The first thing is just how amazingly awesome it is to bless someone in need, and how fulfilling and satisfying it is to know that you are making a difference.\u00a0 When you take the words of the Bible seriously when it says, “Go into all the world and make disciples” nothing can compare to the feeling you get from fulfilling your purpose on this earth.<\/p>\n
We have gone to the nursing homes, prisons, poor, widows, and to the streets to minister and to be arms of love and compassion to those in need.\u00a0 I have made many memories that i am sure i will never forget.\u00a0 One particular comes to mind.\u00a0 We had just\u00a0had a birthday party for\u00a0Ms. Dorothy Strouse at the nursing home.\u00a0 She was one of our close friends we made there.\u00a0 As it was time to leave she made the usual rounds of giving us all our kisses and telling us how much she loved us all and how sweet we are.\u00a0 lol.\u00a0 She’s told us multiple times that we are her adopted children.\u00a0 She’s so sweet.\u00a0 Anyways, as we were leaving she walked\u00a0with us all the way\u00a0to the security ward door holding our hands.\u00a0 She told us how much she hated to see us go.\u00a0 As we walked through the door to go she began to cry and blow kisses at us.\u00a0 The last thing we saw as\u00a0the door closed behind us was Miss Dorothy standing there crying and looking pitiful\u00a0blowing kisses at us and waving good bye.<\/p>\n
Nothing i could say here could accurately describe what i felt at that moment.<\/p>\n
That it is one of those things you can only understand through experience.\u00a0 You can’t experience it through someone else.<\/p>\n
Another time in the nursing home we were visiting one of our friends and she began to tell us how badly her back was hurting.\u00a0 She was strapped to her chair and was unable to sit up comfortably.\u00a0 We tried to help her up but couldn’t, so we asked if we could pray for her.\u00a0 She said yes.\u00a0 We began to pray for her commanding the pain to leave.\u00a0 Right in the middle of our prayer she began to “hoot and holler” exclaiming “It’s working!\u00a0 It’s working!\u00a0 The pain is gone!\u00a0 The pain is gone!”\u00a0 After that she was fine and has been fine ever since.\u00a0 Before we prayed for her she had been in and out of the hospital constantly always staying sick.\u00a0 After we prayed for her she has not been sick once since.\u00a0 I asked her how she liked not being sick anymore and she told me she didn’t like it because they don’t let her stay in bed as much anymore. lol.<\/p>\n
Another time we prayed for a lady that was completely immobile (if that’s a word) and next time we came back she was out and about in the cafeteria!\u00a0 Again, these are things that you have to experience in order to truly understand how they make you feel.\u00a0 Watching men in the prison weep as the Lord moves on their heart, handing a bowl of food to a hungry person at the care center, the compassion of Christ as you stay with a homeless man through the night, the relief of a widow when you tell her you’re going to fix her mower and mow her lawn for her:\u00a0All these things are things\u00a0I have experienced that\u00a0I can not explain to you with mere words.\u00a0 You have to experience it.\u00a0 Which leads me to my next point.<\/p>\n
NUMERO DOS<\/strong><\/p>\n The second thing\u00a0I learned is how ridiculously hard it\u00a0has been to\u00a0get Bible believing, church going Christians to get motivated about outreach.\u00a0 I’m not saying everyone is like that, because they aren’t, but far too many of them are.<\/p>\n People get stuck in their rut and routines and either don’t know how, or don’t want to get out of them.\u00a0 The ones that don’t know how are ok, because you can show them.\u00a0 Its the ones that don’t want to get out of their routine that are in trouble.<\/p>\n The bible says in James 1:26-27 “If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”<\/p>\n I would like to focus on the part ” . . . Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress. . .”<\/p>\n Going to church is not the end all of being Christian.\u00a0 In fact that is just the very beginning!\u00a0 We go to the church to get built up and fed so that we can then go out to the world and feed them.\u00a0 We have to\u00a0start taking the Bible seriously and actually do what it says.\u00a0 The only reason we were still left on earth after we got saved is so that we can get more people saved.<\/p>\n When was the last time you witnessed to someone?\u00a0 What about went out of your way to show the love of Christ\u00a0to someone?\u00a0 Is there an outreach program at your church?\u00a0 If there is, get involved!\u00a0 It is\u00a0what you are here for.\u00a0 The great commission was given to all of us.\u00a0 It is all of our responsibility.\u00a0 No one is excluded.\u00a0 So if you’re not making disciples (or at least attempting to) then you are missing out on a very large portion of your purpose!\u00a0 Nothing can describe the feeling you get when you know that you are accomplishing the work of the Lord.<\/p>\n I encourage you to do something out of the ordinary to show someone the love of Christ today.\u00a0 One thing\u00a0I have trained our church to do is this.\u00a0 Next time your checking out at a grocery store or gas station ask the person checking you out what their favorite\u00a0soft drink is.\u00a0 When they tell you reach over and buy one.\u00a0 Then give it to them and tell them that you are working on learning how to show the love of Christ to\u00a0the people around you.<\/p>\n When you do that it opens a door.\u00a0 You win their heart before\u00a0you confront their mind.\u00a0 A small act of kindness nudges a person closer to God, often in a profound way as it bypasses ones mental defenses.\u00a0 It may lead to an opportunity to witness, or maybe just an opportunity to make an imprint in someones mind of the kindness of Christians.\u00a0 Either way, you have nudged them closer to salvation.\u00a0 Remember, people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.\u00a0 The whole “bible track instead of a tip”\u00a0type stuff\u00a0just shows a lack of respect and honor for that person.\u00a0 Please don’t do\u00a0things like that.<\/p>\n Check out www.servantevangelism.com<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n Here are a few pictures from the Benton Care Center.<\/p>\n Here we are getting prepared to serve the hungry and homeless at the Care Center.<\/p>\n Some of them stay for the service and get ministered to.\u00a0 Here Bob Lloyd is preaching.<\/p>\n This lady is really sweet and always makes cake for us.<\/p>\n This lady is a\u00a0hoot.\u00a0 She calls me sweet heart\u00a0and always tells me that i’m attractive. lol.<\/p>\n This guy just rocks.\u00a0 I felt a connection with him since my first time there.<\/p>\n the two guys that run the place.\u00a0 Both are amazing men of 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