“LIKE COLD WATER TO A THIRSTY SOUL” (PR 25:25)
26th October 2023
With what is mightier than the sword, I am writing into our collective global climate of conflict, as the wildfires of ‘wars and rumors of wars…nation rising against nation’ (Mt 24:6), strip more than the bark from our human family tree! And whilst ‘the nations rage’ (Ps 2:1), and the family “tree does not blossom” (Ha 3:17), Calvary’s buried Seed remains the root out of dry ground (Is 53:2), that continues to mercifully nourish the hewn stump of humanity (Ro 11:17)
Job’s metaphor is poignant: “… there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant” (Job 14:7-9)
As ‘water-bearers’ with Timothy Two Project international, we bring “the scent of water” - “living water” (Jn 4:10), to “old roots” and “stumps” that, many times, are ‘dying in the soil’, so that these indigenous pastors, who are, in truth, ‘oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord’ (Is 61:3), can ‘drink freely of the Water of Life’ (Re 22:17), and begin to, “bud and put out branches like a young plant”, again.
So, don’t let the noise of the ‘birth pangs’ of this world (Mt 24:8) take your eyes off the prize of what is unseen and eternal (2 Co 4:18), because we, the saints, “walk by faith, and not by sight” (2 Co 5:7), and we, “endure as seeing Him who is invisible”! (He 11:27) This ‘underground stream’, away from the naked eye, is the water of the Word (Ep 5:26) that quietly flows, unabated, thru the Timothy Two Projects, as we train the ‘midwives’ to be ready for when the ‘waters break’!
MY NEXT TTPI WORKSHOP
My next, ‘scent of water’, TTPI Workshop, from November 6 thru November 18, 2023, is with some new friends that I have been reaching out to - Congolese pastors who serve in the Cape of Southern Africa amongst the displaced. I will introduce more of them to you as we go along, but here are photos of some of these amazing men who, “…thirst after righteousness.” (Mt 5:6) Please PRAY into the fruitfulness of that for all of us!
A STRATEGIC PLAN
Also, would you please continue to help us take ‘water’ to them, and others, since it is YOUR reward? (Mt 10:42) I am working rigorously on a Strategic Business Plan that can conflate my Podcast, my YouTube, my Blog, and my GODbrand, into a sustainable stream of income that will fund my TTPI missions, whilst, at the same time, effectively taking the gospel into all the world thru these channels. Please PRAY into the flourishing of that. You can also click the DONATE button, if the Holy Spirit puts that on your heart. Thank you.
IN-PERSON MISSION FEEDBACK
Vanya, Evangeline, Guinevere and I will be making a trip back to the USA for two weeks, arriving in NC for Thanksgiving this year, and then on thru to Seattle, so that we can give face-to-face feedback on how the mission is going. We are so excited about seeing everyone! I would like to use that time to connect with individuals and businesses, who may be interested in partnering with us in the TTPI mission, and, in particular, partnering with us in our Strategic Plan to fund the TTPI Mission by going global with the gospel thru our various platforms! If you know of someone who has a heart for keeping the ‘main thing’ (Mt 28:19-20) the main thing, then would you please connect me with them, or vice-versa?
Supported by the Root (R0 11:18)
All our love
Martin, Vanya, Evangeline and Guinevere
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