February 19, 2012
Christ the Savior and Mt. Zion Church blessed our friends today with some home cooked food and lots of love. Thank you for your commitment to helping spread the love of Jesus.
Rex gave a good word today to our friends about a guy that needed $20. He had a silver dollar that he took to a pawn shop and asked what they would give him for it. The person there said they’d give him $10 for it, he asked for $15, they said no… $10, so he took it. Later he’d gone to the library and was online and thought he’d look up on Ebay what his coin would have been worth. He saw one exactly like his and it was worth ½ million dollars. Rex’s point was to know what it is you’ve been given by God that is so precious. It’s a free gift for everyone, do not give it away so easily .
Like the story of Esau that gave away his birthright in Genesis 25:31 – 41 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?” Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered. Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.” Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him. “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied. After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting. His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
When Esau heard his father’s words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
Esau said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you reserved any blessing for me?”
Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Roger spoke with me about he needed help. He has shame and guilt. I asked him if he asked the Lord for forgiveness and he said yes. Then I told him the Word of God says if you ask for forgiveness and have faith that the Lord has forgiven you, then it’s a done deal. I shared that satan heaps guilt and shame on us not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sins.
God is so good to us!! May we share the blessings that He gives to us of His word that can transform our lives and others.
Elaine got a cute apartment and MMUTB was able to “hook her up” with things that she needed. She came today to volunteer for MMUTB. She’s come a long way and we’re real proud of her.
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