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

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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About Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins

My name is Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins. I first recognize Christ as my Savior in all things. I am married to my best friend and Soul-Mate in Christ, Antonia Cruz-Wiggins. I am a University of Florida graduate of Public Relations, a US Navy Veteran and a Montessori Elementary School Teacher. I love life and God's help of living it! I follow the Light of Christ in everything I do! I love writing poetry about the Lord and I create a new poem from each Scripture I discern in my daily mediations. You can almost follow the poem by looking at the readings for each day. I started sharing this small yet personal scripture study four years ago when one day I was reading the bible and the Holy Spirit moved me to share the verse with a group of about 40 Christian Men in my Emmaus Ministry who get together weekly to celebrate the Lord and talk about His Truth. Since then the number of people I share my study with has grown to over 650. I enjoy an open loving dialog about anything I write and I have strived to write what I know the Lord wants me to share steering clear of offending anyone’s spiritual beliefs because I share my work with people I meet in public when I strike up a conversation about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It took almost 2 years to begin writing what the Holy Spirit leads me to say. I believe that all Christians must unite as One Body of Christ’s Love to accomplish the joy of living with love, honor and respect. I reach out to Humanity to share His Salvation be it Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, Episcopal or any other religion or belief. I seek to mirror His Compassion, His Simpleness, His Charity and His Love. While I am Catholic, I believe we must all unite in the Lord to become One Body in Christ to bring our children back to The Church. I am humbled to share my study with you. Please feel free to comment any time. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is my Joy because I am a Disciple of His Truth. I am honored to share my Bible study with anyone you may recommend. As always, I remain, Yours in Christ, Thomas Joe Cruz-Wiggins
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