Our Memorial Legacy: Keeping the Feast
Our diet for our lifetime after each Memorial is to be the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 2 Corinthians 5:7-8
What we ate to celebrate the Memorial was the bread, the pure and sinless humanity of Christ broken on our behalf. What we absorb and receive energy from every day afterward is a continued diet of pure thoughts and meditations that reflect the heart and perceptions of both the Father and the Son.
So the question I ask myself is What is my mind feeding on? And in recent experiences, the question comes up: when I am with a difficult person, are my thoughts unleavened?
Even if you don’t have time to read this email, don’t miss this video link mentioned at the end.
#239 Our Memorial Legacy: Keeping the Feast
Recent experiences in life and with employees have made me even more aware that what we know of people is only the tip of the iceberg.
What did he see when he saw a person or a multitude? Imagine seeing a person and knowing deep in your heart what that person in dealing with in life, their greatest fears and their greatest hopes.
Imagine what Jesus saw and the hearts he could read as he hung from the cross.
So I am asking the Lord to teach me to really SEE people, to sense their heart, or at least to wonder about their heart, and to long for their blessing, and to pray for their highest good in His time and way, and in preparation for the Kingdom.
When people walk by my office, or come to talk with me, I pray to look at them in a new way.
I notice how they walk, and how they carry themselves, and I wonder what burdens they carry and what joys make them excited about life.
First thing at 7 am we had a meeting with our ‘Lead people’ about a week ago. As I looked at each person, I wondered what their inner struggles were, and how their longing for relationship with God is sought for. One seeks to fulfill himself and find a sense of belonging with belief in aliens that are overtaking the world and have an agenda to bring a Golden Age. He feels controlled by his brother and is trying to prove his independence.
Another is in recovery from alcohol addiction. He takes any positive criticism, even when playfully and carefully delivered, as reprimand. He has had ups and downs in his recovery and I wonder how he is really doing now.
Another is struggling to come to grips with his mother's stage 4 lung cancer. They have taken care of each other for years, and this is really hard for him.
Lord, teach me to see people the way Jesus saw them.
“And seeing the multitudes, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.” Matthew 9:36
“And the spirit of the LORD will rest on him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
And he will delight in the fear of the LORD,
And he will not judge by what his eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what his ears hear;
But with righteousness he will judge the poor…”
Isaiah 11:2-4
And then, I received an email from a friend with the following awesome link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDWvj_q-o8
Beautiful and inspiring.
Every person presents us with an opportunity to pray for their highest good and blessing in His time and way.
Each person presents us with an opportunity to pray for their deepest need for God to be fulfilled.
Lord, lead us to the prayer, the awareness and the actions to be Your light and love to our precious human family.
What we ate to celebrate the Memorial was the bread, the pure and sinless humanity of Christ broken on our behalf. What we absorb and receive energy from every day afterward is a continued diet of pure thoughts and meditations that reflect the heart and perceptions of both the Father and the Son.
So the question I ask myself is What is my mind feeding on? And in recent experiences, the question comes up: when I am with a difficult person, are my thoughts unleavened?
Even if you don’t have time to read this email, don’t miss this video link mentioned at the end.
#239 Our Memorial Legacy: Keeping the Feast
Recent experiences in life and with employees have made me even more aware that what we know of people is only the tip of the iceberg.
What did he see when he saw a person or a multitude? Imagine seeing a person and knowing deep in your heart what that person in dealing with in life, their greatest fears and their greatest hopes.
Imagine what Jesus saw and the hearts he could read as he hung from the cross.
So I am asking the Lord to teach me to really SEE people, to sense their heart, or at least to wonder about their heart, and to long for their blessing, and to pray for their highest good in His time and way, and in preparation for the Kingdom.
When people walk by my office, or come to talk with me, I pray to look at them in a new way.
I notice how they walk, and how they carry themselves, and I wonder what burdens they carry and what joys make them excited about life.
First thing at 7 am we had a meeting with our ‘Lead people’ about a week ago. As I looked at each person, I wondered what their inner struggles were, and how their longing for relationship with God is sought for. One seeks to fulfill himself and find a sense of belonging with belief in aliens that are overtaking the world and have an agenda to bring a Golden Age. He feels controlled by his brother and is trying to prove his independence.
Another is in recovery from alcohol addiction. He takes any positive criticism, even when playfully and carefully delivered, as reprimand. He has had ups and downs in his recovery and I wonder how he is really doing now.
Another is struggling to come to grips with his mother's stage 4 lung cancer. They have taken care of each other for years, and this is really hard for him.
Lord, teach me to see people the way Jesus saw them.
“And seeing the multitudes, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd.” Matthew 9:36
“And the spirit of the LORD will rest on him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
And he will delight in the fear of the LORD,
And he will not judge by what his eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what his ears hear;
But with righteousness he will judge the poor…”
Isaiah 11:2-4
And then, I received an email from a friend with the following awesome link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDWvj_q-o8
Beautiful and inspiring.
Every person presents us with an opportunity to pray for their highest good and blessing in His time and way.
Each person presents us with an opportunity to pray for their deepest need for God to be fulfilled.
Lord, lead us to the prayer, the awareness and the actions to be Your light and love to our precious human family.
