Randy Loubier's Blog, page 3

I walked into the chapel this morning to pray. This is what I saw. The overwhelming love of Christ praying for us. Remember the passage I read in my sermon on Sunday? Jesus pouring out a long prayer to the Father for you?

“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:6-26

Jesus wants you to know the Father’s love for you. Revel in His love! Be confident in His love! Keep persevering in His love!

Blessings, Pastor Randy

Coming soon: The Eight Points Of Blessed Living

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To some degree, yes.

Do you remember Billy from Slow Brewing Tea? He was Isaiah’s closest friend. He was stationed down near Tokyo during the same years Isaiah was up north in Misawa. Also, Billy stayed in the Air Force and was later stationed at Misawa, just in time for Isaiah and Billy to have their 10yr reunion back in Japan.

Well, here is a picture of the real life Billy.

You can see from the side of the print, this was 1979. We had just celebrated sunrise from the top of Mount Fuji.

Here’s the six of us who made the climb to the top of Fuji-san. My friend Jim, on the right, had his camera around his neck. We were both into photography. My Canon A-1 (also in Slow Brewing Tea) was in my backpack.

Billy and I are still friends today, in real life. It is also true that he stayed in the Air Force and was later stationed in Misawa.

Sadly I never made it back to Japan. I truly always wanted to go back. I am sure now that God had me write Slow Brewing Tea, and has revealed His heart to me that He intends to create a great awakening in that nation, I will be going to Japan soon.

It will be an exciting time for me just to set my feet on that soil again. This time, rather than representing the US Air Force, I will be an ambassador for my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Our nation needs a blanket of Jesus' love right now! And it is up to the Christians to deliver it. Slow Brewing Tea inspires us to get closer to Jesus!

Watch this inspiring interview on Fox 5 Atlanta, on the program Friends & Neighbors.

https://youtu.be/RaKNBmjArcg

Here's another quick sip of tea. 3.5 min video that will make you think!

If you prefer You Tube, here's that link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkMPW...

You don’t want to miss this quick 2 min video describing a scene in Slow Brewing Tea. It’ll make you think!

View below (or if you prefer to watch on YouTube link: https://youtu.be/H97jf9Jj2sc)