But as for You!

"But as for you" (Titus 2:1)
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21)
Today you and I will have choices to make . . . choices that will affect the day . . . your day . . . your well being . . . your outcome for today. Choices you and I will make today, will affect those around us in three ways. The first is “no effect”, the second is “destructive effect”, and the third is the “positive effect”.

No effect means, no effect on 6 or so billion people on this spec called plant earth . . . or do we have an effect? God knows! But, those whom we do come in contact with, that remaining small percentage . . . ahh you and I have a choice. Choice two or three, one or the other. The choices are ours. Yes, we have this wonderful ability to speak a word, offer a facial or body expression or even extend service, or not!

Today you can choose to say nothing to someone who smiles at you. You can choose to frown or wear an angry look, speak the course word or walk past the one who needs a helping hand. It is your choice, and it’s all yours . . . you own it! Consider that whatever you do effects others whom you come in contact with. It is real! Its affect can destroy, if only for a moment for some, eternity for others. God knows! It is your choice and it is powerful. Yes, you can be a powerful person for destruction, it’s a choice given to you freely. What a wonderful God who does leave the decision up to us – he gives us the choice. We can speak life . . . that’s right, or death for life and death are in the power of the tongue.

God gives us the choice to speak life. “Lord, today I choose life in you to give life away to others”, that’s a positive choice. The choice I make today is life. I choose that my words and actions today can encourage a neighbor, can pray for their needs, or can extend a helping hand just as Titus spoke out “But as for you speak the things which are proper”. The positive choice will affect your life and those in your path. That is new life for today.

In Christ, Pastor "Chappy" Dave

Prison News - Ensenada Prison Ministry Begins

Pastor Dr. David “Chappy” Walden (also known as Pastor Chappy) has been invited by the Foursquare Churches and other evangelical leaders of the Northern Baja Pacific Region to be their keynote speaker on February 9, 2009, at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. Two hundred pastors from the region will be in attendance for the one-day conference. The Christ-Centered Collaboration is creating—sustaining—expanding the prison ministry through evangelism, discipling, and rehabilitation within the four prisons of northern Mexico.

Tijuana -- La Mesa Prison
Ensenada State Prison
Tecate – El Hongo Prison
Mexicali Prison

The opportunity to expand the MOTE Prison Ministry is due to the success in the Dominican Republic. MOTE’s prison ministry project began with the four conferences Pastor Chappy did in 2007-2008. Seven hundred pastors from the Dominican Republic participated and are now engaged in prison reform with the Dominican Republic. Now Mexico has caught the vision!


God’s Word and the indwelling Spirit are THE SOURCE of full life now and forever. Jude 20: “Therefore, my friends, build yourselves, exercise your spirit in your most holy faith” and pray without ceasing in the Holy Spirit … for if you do this in increasing measure you will be a powerful witness, a lighthouse to the world and a strong tower against the evils of the world!
Pastor Chappy has 15 years of ministry in LaMesa Prison in Tijuana. His second church plant in Ensenada has caught the hearts of the pastor in this region, and along with the vision of MOTE, is now ready to exalt Jesus Christ with relationships to evangelize “the people on the edge.”

If you would like to attend the conference, or partner with MOTE financially to help in expanding the prison ministry, please contact MOTE at (760) 317-5960, email pastorchappy@gmail.com, or our visit our website at www.MOTE.ws.

Thank you for your prayers as we move with the authority of God.

Dr. David “Chappy” Walden