Midnight Cry Messenger

• Main Article: Depression: Maintaining the Hold in the Personal Struggle by Ed Corley
  Wonderful scriptural truth for living a Christian life free from depression.
• My Experience With Depression by Merilea Bigham
  Testimony of how God brought a sister out of depression.
• New Testament Church by C. Parker Thomas
  About modern claims to be a "New Testament Church."
• Poem: "Wait" Author Unknown
  God's purpose in waiting.
• The Editor's Letter

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Editor's Letter

Beloved in Christ,

"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."

Being spoiled there is talking about what men traditionally hold to and it may not be truth at all.

Vain deceit is things that we believe that are actually wrong. It's vain; it serves no purpose and yet it's handed down by the forces of religion and not by the revelation of God's Spirit.

That's where we are at from a religious standpoint. That's why we have around 2,000 different cults, sects and denominations. They didn't come by revelation and they, too, serve no purpose.

We're praising God for the open doors that He constantly gives us. As you can see elsewhere in this edition of the paper that we are reaching out further and further and can be heard on almost every continent on the earth. Pray with us that God will enable us to give those who read and hear the truth that He wants them to have.

Being complete in Christ and believing it are two different things. But to realize we are complete is a great girding of strength. We are complete not because we feel like it, but because God says so.

Well, beloved, we'll close for this time, praying God's blessing on all of you out there.

Your Unworthy Servant,
C. Parker Thomas

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