Katrina: The Right Storm?
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| Description | I have heard it stated that, 'As it is in the natural, so it's in-the spiritual.' Applying that declaration to the displaced American victims of Hurricane Katrina, as its winds blew and the waters flooded, I cannot help but feel that the wind of the Spirit was ALSO blowing as the flood of Christians and potential world-changing survivors has been scattered all around the region. What Satan intended for evil, it will be used by God for good. How to be so sure? All through Church history, because - and also within my life - we can observe that the devil ALWAYS shoots himself in the foot. Cases? When the Jerusalem Church was scattered through persecution, I am sure many believers wondered how it could have happened. Things were therefore good, in the end. The Church was thriving and spreading. My friend learned about Conquer Your Worry! Learn To Be Confident In Public Speech Events | Eventbr by browsing Google Books. Later, along comes this trouble-maker called Saul from a place called Tarsus. To study additional information, consider having a glance at: lee mcfarland. He was public enemy #1, where the Church was concerned. Then he has a personal experience with Jesus while en route to rounding up a bunch of Christians and taking them to test, and winds up finally writing 13 of the 27 publications of the New Testament. But immediately after Saul (who was also known as Paul) had his encounter with Jesus - an encounter that left him blind - a believer named Ananias was taught by the Lord to go to and lay hands on Saul and recover his sight. It's more than likely that Ananias was one of these displaced Jerusalem Christians who had to flee the persecution of Rome. He had been strategically located near Saul's spiritual 'Ground Zero' by God with this extraordinary purpose. Despite his initial concerns, Ananias ministered to Saul as a fresh convert. H-e relieved Saul's eyes. He instructed Saul, confirming that the Jesus seen by Saul on the road was indeed god The Father. H-e encouraged Saul, addressing him as a Christian brother. He baptized Saul, technically incorporating him to the body of Christ. Eventually, Saul became completely restored as he gobbled up some groceries. In most, Ananias's ministry models for people the loyal, restorative part the Church would be to play in the lives of strangers, regardless of their previous reputations, or our fear of them. DISPLACED INDIVIDUALS ARE NOTHING NEW Contacting homeless people is nothing less than to connect with other human beings for a Divine purpose. Did you know there are presently 50 million or therefore such people on the planet, displaced due to natural disasters, famine, war, famine or persecution? It's in reaching out to these individuals that individuals allow ourselves to have transformation. Besides Saul, there are several other Biblical examples of individuals who have been forced to leave their homes. Their experiences were probably much worse than those of the evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. For instance, as a result of famine, Naomi, a Moabite, would go to another property. Because of a famine, Joseph's family in the course of time removed to Egypt. Due to systematic extermination of 2-year-old children by Herod, Joseph and Mary fled to Africa. Yes, Jesus Himself was an undocumented refugee! Stories of God's people taking flight are central to our Christian history. To-day, the response to these poor, displaced Americans who are being unceremoniously shuttled off to strange communities is a huge collection of excessive hospitality and sympathy, and outright rejection. An emotional roller-coaster for certain. Obviously, the Biblical mandate to The Church is to welcome the stranger, as you of our very own to address the foreigner, to lengthen kindness to the sojourner. That is it. No finger pointing. Nothing but welcome. Does it be simple? Absolutely not. But God's grace will prove adequate as often. Getting involved with other people's lives and problems could be difficult. For individuals who step out of their comfort zones in order to 'reach out and touch someone,' though not all your activities will prove pleased, they WILL be altering. For YOU as well as for those you support. THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN REFUGEES Have you ever listened to the public interviews with your evacuees to the news? Time and again, extremely, they're offering praise to God and expressing their unwaivering faith and trust in the Name of Jesus. Tonight, I watched in awe as, on two split up events, young teen girls, joining new schools after being displaced, wisely declared that they'll be stronger people for having experienced what they have been through. How could this MAYBE not be true? Individuals, they saw the glory of God. They were witnesses to His mighty hand snatching them from the jaws of Death. Their lives are forever changed. They can give public testimony - a witness - that they know God EXPERIENTIALLY. They can as a result be world-changers. Twenty, fifteen years from now, I had want to see where the Kids of Katrina will be. I'll bet they'll be changing lives. My contention? Although we might be helping these people and reaching out, in the same way Ananias reached out to Saul, it was Ananias - no, it was me and you - who actually needed what God had to provide us through HIM! As the Lord said to Ananias when h-e protested, 'telling' Him of the reports of the harm Saul was doing towards the Believers in Jerusalem, 'this person is MY CHOSEN INSTRUMENT....' If God can use Saul...Paul...to virtually change the World, He can certainly use these homeless Americans who've been tossed about, tattered and torn by Katrina. God is certainly able, and if that's the situation, Hurricane Katrina might turn out to be an ideal storm. when He unmasked Himself on your way to Emmaus As Christ Himself did, let us reveal Christ to these strangers while they arrive in our cities, universities and church bodies. READ 'EM & REAP! Following are just a NUMBER OF verses needing to do with so on, visitors, sojourners, homelessness, fatherless, widows and strangers. You will find many more. Perform a Word study. I wound up with 4 pages! And she (Moses' spouse Zipporah) bare him a son, and he named his name Gershom: for he said, I've been a stranger in a strange land. Exodus 2:22 One law will probably be to him that's homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. Exodus 12:49 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, or oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 22:21 Also thou shalt maybe not oppress a stranger: for ye know the center of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 23:9 And thou shalt maybe not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou assemble every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I'm the LORD your God. Lev. 19:10 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. Lev. 19:33 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you together born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the area of Egypt: I'm the LORD your God. If you have an opinion about families, you will likely claim to study about Matzen Buus | re.vu. Lev. 19:34 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I'm the LORD your God. I learned about image by browsing Google Books. Lev. 23:22 Ye shall have one types of legislation, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I'm the LORD your God. Lev. 24:22 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be described as a stranger, or perhaps a sojourner; that he might live with thee. Lev. 25:35 One ordinance shall be equally for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, therefore shall the stranger be before the LORD. Num. 15:15 One law and one way will be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. Num. 15:16 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Deut. 10:18 Love ye consequently the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Deut. 10:19 And the Levite, (because h-e hath no portion nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. Deut. 14:29 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which can be with-in thy gates. Deut. 16:14 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he's thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; since thou wast a stranger in his property. Deut. 23:7 Thou shalt perhaps not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge. Deut. 24:17 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt maybe not go again to get it: it will probably be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may possibly bless thee in all the work of thine hands. Deut. 24:19 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it will probably be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. Deut. 24:20 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it will probably be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. Deut. 24:21 And thou shalt rejoice in most good thing which the LORD thy God hath granted unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that's among you. Deut. 26:11 When thou hast made an end-of tithing all the tithes of thine boost the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, they might eat within thy gates, and be filled; Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine home, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to-the widow, based on all thy commandments which thou hast led me: I've not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them. Deut. 26:12-13 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all of the people can say, Amen. Deut. 27:19 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to stay in this place, in the area that I gave to your men, for ever and ever. Jer. 7:6-7 The folks of the area have applied oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the indegent and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Ezek. 22:29 And it shall come to go, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give his inheritance to him, saith the LORD God. Ezek. 47:23 And oppress perhaps not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and allow none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. Zechariah 7:10 And I will come close to one to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against untrue swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:5 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: bare, and ye clothed me not: tired, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then will they also answer him, expressing, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, expressing, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of those, ye did it not to me. Matt. 25:42-45 And I've also established my covenant with them, to provide them the land of Canaan, the land of these pilgrimage, whereby they were strangers. Exodus 6:4 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, or oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 22:21 Also thou shalt maybe not oppress a stranger: for ye know one's heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 23:9 But the stranger that dwelleth with you'll be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the area of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Lev. 19:34 Love ye for that reason the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Deut. 10:19 For we're strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days o-n our planet are like a shadow, and there's none abiding. 1 Chron. 29:15 God THE FATHER preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: however the way of the wicked he turneth ugly. Psalm 146:9 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the daughters of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. Isaiah 61:5 And it shall come to move, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they'll be unto you as born in the state among the children of Israel; they'll have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. Ezekiel 47:22 Be maybe not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 Precious, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers. 3 John 1:5 OTHER RELEVANT PASSAGES: THE STORY OF THE GREAT SAMARITAN (the Samaritans were strangers in the land of Israel ): And, behold, a particular lawyer stood up, and persuaded him, expressing, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? H-e said unto him, What's written in regulations? how readest thou? And h-e answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy power, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, ready to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he found him, he passed by o-n the other side. And like-wise a Levite, passed by on the other side and looked on him, and when he was at the spot, came. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he'd compassion on him, And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own animal, and brought him to a hotel, and took care of him. And on-the morrow when he left, he took out two pence, and gave them to the number, and said unto him, Care for him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of those three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell one of the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou like-wise. Luke 10:25-37 NOTES! 1) The visitors in the land of Israel were likely to discover the laws of God. They were not granted equal status in transactions directly with sacred things including the Temple. 2) The Jews were often given into the arms of strangers for punishment and slavery by God when He was displeased with them. 3) God did not want the young ones of Israel to embrace values and traditions of strangers, but instead for strangers to embrace the means of the Jews. Hence, we feel, the open immigration policy needed by God Himself doesn't mean that Americans need to surrender America's great values and traditions to a wave of foreign people. But Americans should persevere in an exceedingly generous and open-hearted treatment of all foreigners, at all times. This nation's prosperity and success depends upon faithfulness to this central command of God. These individuals may be nothing less than 'Grace-Growers' within our lives.. |
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