Life Action

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• Byron Paulus
• Sat, Jan 2, 2010
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• Thank You to Our Ministry Partners

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Dear Ministry Partners,
Many of you prayed and participated in our annual year-end giving campaign to help Life Action continue its ministry for another year.  The year-end match of $150,000 was met and we thank the Lord for His gracious provision through you.  We are genuinely enthused about the opportunities before us in 2010.  This summer we begin our 40th year of calling God’s people back to the Lord in repentance and revival.  How blessed and grateful we are for His grace as we venture into this special season of ministry.  On behalf of all the staff here ...

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• Life Action
• Wed, Nov 4, 2009
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• Ignite Newsletter, October 2009

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Read the most recent issue of Life Action's newsletter, Ignite. This issue includes practical encouragement for experiencing a revived life, stories about real people changed by revival, and timely updates on Life Action's ministry outreaches. (Read Update)

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• Life Action
• Wed, Sep 23, 2009
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• One Changed Life

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The following testimonies are from a wife, her husband, and their three teenage daughters. They all share their side of the story of one changed life that will now change others. "I am a mother of five children, and in my heart I was preparing to separate from my husband. As we came each night throughout the week, my hope in our reconciliation waned. I didn't think the Lord was getting through the high, thick walls my husband had built around his heart. I was losing hope that his anger would ever end. On the last day of our ...

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• Byron Paulus
• Mon, Jul 20, 2009
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• Accident Takes Life of Team Member

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Remembering Stephen Maines
Stephen Maines, born August 22, 1987, was killed on Sunday morning, July 19, 2009, while riding his motorcycle to a church service and charity ride for burn victims. Stephen, a second-year team member, is the son of John and Sheila Maines, who have served with Life Action for the past 26 years. Please pray for the entire Maines family. The following is a letter from our Director to the staff and close ministry friends of our Life Action family.   "For I am sure that neither death nor life ... nor things present nor things to come ... nor anything ...

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• Byron Paulus
• Wed, Jul 1, 2009
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• Help Equip Our Teams

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I have never written at a time when I felt greater urgency.

Life Action is not an alarmist ministry. But there is no doubt we live in a season unparalleled in America’s past—and that is alarming. The prophet Jeremiah would be shouting urgently from the rooftops!

How unusual are the times in which we live? The economic outlook is certainly bleak. The rapidity of moral and social descent is almost surreal. Perhaps most startling are the claims that Christianity is inherently evil. Popular secularists now declare evangelicals to be the primary cause of the problems our nation faces ...

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• Life Action
• Fri, May 22, 2009
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• Risking Prison for a Clear Conscience

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I attended the Life Action summit these past few weeks at my church, and God got a hold of my heart. A few months before I became a Christian (4 1/2 years ago), a few of my friends and I did several thousand dollars worth of vandalism at my school just weeks before graduation. I remember the school saying that they were going to find who did it and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. This has been haunting me for the past five years—not that I would get caught, but I had a guilty ...

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• Life Action
• Mon, May 18, 2009
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• Spirit of Conviction Followed by Obedience

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One of our staff revivalists, who has experienced more than 30 years of seeing God work mightily in churches across our nation, recently wrote the following: Sunday was one of the most incredible mornings I have ever seen. We preached four separate services, attended by a total of 1200 adults and teens. In every service there was a spirit of conviction and receptivity that was followed by obedience. Over 100 people asked for prayer concerning genuine salvation, and over 80 of them went to the prayer room to meet with God. Many of those were hopefully converted. We have never ...

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• Life Action
• Thu, Apr 2, 2009
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• Finding Freedom Through Forgiveness

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From 16 days ago to now, I have grown considerably. I have learned to truly forgive. I was not expecting to face bitterness and hurt from an issue with my husband. Sixteen days ago, my husband confessed moral impurity, looking at pornography. I forgave him when he told me, but I still felt shocked, hurt, and betrayed. I was having trouble completely reconciling with him and feeling completely open with him. I know that it is only the truths I have heard this week, prayer, and the power of the Holy Spirit that have helped me forgive my husband completely ...

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• White Team Summit
• Fri, Mar 13, 2009
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• Testimonies of Forgiveness

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I was seeking the Lord, and Clint was occasionally visiting church on Sunday mornings. Clint hunted and worked, and I raised the kids. We communicated very little . . . just the bare minimum. I took the kids to church. Most attempts to reconnect our family quickly became arguments. We truly lived separate lives. He did his thing. The kids and I did ours. My heart was tough . . . not much tenderness toward Clint.

About two years before Life Action, the Lord revealed to me that I should meet Clint at his level, find a church of his choice. I resigned from my ten ...

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• Blue Team Summit
• Mon, Mar 9, 2009
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• Fifty Express Need for Genuine Salvation

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Why would a person who has never come to salvation through Christ bother to keep up the outward appearance of being a Christian? Why would such an individual serve as a Sunday school teacher, deacon, pastor, or pastor’s wife?

There could be many reasons: to impress others, to please someone else, to enjoy the benefits of a believing community without the spiritual cost, because they really don’t understand the gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus, because it’s a commitment they’ve put off so long that it’s now a false lifestyle, because it’s what ...

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• Red Team Summit
• Fri, Feb 6, 2009
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• Responses to God's Grace

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James 4:6 says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Our staff evangelists like to describe God’s grace like an ambulance. When we see ourselves as we really are without His power, humbled and grieved by our un-Christ-likeness, and cry out to Him for His sufficiency, His “grace ambulance” rushes to the scene, providing all we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3).

Following are several phrases used by various people in a recent Life Action summit, describing how God has revealed their need for Him and His grace:

“I have tried for ...

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• Blue Team Summit
• Thu, Jan 22, 2009
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• Church Members Get Honest

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When God's Spirit is at work in a congregation, He not only speaks to corporate issues, but He also deals very personally, specifically, and lovingly in individual hearts. One of the evidences of this work is people's willingness to be honest, to tell others what God is confronting and how He has found us out. Following are phrases shared in current Life Action summits, written by church members who are being truthful, repentant, and willing for God's power change them. Can you identify with any of these? "I need to be a mother who models God's ...

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• Byron Paulus
• Tue, Dec 23, 2008
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• Revival . . . Now More Than Ever!

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The economic downturn could be an unprecedented opportunity for widespread revival, as people get serious about seeking God! That's why I'm excited about the mission of Life Action Ministries this season. We are seeing more interest in revival than at any other time in our 37-year history. Churches that prior to the economic crisis were struggling to get people interested in one extra service on a weekend are now eager to set aside protracted times for renewal and revival. By Gods grace we want to respond by being fully prepared both spiritually and financially for ministry in 2009 ...

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• Red Team Summit
• Thu, Nov 6, 2008
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• Evidence of God's Hand

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When God is at work in a church, His "fingerprints" are obvious. Examples of renewed life are evident as people respond in obedience to His Word. One of our staff revivalists reports that the four summits he participated in this fall have the marks of God all over them and are the best four back-to-back summits he's experienced in his time with Life Action. Here are some of the corporate ways God has worked:

• Incredible night-after-night attendance at the meetings--a very high percentage of the Sunday morning congregation; church staffs pleasantly surprised (even shocked) at the good turnout during ...

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• Blue Team Summit
• Wed, Sep 24, 2008
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• Revival Impacts Community in Alabama

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God does not speak in generalities.  "Lord, forgive me of all my sin" is not a prayer that reflects the work of God's Spirit.  This revival reality was evident in the two weeks our team spent in one church near the campus of University of Alabama.  Though the make-up of the congregation was older in age, there was an unusual youthfulness about their eagerness to respond to the Lord . . .in specific steps of obedience. God dealt deeply with in many people's hearts in repenting over bitterness, and learning how to forgive.  Many cleared their consciences including: -          A father ...

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• Byron Paulus
• Thu, Jan 31, 2008
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• 700 Attend Florida THIRST Conference

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I am writing from Florida, where Sue and I are with our Revival Conference Team, attending one of our four-day THIRST conferences being hosted by Cornerstone Church just outside Orlando. Some 700 individuals have been filling the auditorium every service, and today around 200 women attended the Seeking Him, Together ladies' luncheon. But the great response numerically from this church is of disinterest to those who are having their dry and thirsty souls refreshed by God’s presence. To a heart being touched by God, nothing else really matters. When you sense God’s amazing presence, everything else fades in ...

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• Byron Paulus
• Mon, Sep 10, 2007
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• Ministry Update 9/10/07

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I am writing from Charleston, SC, where 700 people are beginning a twelve-week journey of going through the Seeking Him study in small groups. I had the privilege last night of speaking at the launch of this church-wide emphasis on revival. East Cooper Baptist Church is a great work of God where body-life seems to be flourishing through community groups. They are engaging deeply in the process of seeking the Lord for individual and corporate revival. The pastor is preaching on the Seeking Him themes and spending time each week with his leadership to ensure they model the message as ...