The Irv Grip!

 PRAYING FOR SALEM!

Identify with the sins of the city - We can all identify with the roots of any sin in our city. We have been lax in travailing for Salem. We need to identify in personal and corporate repentance. Nehemiah identified with the sins in his city and prayed: “I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you” (Nehemiah 1:6-7)  But now we rise up united in Prayer!

 

Cover Salem with continuous praise and worship - God gives you His heart for Salem through worship and a positive attitude. Instead of complaining and reacting toward the sin in Salem, praise God for the good things. Satan is already an accuser, so praising God and declaring by faith the eternal purpose and dream of God over Salem brings in His presence and defeats the enemy.

 Ask God to give you HIS heart for Salem-

When you have God’s heart, you will pray with a love that seeks God’s plan for Salem.  You will love Salem as He loves Salem.  Your prayers will be much more effectual and fervent.   

Prayer for Salem

Dear Lord, change the atmosphere of our city through our prayers. Help us to guard Salem as watchmen.  Salem belongs to You Teach us to continually cover it with praise and worship day and night. We long to release Your fire in the night season. Give us insight into how to pray for Salem and how to take action in love as we wait on You. Teach us the secret of travailing prayer. Give us great faith for peace and revival for Salem. We will pray until Your deliverance comes. We choose to give ourselves no rest (Isaiah 62:6-7). We praise You for You are mighty and powerful, and You can do all things. We choose to remember Your name in the night. We praise You for what You are going to do in our city as we pray and reach out to the lost. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Let the sweet love of Jesus shine through you! Soul Saving Center Street Journal 2021

 

There's nothing like walking up to a group of young men who are engrossed in their conversation and looking like they want no parts of anything you have to say....so you introduce yourself and give them an invitation to church, they politely take it...and say "Thank You!"  But the icing on the cake is when you get to the last of the crew and the guy doing most of the talking is your cousin!  We hugged a big hug and said, "I love you Cuz!"  That alone made the other guys pay attention and show even more respect!...."Oh, she's his family!

It was a beautiful day to walk, pray and share the gospel.  No one refused the invitations....everyone was so accepting which just let me know that people need Jesus in their lives.  Their eyes tell the story. 

I encountered a young man who grew up in a very VERY strict church and he told me that when he became an adult he never wanted to see the inside of  a church ever again....(we had our conversation while he was rolling something, but that didn't matter)  He told me how he couldn't play sports, play with other kids, go to the movies and a list of other No No's.   He said he has 3 children and he has never taken them to church.  He told me he even used to play the piano but after feeling so condemned about everything, he stopped playing.  He wasn't blaming God for his upbringing....just that church.  The world must see Jesus first!  Feel His genuine Love flowing from us!   All of the other religious man-made rhetoric, is of the devil and I believe that God will judge this kind of thing...

In all my years of sharing the gospel on the streets, I have run into people who were backslidden, other religions or even atheists.  But this was the first time I've ever had a conversation with someone who was hurt so badly as a child by the church.  Our conversation was lengthy to say the least and he knew that my focus was Jesus and what He does in our lives once we accept Him as Lord and Savior.  

I walked away praying for him and praying that the seeds I planted all fell on good soil and produce good crops, In Jesus' Name.

Pray with me that Jesus invades the hearts of the men and women and teens that I talked to today.  And that Jesus brings them to repentance.  My prayer was that they feel His love through me as I shared Him with them.  I know Jesus did that!  I just know He did!

  

Give Me Salem Or I Die!

 

“One man with God is always in the majority.”

This weekend 3 people connected to my husband and myself passed away. I went for a walk to pray because I was sad about their passing. But ended up Witnessing to so many people I couldn't even listen to the music I had prepared to listen to as I walked. God put the words in my heart. "Get Right With God!"
Even one man who has rebuffed me for years and when he sees me he goes inside of his house....I walked by him sitting on his porch and I said, pointing at him, "Get Right With God!" He answered humbly, "Yes Ma'am"
I began to pray "Give Me Salem, for your Glory! Give me Salem or I die." Meaning just like John Knox I am earnestly petitioning God to move in this town as I proclaim that Jesus is the only way! It's the gospel that will set them free. The faces I shared the gospel with today were ripe for the harvest. God directed my walk, and some people knew it was God that set them up to meet me on the street..... Every church that lives out the Great Commission, I pray souls run to them all crying out, "What Must I Do To Be Saved!"

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Choose Ye This Day Whom Ye Shall Serve!

I just came in from preaching in the streets  Union Street in Salem to be exact.  And I can still feel the anointing all over me!

There were about 12 young men out there gambling, drunk, high and I walked up to them to invite them to church.  Some laughed and pretended they didn't hear  me...but it showed me as it always does,  the hold the devil has on people.  So I began to share Jesus with them and all I could hear the Spirit say "Choose Ye This Day Whom Ye Shall Serve!"  The Lord showed me some of them when they are alone at night, they are tormented about death.  I shared this with them and gave them the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  Hope and Life in Jesus!
A young man asked me a question about Jesus being the only way and why wasn't there any other religions that were right.....I told them Jesus is the only way, and all He's asking for you to do is believe on Him.  No changing, no works, no nothing.  I told them they couldn't change what they were doing if they wanted to!  If they could the would have.

I sang John 3:16 for them and by the time it was all over...no more laughing, ignoring, just the words of life that Jesus gave me hanging in the air.

I love preaching about Jesus in the Streets!!!
Happy Resurrection Sunday!

Soul Saving Center Hit the Streets tonight!!!

Yes!!!!  We were out there as a church family.....not all of us but we were out in the neighborhoods sharing the gospel, hugging people we haven't seen in so long!

I love it that so many of our church knew so many of the people tonight and there were beautiful "God-Connections" going on....People shared their story of how Jesus came into their lives and also His great power to save them!

As they reflect on encounters and the prayerwalks, praying over homes and people they got to plant the seeds of the gospel, the Soul Saving Center Street Journal will include more than just my account.  You just don't know how that makes me so happy!!!

I'm so overjoyed and thankful for them all....Frosty, Terry, Lydia, Irene, Maurice, Crystal, Jaden and Irene's granddaughter....(I can't remember her name! But she was out there!)

Thank you for sharing Jesus with our community.  And when we pray for Salem tomorrow in church, I know you all will have someone in particular on your mind.  I love you all so much!

"If Jesus didn't Love you, I wouldn't be out here....."

I found myself saying that over and over again to so many young people hanging out tonight.

It's been quite a while since I have written in the Soul Saving Center Street Journal....but something drove me to the streets tonight.

We just finished Hinds Feet in High Places and the book ended with the character returning to her valley where there was so much darkness and sadness and evil but she was different and she knew she was to tell them about the way out...even if they didn't believe her or listen....she had to tell them.....I sat there reflecting on the end of that book and I felt myself anxious to hit the streets....

What really fueled the fire was some who were there had family members who had recently experienced violence or something traumatic in their families....and it happened in Salem....
 We prayed together and after praying I found it hard to sit still....I left right after making my way to the specific streets that were mentioned tonight.  There were so many people hanging out all along the way....so I parked the car and walked up to groups of people, people in cars.....hanging out, high, making exchanges but they all took a flyer inviting them to church.

Each group got a different approach from me.  The Lord is teaching me to listen to His voice as to how to break the ice....but the words "I wouldn't be out here if Jesus didn't love you" was something that God wanted me to let them all know....and you know what so many said in response?  "I believe that!"
 Don't think because you see rough tough looking people hanging out that they don't feel the emptiness inside them....that's why they are doing so much to elevate the happiness they crave.  Looking for God in all the wrong places.

I met a young woman who had come into my center for help a few days ago and as I spoke to her about her life and what it would look like with Jesus as Lord in her life she remembered me....I didn't remember her but when she reminded me, I told her this was a "God-Connection"  and she said "Probably!"  She didn't want me to see her  in her present state as she was very upset and saying a lot of "Things" very loudly when I walked up to her.  We are staying in touch!

A car I approached had very dark windows....I knocked on the window and asked if I could give them a flyer....once the window was down they both knew me and told me who they were.  They come from families who are Believers....We chatted about the knowledge they have of God and how they should be out here with me!  They said, "Yea, I know."   They can't hide forever....they've got to choose....heaven or hell.

I came home greatly anticipating going out again....the Harvest is White and so ready for the gospel...
Of course I heard the enemy talking smack about people not wanting to hear me....but that's whats so cool about listening to the Holy Spirit....He gave me ice breakers that require me to follow up because I proposed some art classes just for the girls and they were receptive.  I talked to some kids about singing and while talking to some guys tonight, I believe the Lord was there ahead of me dealing with them.
There's nothing like writing about these times....I'll be writing more....If Jesus doesn't come back, I've got more time to tell people about Him.

Daddy, Your Work Is Still Going On!

Soul Saving Center's soldiers have been handing out door hangers everywhere!  Very creative places! :-)  Great Work Family!

The Post Office!  Neighborhoods and in the hands of people!  

Today I went out after an awesome intensive training on christian community development with CCDA.  It was beyond amazing and we will implement what we have learned today because the training was of God because He Loves Salem!...but I digress....

I put door hangers out all over East Side, Olive St and Union St.....but it was East Broadway that I want to focus on....

On the way back from East Side I was going home to get more door hangers and on East Broadway I saw a huge crowd of people, about 40 or more.  There was a decorated Marine there so I gathered it was for him.

I decided to drop by and give out the door hangers....I  prayed because they looked like they were having a good time and didn't want to be interrupted by some woman with something in her hands.  That was the thought the devil tried to plant in my hard head!  So I prayed and walked up to the first group of people.

I handed one out and she yelled out "Soul Saving Center! Mr. Irvin would pick us up on the bus and take us to Penns Grove to church!  That was everybody's church!  Thank you so much!"  I told them who I was and by then they were reminiscing about Soul Saving Center so loudly that everyone in that group took a door hanger!!!  EVERY SINGLE ONE!  

I thanked the Marine for his service and went to the truck with tears in my eyes....

"Daddy, Your Work Is Still Going On!"

No matter how high people were today, they took them.....some remembered my Dad and were so receptive today!

I came back and shared with my Mom and she said, "I'm not surprised Mikki, Your Dad didn't want to see anyone go to hell so he worked fervently for Jesus!"

March 3, 2018 Daddy will be in heaven for 3 years....but guess what....

God is still using what my Daddy did to soften the hearts of people to receive the gospel...even in the form of a door hanger!

Thank you Daddy,

Thank you Jesus!

Why Sit Here Til You Die? 2 Kings 7:3

Church was awesome!!!  God moved in Soul Saving Center!

Taking my cousin home, I went down Olive St and I heard this verse screaming in my spirit as I looked at the lost souls sitting on stoops, standing around blitzed out of their minds.   Especially the one whom God told me to warn....I was instructed by God to warn him once more.

I took every one home and then went back there.  I got out of my car and I shared the gospel with force, love and obedience.....but I told the truth and exposed the devil for the liar that he is. 

The 3 on the stoop listened intently and told me they knew I was telling them right.  One said, "I love you!"  I told them I loved them too.  I told them that was why I was in front of them telling them that Jesus breaks chains!  He will break their chains but they have to make a decision to not sit here until they die!

I left them and then I went on to the one who God told me to warn.  He told me he had cancer and it had come back and he didn't have long.  I told him I knew that the first time I warned him.  He said after I die, I'm dead....I told him not so...I told him about the terror of meeting God face to face in judgement in his sin.  He said once he's dead he is dead.  I told him not so....he said he didn't want to hear it!!!  He told me he was blessed, I told him he was cursed because he will not accept the truth of the gospel and be delivered.  I told him he cannot drink the sin away.

He told me he didn't want to hear it.  He told me this the last time...I told him his time was short on earth.
He said he loved me, I told him I loved him and if he didn't give his heart to Jesus now, he was bound for eternity in hell.

I felt as if a weight was lifted off of me but then the hurt of him rejecting God left me too.  It's in His hands.

Why sit here until you Die? 

Jesus has life abundant waiting! 

Two sermons preached today! 
God get your people ready!!!

Selah!

Jesus Is The Only Way

Soul Saving Center is a wonderful place to pray, prepare for tomorrow's message, enjoy quiet time with the Lord.  I love it!!!
But today before going in I saw a group of young men sitting on steps across Broadway so I put my tote down and walked over. One guy was talking about how someone was about put a gun in his face but something warned him to turn around....I listened to his story and then asked him what was that something that warned him?  He responded, " Oh no, not that....I know it was God I was raised to be a Christian...". Then he proceeded to tell me who was Muslim in the group and they probably don't want to hear this....Still I gave the Message of God's Love and why He sent His only Son.
   One Muslim stood up and mumbled something to me, I asked him what he said, he said, "Why are you lifting Jesus above God?"  And walked away....I never got to answer him.....
Now here's the good part....
I went back to the church to pray and I kept hearing "There is no other name under heaven, whereby men can be saved, other than the name of Jesus! 
I said "Lord he's gone... You want me to go back out there? ". All the while I'm walking back outside and I see him sitting on the steps....I prayed, "Lord if you want me to tell him this, when he sees me coming towards him, don't let him move.".
He didn't move...
I told him I just finished praying for him and I said, "The Lord told me to tell you this... There is No Other Name Under Heaven Whereby Men Can Be Saved...Other Than The Name Of Jesus! He is the ONLY WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.  I then left and walked back across the street to the church....
I wonder what Jesus is doing over there now? #AngelsAreBusy

Playing with God....

I just want share my encounters this morning....I was taking care of some things before heading to work....On a corner I see this same man that I usually see early in the morning looking haggard, like he's been up all night."
I felt from the Lord to pull over and after our pleasant "Good Mornings" I asked him how he was....he began to tell me of the pain he was in.  I know he has a serious drinking problem but you can't come across a nicer guy....he just needs Jesus.
I listened to him and expressed concern for him.  And then I began to talk to him about asking God to deliver him....I asked him "I've talked to you so many times about your life...about God who loves you so much and about asking Him to change your life...save you...why don't you ask Him to deliver you?"  He said something that really struck me.  He said, "I don't want to play with Him."  I told him that God knows him and that he is being respectful."  But I told him that God can deliver him but also take away the desires and things that he thinks he cannot let go of...He said, "I believe that."...

And then along comes another guy....with his bottle in his bag...."Hey how you doin?  You know I love you!  I've always loved you!!!  Do you  know who I am?"  "No" I answered.
He said, "Your dad had my picture up in his barbershop when I was boxing!"  And through the worn hairy, dishoveled downtrodden look on his face, I saw that boxer on my Dad's wall.  I told him I remembered him and began to talk to him about asking God to deliver him.  He said "you sound like your Dad!  We were close."  I asked him if my Dad ever talked to him about his soul, he responded"All the time!"  I continued to talk to both of them and then drove on to work.

But while driving I began to think about what the first man said, "I don't want to play with Him."  It struck me that this man would rather not play games with God and remain in his sinful state until he felt he could change.  I thought of the verse "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them... "  John 6:44.   I believe he and I have had so many conversations because God IS drawing him....but how many Christians are taking their salvation for granted?  How?  By the lackadaisical way they live for God, their prayer life or lack thereof, loving people the way Jesus commanded.

Are we taking God for Granted?  Heaven forbid!

I'm going to keep talking to this man and others...God is drawing people to Himself.

He's coming soon!

The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1

I haven't shared too much from the SSC street journal in a while, but I feel like writing again....

Tonight as I ran errands for my Mom, fixed dinner, ran to the market....all I kept seeing was lost souls...carrying their black bags full of their version of peace and joy and even love...Young women high and slurring their speech, half dressed and oblivious to their surroundings or how they were behaving.

I interceded for them all but after I finished taking care of home I hit the streets.  I just couldn't take it anymore....too much prayer is going out for these souls and they needed to know that.   Every Sunday we at Soul Saving Center stretch our hands out towards Salem and intercede for every lost soul.

I started out on Union St.  I parked my truck and walked up to about 10 young men gambling, smoking, cursing.....doing the usual.  I gave them the gospel and then God told me to pray right there for them.  They continued cursing, playing cards while I took them to the throne room.  I was loud and earnest in my petition to the Chain Breaker.....Soon they all quieted down and when I was finished I knew God had caught the ones He sent me there for....they were asking about me after I walked further down the street to minister to some more people....I preached to people in cars, on stoops and those on bikes.  That look in their eyes...the look that says, "I really need help, I need to change, I need something!"  I know that look so well...

I invited them all to church and told them I loved them...They said, I love you too....

They know that I really mean it.   They know when it's real....Jesus is Real!!!

God is  always with me, especially in the streets....He lead me to the motel in Salem.  I walked up to a guy who knew who I was...I had ministered to him so many times and hadn't seen him in a while.  He was in jail and had just gotten out.  He had the ankle thing on him but he introduced me to his buddies.  One knew my Dad and we laughed about the "Irv Grip" when he gripped your head and turned it while cutting your hair your head was in a vice grip!  But then I got down to business.  I knew God sent me there.  There was that look again....the look of desparation on a man's face that lets you know you are hitting him where he lives and he wants out but doesn't know how.....I prayed for each one individually and sang for them....

I've got a lot of people to pray for....If you would just pray for Salem during your devotions, put Salem on your prayer list.....God loves this town...and I told so many that tonight....

God Bless You!

Two sermons: One in Soul Saving Center and one in the Street

It's a wonderful thing to obey the Holy Spirit!

After our service today where the Lord was high and lifted up and God is really showing Himself to be our faithful good good Father; I thought the rest of the day would be spent with family....and it was.  

But right after church I was driving my cousin home and turned down Olive St. and there were about 6 or 7 men hanging out....just looking like they needed a good dose of the Word.

I pulled the car over and some of them knew why I pulled over.  I dove right in as the Holy Spirit gave me words that were from His heart to them.  I could feel His love for them.  And the Lord was really stirring me to share the gospel in such a way that I felt an anointing that let me know that God had them there, waiting for the Word.  Oh how He loves His lost sheep!

They listened and as my mother remarked later...."Not one them walked away."  Sometimes one or two may walk but the majority listens....I've done this many times but I wanted to share today because the Lord really let me know so intensely how much He loves them.  They nodded, laughed and smiled as I shared the gospel with some humor and a lot of Scripture!   And I left them in thought because the Holy Spirit was at work and the devil had to stand back and watch!

All I can say is to God be the glory!!!  Jesus Loves Salem and He loves those men and as we stretch our hands out towards Salem every Sunday interceding for the people of this town called "Peace!"   I know God is at work....

I praise His Holy Name!!!

You Cannot Win with the devil, He's a spirit, but Jesus Can!!!

After the funeral service today where I ministered, I purposely went looking for people hanging out in Salem.... and there is always someone hanging out in Salem.
I parked my car and walked up to a group of guys and one guy I have shared the gospel with before had on "Dallas Cowgirls" attire.  I had to tell him that because I loved Jesus I was going to hug him.  Another guy said, "Uh Oh, that's an Eagles Fan!"  He didn't know me and we laughed at the way you can spot us as fans.

We talked and I shared the gospel with them....one guy stood a bit off to the side, but he listened.  I explained to them that they may have every intention of 2017 being a good year!  Their year to do something with their lives, but they devil has other plans for them....and unless they have Jesus as Lord of their lives, unless they have accepted Him and repented of their sins, they are still a slave to sin and therefore, slaves of the devil.....He knows the only weapon we have is Jesus...and the devil, he even believes it!  I told them they can't win with the devil because he is a spirit but He knows if we have Jesus in our lives, if we believe on the Lord and receive Him in their hearts that the devil would fear the God in them.  I told them how I gain victory over his plots against my life through the very name of Jesus!  I talked about how much God loves them....How much He loves Salem.

I continued to give the Word and one of the guys, said, "She got me crying over here...."  It was God revealing His truth to this man.

I invited them to church tonight and all the rest too.  I had introduced myself and talked to them about my Dad....and why I was out there....there's always someone who confirms my Dad's ministry to the streets.....and they know what I am doing out there.....

I praise God that they may not come to church tonight but they got the Word today!

Happy New Year!

Church After Church

After church on Sunday we always pass a group of people hanging out, not really doing anything but drinking and just doing what they do....

For some time now I have been feeling like I should stop and give them a taste of church via a mini sermon since they won't come to church...any church.  I haven't been stopping, just saying I should stop to myself.....so I repented to the Lord that I haven't been obeying Him after church.  With my Mom in the car I know she's usually very hungry after church....but that's no excuse.

This past Sunday I got out of my car and walked up to a group on Olive St.  I gave them the Word as my Mom waited in the truck for me.  She was fine.  Checking everybody out.  She knew some of the older guys and later told me that my Dad has preached to that man for years.

One girl walked up to me and asked if I was Chris's mom, I said yes and kept on sharing the gospel....They listened, even shook their heads...except for the man my Mom told me about, he walked away.  But he knows...he knows.....

There's something so cleansing about doing what God wants you to do.....there is nothing like it in the world!

...Shootings and Killings on Broadway

"...there have been recent shootings / killings on Broadway and retaliation is expected."

This is from an email I received this evening.....there was more but this is what made me turn off the TV and ask God what should I do.  I decided I needed to take my German Shepherd puppy Bella out to go and for me to pray.

I usually stay on my street at night and as I was praying for Salem I decided to keep walking onto Broadway....I approached some guys hanging out and asked them if it was true.....nothing....Was there a shooting?  Did someone get killed?  Someone mumbled something....and then like a mother who has been warning her children about the company they keep....even if THEY are the bad influence, I began to tell them that this is not God's plan for their lives...God loves them, He is the only one who can bring peace into their lives, into their homes, into this town....If God didn't love them, why are so many people praying for this town?  I told them that we pray for them all the time at Soul Saving Center.  I told them I was going to pray over this corner again as I have in the past....and I will continue to pray.  I let them know that God sent my father to preach the gospel and now I'm here and there is no fear, nothing intimidating me, nothing but love for them....I let them know I loved them.
No one moved.....I prayed out loud and asked God to not let another person lose their life because they are not ready to meet Him....I asked God to protect those young men and to go after them and deliver them from the evil that is controlling them.  I gave them to God and told them that I would continue to pray and that they need to give their lives to Jesus Christ.  The only way out!  I kept saying, "He Is The Only Way Out!   Before I left, one of the guys said, "We love you too.  We love you."

Bella was very good, very quiet and they couldn't believe she was just a 6 month old puppy.  I thank God for her temperament.  I can minister to the guys in the street at night and she's quiet and right there....I don't fear anyone...and the guys know that, but they are afraid to walk anywhere when she is there.....So God knew what He was doing when He chose Bella for me....Born in Egypt and living in Salem, NJ.  And on the mission field with her Mommy.  Sweet!

Please pray with all of us who are praying for Salem!  God loves this town!

...Shootings and Killings on Broadway

"...there have been recent shootings / killings on Broadway and retaliation is expected."

This is from an email I received this evening.....there was more but this is what made me turn off the TV and ask God what should I do.  I decided I needed to take my German Shepherd puppy Bella out to go and for me to pray.

I usually stay on my street at night and as I was praying for Salem and decided to keep walking onto Broadway....I approached some guys hanging out and asked them if it was true.....nothing....Was there a shooting?  Did someone get killed?  Someone mumbled something....and then like a mother who has been warning her children about the company they keep....even if THEY are the bad influence, I began to tell them that this is not God's plan for their lives...God loves them, He is the only one who can bring peace into their lives, into their homes, into this town....If God didn't love them, why are so many people praying for this town?  I told them that we pray for them all the time at Soul Saving Center.  I told them I was going to pray over this corner again as I have in the past....and I will continue to pray.  I let them know that God sent my father to preach the gospel and now I'm here and there is no fear, nothing intimidating me, nothing but love for them....I let them know I loved them.
No one moved.....I prayed out loud and asked God to not let another person lose their life because they are not ready to meet Him....I asked God to protect those young men and to go after them and deliver them from the evil that is controlling them.  I gave them to God and told them that I would continue to pray and that they need to give their lives to Jesus Christ.  The only way out!  I kept saying, "He Is The Only Way Out!   Before I left, one of the guys said, "We love you too.  We love you."

Bella was very good, very quiet and they couldn't believe she was just a 6 month old puppy.  I thank God for her temperament.  I can minister to the guys in the street at night and she's quiet and right there....I don't fear anyone...and the guys know that, but they are afraid to walk anywhere when she is there.....So God knew what He was doing when He chose Bella for me....Born in Egypt and living in Salem, NJ.  And on the mission field with her Mommy.  Sweet!

Please pray with all of us who are praying for Salem!  God loves this town!

He Came To Set The Captives Free!

My plan was to take my Mom to her Bible Study this morning in my lounging outfit, come back home and finish the laundry.  But God told me to get dressed, so I did.....I took her and decided, I might as well take Bella (who has to ride in the car now for everything!) for a good walk around the Pennsville Park area along the Delaware River.

On the way to the church to drop my Mom off, I rode pass a very familiar sight.  The ones who sit on the steps on Broadway, drinking starting very early in the morning.  The very sight of them made me so angry at the devil.....and I purposed that after I dropped my mother off I was going to stop there....By the time I got back there, I was so mad at the devil that I jumped out of the car like the Police!  Bella sitting inside looking at me like "Mommy, I thought you were taking me for a ride!"

I approached them and immediately the words came tumbling out.  God just gave me what to say to them and one of them has been to Soul Saving Center.  He has heard the gospel and I guess that's what really had me so pissed off at the devil.  I preached very hard this morning in the streets....I could feel the urgency in my spirit to preach the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ to them!

What the Lord would have them know is that  Jesus Came to Set The Captives Free!!!  That Jesus is Coming Again Soon!  That they are sitting in a dungeon and they are begin held captive by sin.

One young woman who was sitting there said to me, "I've been asking Jesus to come into my heart for 10 years.  How do I get Him into my heart?I've been praying lately too!"  I began to share Scriptures with her that explained the power that Jesus has to set her free and her responsibility is to believe on Jesus Christ!  To repent and to receive Salvation!  And then....Nurture that relationship....Some of them were even quoting John 3: 16 with me.....that really made me determined to expose the devil's works.  he was trying to make God's Word ineffective, and a lie!   No!!! he is the liar!!!

One of the guys said,  My grandmom is always trying to tell me I need to go to church but you don't have to go to church to have God in your life."  The Lord gave me an example of a newborn baby.  If I say I love the baby, oh what a cute baby I have and never feed it, change the diaper, clothe it, clean it, hold it....what will happen to the baby?  That's what happens when we accept Jesus....The relationship is real...it's beautiful...but it needs nurturing.  You find people that believe as you do, who can encourage you, pray for you, you learn songs  in church that will stay with you when you leave.  You listen to music that will feed your spirit.  And most of all, you learn the Word of God.....which teaches you how to live!  Nothing comes before the Word of God!  It is your lamp, your light, your map, your guidebook to living for Jesus.

I left them, telling them how much God loved them.  How much I loved them.  I know I defeated the devil's plans because I obeyed God and got dressed this morning.....I did a U turn in my truck and obeyed the Lord.  I interceded for them after I left them....Everyday is a WAR in the spirit!

He really loves the lost!  Please know this!  HE IS COMING BACK VERY SOON!!!  Interrupt people on the streets, everywhere and give them the gospel, in a tract, with a few sentences....and if God tells you to, preach the gospel in His Power!!!!  Don't be ashamed, don't be intimidated by the devil!   God is anointing those who will go and spread His gospel for such a time as this!

AMEN!

"I Will Save Your Children"

Today I hit the streets with one thought in my mind....Every young man I have shared the gospel with from the time I started in the streets until today, I am a Spiritual mom to them praying and preaching the gospel to them without ceasing, without fear....

Losing my Son Irvin Christopher Kornegay at the age of 32 has been the hardest most heartbreaking ordeal I have ever faced in my lifetime.  Today I was alone in the house and I just wailed, cried and prayed for God to send comfort....it was a hard day but the Lord wanted me to hit the streets tonight and so I did.  It did me a lot of good to be out there....I just wanted to hug them all.

I drove around Salem praying about where to stop, the young men are out there....I approached them and of course some began to scatter but I asked them to come back.  They did....

I talked to them about life being so precious, about hearing that everyone in Salem having a gun, about God's love for them demands a response from them.  I seemed to have run into young men who had people in their families who knew Jesus.  They responded with shaking their heads because they knew I was speaking the truth to them....No opposition from any so-called Muslims tonight.  (They are not adhering to the life of a Muslim because the true Muslims I know live much healthier lifestyles)
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But the best thing that happened tonight for me is that God reminded me of the Scripture He gave to me a few years ago....Isaiah 49:25, "I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save."  I let them know that they were my Spiritual Children because I pray for them all of the time.  Some of them have mother's on drugs and have had no real love in their lives....the streets are all they know.  But I told them that I am praying for them and have been praying for them, that I love them, and that God has given me a promise that isn't just for my biological sons....but for them as well.

They received my words with such respect and acceptance.  I almost cried right there.
God has given me many sons....He took my baby to heaven, but as my friend Sara White reminded me, Christopher is God's son....He took His son back home....And I will see him again.
And now I have many sons that I am holding up in the throne room....God will save many of them that believe!

I was all over Salem tonight talking to young men and I got the same warm response.  I don't care how many have guns, getting high, stealing, robbing or killing....God said this and I'm standing on it.!  "I will contend with those that contend with you and your children I will save."

I'm claiming this Scripture for the young men in Salem.  They are beautiful young men who are destroying their bodies and their lives....but God will save them!  Amen!

"The Ball Is in Your Court Now"

I cannot count how many times I have heard my Dad say this in the pulpit, on the street, personally to people he was sharing the gospel with...."The Ball Is In Your Court Now"  What that means is after you've heard the gospel, you are accountable to God, you are responsible for the truth that you heard and you must make a decision....In other words, Choose Ye This Day Whom You Will Serve!

Last week, while sharing the gospel with a man who was begging while leaning on a trash can at a  Dunkin Donut shop in Philadelphia I bought him a sandwich and lead him to Jesus right there, he got it!.....The ball (The truth of the gospel was his responsibility and he accepted the Lord right there next to that trash can!)

Confronting some young men on the streets in Salem tonight who needed to be reminded that God loves them, the devil hates them and the only way out is Jesus....that's it in a nutshell!  The ball is in their court and has been in their court because they all knew me, I've talked to them before...they listened, a few walked away but the ones that listened understood that the truth is fearless....One said to me, "I know you mean it and I know who you are because you're out here in the dark  talking to us, you're not fake....Thank you for that."

 Or sitting with a girl who had heard the message of Jesus preached in such power at the Festival of Life, Kensington and as the invitation came forth to make Jesus Lord of their life...she refused to go telling me she was Muslim and was only here with a friend.  And so I sat with her and shared my story with her and what Jesus did in my life.  She could refute the Bible but she couldn't tell me my story wasn't real...I know what Jesus did in my life....and I told her straight up of His mighty power to save.  She still refused, The ball is in her court now.

Don't get discouraged if people don't accept what you are saying, say it anyway!
Don't worry about the fact that people are not open to the truth....once you say it, the ball is in their court!  Remember it is God who draws man to Him.

Keep telling people about Jesus!  The harvest of souls my Father won for Jesus all came to the Lord at different times....sometimes it was years after my Dad talked to them, preached to them, fed them, helped them....

Studying the book of John, we see that Jesus did miracle after miracle and some still refused to believe in Him.  Are we greater than Jesus?  Just keep telling them!

Shout it from the Rooftops!
Jesus is on His way back!