Yesterday was an amazing Jesus day...read this letter 

08/28/2012

About a year ago, I was caught with a controlled substance and the situation of that was very strange to say the least but that is a different story, but because of that I was required to do 50 hours of community service. I went to CrossFire today to complete some of those hours and when I was there I met a very nice young man, named andy and worked with him all day. At around 1:45 pm, a man named David Twite came into crossfire and asked us if we had eaten. I was starving, but I didn’t bring any money, thinking well I can not pay for anything; he immediately said his treat. We went down the street to a sandwich shop, we sat outside and for most of the lunch he was talking to andy about his issues and the internal struggle of your old life and your life with christ.

Honestly it seemed like every thing David said was directly related to my situation and resinated inside me and just made sense perfectly to my situation. All of a sudden he stopped and looked right into my eyes and pointed at me and said “I believe I’m here for you.” This immediately raised hairs on the back of my neck because of how it seemed like everything he was saying was too me anyway. He continued to say that “You have a great purpose in life, Christ has plans for you.”

 My entire life I have always had this intense feeling that I was meant to something great; That everything would be okay no matter how bad things got, I knew at the end of the day I would be fine and have everything I need. I think a lot of people have this feeling but the difference I feel is that I just knew, there is no doubt in my mind. Everything just clicked for me from then on, a few minutes after David had directed the conversation to me, my brother Bryan Rensberry, came to pick me up for work. Which was just as David asked me if I was ready to accept christ into my life.

This was all part of god’s plan, something that took place over one year ago, sent me to crossfire to meet David, and gave him the words to reach me and I will be forever grateful to him for that. It was like a bolt a lightning struck me in the heart because I did something that for 23 years I never thought I would and I accepted Christ and committed my life to Christ right there on the spot. There were too many signs so obviously placed in front of me I couldn't ignore them, and earlier in the lunch David had even talked about Christ is always there and the signs are always around us but it is ultimately our choice to accept or ignore them. My eyes and heart our now open to the love of Jesus Christ and I will do everything I can to spread his love through me to others around me.  

Thank you very much David, I could never repay you for what you have done for me. I honestly feel like weight was lifted from my heart today.

Forever Grateful,

Craig Rensberry 

Below is the web address to the message I gave last Friday night at a Men's conference.

THE SECRET TO HIGHLY EFFECTIVE CHRISTIANITY

http://www.firstfree.org/content.cfm?id=328


August 24  7pm  First Free
in Personal Change
A Powerful Lesson
Sadly, many people today have settled for a "dumbed down, low octane" version of the Christian life– a life that is far from God’s intended purpose. David Twite will share how one biblical secret has impacted every area of his life, and how it’s been a dynamic game-changer in his Christian walk. Failure to discover this one vital
principal will leave sincere Christians with a dull, ineffective faith experience.
Speaker: David Twite
David Twite is the President of MacDonald & Owen Lumber Company - Inc. 5000,
and also serves as the Executive Director of Crossfire Ministries.
He is married and has 5 children.

The Rise and Fall of Nations

(1787)Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has attributed the fall of the Empire to:

1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.

2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for free bread and circuses for the populace.

3. The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting and more brutal.

4. The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was within, the decadence of the people.

5. The decay of religion -- faith fading into mere form, losing touch with life and becoming impotent to warn and guide the people.

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

2 Tim 3:1-3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMER TOWN'S INTRODUCTION TO THE DEEPER LIFE
Since my conversion experience on July 25, 1950, I have never once doubted my salvation. I have had a presence of Christ in my life that I can only explain by the phrase ". . . Christ lives
in me . . ." (Galatians 2:20 NKJV).
However, Easter Sunday following my conversion, I experienced a special communion
with God that I had not previously felt. At the time I was discouraged, even though I knew I was saved and I knew Christ lived within me. At about 9:00 A.M. I was waiting for my ride to Sunday school. At the time I taught in a small Presbyterian mission called Capital View Community Chapel, outside Columbia, South Carolina. My ride was approximately thirty minutes late that morning. During that time I meditated on the meaning of Galatians 2:20, especially the phrase ". . . Christ lives in me. . . ."
Another phrase in that verse, " . . . I live by the faith of the Son of God. . ." challenged me. For the first time I realized that Christ rose on the first Easter of history, but that morning He lived in my heart. I experienced His fullness, and for the first time I experienced His faith working within me. As I stood in the warm sun, waiting for my ride, I volitionally yielded anew to God. I asked Jesus Christ to give me victory by living His faith through me. Jesus Christ had never gotten discouraged, and I wanted to live above discouragement. I wanted not only faith that could trust God for money, but also faith that would not worry about anything. I wanted to trust completely in Him. What I experienced was inward reality. I did not kneel in prayer, nor did I close my eyes. I simply talked to Jesus and yielded everything to Him. I asked Jesus Christ to live His life through me. That morning, for the first time in my Christian life, I fully experienced the meaning of the resurrection life. The previous year, when I was still unsaved, Easter had simply been a historical fact. Now I had come to know personally the One who was raised from the dead; and He was not only at the right hand of God in heaven. Christ was alive in my heart. Little did I know that the inner presence of Jesus Christ in me would be tested. But that morning I did not have a care in the world, because I had the faith of Christ.
Later, Dr. R. C. McQuilkin, president of Columbia Bible College, explained in a class that he too had sought victory that comes by Jesus Christ. He explained that each year he went to a youth conference and got his spiritual bucket filled, but during the ensuing months the bucket went dry. Then one year he completely surrendered to Jesus Christ and accepted the Word of God by faith and "sank a well of his own." That Easter Sunday morning I experienced what Dr. McQuilkin and thousands of others experienced. Jesus promised, "But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14 NKJV). 

So Great Salvation

this is an awesome book on the Christian life which you can read free on line.

Blessings

Dave

http://www.ccel.us/keswick.intro.html