My son, Tommy, and I just completed our last out of town outreach of the year in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We ministered for 3 days at the Tulsa Farm Show working with the Fellowship of Christian Farmers. Tommy and I prayed with a lot of young people to be saved but there were also several very elderly people that prayed with me to receive Jesus into their lives.

The ministry highlight of the trip for me was when a teenage girl came smiling all the way down the aisle and asked me several times with a big grin if I remembered her. I have ministered to so many kids this past year that I really didn’t remember her but she said that I prayed with her to be saved at the Tulsa Farm Show last year. I asked her if she was still following Jesus and she said that she was. (The look of joy on her face evidenced that she was telling the truth.)

When we get saved it is the most special moment of our lives. We experience His peace, joy, His presence, His freedom and His fulfillment. We should also have a hunger and love for His presence and His Word that we never had before. This girl obviously was excited about coming back to the same place to talk to the person she prayed with to receive Jesus one year earlier. We need to always keep our first love for Jesus, His Word, His presence and for all the things of God like going to church, etc. If you have lost that first love, then pray and ask God to give you that first love for Him and the things of God back. Revelation 2:5 tells us that to get your first love back you need to go and do the first works that you used to do. Do you remember that when you were first saved you went to church meetings all the time, read your Bible all the time and prayed all the time? I believe that this is at least part of what the Bible means when it says to go back and do the first works. If you choose to do those things again the first love will come back. I encourage you to do this to get and keep your first love for Jesus at all times.

Jeff sharing the gospel with some young people

Tommy witnessing to some kids.

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