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least 51% of us AWAKE to become DEADLY SERIOUS about GOD'S Work,
begin to INTENSIFY our prayers, and turn our hearts and interests
MORE to God's Word, and the wonderful truths we find there, than
to the material interests or pleasures, THEN, the income WILL BEGIN
TAKING AN UPTURN!
BUT -- let's go further! WHEN 90% to 95% or 100% of us
begin to put THE KINGDOM OF GOD -- AND GOD'S work
above every other interest in our lives -- when we begin to POUR
OUR HEARTS INTENSIVELY INTO OUR PRAYERS -- yes, even in SPITE of
what may or may not be mistakes some of us make -- THEN, Brethren,
I PROMISE YOU the income will go back up to 30% increase per year!
Looking at present FACTS, and TRENDS, that might seem
impossible! But this is THE WORK OF GOD -- a WORK OF FAITH -- and
existing facts, trends, circumstances, HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH
FAITH. The living Christ has resources, and ways WE KNOW NOTHING
OF! I know He has allowed this slacking off in prayer, in putting
our whole hearts in HIS WORK, in our zeal. When we REPENT of that,
and turn our whole hearts and interests to HIM, HE has ways and
means to CHANGE RESULTS -- and He WILL!
When MOST of our Brethren begin pouring their whole HEARTS
into this Work, in zealous PRAYER, in FAITH in what our GOD can
do, THEN the number of non-member Co-Workers who become baptized
members will start to INCREASE. The percentage of increase in
members will begin to rise. There will be a new trend in the
increase of CO-WORKERS. The WHOLE WORK OF GOD will take on NEW
LIFE. God will open still more new doors. He will supply OUR
NEED to finance walking through those doors. We at Headquarters
will be given more wisdom. There'll be fewer mistakes.
AND WE'LL ALL BE FAR MORE HAPPY AND JOYOUS! We will come
to fuller realization of the MAGNITUDE of the GOOD we have been
called to do for humanity!
Brethren, just THINK of the terrible conditions in the
world today -- over half the world's population living in
conditions of ignorance, poverty, hunger and starvation, filth and
squalor you simply can't imagine. Look at the EVILS in our
supposed AFFLUENT society, where we have the highest living
standards any people EVER had! WHAT A TRAGEDY!
And God has called US -- you and me -- as His instruments
paving the way for His COMING to CHANGE ALL THAT! To convert the
world! Finally all evils will be abolished. ALL will be happy,
joyful, energetic in DOING GOOD, creating more and more happiness!
I CALL ON EVERYONE IN GOD'S CHURCH TO REPENT of whatever
interest we have allowed to come into our minds and hearts in THIS
UGLY, EVIL WORLD AND ITS EMPTY, NEVER LASTING, INTERESTS AND
PLEASURES!
This letter is getting long. I will not apologize for that.
I know that the ETERNAL LIVES of many -- perhaps more than HALF of
us are now at STAKE. We've got to be MOVED! We've got to DO
SOMETHING ABOUT IT!