Today, a man named David Rhoads came to speak at chapel. The message was so God-directed and honest and I found it quite encouraging, especially during the middle of the semester as I tend to get so very busy. We must not forget what we are here for! We are not here for our own gain, our own benefit, our own success, our own PLANS, we are here for Him who sent us! I again encountered James 1:27 when Christ tells us to go tend to His sheep that are hurting. If you wish to discover more about the Rhoad's story and their relationship to Haiti, go here:
http://afamilyforfrankie.wordpress.com/
This is a great account of the workings of our Lord. How GOOD He is! How FAITHFUL He is! Oh, love your Father, my dear friends, love Him!
"What if the overflow of our worship was in the extension of our hands?"
"We should go into the brokenness not only because they need God, but because we need God. The closer we get to brokenness, the closer we come to God."
"In their lives [the broken, the hurting, the poor] we experience God in a way we never would otherwise..."
"True worship is not about hands raised, but hands extended"
"Dare the Spirit of God to make beauty out of brokenness"
"We should be barrers of beauty to this broken world"
"Part of the responsibility of being a Christian, is seeing what needs to be done. Then, the doing is in response to that sight given to us from Him."
Hear the words of our Lord, and use His instruction to shape the ministry He has given you in your [His] life!
"My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism, for if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, and you pay special attention to the one who is wearing the fine clothes, and say, You sit here in a good place, and you say to the poor man, you stand over there or sit down by my foot stool, have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives?"
Listen,m my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?"
James 2:1-5
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