5 FREE Kits! - Huge Giveaway - Enter YOUR NAME!!

I am giving away 5 KITS (There will be 5 winners)!

Each kit comes with the following:

1       Basic Training Course Kit

10     Study Guides

         Various Gospel tracts

1       The Biggest Question DVD www.BiggestProject.com

1       God Has A Wonderful Plan Book by Ray Comfort

Anyone can enter to win but preferably a pastor, a Sunday school teacher, small group that LOVES evangelism...so spread the word.

There are 2 Ways to enter your name in the drawing...

1. For 2 entries, post this on your website, blog, AND social networking site.

2. For 1 entry, enter your name (in the comment section) and a way for me to contact you if you win.

Contest ends on Reformation Day Oct 31, 2013.

I will randomly pick 1 name and the winner will be announced Friday Nov 1!

Open to US and Canada residents only

(Thank you to Riv who gave all of these to Fish With Trish for the giveaway!) 

On our whiteboard today...

Here’s what’s on our family white board today…

"He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life, And he who pursues evil will bring about his own death." Proverbs 11:19

What stood out to me was the word “steadfast”.

I think of a runner or athlete that is in a competition for the prize. Can you imagine how easy it would be to throw in the towel and give up when the race gets difficult? Or just think how quickly you could get distracted when you’re on the smooth path where everything is easy and where there are not many obstacles. But the smooth path is when you can get distracted with temptations and various weights. We have to be on high alert when things are going well and when they are not. Remember King David? It was when he was idle at home that he fell. I bet things were going well for him.

But with the help of God, we will be enabled to stand firm and endure till the finish line (the end of our lives here on earth).

Steadfast means to be “resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.”

The idea is "steadfast loyalty".

I looked up the synonyms: loyal, faithful, committed, devoted, dedicated, dependable, reliable, steady, true, constant, staunch, solid, trusty

Help us Lord to be these things and thank you that when we are not, you are faithful to Your covenant.

Phil 3:12

Ambushing Satan through Song

HI Friends,

I've been meditating a lot lately about 2 Chronicles chapter 20 where Jehoshaphat is told that a vast army is coming against him from Edom, from the other side of the Dead Sea.

The text indicates that he was alarmed or afraid by the news. So he immediately resolved to inquire of the LORD and proclaimed a fast for all of Judah. So they sought help from the Lord. Then Jehoshaphat prays to the Lord out loud for the people of in front of all the people from Judah and Jerusalem. He praises the Lord for His greatness and then declares their weakness by saying, "We are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us." Then he goes on to say, "nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You.”

What struck me about this short but powerful ending to his prayer is that he is in front of the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem and he doesn't act like he has it all together. He doesn't pretend to be in control or say that he has a game plan to defeat the enemy. I'm sure it must have been humbling to admit that he didn't know what to do. He doesn't try to be a fearless leader that has all the self confidence needed for the moment. Instead he says that "power and might" are in God's hand and verbally admits that they are "powerless," that they "don't know what to do" BUT that their "eyes" are on God.

Wow!

What a great example of true power under submission when we look away from ourselves and look to God. It reminds me of another leader, namely, Peter. Remember when he did something that was humanly impossible? He walked on water when he was looking at Jesus (Matt 14: 22-33). And then when he looked away from the Lord he sank. I'm sure Jehoshaphat could have been tempted to look to other resources to win the battle, or be so afraid that he scrambles to try anything that may solve the problem but he didn't do that. Instead He looked to The Source of strength to win the battle.

It is when we are weak that He (God) is strong (2 Cor 12:10). His strength is made perfect in weakness. It's so opposite of what the world tells us, isn't it. The world says, "pull yourself up by your boot straps." But no. God says, "Humble yourself and He will lift you up." (James 4:10)

Keep looking to the Lord. Fix your gaze on Him. He is mighty. Worship him through song and watch what He will do. Perhaps there is a battle going on in your life, maybe it's spiritual, maybe it's more tangible like something at your work or at school or in your family. Worship Him. Cast your cares on Him. He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7).

Last month I found myself playing certain worship songs over and over. Sometimes 10 times or more. Okay, that's conservative, more like 20 times. During that same time my friend Nancy emailed me this message from John Piper called, "Ambushing Satan through Song."
http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/ambushing-satan-with-song

It's a powerful message that unpacks 2 Chron 20.

If you want to know what happened with Jehoshaphat and who won the battle, click here and read the chapter in it's entirety
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+20&version=NASB

God bless and have a great day at church!

Labor Day Weekend Giveaway - Lazy Dog Not Included

What I feared has happened AGAIN…my youtube videos have disappeared. All Biggest Project videos and the www.ConvertTheBook.com promo video, even my most recent video of The Biggest Project Mascot Lilly are gone on my YouTube channel. www.YouTube.com/fishwithtrish

It will take time, but…we are going to re-upload them. I think I'll change my name FROM "Fish with Trish" TO "Delete with Trish". 

So in honor of the removed videos and Labor Day, I'm giving away a copy of Convert AND The Biggest Question DVD.

Sorry, the Lazy Lilly Dog is not included.

Here's what to do to enter to win:

There are 2 Ways to enter your name in the drawing...

1. For 2 entries, post this give away on your website, blog, AND social networking site.

2. For 1 entry, simply enter your name below (in the comment section) and a way for me to contact you if you win. Contest ends Friday Sept. 6. I will randomly pick 1 name and the winner will be announced in the evening on the 6th.

Open to US and Canada residents only

If you don't win, you can pick up a copy of Convert at The Fish With Trish Store.
To send monthly support for The Biggest Project visit: www.BiggestProject.com

The Video Ray Comfort Sent to me Yesterday

This would be really cool to try to figure out, but who has the time. ;-)

A Rare Sweet Humility

“Have mercy upon me, O God.”- Psa_51:1

When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, “If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral sermon?” He replied, “Oh, I feel that such a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it be fr...om the words, ‘Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.’“ In the same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his gravestone:-

WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761: DIED - -
“A wretched, poor, and helpless worm
On thy kind arms I fall.”

Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel’s dwelling houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!

-C.H. Spurgeon (Morning and Evening Devotional)

Worth 9 minutes of your time.

Powerful video from my friend Robert Gray (who stayed at my home recently to do ministry). 

This is in the top 5 of my most favorite videos from this year.