I am deeply burdened by the fact that many who love the Lord Jesus and seek Him have been deceived and frustrated. We must find a way to share with them the spiritual riches the Lord has provided us. Many who truly love the Lord are starving. We must take up the burden to supply them with food. We all need to be good ministers of Christ, serving others with His riches. Let us first be nourished ourselves and then minister this nourishment to all the people of God.
We would emphasize that being nourished is for the growth in life. This is a matter of life and it differs from merely being taught, which is a matter of knowledge. To minister Christ to others requires that we ourselves first be nourished with the words of life concerning Christ.
Amen! I'm with you sister...the hungry and poor cannot feed the hungry and poor, but we must first be filled with God and His Spirit, and then we must go and minister life to others. "Preach the Word, preach the cross, preach redemption to a lost and dying world! Until all have heard...preach the Word."
ReplyDeleteThere are 7,000 unreached people groups in the world, not to mention members of the Church, who, like you said, truly love the Lord, that are starving, and not being nourished in the conventional, church system that is rampant in America, and Europe, today. Love your sharing the burden! Let's press on in the Lord!