Happy New Year 2015!
Today is the first Day of a brand new year. Happy New Year to You!
As we bring to remembrance why we should celebrate such a
day as this, Stacey & I would like to give an update of the progression
of Loving The Majesty Ministries ” Africa
2015 Mission” .
We pray our story will inspire you to look forward to 2015
in Hope and Joy.
It is our desire to cause you to Dance with Your Bridegroom
Jesus in great delight of His love for you in 2015. Such intimate LOVE that
squeezes you into the closeness of Himself so there is no separation of
distance or status of class of being between us and HIM …in fact this is what
the word “TOGETHER” means in Greek language as used in the book of Ephesians
chapter 2:6 in the phrase raised us up “together” and made us sit “together “
In The anointed Jesus . We are the Body of Jesus Here on this earth –even
married to Him in covenant relationship that HE nourishes us and cherishes us
as members of HIS own Body, of His own Flesh and of His own Bones!
Stacey & I left home from Healy, Alaska on Dec 16th, 2014 driving enroute to Phillipsport, New York to prepare for our upcoming flight that departs Jan 7th 2015 out of JFK to Entebbe, Uganda.
The plan during this 14 day, 4862 mile (7080 kilometer)
drive, was to minister to people on the streets and along the route both in
convenience stores and gas stations and on the side of the road by sharing the
love of Jesus and giving the extra sweat shirts that overflow from the
allowable Baggage by the airlines that were donated to Loving the Majesty
Ministries.
On the day of departure the Miracles began to manifest in
timing. We received the IRS Tax Exempt Status of a 501(c)(3) public Charity.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we rejoiced celebrating the
remembrance of the Virgin Birth of our Messiah Jesus with Josiah, one of our
sons, Elizabeth our daughter in law and Silas one of our 5 grandsons. Celebrating Christmas with some family was a
bonus to the many miles spent in prayer and listening to ministering CDS and
Music as we drove along.
Stacey & I began
to memorize Psalm 91 together for meditation, and spoke in two churches- City Center View in Edmonton, and Clare Church of the Nazarene in Clare
Michigan, which the Lord opened as doors for us to touch people’s lives and
to raise support for the work of this year’s NEW venture in our lives.
SO what does this all have to do with New Year and the reason
to celebrate it with Joy and Hope?
As we met so many people along way this last two weeks one
thing stood out clearly- People want to be loved! No matter what baggage and
hurt they carry or trouble they have walked thru or are seemingly in at the
present, everyone is just a few words of encouragement from gaining the
strength to Stand up and Live again.
In fact 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 says that if any Person is IN
CHIRST (the anointed Messiah) Jesus,
OLD THINGS- ARE- PASSED AWAY and “ALL THINGS” are MADE NEW…just
like the dates on the calendar at the turn of a new year. God has already reconciled us to HIMSELF in
Jesus Death on the cross and resurrection from the dead.
It is clear that God – verse 19 says is not holding our
former sins against us anymore….this means SIN in and of itself is not against
us anymore. Do not misread this in the English and interpret it to mean only
the sin that you committed to date. It does not in any way imply such thing.
Jesus DIED ONCE FOR ALL people and fro ALL time to take away the Sin of the
WORLD. Jesus carried those sins and paid
the price for them in Hades for you suffering on your behalf so you do not have
to carry them or suffer from them.
I understand – it may not “feel like that could possibly be the truth. It is, however,
TRUTH established for ALL TIME AND ETERNITY THAT THE BLOOD OF CHIRST HAS SQUEEZED US INTO THE
MIDST OF GOD MAKING US ONE WITH HIM AS HIS DEAR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. IT IS A
FREE GIFT.
Joy returns to the
eyes of people, who come to realize and understand that God really does love
them. God really does care for them. God’s will is to help them out of any
storm of life, or through any storm of life they are now experiencing no matter
if they caused the storm by bad choices
or some other person or situation caused it.
As Stacey & I and our team spoke with people –even those
some may label “street people”- Love and Hope bring caused JOY to shine in the
eyes of those we spoke with! Love and Hope that someone Like Jesus who is able
to help them NOW, and that will to help thru His own body - people like you and I, who are willing to
forgive and throw out the old, and offer the NEW life for eternity as a free
gift. A free gift paid for and freely given without reservation….Remember those
Jesus touched 2000 years ago- a rough fisherman, a demon possess woman, a
prostitute, an adulterer, a thief, a murderer…..you and I.
This is a NEW Beginning and New YEAR. Out
with the old prejudices and selfishness of our own private lives. And In with
the New Unity of the Body of the Bridegroom. Get a REVELATION of JESUS – your
Bridegroom coming for those whose lamps are burning bright with oil!
Joy OF THE NEW will
spill over into the lives of those who need that LIGHT ALL AROUND YOU!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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