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Matthew 6:19-23
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[generous] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[stingy] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Matthew 10:7
And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Psalm 23:6
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
forever.
Believe this - Eternity begins as we invite the Lord, God, the Almighty to move, dwell and have His Being within us.
As Jesus people, we are called to leave footprints saying our lives gave goodness and love.
One of life's most irritating quotes to me is Mahatma Gandhi's - "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
I believe I would say -Passive Resistance and Healing Requires Two Participating Sides.
We miss a good point in the life, being busy people; True change comes first from meditation, becoming prayer. Prayer becomes a changed heart. A changed heart makes life more meaningful with Love. And character produces hope.
Real change. South Africa remains intact and prospering after the genocide was forgiven, led by the Christian Church. Rwanda the same.
The Smithsonian exhibit of The Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit In, made an excellent, excellent point about civil rights leaders' determination to be non-violent. We were blessed as a nation for permanent change.
What does desegregation mean to us today? Many of us have friends with other skin colors. Leading into, we increasingly have family with different skin colors. You wouldn't want your grandchild to be told to sit at the other side of the room.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11255/11255-h/11255-h.htm#BooneRevFrankT
Guttenburg wrote A History of Slavery in the United States, from Interviews with Former Slaves assembled in 1936 by a Library of Congress Project.
Our Churches need to do this - our mission field actually is - the people we encounter in our daily lives. And in our Churches. Pew Research, and seeing young people come in to the Pregnancy Assistance Center, shows us more Christians believe "you don't need Church to be a follower of Jesus Christ." What caused the Church to grow? The word Encouragement is used fourteen times in the Scriptures - Only in the Books speaking of Church growth. Too many times Christians believe if we castigate worldly views, we've preached the gospel.
Job 9:10
He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
Recently a client at the Pregnancy Center I volunteer in, had a homeless lady come in with her husband, heavily pregnant with her second child. She spoke of her oldest son's almost recovery from a brain tumor. The trouble with shelter housing have bedbugs and continual mental 'Drama'. The hopelessness of being so pressed and unemployed. She was a bright eyed individual - telling of real trouble with determination and verve. My heart went well out to her. Her second pregnancy was six months along and her unborn daughter had been flagged with Downs Syndrome; saying she could handle having one handicapped boy, so she had the background to handle another with love. She spoke of having a mom who was willing to help the other siblings, but not her, with some bitterness - who wouldn't be bitter?
Our Pregnancy Center offers points for goods earned by doing homework. I put my hand on her shoulder and asked her if she wouldn't mind having the Forgiveness Homework. Her reply was heartfelt as she replied she could use that. We prayed for these reasons and for her to be able to find a high risk pregnancy doctor, I could tell she was overwhelmed and under prayed for. The Prayer seemed to bounce right back from that ceiling.
God hears us. We are transparent to Him.
The next time that client came in - she brought her mother. That bright eyed woman was still bright eyed. Her mom was giving her family a brand new trailer on her mom's beautiful, treed land. The husband had found work. The high risk doctor had been found. The welcomed unborn daughter - well she does Not have Down's Syndrome.
That bright eyed young woman knows something about her Father. Forgiveness is bringing Heaven to earth.
Matthew 13:32
Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
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