STATE OF THE NATION!              GP 197            1/73

         1. Let's all get on with it for the coming year! Let's each of us do our best for the Lord and each other in GIVING MORE, WITNESSING MORE, WINNING MORE, LOVING MORE AND CARING MORE. Let's be MORE DILIGENT in God's business and WISER IN OUR RELATIONS with the public, parents and friends, as well as governments and officials. Let's publish MORE literature to better explain ourselves and our Message to the rest of the World and even to ourselves! Let's carry this Message and our sample of His LOVE INTO MANY MORE BENIGHTED AREAS of the lost, hungry and unhappy youth of the World with many MORE MISSIONARIES moving into the many MORE AREAS still unreached! Meanwhile, let's TAKE BETTER CARE of ourselves, our children, our disciples, our leaders, Homes, kings, queens, families and friends! c
         2. Let's also be more faithful stewards & diligent caretakers of the materials, resources, properties, provisions, vehicles etc., which the Lord gives or loans to us for His use! Let's have no more of the slothfulness, neglect, wastefulness, carelessness, negligence and downright foolish extravagance of which some of you are guilty! LET'S TAKE MUCH BETTER CARE OF WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY GIVEN US so He will be able to trust us with more so we can do a better and bigger job in the future! He that is faithful in a few things, the Lord will make ruler over many things, but he that is faithless in that which is least, will also be faithless in that which is much and cannot be trusted with more!--Luke 16:10.
         3. We have had our problems this past year, but most of them have been our own leaders & former friends, our own disciples & ourselves! These have caused us more trouble than our enemies could ever hope to and have been a far greater problem than finances or any other difficulties! FIRM DISCIPLINE HAS HAD TO BE EXERTED, some heads have had to roll and some have had to be replaced with more faithful, obedient & loyal servants of the Lord & shepherds of His flocks who will be more concerned about their sheep and God's Work instead of themselves and their own selfish interests! Don't YOU be a problem child this year! Get on the ball for GOD!
         4. Let's each be more diligent in our own personal lives & spiritual activities, such as personal prayer, study, memorisation, witnessing, teaching, training and setting a personal example in all of these, as well as personal cleanliness and attentiveness to our own duties, health, safety and welfare of both ourselves and others! LET'S CARRY THE BURDEN OF OUR RESPONSIBILITIES BRAVELY, COURAGEOUSLY, CHEERFULLY AND THANKFULLY and not be heard to grumble, groan and gripe! Murmuring is the voice of the Enemy and his doubts, and a critical spirit sows dissension, disunity and discord amongst brethren, one of the seven abominations to God! God help us!
         5. Some of you have been terribly guilty of these sins this past year and have had to pay an awful price for your indulgence in them, as well as many other wilful and wanton defiances of God and His authority! The disloyalty of some have cost them their jobs and demotion or even excommunication from our fellowship! Don't let it happen to you! Let's BE MORE CHOOSY in picking disciples, more selective in our leadership, DILIGENT IN DISCIPLINE, OBEDIENT TO GOD and much MORE UNSELFISH AND CONCERNED ABOUT OTHERS and DEVOTED TO GOD AND OUR TASK!--AMEN?

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