Give Thanks

Hebrews 13:15-16 Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.(NASB95)

The greatest witness we can give to the world is to tell our own story. Every believer has a salvation story that begins with the line “I was lost then Jesus came.” Whether you were brought up in the Church and have “always” known Him or you just came to know Him today, you have a story of hope to share with a lost and frightened world.

Several years ago I witnessed a car accident while coming home from Down-State. The woman in the car was not injured, however her car was destroyed. So my friend and I gave her a ride back to Marquette. Later that week I was surprised to see an article in the Mining Journal thanking my friend and I for helping her. I have to admit it was nice to be recognized for a kindness, in fact I clipped out the article and it is still hanging on my office wall after all these years.

The message is that God has done so much to help us yet we seldom let more than a select few know about it. We need to take time and thank Him for what He has done in our lives, not because God needs our praise, but becasue our story of thanks gives others hope! Take out an ad in the paper, Put a sign in your window, put a post on your Facebook site, send out an e-mail to all your friends, do something to tell God thanks. It does not need to be a long drawn out story, or a mystical strange tale, just a simple honest "Thanks God" for caring for me when I needed help.
Finally pass it on, do good to others in His name.

The Spirit In Us.

One can barely imagine the reality that God the Holy Spirit lives in the very heart of believers. The heart of the believer is therefor the holiest place on earth.
John 14:16-20 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. (ESV NT Rev. Int.)

The heart of the believe is therefore the holiest place on all the earth. Not the great temples, or the great cathedrals, churches or even the Vatican. None of these places comes even close to the holiness of the human heart when the Holy Spirit dwells there.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (ESV NT Rev. Int.)

The challange we face is to start living like the Spirit of God lives in us!!!!!

Welcome to Church Without Walls

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I pray that you will be encouraged and blessed by what you find here. I also hope that this blog can be an avanue of conversation for the many issues that come up along the Jouyney of Faith.
I was inspired to start this blog by Luke 7:22; John the Baptist sent his disciples to Jesus to ask if he was the savior or if they should continue to look for another. And he (Jesus) answered them, " Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.(ESV NT Rev. Int.)