September 2024

 Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, (Ordinary) they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

This month’s CD/Podcast is from our archives but it still remains one of our most requested programs. The drivers out on the road just love this message because it’s just two old dinosaur truckers (Gaylon’s words) just sitting down and having a conversation with drivers out on that ole Lonesome Road.

The Bible says, in 1 Corinthians 1;27 “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, & God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.” Gaylon & I are living proof of this Scripture.

We were just ordinary truck drivers when God called us into ministry. Just like those ordinary fishermen in the Bible, God called them to be fishers of men. God is looking for the ordinary so He can make extraordinary out of you.
One of my very favorite verses in the Bible is Acts Chapter 4 verse 13, and my favorite part is when the religious people saw the boldness of these two ordinary men they marveled and was surprised and they realized that these men had been with Jesus. The fact that they had been with Jesus gave them a power to do the extraordinary. When was the last time someone noticed that you had been with Jesus?
If you go back to Acts Chapter one you find these men being filled with the Holy Spirit and being given an extraordinary power. In verse 8 the Bible says they received power to be witnesses for Jesus in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. God wants us to have that power to witness to our family, friends and our neighbors. Being Filled with the Holy Spirit is God giving you power to help you say NO! to sin! Power to read His word each day. Power to pray each day. Power to keep your marriage strong. Power of forgiveness. Power to well, you fill in the blanks!
The Holy Spirit gives us a boldness to do the extraordinary to be more than we ever thought or dreamed possible if we will just step out in faith. Even when we think we can’t, the Holy Spirit is our teacher. The Bible says in Luke 12 verses 11 & 12, now when they bring you to the synagogues and magistrates and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you should say. For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” And also in 1 Corinth 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
When we are saved the Bible says the Holy Spirit comes to live in us, Ephesians 1 verse 13 & 14 says: In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. The whole key to this is what we do with the gifts and powers that God gives us through the Holy Spirit. It’s up to us, what we do with this man called Jesus that lives in our heart!

Lonesome Road Ministries we have a internet radio station you can listen to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year at www.lonesomeroadradio.com and you can download an app for your phone from our website.  Give it a try and let me know if you would like to join with us.  We can advertise your company or business?  Yes you can have your own testimony on our radio station. We are offering all kinds of opportunities on our radio station and our TV streaming channel. Call Roger Barkley Jr. 502.382.8299
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