When we are in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ....we come to his table as one family. It doesn't matter if we are man, woman or child. We come on equal ground regardless of our age, our race,our background, our social or financial standing....it doesn't matter if we've known Jesus for seventy-five years or seventy-five minutes....we come as one, to his table. He loves us and wants us, and wants relationship with us.
He wants us to share with each other, learn from each other, care for one another and encourage each other as we grow and struggle in our faith journey.
A dear friend shared with me the other day how he had the opportunity to listen, and pray and care for someone who is on a journey of healing from sexual abuse. He described the strength that he saw in them and the new sense of hope and peace living out in their life as they continue their journey and are now reaching out to others that have been broken and abused.
And this is what we are to do. Listen to each other. Care for each other. Pray for each other. Encourage each other to keep pressing on...to not give up no matter how hard it gets sometimes...to remind each other to keep our hearts and minds focused on the One who is greater than anything we might be going through...Jesus Christ, the Healer, the Provider, the One who Loves us more than our human minds can comprehend.
This is also our heart for Soul Kitchen. If you need a place to share...write to us. If you need someone to pray for you...write to us. We would love to care for you in this way...because we're all in a journey and we need each other.
As we come to our table today from all different places....my prayer for you is this...it comes from Ephesians 3:14-21.
...I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generation, forever and ever. Amen.
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