When I was a student at Tennessee Temple, Brother Lester Roloff used to say when he came to chapel, “The first thing the Apostle Paul did was jump into his grave every morning and die to the world, flesh, and the devil.” I read later where Adoniram Judson actually dug a grave in back in the jungle, where he sat for days on end, musing morbidly on DEATH. "God is to me the Great Unknown," he mourned. " I believe in HIM, but find HIM not."

As a Pastor for twenty-four years in the same church, I have had to learn to die to unkind words, hate, LIES of ALL kinds, 1/2 truths, wolves of every breed, criticism, fears of ALL kinds, demonic attacks, nerves strained beyond reason, depression, disappointments, low self-esteem, unreasonable expectations, and untold rejections. I have learned to cut down the juniper trees and let the gourds wither. I have learned to put an end to brooding. I have learned Dr. Lee Roberson and Brother Roloff were right: to stay long in the ministry requires "dying daily to SELF." “So send I you to leave your life's AMBITION, to DIE to dear desire, self-will resign, To labor long, and love where men revile you--So send I you to lose your life in MINE. AS the Father hath sent me, So send I YOU.” Is there a result to visiting your grave daily? Read John 12:24, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

Dr. Dennis Carter – Trinity Baptist Church, Spartanburg, SC.
PSALM 37:4 JESUS NEVER FAILS

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