Wig’s Word of God Today 8-22-2011
How you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await His Son from Heaven, whom He raised from [the] dead, Jesus, Who delivers us from the coming wrath. 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Psalm 149 & Matthew 23:13-22
I find myself thinking of the times in my life when I looked upon “stuff” as the idols of my desires. This stuff included anything and everything I played with, partied with or drove. All of these things sent my inner desires to accomplish selfish acts of sin where pleasing my body and mind were the most important acts of living I wanted each and every day. Just sit back and take a look at your life and describe your priorities. What do you see?
When you can consider the importance of God in every aspect of your life, then you are turning to God by the Glory of His Son’s Redemption. We are acting not upon our own regard but that of Christ’s strength to guide our every thought, our every action and our every deed. No matter where I am at I seem to look for someone to share Christ’s love with in fellowship, charity and love. It may be a homeless person sleeping on a bench or walking through a parking lot begging or someone who greets us in a winery in Orlando, Florida. One day we walked into Lakeridge Winery in Central Florida off Highway 27 about three years ago and met a determined lady in the LORD who touched me with her fervent love of Jesus and desire to help the people in Africa.
Paula Heidorn took my wife and I on a tour that day and we have been friends in the LORD ever since. We write each other often and pray for one another’s intentions to accomplish the Will of God. Paula has been working hard to go a mission trip to Uganda by holding different fundraisers to make enough money to go. You can find out more about her and her trip to Uganda at www.praiseandprophit.com. She loves to dance for the LORD and you can enjoy a video of her dancing for the LORD here as well. She leaves for Uganda soon with a priest from her parish. Please pray for her and visit her website to help her financially.
So we ask in prayer: Dear God, we pray today we always turn to You LORD for everything ceasing our dependence on idols of flesh and mind. We pray for Paula as she makes her way to Africa for Your Glory. We pray for peace and healing of Alexandra. We pray for teachers who start their school year today. We pray all of this in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen.
God Bless His Truth for America,
Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins
Romans 8:28
“Spirit led God inspired Christ fed”
Christ’s Love to Eternally Feel
Idols are useless
They have no accord
God doesn’t like them
He wants all your love to horde
He asks you to look for Him
His Truth shown for thee
Not ugliness in selfish sin
Only Truth in your soul to be
His Disciple of Truth known
To give a man a meal
Or lift a child out of turmoil
Christ’s love to eternally feel
© Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins August 21, 2011 @ 5:49 AM EST
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