PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK

JUNE ESTELLE (DONATO) CASH  1999

PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK

PHILIPPIANS 3.10 - 14

THAT I MAY KNOW HIM

AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, 

AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS, 

BEING MADE CONFORMABLE UNTO

HIS DEATH, 

IF BY ANY MEANS 

I MAY ATTAIN UNTO THE RESURRECTION 

OF THE DEAD,

EITHER WERE ALREADY PERFECT,

BUT I FOLLOW AFTER,

THAT I MAY APPREHEND

THAT FOR WHICH I AM ALSO 

APPREHENDED OF CHRIST JESUS.

BRETHREN, I COUNT NOT MYSELF 

TO HAVE APPREHENDED,

BUT THIS ONE THING I DO,

FORGETTING THOSE THINGS 

WHICH ARE BEHIND,

AND REACHING FORTH

UNTO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE/

I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK 

FOR THE PRIZE

OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS.

PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK

WE HAVE SOMETHING TO AIM AT

OUR JOURNEY BEGINS WITH TRUSTING CHRIST JESUS 

AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR,

AS OUR REDEEMER

WHO ALONE 

FORGIVES SINS

CLEANSES 

AND 

KEEPS

THE BELIEVER

TILL ONE DAY WE WILL SEE HIM

THIS OLD HOUSE

WORE OUT.

MY HUSBAND AND I WENT TO THIS LITTLE 

BUILDING WHEN IT WAS STILL 

INTACT.

THAT DAY HE PREACHED, AND I TAUGHT A SMALL

CLASS OF THREE CHILDREN IN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

IN TWENTY YEARS

IT WAS LEFT TO DISMANTLE.

THE TOWN WAS NO MORE.

PEOPLE MOVED AWAY.

NO ONE WAS LEFT TO CARE FOR IT.

YOU AND I ARE NOT LIKE THAT.

GOD KNOWS WHO EACH ONE OF US IS.

HE KNOWS AND CARES.

TO THE UNBELIEVING HE SENDS 

MESSENGERS TO TELL THEM OF HIS CARE.

TO THE BELIEVING 

HE SENDS COMFORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT

AND CHECKS US WHEN WE 

START TO STRAY 

FROM THE PATH.

WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I WOULD JOURNEY

TO APPLETON, WA 

FROM ODELL, HOOD RIVER OR

WE WOULD SEE THESE MOUNTAINS.

RUGGED, HIGH, AND PEOPLE

LIVE UP IN THESE MOUNTAINS

WHERE NO ONE WOULD IMAGINE.

YET GOD KNOWS WHERE EACH ONE IS.

HE KNOWS 

AND SEES

HE IS THE ALMIGHTY

THE EVERLASTING GOD

HIGH AND HOLY 

AND 

SEPARATE FROM SINNERS

HE SENT JESUS 

TO DECLARE 

WHO GOD IS,

TO SHOW US 

THE FATHER

TO CARRY OUR SINS 

ON THE CROSS

AND 

NOW 

RISEN 

AND 

GLORIFIED

HIS BLOOD PLEADS FOR US

AND 

HE IS OUR HIGH PRIEST.

I PETER 1.20,21TELLS US THAT NO PROPHECY OF THE SCRIPTURE IS BY PRIVATE INTERPRETATION....FOR THE PROPHECY CAME NOT IN OLD TIMEBY THE WILL OF MAN,BUT HOLY MEN OF GODSPAKE AS THEY WERE MOVEDBY THE HOLY GHOST.

TO PRESS TOWARD THE MARKOF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUSWE MUST DIG INTO AND READAND STUDYAND APPLY THE BIBLICAL TRUTHS GOD HAS LAID OUT FOR US IN HIS WORD.

THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE
THAT THE REASON WHY
SO MANY DO NOT WISH TO USE
THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE HOLY BIBLE
IS BECAUSE IT HAS STAYED TRUE
TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT,
AND MANY HAVE DIED
FOR BELIEVING
AND TRUSTING
IN ITS WORDS
RATHER
THAN TRUSTING AND RELYING
ON WHAT PEOPLE SAY
OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS
OR WHAT RELIGIOUS SYSTEM
DEMAND.

TO READ GOD'S WORD
IS TO FIND
THE TRUTH.

TO OPEN ITS PAGES
IS TO PLUM THE RICHES
OF GOD'S RESOURCES
FOR US.

I CHALLENGE YOU TO
BEGIN TODAY.

THE BOOK OF JOHN IS A GOOD PLACE TO START.

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,
AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD,
AND THE WORD WAS GOD.
John 1.1    

REMEMBER WHAT

JESUS SAID 

Matthew  24.38 - 39

AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, 

SO ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.

FOR AS IN THE DAYS THAT WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD,

THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING

AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE

UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK.

AND KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME,

AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL

ALSO THE SON OF MAN BE.

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER IS

THAT THIS ONLY REFERS TO 

THOSE DAYS AFTER

THE BELIEVERS HAVE BEEN 

TAKEN HOME TO BE WITH HIM.

YET WHETHER IT IS TO GO WITH CHRIST

IN THE RAPTURE

OR

TO BE LEFT BEHIND

WE ARE TOLD

TO WATCH

TO CONSIDER

TO BE READY

I BELIEVE JESUS COULD COME ANY TIME

JOHN 14.1 - 3  PROMISES THAT 

"I AM COMING AGAIN TO RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF, 

THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.

PRESSING ONWARD

I WALK BY FAITH

KNOWING

HE IS WITH ME.

COME AND GO WITH ME
I AM BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND
OH WHO WILL COME AND GO WITH ME ?
I AM BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND.