Alive in Christ: Insight from God
Dear Mentor, As we enjoy the summer months and life takes on a different rhythm, we are praying for you as you continue to make time to sit at your computer and answer the cry of hungry hearts. We pray God will give you INSIGHT as you reach across this borderless internet community and share His love. May you be blessed abundantly as you give Him your loaves and fish to feed the hungry. May your bread be fresh as you offer it to Him.
Cathy’s face glowed. She talked about the gentle care of her Heavenly Father. She told me how God had provided the people and the words that she had needed to hear as she searched for Him. Her pain of the past has been healed and she is experiencing a wholeness in her heart that she never even knew existed. I poured the tea and listened to her story.
It’s the same story you and I hear from those who write to us through our mentoring ministry. There is hurt, confusion, fear and such a hunger that is often not even definable in the depths of their souls. We know that what they seek is that connection with God.and sometimes we may be their only link in the darkness to draw them to His love.
Cathy spoke of people God had put in her life that had said just the thing she had needed to hear. She had several examples of simple truths spoken at the right moment and God dropped that seed into fertile soil.
As each letter comes your way over the summer months, know that you have been given one of those moments in the process of a hungry heart coming to God. Ask God for INSIGHT, His insight to understand the hurt at the other end of that email. Ask Him for insight about the resulting need that hurt has brought to the surface.
Ask Him for His compassion in your heart as you write back. God knows just the nugget of truth that this fertile soil is ready to receive. His truths are simple and He will give you the words to touch each particular individual in a way that will resound in their heart.
As we take the hand of a hurting soul, in this most unique way online, ask God to give you fresh INSIGHT, His insight into just what this soul needs to hear. It need not be wordy or long. It ought not to be our own ideas of how to fix a particular problem. We need His insight to hear the hurt and understand the need, to receive from Him the words to touch a heart that has reached out from the darkness longing to be whole.
Ask Him each time to give you the understanding and the particular truth to share. What a privilege to share a loaf and watch Father God multiply it in the hungry heart that receives it.
Father God,
Thank you for each Mentor that You have brought to this ministry. Thank you that they are positioned to be the one that responds to the particular email You have directed to them. Give them fresh bread in their times with You so that they will have the freshness of Your truths overflowing in their hearts. Give them insight, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to write just what this soul needs to be drawn on in his or her journey to You.
Bless and protect each Mentor through these busy months. Draw them into quiet places to have their own hearts refreshed with the simplicity of Your truths. Give them divine insight in the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
Have a wonderful summer!
Warmly,
Gail Rodgers
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I was just lisiting to the radio 88.3 fm in deltona florida and heard your brief message on the radio that talked about serving god as a normal person and it really moved me you see i’ve been living in this world for the last 20 years of my life saved by the blood of the lamb the lord JEAUS CHIRST but lived in the world and stalled my walk with CHIRST then my brother in law went and got SAVED then he got my SON SAVED and it opened that part of my HEART that I thought was lost but GUESS WHAT IT”S NOT Iwent to bibile study for the first time thursday night 2/21/08 and my [I WAS TRULEY SAVED 21 YEARS AGO AND WALKED THE WALK TALKED THE TALK ]eyes were opened wide by the holley spirt and i feel more ALIVE NOW then I ever have I just want to tell everybody how wonderful it feelS TO BE LOVED BY GOD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO DIE FOR ME AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US IN THE WORLD IT WAS LIKE I TOOK THE BIGGEST HIT OF CRACK IV’E EVER TAKEN IN MY LIFE AND IDON’T WANT TO GO SLEEP SO I DO NOT MESS ANY PART OF IT IT IS JUST THE MOST AWSOME FEELING I HAVE EVER FELT IN MY LIFE I JUST WANT TO DIVE IN HEAD FIRST AND SAVE THE WORLD WELL I KNOW I CANT SAVE THE WORLD BUT I SURE CAN GIVE IT EVERY THING I GOT IF I CAN TOUCH AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN MY LIFE BY GLORIFING GOD THEN GLOREY BE TO GOD AND IF I CAN TOUCH A MULITUDE OF PEOPLE THEN GOD IS GLOIFIED EVEN MORE PRAISE BE TO GOD AMEN