May 2023 Cox Prayer Update

May 25, 2023May 22, 2023 by DavidCox

May 2023 Cox Prayer Update is an update of the Cox ministry, including a note about the active volcano 45 miles from us, and health issues for Tule.

Prayer Letter for David and Tule Cox in Mexico City May 2023

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Our Work

Our attendance has been off recently. The Covid experience is still causing a lot of problems with church attendance. We have several people with illnesses that would also explain some of our attendance problems. We continue to work with our people. Several are having spiritual problems, and they are not attending anymore, or very occasionally. It is depressing to see people who will not fix their spiritual life. Staying away from God’s Word and the fellowship of God’s people doesn’t “fix” anything, that only makes your problems worse. Please pray for our church and our people.

Please continue to pray for Juan Roblero as he has found a way to get his cataract surgery within financial reason. The American from Missouri living here and attending with us, Joseph, has gone back to the United States to work the few years that he needs for Social Security reasons. Genoveva, Edgar’s mother, is diabetic, and she is having serious problems with her blood sugar. Please pray for her. Enselmo also needs and is waiting on surgery. There are others among our group that are also sick.

Tule’s brother-in-law, Dr. Razo has cancer in his kidney. They operated on him. They have rented him an apartment in Oaxaca, about 4 hours from his home. He must go back to that hospital daily for hemodialysis. Pray for God to have mercy on him because of his cancer, and in this respite that God is giving him to live a little longer that Fernando would truly receive Christ into his heart. I tried to witness to himself before, but he insists on the Pentecost preacher’s view that by his forgiving everybody he has offended in his life, he will be “good with God”. That is not salvation according to the Bible.

Our Health

Well, this month, Tule is the one who has medical problems. It appears that she has kidney stones. She is taking medicine to dissolve the stones, and we will see if she needs surgery after that or if the medicine will take care of her problem. Please pray for our safety. We live about 45 miles from the volcano Popocatépetl. For now, it isn’t throwing ash towards us. But just the news about it is keeping our people away from church. I believe some are staying with family away from Mexico City. This hurts our worship services as well as our offerings.

Fernando Marquez’s Salvation

Julio’s nephew, Fernando Marquez, is attending services with us. His father is a Pentecostal preacher, and Fernando fell into drug addiction years ago. He says he has stopped using drugs, and he is very happy attending our services. He said that he never heard the why of doctrines, with verses and explanations, seeing the same themes and position repeated in different texts of Scripture. He is seeing that now in our sermons. I talked with him this past Sunday, and he cried a lot. Please pray for him. He said he has confidence in Jesus a lot, but he didn’t say he had accepted Jesus into his heart. I prayed with him and urged him to accept Jesus into his heart. He has a lot of problems with his father, and it is affecting him. Pray that God would give me the words he needs to hear as I talk to him every Sunday. I continue to translate English books into Spanish for my people and post them on my websites.

Walvoord – The Person of the Holy Spirit.pdf twm topx, Bounds – Essentials of Prayer, and Lewis Sperry Chafer – He that is Spiritual.pdf twm topx, among others.

Walvoord La Persona del Espíritu Santo pdf, twm, topx
Bounds Los Elementos Esecenciales de la Oración pdf, twm, topx
Chafer El que es Espiritual pdf, twm, topx

Please pray for us and the work of the Lord here.

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David and Tule Cox Mexico City (321) 900-8885 [email protected] May 22, 2023

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My Tracts on Church Attendance The first and foremost reason to go to church is because God commands us to do so (Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.).
Coming in behind that direct command of God, we go to church in order to worship God Himself. How? Simple. We hear the Word of God actually read and carefully explained, and then we assimilate those principles y exhortations into our personal lives, and that is worship. Without those elements, there is no worship, and there is no success at "going to church." It is fruitless spiritually, and without spiritual benefit to your life, you will get discouraged and stop going, stop being committed to it, and it will ruin your life because you are a hypocrite.

Tracts on Church Attendance
ch22 Pastorless Flocks
ch17 Why do I Attend Church?
ch15 Congregating because we Love
ch14 Finding a good church
ch09 Our One another Relationship
ch43 Time to leave your church?
Also see my article on Getting People to Faithfully Integrate into the Church.

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Text Editing.Then there are the old Bible references like John iii. 16. Many young Christians and even preachers do not know the Latin system for books of the Bible. I convert Roman numerals in these books to Arabic (iii. to 3).

I have had to invest days and days in writing macros to read a long text, and make substitutions (for the above, search for "iii" and replace with "3:"). Unfortunately, with Psalms you have to start with 150 in Roman numerals (CL) and work your way backwards. But using macros, it is almost instantaneous the next time I need this. Work smarter, not harder. All this takes time and patience, (and being smart enough to do it in a macro language) (as well as a lot of coffee) and then making the text into theWord or eSword, mySword or a PDF.

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Take a look at a few of our tracts:
salv76 suffering should seek his Savior - explains how we should react to problems and sufferings, we should seek the Savior.
pc15 How to fight against depression - we treat the problem of depression. Depression is not a physical disease, it is an emotional and spiritual disease that "bleeds over" and causes aggravation and physical consequences if not attended to at the spiritual-social-emotional level.
ch15 Congregating because we Love - a tract about why we attend church. Our relationship with our brethren in Christ is highly integrated with our salvation and our sanctification.
SSTeen1-01 Existence of God - Does God really exist? This is not a tract but a teen Sunday School Class that I wrote answering this important question.
fam48 Men are God's Agents - Men are God’s Agents to accomplish His Will, looks at man as God wants him to be. Manhood and the husband-wife relationship.
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Divine use of Sickness
CP34 Divine use of Sickness
Read this tract by Pastor Cox about the divine use of sickness explains how God works with sickness to remind man of his limited time on earth, the consequences of sin, etc.
In this tract Pastor Cox explains how God positively uses sickness to help us turn our thoughts and attention to the eternal. We get so involved in our daily lives sometimes that we forget that our life is but a vapor on this earth, soon to no longer be. God uses sickness as a severe warning that our time is running out, and we need to live as though every moment has a forward view towards eternity. How we spend our life is important.
Sections:
1. Understanding that God is God
2. Sickness because of Sin
3. Warning about approaching Death
4. Warning about Human weakness
5. The Error of the Sick
6. God listens to those who ask in sincerity

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

There is an attitude within much of Christianity that sickness in any form is bad, and God does not have anything to do with it. For these Christans, they ask God to take the sickness away, and sometimes (as though it was their right to be health) that they demand God to remove their sickness. The reality of life is that they continue ill, and many have a crisis of faith over this. For them, God is impotent, or God does not love them. In other words, their confidence, faith, and love of God depends on God always sending them good things. But this is not how the Bible indicates life is. God uses calamity and sickness for His own purposes and we have to understand this (and accept it).
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