Taking Jesus to the Streets..And the Skit Guys

 
Seriously Though

Memorial Day was a great day of ministry for me.  I was in a parade with some awesome kids and teens from my church to represent Christ to the city.  We gave away candy, told people about Jesus, and stepped for the Lord. One thing that plagues some Christians is our ability to witness outside of the building.  The gospel is too important for those of us who have to good news to wait on those who don't know what they are missing to come to us.  We are the body of Christ and we need to make some moves.  Apostles are those that take the gospel to all the nations and all people.  I was both encouraged and a little confused when I woman got out of her car yesterday to hand me a track while I was walking to the church for the parade.  At first I thought "praise God for her bravery and her consideration to do the work of the Lord."  After my initial excitement for her evangelism, I remembered that I was wearing a shirt that had John 3:16 on it.  After that in my "judgement" mode I thought "that is a waste of a track! Give it to someone who needs it."  Thank God his thoughts are higher than mine because just that quickly God showed me that she needed to give it to me.  She needed a boost to her confidence and to let someone know what she was doing.  She needed encouragement to keep going.  She didn't have a team of 50 kids like I did to walk with.  She was one older woman in her little car, trying to take Jesus to the streets.  She was acting in obedience to the Lord in spite of her apprehensions, and she was awesome for her serve.  Lord help us to be bold for you and gracious with each other.  God has given each of us an assignment in the world.  We are to use every gift that we have to lift up the name of Jesus for all the world to see.  Your part is irriplacable.  Even if no one else understands, you are critical to the work of the Kingdom of God.  This world needs to see our praise, our worship, our conviction, and our love.  The results of the work that we do for God are not our business, but God said "15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Mark 16:15

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

5 things that could keep you from getting so angry

So I find that there are certain things that when done make for a much better day than when I don't do them.  As a single mom sometimes it gets hard to do these and then everything seems to be a bigger ordeal for me. Lord help me to do better with that.  I would tell you don't judge me, but I know you are going to do it anyway so I will say please be gracious toward me.  1.  Start the snowball of positive thinking : For me this means prayers of thanks, reading my Bible, listening to positive music, writing a letter to God or to myself, even watching some Veggie Tales (what do you know about those Veggies?)  with my son sometimes.   The reality is there is enough negative that comes at me; why would I invite anything other than a flood of positive truth into my mind and my life? This is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it...or else!!!  haha just kidding (sort of) 2.  Wash up!: Remember when I said be gracious?...
Read more

Mr. Sandman Where are you?

I was told that by 6 months old or so my son should be effectively sleeping through the night. Well, Tomorrow is his first birthday and he has already woken up twice...make that three times because he woke up while I was writing this! I really miss sleeping and I want my little one to get sleep too. He wakes up every two or three hours to nurse. I try to get him to go back to sleep, but a baby who is standing up and pulling on the side of his crib isn't going back to sleep easily. I sing, swing, shush , and attempt to swaddle, but he won't have any of it. Sometimes I let him cry his way back to sleep, but it only last for about a half hour before he reawakens more determined than before. The screaming wears on my nerves and the lack of sleep is wearing on my days. Some days I think "This is it. This is my life now. I will never feel rested again, and I will never be fully alert again." I expected to lose sleep when I found out I was pregnant. I expected to be tired, b...
Read more

I have a dream

I used to dream all the time that I was witnessing to people.  People would ask me questions and I would begin to speak about the goodness of the Lord, and how Jesus was the solution to all of their problems or desires.  I feel anointed to be having those dreams again.  Maybe someone needs these words.  I talk about my journey of faith, but maybe you haven't begun that journey yet so let me tell you about Jesus.  Jesus is the Christ, the savior of the world, the messiah, the only begotten son of God.  Jesus is God in humanity. He came down to earth, lived a human life, did miraculous things to show people who he was and how much he loved them.  Jesus felt every human emotion that any of us have ever felt. Jesus taught us how to live as people of God.  Then he died so that we wouldn't have to be separated from him anymore.   You see sin separates us from God because he is holy.  We all have sinned therefore we all should be separated fro...
Read more