Good Morning Team! Go team go! I made it to Florida without a glitch and am getting settled in for a week with mom and Terry. I'm here to help get some work done on the house and to help get things organized. Pray for God to use me and sustain me in this heat for the next week. Pray for wisdom and direction and for God to shepherd us. Thanks! Terry has a to do list and so do I. What's on your to do list for ? Ask God to populate your list with His will according to His plans for you and your abilities. Pray for teammates too. We are better together and one in Christ! Amen! Ask for wisdom to know your limitations and for an open mind to invite in some help as needed. We all have limitations and God made us that way so we can team up and accomplish much more. It works that way at home, on the job and at church. Pray for the bread team and for God to use them to bless many and then to be blessed back too. Ask for help to steward well all His blessings, even your limitations. He will provide and guide in answer to that. Ask for a willingness to seek help and to be help too. God has a plan just for you, for some teammates and for our Body unified. PTL! Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness and He will provide all you need to accomplish His plans and the things that really matter.
OK, time to get weeding before hte heat starts baking the driveway! I'll probably be blogging at least a few days while here. But knoiw this, I am praying for you all daily and for His Kingdom to come, will to be done and for a powerful prayed up and ready team united and focused on His mission! Amen! Shalom shalom until next time! Go, unite, serve and overcome together! Well that's the first thing scratched from my to do list! Many blessings to you all!
ODB
One in Jesus
There is neither Jew nor Gentile . . . for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
Watching sporting competitions and meeting athletes was a dream come true for me when I attended a Summer and Winter Olympics as a young reporter. I was enthralled by hearing people from all over the world speaking in different languages and celebrating their various countries.
I’d been fascinated with the Olympics since I was a teen, but it had become an obsession. After I said yes to following God while at the Summer Games, I felt God was asking me to lay down my idol of sports. But I still had a love for the nations. I still enjoy watching the Olympics, but my heart is truly stirred when people of different backgrounds and from different nations come together during a church service or gathering to pray and to worship the King of kings. What a sweet taste of heaven on earth (Revelation 7:9)!
When we remember who we are in Christ, we remember that we belong to God’s family and His family is international.
The apostle Paul declared to the believers in Galatia, “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith” (Galatians 3:26). “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (v. 28).
No matter where we’re from or where we live, let’s rejoice that as believers we’re one in Christ with our brothers and sisters around the world.
By Nancy Gavilanes
REFLECT & PRAY
How can you show love to people of different backgrounds? How can you pray for the nations?
Heavenly Father, thank You for making me one in Christ with other believers.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
In Galatians 3:28, Paul isn’t abolishing all ethnic, economic, social, or gender distinctions in the church. Rather, in speaking of our salvation, the apostle says that God treats everyone—Jew, gentile, male, female, slave, and free—on the same basis. All have sinned (Romans 3:23) and all need a Savior (Acts 3:19; 17:30). Both Jews and gentiles need to believe in Jesus (Romans 3:22-24; 10:9-12) because everyone is saved in the same way: by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9). God gives everyone who believes in Christ a privileged status: “In Christ Jesus [we] are all children of God through faith” (Galatians 3:26). Whether male or female, rich or poor, Jews or gentiles, we’re part of the “great multitude . . . from every nation, tribe, people and language” (Revelation 7:9) who will stand before God’s throne in heaven worshiping and proclaiming, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb” (v. 10).
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