Thank YOU!

Word of Praise and Encouragement- First amount of $3,000 was due by May 20th. Need met, Thank YOU Jesus!

To our first 12 Philippians; (I thank my God) for your fellowship (your sympathetic cooperation and contributions and partnership) in advancing the good news (the Gospel).

I am convinced of the good work which He has begun, He is true and faithful to complete in developing that good work and perfecting and bringing it to full completion.

It is right and appropriate for me to have this confidence and feel this way about you all, because you have me in your heart and I hold you in my heart as partakers and sharers, one and all with me, of grace (Gods unmerited favor and spiritual blessing). Amp vs 5- 7

May His Love abound in us all more and more and extend to it's fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight (that our love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more more comprehensive discernment that we may learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value, that we may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless till the day of Christ) not stumbling nor causing others to stumble. Stepping through the right time gate or should I say the just in time gate!

First a personal word: For ten years or more I was convinced the Lord would bring this about a certain way and it would not be through partnering with others, I would not be a burden to others (as if I was the one who could bless others giving). For me it was not materialism, God had to shake however, He had to shatter some paradigm's of HOW! To say my goal is to be christ like is to much, it is to lofty a goal! To the one trying to learn to play the violin and has been told you must practice till you are as good as mozart, might get discouraged or even worse give up! But if like Paul we can say it is not I who lives anymore but Christ lives in me my hope of glory. To try to be like Him implies "I" is still involved in the process. To embrace the cross implies total surrender of self, not just death to our wants but also our ideas of how God will work in and through us!