Today’s
devotion was first shared in 2009. Today
I am at the Los Angeles Dream Center
meeting with some incredible people,
preaching at the morning chapel service of the Discipleship program and seeking
God. It will be an incredible day, and I
ask you to pray for me, my brother Steve who is with me and our friend Keith
Fulcher who graduates from the Dream Center Discipleship program this coming
Sunday. I pray this devotion helps us
refine and recommit to serve more! -----
Are you ever
amazed like I am by what happened during the time of the early church (see Acts 2)?
They
dedicated themselves to God, His truth and to each other. They helped
people no matter what it took. That is what the church is to be
about. That is what we are learning that we are to be and are going to be
about. It is a choice leaders have to make. Not an easy choice, but
it is one that will change who we are and where we are going as well as how
effective we will be. Does that make sense?
Maybe these
quotes from Matthew Barnett will help
us:
"build the
dreams of others then your dream will become bigger than you ever
imagined" ... "you now have God's dream"
"reach the
people nobody wants you'll start seeing the people everybody wants"
Our calling
is not to those who do not need God. We are called to reach those
reaching out for God. Lets find them. Lets do what we can with what
we have and expect God to work in huge ways!
Proverbs 19:17 (nlt)
If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord—and he
will repay you!
Proverbs 21:13 (nlt)
Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will
be ignored in their own time of need.
What are we
willing to do to meet needs and see lives changed? One of the pieces we
miss in ministry and in life is when we try to do something we are not called
to do or try to be someone or something we are not.
If we are
not finding ourselves seeing needs and having a desire to meet needs, maybe we
are just not connecting to God. What do you think?
James 1:26-27 (nlt)
If you claim to be religious but don't control your
tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. Pure
and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans
and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
It is the
right choice. Following the example of others....
Matthew 9:36 (nlt)
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on
them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
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