How did your encouragement time go during the last week? We hope great!! This week we want to write about how God takes care of us through community
From the beginning of the bible to the end we see how much God saw that need for community. It started with Adam and him being alone. Then God made Eve so Adam had a community and a helper to support each other. When we look at Jesus and his disciples we notice how they took care of each other. Each one of them had a role and through fulfilling that role everyone was helped as well. It made them able to function as a community and made them able to do all the things they were doing. You see that later on in Acts as well. The early church shared everything with each other and through that people thrived.
Jen and I have been in YWAM for a long time and every month God took care of us, and how did He do it? He did it through a community of people. Each one of them has a part in helping us to walk out what God called us to do. So God doesn’t just let money rain down from heaven, no he uses community to take care of us. The same is true for a job. It doesn’t matter if you run the business or if you are a worker in it. Whatever you do you need people to buy what you make and you also you need people that work together with you to make the thing happen. Again God is providing work through a community of people.
What about our neighbors? Again God wants to take care of them too through community. That is why Jesus said that the second greatest job is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. So God is calling us to be in community with our neighbors. He wants to take care of them through us. We are His hand and feet that bring change. So when we love our neighbor all those things are put in Action and change their lives and our lives. And then another thing happens, our neighbor starts loving us back and then we have a community.
- So what is God Asking of you?
- Who does he want to take care of through you and bring community?
Ask Him this week to show you how he took care of you through different communities and how he is using you to do the same!!
Hey our friend
We hope you had an amazing week!! We are still on our writing trip. We are getting back this Tuesday night. This coming Sunday we start teaching a 5 week class at our church to empower and encourage people to love there neighbors too. Please keep us in your prayers for this class as well pray for a good attendance.
Let 2017 be year were we all start loving our neighbors in a deeper way and in return being loved back by them!!
Have a wonderful week!!
Markus and Jen