Tired of Loving?

DIGGING DEEPER         04/27/2015   Stay Connected Through Serving             K-LOVE & 3 Strands - Do Something   Loving Without Getting Tired by Joyce Myer He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry...and sustains the fatherless and the widow...   PSALM 146:7-9 (NIV) God speaks frequently in the Bible of our responsibility to the oppressed, hungry, widows, orphans, fatherless and foreigners. He mentions those who are lonely, neglected, forgotten and devalued. He cares deeply for the oppressed and the hungry. People can be hungry in many ways. They may have plenty of food to eat but still be starving to feel valuable and loved. God lifts up those who are bowed down with sorrow; He protects the stranger and upholds the fatherless and the widow. How does He do this? He works through people. He needs committed, submitted, dedicated people who live to meet the needs of others.       Let's love without getting tired     Mother Teresa once said, “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.” I have come to understand that many people we encounter daily are just trying to survive until someone rescues them—and that someone could be you or me. Let’s allow God’s love for the hurting and broken to work through us, meeting the needs of those who are hurting spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Let’s love without getting tired. Prayer Starter: Holy Spirit, empower me to love without getting tired. Give me Your heart for the hurting and the needy and show me how to meet their needs.       By Joyce Meyer         K-LOVE - 5700 West Oaks Blvd. Rocklin, CA 95765 - (800) 525-LOVE (5683)     FACEBOOK     TWITTER     YOUTUBE     LISTEN ONLINE     FAQS       We hope you found this message to be useful. This email was sent as part of your membership at Educational Media Foundation, the parent company of K-LOVE Radio. Your email address is not sold to or shared with a third party. We sometimes use third parties to fulfill services for us, like email sending or music survey tests. In those cases they will have access to your information for the strict purpose of fulfilling their tasks. 5700 West Oaks Blvd., Rocklin, CA 95765 This email was sent to you at: lisatim93.labellabling@blogger.com Click here if you wish to Unsubscribe or click here to Edit your profile.

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Have You Stopped Asking?

DIGGING DEEPER         04/20/2015   Stay Connected  Through Prayer             Don Jacobsen shares It's a God Thing   An excerpt from The Grave Robber by Mark Batterson Since writing The Circle Maker, I’ve heard hundreds of testimonies of miraculous answers to prayer. The common denominator among them is perseverance in prayer. Those who got an answer kept circling their Jericho until the walls fell down. They didn’t just pray like it depended on God; they also worked like it depended on them. They didn’t just dream big; they also prayed hard. Most of them didn’t get an answer after their first request, but they kept praying through. Remember the story of Jesus healing the blind man with mud? It’s one of the most encouraging miracles in the Gospels because it took two attempts. Even Jesus had to pray more than once! The first prayer resulted in a partial miracle, but Jesus wasn’t satisfied with 20/80 or 20/40 vision. So He doubled back and prayed a second time for a 20/20 miracle: “Then Jesus laid hands on his eyes again.” The operative word is again. What do you need to pray for again? And again and again and again? Some miracles happen in stages—even healing miracles. If you get partial healing or partial relief, praise God for it. But don’t settle for half a miracle! Keep praying for the whole miracle to happen. Sometimes we let fear keep us from praying for a miracle because we feel like we will have failed if God doesn’t answer the way we want. That isn’t failure because the answer isn’t up to us.        The only way we can fail is failing to ask     I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve asked God to heal my asthma. It has not happened, but does that mean I quit asking? I’ve resigned myself to the simple fact that healing is in God’s hands. That’s His job, not mine. My job is to keep on asking. After all, God won’t answer 100 percent of the prayers we don’t pray. On a recent trip to Israel, I visited the synagogue in Capernaum where Jesus performed multiple miracles. We actually held a healing service right there, and I felt prompted to pray for healing once again. If I was writing the script, I can’t think of a more dramatic way of finally answering my lifelong prayer. But the healing didn’t happen. I definitely felt a twinge of disappointment when I had to take my inhaler later that day, but I’m going to continue asking. When and where and how God decides to answer is His call. I might not experience healing on this side of heaven, but as long as God gives me breath to breathe, I’ll keep asking.       By Mark Batterson         K-LOVE - 5700 West Oaks Blvd. Rocklin, CA 95765 - (800) 525-LOVE (5683)     FACEBOOK     TWITTER     YOUTUBE     LISTEN ONLINE     FAQS       We hope you found this message to be useful. This email was sent as part of your membership at Educational Media Foundation, the parent company of K-LOVE Radio. Your email address is not sold to or shared with a third party. We sometimes use third parties to fulfill services for us, like email sending or music survey tests. In those cases they will have access to your information for the strict purpose of fulfilling their tasks. 5700 West Oaks Blvd., Rocklin, CA 95765 This email was sent to you at: lisatim93.labellabling@blogger.com Click here if you wish to Unsubscribe or click here to Edit your profile.

How to have a Strong Community

DIGGING DEEPER         04/13/2015   Stay Connected Through Community         The Joy and Pain of Community By: Tenth Avenue North Living in true community is not easy. It is built up of many different personalities and we would be fooling ourselves to think that life in that colorful conglomeration of people would be without difficulty, confrontation, and frustration. I love this reminder from Dietrich Bonhoeffer that God has given us a powerful resource in intercessory prayer to combat this contempt we may find in ourselves toward another. Prayer seems to be a great equalizer. Even Jesus taught us that we ought to pray for our enemies. I wonder if that is for our enemies benefit or our own? Only by looking at my brother through the lens of prayer can I see him as a sinner in need of a Savior just as I am a sinner in need of a Savior. I hope this excerpt challenges you just as it challenges me. -Jason       stand before Christ and share in his mercy     From Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book Life Together A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner. This is a happy discovery for the Christian who begins to pray for others. There is no dislike, no personal tension, no estrangement that cannot be overcome by intercession as far as our side of it is concerned. Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the fellowship must enter every day. The struggle we undergo with our brother in intercession may be a hard one, but that struggle has the promise that it will gain its goal. How does this happen? Intercession means no more than to bring our brother into the presence of God, to see him under the Cross of Jesus as a poor human being and sinner in need of grace. Then everything in him that repels us far away; we see him in all his destruction and need. His need and his sin become so heavy and oppressive that we feel them as our own, and we can do nothing else but pray; Lord, do Thou,Thou alone, deal with him according to Thy severity and Thy goodness. To make intercession means to grant our brother the same right to we have received, namely, to stand before Christ and share in his mercy."     By Dietrich Bonhoeffer         K-LOVE - 5700 West Oaks Blvd. Rocklin, CA 95765 - (800) 525-LOVE (5683)     FACEBOOK     TWITTER     YOUTUBE     LISTEN ONLINE     FAQS       We hope you found this message to be useful. This email was sent as part of your membership at Educational Media Foundation, the parent company of K-LOVE Radio. Your email address is not sold to or shared with a third party. We sometimes use third parties to fulfill services for us, like email sending or music survey tests. In those cases they will have access to your information for the strict purpose of fulfilling their tasks. 5700 West Oaks Blvd., Rocklin, CA 95765 This email was sent to you at: lisatim93.labellabling@blogger.com Click here if you wish to Unsubscribe or click here to Edit your profile.