we've lived, let us not. For when we do there is the chance that within our hearts we will begin thinking of ourselves as better than those around us. Placing ourselves upon a pedestal above all the immoral sinners of this dying world. When it was right there at the base of that pedestal, that we too used to live.

   Pride, is the original sin, it is that which set satan up for the fall, the very one that took down Adam and Eve and has brought mankind to the need for salvation. It is the pride of man that placed JESUS upon the cross and it is one of satan's greatest tools against us!!!

   For at the moment of salvation we're broken and contrite(or we should be), we humble ourselves before the LORD in our need of HIS forgiveness. An unless humility rules within afterwards, that very pride that placed us in need of a SAVIOR can and will begin to grow, unless carefully(very carefully) watched.  A while back in one of the devotionals, Spurgeon stated "In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that(step), if grace be absent), and down we go." The Pharisee and Sadducee traveled a road of religious pride, much like many Christians today and it was them that JESUS condemned so richly!!! 

   During my walk to south Texas, many to which I spoke, said that it was the hypocrisy within the church that kept them from going(the number 2 reason) to church. Truly it should be plain to see that anywhere you've Christian gathered, we see pride also. We see it all the time, though we may overlook it for the most part. Maybe because it has become so ingrained within our lives and the lives of those around us that we just accept it. I don't know, but I do know, it is leading many to a fall.

   Let us each remember, and remember well, from where the LORD saved us, or we could say from "whom," for it was our own pride that took us there. Those very sinners that we tend to look down upon, are the very ones that JESUS died for. Remember, we were each there at one time ourselves!!! :{)))

GOD bless and good day,
Rev. Marshall Barth
 Vine of CHRIST Ministries 

TODAY

 Praise the LORD!!!

   Today in HIStory will be unlike any before and any to come, it will be unique in GOD's creation and plans for things!!! How you spend it, is up to you, but how it goes down in HIStory is up to GOD alone!!! If the words of your mouth and the actions of your hands draw attention to you alone, HIStory may not even notice it. If perchance you share a little scripture, there may be a little ripple seen on the timeline of HIStory. But it is when all that we say and do is focused upon drawing attention to JESUS alone, that waves will travel around the globe and go down in HIStory as something that made a difference and changed HIStory forever!!!!!!!


GOD bless and good day,
 Rev. Marshall Barth
 Vine of CHRIST Ministries 

Forgetfulness

Praise the LORD!!!

   Most of us tend to forget that as we go through life in this world, this is not what we're to be living for!!! 

...19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rustg consume and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rusth consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.(Matt. 6:19-21; NRSV)

   We also tend to forget at what a great personal cost most of those mentioned in the Bible dealt with. Abraham left all that his life existed of to seek after GOD's leading. Ruth, she left behind all also, to glean in the fields of a stranger. Look at the disciples and all that they left to follow CHRIST. Even Peter when he stepped out of the boat left behind much. Think about it, he left behind common sense and all the laws of nature to which he'd lived his whole life.

   The point here is, what are you willing to do(forget) in life, to obtain a full relationship with JESUS today???

Use these verses, but don't stop with them, cross reference and seek out GOD from within HIS WORD!!!  

 GOD bless and good day,
 Rev. Marshall Barth
 Vine of CHRIST Ministries

I WILL...

Praise the LORD!!!

   In my early years, before CHRIST, I destroyed many a person's life. Sure a lot of these were done with the help of others, but I personally claim responsibility for even the parts that these played. For if it were not for my part in those things that I did, or inspired, they'd of not have done them.

   Now that my life is totally JESUS' I seek to set the record straight, by serving the LORD to the best of my ability. Reaching out and spreading the GOSPEL to everyone I can, in every manor that I can. With every step that I take while on this earth, I seek another to tell of the love JESUS has for them. I seek to do this in every possible place imaginable.

   I even pray that the LORD will open the doors that my feet shall travel around the globe, enabling me to share HIS love with all those abroad. For this to happen, due to my being a convicted felon, there is the need of a 'Presidential Pardon," to wipe clean my earthly record. I began, at one time, to seek this but was put to rest by the HOLY SPIRIT. For this is not to be of my hands, but of the LORD's and I've faith that it will be done.

   The day is coming when the LORD will pour out HIS blessings upon this worthless piece of flesh that HE has redeemed and HIS ministry for me and things will never be the same. For there will be a movement of GOD upon this earth that can only be called "the latter day rains" and GOD's KINGDOM on earth and in heaven will receive all the glory !!!!!!!

 GOD bless and good day,
Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries

Our calling

PRAISE the LORD!!!

   Good day. I pray that you're blessed this day, you are, for you're alive.
  Folks, by simply looking around us today, we should be able to plainly see that "we are the end-times generation!!!" There is all kind of death and destruction taking place, even while you're reading this. There are millions of peoples souls that are perishing as we speak. Millions that will be trapped in an eternity of suffering unlike anything we can imagine and until we as Christians stand up and do something about it, the numbers will not decrease in the least. They will only grow greater, for evil begets evil.

  It is time that we get off our duffs, pray up, read up and step out to do the will of the LORD, fulfill the "Great Commission." It will not happen unless Bible believing Christians DO IT!!! It will not happen unless we expend our every effort in doing so!!! No expense should be too great, just look at what JESUS gave for each of us!!!

  We must agree to disagree over minor differences. We must unite under but one banner, that of JESUS CHRIST as LORD and SAVIOR !!!!!!!

  This message is short and simple> WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT>TODAY ???????   

 Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries

WHY did JESUS save ME???

   Praise the LORD!!!

      WHY did JESUS save ME??? These are not mistakes with the 'caps button,' but emphasis placed intentionally !!! 


GOD bless and good day,
 Rev. Marshall Barth
 Vine of CHRIST Ministries

Torn heart-the way we are

Praise the LORD!!!

   My heart was torn when I first saw this photo, so badly that it took several hours before I was even able to think about eating. So much was going thru my head. All the things that the LORD has shown me of HIS ministry for me, that which I've been working on over the last years, to name a few. One of the greatest though, was "why in this day and age, with so many claiming to know JESUS, can this kind of thing still be happening?"

   I look at this and see a man, with good shoes on his feet, wearing good, clean clothing and carrying a bag of food in his hands. From the angle of his feet one can see that he'd just had to step around this child, having noticed him. He is walking at a fair gate, due to the fact of his long steps. Could not he of stopped for one second and given this child a handful of grain???

   I've settled down some, for it's been hours since I re-posted this and had a good nights sleep. Yet this image still haunts me!!! But an even sadder fact haunts me. The fact that having posted this on numerous sites, over 10 hours ago, not one single person (Christian, christian or not) has made a single comment!!!

   Have our hearts grown so cold and indifferent to images such as these, that we can just glance at them and them have no effects upon our hearts??? Going on with our lives, as if we'd never seen it or acknowledge that such things are happening in this world still??? What would JESUS do having seen this child in such sad shape??? Not just walk on by and I can guarantee that!!! HE didn't even want to send the crowds away after they'd been following HIM for several days!!! Let alone a child that is far from being well nourished. Truthfully folks what would JESUS do and what does HE think about the fact that we are the way we are ???????
   

GOD bless and good day,
 Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries

So often...

Praise the LORD!!!

   So often we enter into our christian walks on fire for the LORD, telling all around us of all the wonders that have taken place. This will continue, on the most part for just a while, and then the flames begin to diminish. Less and less will others see or hear of these great works that have taken place within our lives. Let alone will those outside of our direct circles of influence hear them.

   People will have a tendency to begin having religion take over. Religion is the works of man's hands and not those of faith in the simple grace GOD has given us. Religion begins to direct us to do and don't do. To have and not to have. Keep the Sabbath or keep the LORD's day. Follow the Ten Commandments or to be set free from them. Along with many other 'works' of our hands.

   Don't people realize that in JESUS we have all we need. We have the Sabbath fulfilled in HIS rest. We have the ten commandments fulfilled in our living our lives as HE lived while here on earth. We have the love for all mankind. We have no fear or worries. We have the adoption into the family of GOD. We have the very KINGDOM of GOD dwelling right inside of us.

   What more could we ask for??? Draw closer to JESUS. Where HE and only HE is all in life that matters. Then you'll have that life that sets you free. Then you'll have that fire once again !!!!!!! 


GOD bless and good day,
Rev. Marshall Barth
Vine of CHRIST Ministries