June 11, 2009

Speak the Word of Faith

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Luke 10:2

Learn to speak the word of faith and knowledge as I put it in your mouth. Doors will be opened in this simple fashion, and entrance given to hearts that would otherwise have remained closed to the gospel.  Once the door is open you may plant the seed of faith and it will spring forth into eternal life.

Go to the tender, the needy, the brokenhearted, and the suffering.  I shall minister in love and compassion, and I shall use you as My mouthpiece.

Who is God wanting us to speak to?  Granted it may be to someone out in the world.  But more than likely it is to someone in our family or someone with whom we work.  I have been feeling in recent years, that works of condemnation and correction don't really help anyone certainly not the one they are directed to or at, and I don't even feel they help us.  Everyone one needs words of encouragement, including our spouses and our children.  When we speak otherwise, we only hurt their spirit.  and those hurts inflict irreparable damage.  Think about it, what kind go words do you like to hear?  I don't think you really like to have someone cut you down/ or criticize you?  So do those you love like it either?  We need to build people up and encourage them.  help their confidence grow so that they can be more christ like.  Maybe there is someone you will encounter today, it may be a family member, or it maybe someone you encounter out in the business world, the check out girl, the gas station attendant.  They may not have had a kind word said to them today, how about if you be the one to change that.

Father, thank you for this day, thank you for sunshine that warms our hearts and than you for the privilege that we each have to make someone elses day, a better day to be alive.  In Jesus Name. amen.

Yesterday was a good day. Dawn Pankratz came and helped in the kitchen, so after dinner and a nap, Carol Backstrom and I planted the rest of the flowers and it looks really nice.  The service in the evening was again really good.  There are  5 students from our high school here at camp and God is really working in their lives.  It is a blessing to see them respond to God calling them to serve.  We topped off the evening with the annual teen talent show.