Greetings to you in the name of who invites us to ‘follow’ Him and discover more than we could ever have imagined, Jesus Christ – THE Risen Saviour! Another day in the Kingdom – amazing! I trust that have had a good week and experienced God’s presence in your daily walk with Him. I will be praying for you today, asking Father to release that which will ‘quench’ your thirst and ‘satisfy’ your hunger. This, I believe and declare’ is going to be a significant weekend for the local church!
This week I have had opportunity to interact with people and ideas. First, a fellow ‘shepherd’ made the observation that although we were lacking in people who could or would serve, although we did not have the material resources, and therefore unable to run a variety of programs … we did have – Jesus!
Another ‘shepherd’ was commenting on the spiritual condition of the Christian church – attendances down, few new people showing up, an extreme lack of youth and young adults. He voiced a concern that the Christian church is but one generation away from extinction. I chose to think a little differently because it has been that way for the last nineteen hundred or so years – we still have Jesus!
This morning God decided to remind me of a very relevant truth. He told me to look out the window and see the people walking by and understand: Every person I see is only one encounter away from following Jesus. It doesn’t matter if they are atheist or Muslim or agnostic or Hindu or have been hurt by the church – every heart is hungry for a real encounter with the living God.
The words of a chorus came to mind: Use me Lord, use me for your glory – Use me Lord, I will tell my story – Lord, I will obey, there’s no other way – Use me, use me – Lord. At the end of this week, I understand that the cure for my ‘spiritual lethargy’ is to RISK allowing God to put me into service.
Have a great weekend and be blessed!
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