I was watching this video of this woman, Christine Caine, She is from Hillsong United and she spoke at this conference but her words have stuck with me she said
"Jesus Christ came to make us alive to set us free and then SENT us into a dark and dying world to bring freedom, and life, and hope, and mercy, and justice and truth to lost and broken people. WE DO NOT NEED TO FEAR WHAT HE HAS ALREADY DEFEATED!! We do not need to fear the darkness!! We just need to shine our lives into the darkness and dispel that darkness...Light works most effectively in the darkness. we do not need to fear the darkness we just need to take the light of Christ THAT IS IN US into a dark and dying world and dispel that darkness with the light and the hope of the Lord Jesus who for freedom has set us free!"
There are so many around us that are trapped in fear or worry or selfishness or just trapped in the blah. GOD as called us to be more!! There is so much that is going on in this world. So much that is threatening to destroy us. Did you know that there are over 27 Million slaves world wide? There are more slaves now then there have ever been in the entire history of the world. I would venture to say that you know many people who may not be slaves through chains but through fear, through depression, through sin, through death. These people need hope, These people need LIGHT!! They are trapped in the darkness, starving for the fullness of God's love, beaten, bleeding through the lies of satan. We encounter them each day. I ask you who In your life is a slavery? who in your life is not only hearing the lies of satan but accepting them fully as truth? There is so much more then that?! DO THEY KNOW THAT?
The Church is not meant to be a time of just singing songs in a building listen to someone and then go home...no church was meant to be a place where the Christians came together and fellow shipped together after being beaten after being torn apart for their lives, but now we are stuck. we were meant to be Warriors for God. Read Ephesians 6:10-18! Why would God give us armor if we did not need protection? we are meat to be fighters for our faith. There is a battle for our souls, for the souls of EVERY SINGLE one around us and they are taking captives. They are brainwashing people and sucking all the joy and life out of their lives they struggle in vain to feel alive again by partying and doing this and that but in the end they are not fulfilled. it is a shallowness that is not lasting and leavings them feeling worse then before...We are meant to be helpers, we are meant to be fighters for everyone around us. What would happen is a person came up to you and said "I wish you Christians would die?" what would you say? What would happen if instead of just writing that person off we offered to buy that person lunch or asked them to go see a movie with you or play a game or hang out How would that radically change their life? How many of us are too busy with our own lives, our own agendas that we miss the chances to share God's love with those that may need it most? Have you ever thought that God interrupts people's plans to change the world? Esther was just a girl living her life, when she was called to save her people. she was taken out of her comfort zone and fought for the future of her people, Moses was just an Egyptian Prince but was put as a sheep herder for many many years before being called to save the lives of all of Israel. David was just a normal Shepard, minding his own business looking after his sheep when God called him and anointed him as the next king, Mary was a young teenage girl who was charged with the most precious child ever born. Paul was stricken blind before God called him to not kill his people but save them.
My dear friends, my family, we are called me be more and to do more then we are doing. This quote stirs in my heart.
The Church is not meant to be a time of just singing songs in a building listen to someone and then go home...no church was meant to be a place where the Christians came together and fellow shipped together after being beaten after being torn apart for their lives, but now we are stuck. we were meant to be Warriors for God. Read Ephesians 6:10-18! Why would God give us armor if we did not need protection? we are meat to be fighters for our faith. There is a battle for our souls, for the souls of EVERY SINGLE one around us and they are taking captives. They are brainwashing people and sucking all the joy and life out of their lives they struggle in vain to feel alive again by partying and doing this and that but in the end they are not fulfilled. it is a shallowness that is not lasting and leavings them feeling worse then before...We are meant to be helpers, we are meant to be fighters for everyone around us. What would happen is a person came up to you and said "I wish you Christians would die?" what would you say? What would happen if instead of just writing that person off we offered to buy that person lunch or asked them to go see a movie with you or play a game or hang out How would that radically change their life? How many of us are too busy with our own lives, our own agendas that we miss the chances to share God's love with those that may need it most? Have you ever thought that God interrupts people's plans to change the world? Esther was just a girl living her life, when she was called to save her people. she was taken out of her comfort zone and fought for the future of her people, Moses was just an Egyptian Prince but was put as a sheep herder for many many years before being called to save the lives of all of Israel. David was just a normal Shepard, minding his own business looking after his sheep when God called him and anointed him as the next king, Mary was a young teenage girl who was charged with the most precious child ever born. Paul was stricken blind before God called him to not kill his people but save them.
My dear friends, my family, we are called me be more and to do more then we are doing. This quote stirs in my heart.
"Compassion is never compassion till you go and cross the street and do something RIGHT NOW! Compassion is not Compassion until you are will to be interrupted." ~Christine Caine
My dear friends, my family...We are called to be something so much more. We do not know when our lives will collide with others and completely change who we are or even more transform who THEY are. Our calling our challenge is to go and make disciples among ALL nations. and some may say, well i can't go to Africa, or Russia, or The Middle East, or wherever but you must bloom where God has planted you! He has you there for a reason. But BE that compassion BE that love. Do NOT just pass by whom ever God is placing in your life. Whatever that may look like stop and pray. Ask God to show you who you are meant to minister to. But also make sure that your light is buring bright. If you are not in God's word, if you are not earnestly praying and seeking Him, start there. God can use anyone wherever they are but "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him!!" I love you all and I am praying for you! I ask you pray Eph. 10:18-19 over me and that God would give me His Passion, His Love, His eyes. untill Next time my dear family :)
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