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God's Heart for the Least of These:
You Will Find Me in the Darkness..
I'm Out Here, Come Find Me
by Nic Billman
A Vision of the Broken
Recently my wife and I and a few friends of ours had a time of worship. It was just my keyboard and our voices-simple
and intimate. We were singing our love to Papa, and His presence was
washing through the room. It was awesome! Then a vision come to me.
I saw the broken
and the dying on the streets. There were prostitutes selling their
bodies, there was a drug addict shooting up in the alleys, there were
children begging for food, and there was a widow sitting alone on her
porch with the blank stare of depression in her eyes. There was a
crippled old man who was crying out, "Water, please, I need water"; his
clothes torn and dirty. There was a mother with two babies--she was
sitting at a laundromat weeping, her tears falling down on the faces of
her hungry children. All of these people were desperate and dying.
Everything was dark gray and lifeless.
From there I saw
church buildings; the doors were closed, but there was life inside and
awesome worship with lots of people. All of the people were praying and
crying out, "God, we want to hear Your voice; why can't we hear You?
Show us Your face. We want to see Your face." Then I heard a sound
behind me. I turned back to the streets and heard the Father say, "I'm out here, come find Me."
"You Will Find Me in the Dark, You Will Find Me in the Darkness"
I started to sing these words, "When
I was hungry, you gave Me bread. When I was thirsty, you gave Me a
drink. I was sick, you came to Me. I was naked and poor and you clothed
Me in love. Just stare into the eyes of the child who's left
alone-there you'll find Me. Just open up your arms to hold the least of
these-there you'll find Me. Come find Me." At the same time my wife, Rachael, started singing, "You will find Me in the dark, you will find Me in the darkness." It was clear that God was moving all of our hearts in the same direction.
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Quote of the Day:
"The right kind of heart is a kind heart like God's."
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Financial recession: a blessing or curse?
By James Varghese
Special Correspondent in India for ASSIST News Service
INDIA
(ANS) -- This
current financial recession has knocked down the world, leaving people
in fear and despair. Loss of jobs, pay cuts, and many other concerns,
have hit the minds of humans very badly.
It was another
"9/11" tragedy that hit the minds of people of the whole world who were
stuck in a dilemma, not knowing what the world is leading them into and
so fear gripped their lives so much that they most have not been
investing their money into anything.
Many
Christians have failed to understand God's plan in the midst of this
global crisis. Many even have stopped donating to social organizations
and God's ministry where they used to give their support. My question
is; as Christians, have we become so deaf that we can't sit before God
to hear what does He expect in this crisis? Have we become so blind
that we can't see this situation as God's way for blessing?
I
know that there are several people, even now in the midst of this
situation, who are looking for right people for the right place and for
the right hands to receive their support. But why are they holding it
back? I will tell you that this can be God's way for double returns and
other benefits along the way.
First
of all, we Christians need to know that, 2 Corinthians 8:9: "For you
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich, yet
for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might
become rich."
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