It seems as though people are constantly calling our ministry with various needs. Maybe their hurting. Maybe they're homeless. Maybe they're hungry. Sometimes it gets overwhelming. And since we don't receive any outside help or funding, I wonder how much longer we can keep helping.
A mother of 4 showed up on our doorstep last week. She had been homeless for some time and had no one in the world to help her. She needed to load up the moving van she was driving with heavy furniture and get into the large house that God had miraculously provided for her. My husband had to work 3rd shift, and it was going on 8 p.m. when we set out to get the furniture. Still we helped, because we love God, we trust that he will take care of us, and we want to literally heal hearts that have been broken, so he'll be glorified.
Besides, when we get to heaven, Jesus is not going to ask how many times we've been to church in our lives. (Still going to church is important!) Instead, he's going to say, "When you did it to the least of these, my brethren, you did it to me."
Recently as I fasted and prayed for direction I was led to Isaiah 58 which tells us exactly the kind of fast God honors. It's when we free those who are wrongly imprisoned, feed the hungry, help the poor, house the homeless, and heal the sick.
Are there lives around your community that you can touch? Obviously there are great economic hardships all around us. But do you realize that you may be the only Jesus people ever see. Although it's true that Jesus is the only one who can truly heal hearts, he needs your hands to do it!
Be God's Healing Hands This Valentine's Day--Do something special for those that feel unloved!
Lisa Freeman
A Time To Heal Ministries
www.atime2heal.org
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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