Happy Thursday!

GO Outreach phase 1 night 3: the best session YET! Really, we came back to church HIGH… went home and watched the new Law and Order- STILL HIGH… went to sleep- JUST AS HIGH… DREAMT about so many people coming to the Lord that we could not FIT THEM ALL in our ministry… woke up remembering the DREAM and last nights DREAMY Outreach… and I’m still BUZZING 10 hours later!

Every Christian should experience the PLEASURE of GOING OUT like this!

Hey, we finally added a donate option… its at the top right side of this site. Right now, everything goes to Destiny Family Center, the epicenter for everything we do. All funds are spent at the discretion of our Board of Directors and all donations are 100% tax deductible. Giving to this ministry helps us with all local, national, and international ministry. For more information… click on the donate button. I gave the first donation yesterday… it was FUN! Hope you feel compelled! lol

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Todays Message: Inspiring Thoughts About Helping the Weak

Acts 20:34-36 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work WE MUST HELP THE WEAK, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is MORE BLESSED TO GIVE than to receive.’ “ When he had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.

The greater benefit in a giving/receiving exchange… it ALWAYS goes to the giver! This is what Paul was talking about in the above verses… that he PUT THE WORDS OF JESUS TO THE TEST… and he FOUND THEM TO BE TRUE!

Todays world is overrun with WEAK PEOPLE, BROKEN DOWN PEOPLE, DESPERATE PEOPLE, HELPLESS PEOPLE… REJECTED PEOPLE, LONELY PEOPLE… they are EVERYWHERE! It’s really hard to identify them, because most of us do a SUPER GOOD JOB at covering over our WEAKNESSES.

You can be certain… that TODAY, you and I will interact with someone weak… very weak… dangerously WEAK.

You may feel too weak yourself to even consider HELPING SOME OTHER WEAK PERSON. I believe this is when WE actually NEED to HELP THE WEAK… especially when we are weak ourselves!

Have you ever heard the following phrase before: “you cannot give out what you have not received.”

• While I partially agree with this thought… in the fact that we have to keep ourselves fresh and healthy- spirit, soul, and body… so that we will not run on empty so long that we BURN OUT.
• I also disagree with this thought… in the fact that the Bible promises, “A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.” -Proverbs 11:25

All day yesterday, I was choking under one of the fiercest work loads of my life. It was very difficult not to feel OVERWHELMED… very hard to stay on task when I wanted to break down and weep for a few hours on my office couch. I was WEAK and I needed HELP… lots and lots of HELP.

Then last nights GO Outreach came… and even though I had expectation of something great happening, I felt far too EMPTY to be “GOING OUT with a smile, a prayer, and an invitation!”

I felt as if I need somebody to COME TO ME with a BIG SMILE and a BIGGER PRAYER.

And by the time we came out of that last house… I WAS NO LONGER WEAK! I was refreshed because I refreshed others… our whole team was REFRESHED as we walked around loving the beautiful people of that neighborhood!

The breakthrough moment came when we knocked on that LAST DOOR. It was dark and we debated whether we should or shouldn’t… and thank God we did!

Turned out: the lady had just lost her good friend in a car accident hours before… her husband left her 7 years ago after 34 years of marriage… her fellow employee’s were shunning her at work because she turned someone in for stealing… her daughter was fighting severe alcoholism much due to the pain of her daddy walking out for another woman! This woman was ALL ALONE suffering under the devastation of loneliness and rejection!

As we prayed for her and hugged her… she told us she had needed that moment for seven years… tears streaming down her face for most of our visit! God worked through us to BLESS this beautiful woman!

Naturally, WE WERE REFRESHED BEYOND WORDS… and so will you… EVERY TIME you also HELP THE WEAK!

I hope todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! Love you all… just finished praying for you… hope you really feel the difference all day long!