Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Blessed are the poor in spirit...
Coma esta' Heidi gave her message yesterday on the beatitudes which was the message I heard from her 3 years ago that was burned on my heart. It was one of the sessions with the Mozambican Pastors . At the beginning she talked about the nature of the poor and then asked the pastors who had lost children to stand. Almost 80% of the pastors over 30 stood up. Heidi then talked about our poverty before God and how it is easier as someone who is poor in the natural world to understand deparation, dependency, and faith when there is nothing else to depend on. I cannot begin to describe how impactful this experience was for the people in that room. You begin to ask yourself what the Kingdom of God truly looks like...how the Body of Christ is representing it...and what can I do differently. It did not seem right to be standing next to so many brothers in Christ that have lost children to Dystentary, malaria, and other diseases that we have medicine for in the West. At the end of the teaching, Heidi had all Pastors lay hands on us and ask God to make us more desparate for him...then we praed for them for healing for the suffering that they have faced...it was the most impactful time of ministry I have ever been a part of...God wants unity in the spirit!
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But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Hi Steve,
I love your blog. Check your email if you have a chance. Praying for you,
Cassandra
Steve!
We miss you...
Wow it's so good to read your stories and your learning experiences. We are so blessed to have you in our lives :) Praying for you, can't wait for you to be back- but we really are so THANKFUL for you and your heart and your journey!
Love,
The Rottmans
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