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Rachel Green Taylor accepts award for her dad
"Divine Appointment" by Melody Green.
"Will You Be Bored in Heaven?" by Keith Green.

Keith and Melody's Daughter Accepts Legacy Award
Israel Houghton and New Breed Present Award to Keith Green

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Last month Keith and Melody’s daughter Rachel Green Taylor and her husband Bobby Taylor had the honor of accepting a Legacy Award for Rachel’s dad. It was presented by Israel Houghton, at his “Deeper Level Worship Conference” in Houston, Texas September 11, 2009.

Just before Rachel and Bobby were introduced, Israel and his band New Breed sang, “Oh Lord, You’re Beautiful” and “Your Love Broke Through”. It was a very touching moment when Israel handed Rachel the award representing the ongoing global ministry and influence of her father. It says, “To Keith Green: For his outstanding significance and contribution to the world your legacy lives on." Rachel and Bobby both said a few words of gratitude and thanked everyone for the honor of being there.

Melody was newly pregnant with Rachel when Keith and Rachel's oldest brother and sister died in a plane crash. Rachel is the full-time mom of two little boys, and a singer/songwriter. Her husband Bobby is a Worship Pastor and also a singer/songwriter in the process of recording his first worship CD.

LDM Has A Pressing Need

Help us This Month and Receive a FREE Israel Houghton CD

Can you help LDM provide an assistant for Melody? The perfect young woman has been helping Melody part-time since March. But we're struggling to provide for her, as well as for our other staff -- which consists of just a handful of people (mostly part-time) who make a modest salary, and work many hours beyond that!

Most have served with LDM for many years because of a special connection and calling. We all work from our homes, and so keep our overhead as low as possible. But, we are running short every month... and it has become critical.

Would you pray about partnering with us? Letters from around the world arrive daily telling us they were saved, or living more radically for God, or in missions, pro-life, etc. because of our ministry to them. It's because of these testimonies that we keep going.

This month, with every one-time donation of $25 or more, or a monthly commitment of $10 or more, we will send you a free Israel Houghton & New Breed CD. (While supplies last) Thank you Israel for donating some of your amazing CD's to us! And thank YOU for considering our critical need at this time. We love you!

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As a singer, composer, producer and worship leader, Israel Houghton has created a body of songs that have become standards in houses of faith around the globe. Israel is a multiple GRAMMY, Stellar, Dove, and Soul Train Award winner and a double RIAA certified Gold-selling artist. Shown is his critically acclaimed album, The Power Of One and A Timeless Christmas.

If you aren’t familiar with the music of Israel and New Breed yet now is the time -- while helping support Melody and the others at our ministry as well!

Melodys Bio My Most Recent Divine Appointment

by Melody Green

Last week my friend Paulette and I were running late and had not eaten anything before we left her house. So we stopped en route to grab something quick at a small deli she liked. Just as we were about to walk in, an upbeat voice called out to us from the open window of a parked car.

“Hey, that’s a great place you’re gonna love it!”

We nodded and gave a faint (hungry) wave back.

“I just had the little dumplings on the left side of the counter, but the salad with the nuts is great too,” the voice continued. We paused at the deli door. “Everything is so good there… sorry for rambling, my mom just died, but you can’t go wrong at this place. It’s the best.”

We started towards the curb as she continued recommending menu items.

“I’m in culinary school here, and this place is so…”

Stepping towards her, I interrupted, “Excuse me, did you just say your mom died?”

“Yes mam, this morning,” she said, as we inched our way to her car door and listened as her story unfolded. Her name was Keisha and her mom, who’d recently been diagnosed with cancer, had been rushed to the hospital that morning. They talked and prayed on the phone together and Keisha told her mom she’d be on a plane that afternoon to come see her. But another call came just a few hours later. Her mom had slipped into a coma and died.

The sun was beating down hard on Paulette and me as we told Keisha how sorry we were for her loss. She slipped out of her car and continued with her tragic story. Her fiancé was just back from Iraq, mending from a gunshot wound, and they’d planned to travel to her mom’s for Thanksgiving so her mom and family could meet him.

Understanding how loss felt, I put my arm around her, and the next second she fell sobbing into both of our arms. “I believe in Jesus and go to church but the devil is trying to destroy me. But he’s not gonna get the victory,” she declared. “I’m not going to let him win!”

Now that we were holding her, I could smell something stale, like old whisky on her t-shirt, and she was out of it with grief and whatever she’d used to numb the pain in her life. But the Lord had us there to stand with her in her grief and comfort her breaking heart. It seemed surreal.

We asked if we could pray for her and she said, “Yes. Yes, please.”

So there we stood, in a parking lot praying for Keisha her and her whole family. We thanked God for sparing her fiancé’s life and identified with her great loss. We shared our faith and assured her that God totally loved her – and wanted all of her heart to be His. It was somehow clear she’d been dabbling on the dark side and that a battle was going on for her soul, perhaps for a very long time.

It was a sensitive moment. Not a time to preach or correct. But her heart was soft and God gave us the words to gently remind her that Jesus wanted to be her only one – and to let everything else, not of Him, go. And she agreed and fought for herself with us in prayer.

“Something told me you ladies were safe,” she said, lifting her head. “That’s why I kept calling out to you, trying to get your attention.” She started thanking the Lord for sending us to her. “It’s exactly what I needed,” she said. “Thank you Jesus!"

About 40 minutes later we said goodbye. I thought about how easy it would have been to totally ignore Keisha and plow forward into the deli. To hear the growl of our stomachs instead of hearing those few sad words, tucked inside the cheerful-sounding voice of a stranger. Instead of the hearing the Holy Spirit.

It’s so easy to miss the moment. To miss God. I’ve missed Him before, more than I could ever possibly know. But not last week. God wanted to touch Keisha last week and we didn’t let Him down. It felt really good to know we played a small, but strategic part, in a painful part of someone else's journey.

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When Keith wrote this article, many could barely handle just the title! Yet, I think as you read it, you will hear Keith's cry for us all to fall in love with Jesus more. Simply, if we don't love being in His presence here on earth, how will we love being in His presence for all of eternity? Keith had a great sense of humor and loved to use it to make a point. Love, Melody

Will You Be Bored In Heaven?

(reprinted from the LDM Magazine)

by Keith Green

"But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My Word." -Isaiah 66:2

Who today trembles at the Word of God? It seems to me that there are but few who really live with a passion for God - especially a passion just to be with Him. Today there is such a noise coming up before the throne of the Most High - the clamor of so - called praise, singing, and joyful shouting. But I wonder if the same people who love to sing and shout, loudly exclaiming the praises of God, really have such an intense glory in their secret life with the Lord. When the meeting's over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?

How Are You Ever Going To Enjoy Heaven?

The Lord made me realize recently that if I do not absolutely relish His company now, desiring to be with Him more than anyone in the whole world, then I would not really be comfortable in heaven at all - for it is there that we will spend all eternity in the company of the Holy One who made us.

I had always thought that even though now I might not desire with all my heart to be in the conscious presence of God, that somehow, mysteriously, I would not have that problem after I die. I had believed that salvation from a rotten devotional life would only finally come with death (and then naturally heaven!), but as a man of God said centuries ago, "There is no sanctification in the grave!" (See Heb. 9:27)

How many of us believe that even though we have some evil and sin in our hearts now, heaven will take care of all that? Why do we put our hope in some future redemption when God says, "Behold, now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation!" (II Cor. 6:2) Do you think that even though you allow yourself pride and selfishness here, once you get to heaven everything will be all set because "it's impossible to sin in heaven"? Aren't you forgetting that Satan let pride, selfishness, and deceit rule his life, even though he had lived in heaven since the day he was first made! It must be seen that heaven can't take away our sins, only Jesus can take away our sins and the power of sin over our life!

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