In the BODY of Christ - God has called me as a BIG TOE in His Body - what is your BODY PART in HIM - What are you truly doing for GOD outside the church building...
Are you willing to GO.... even giving up your job/career, family, safety, home, land, for the sake of the KINGDOM OF GOD.... Are you willing to GO beyond the city your were raised in and the church building that you attend week after week.... Are you willing to truly follow GOD'S CALL AND WILL FOR YOUR OWN LIFE IN HIM, EVEN IF IT COSTS YOU SOMETHING....
Please listen to this VIDEO by Casting Crowns "IF WE ARE THE BODY" and truly listen to the WORDS/LYRICS of this song...
http://youtu.be/z4wojcSO9Ww
Have you ever thought of what BODY part God has called you to be?When I first came to know the Lord JESUS as my Lord, I cried out to God in prayer and said to Him 'What body part am I
Lord, what is my called function in the body. Please tell me.'...
JESUS is the head and we are HIS BODY
During this precious quiet time before Him - He told me that "You are my Big Toe in my Body"... I responded 'BIG TOE, what is this, what of use is a BIG TOE'... He then quietly shared with my heart 'If you cut off the BIG TOE, the entire Body will be off balance and will not be able to walk straight. If you stub the BIG TOE - the entire BODY responds with great pain. You are my BIG TOE and the Body cannot function without you'...
My Body Part in Jesus is that of the BIG TOE
My BIG TOE is smiling for JESUS
Romans 12:3-5 (King James Version)
3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.14For the body is not one member, but many.15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
There are tests given to find out your gifts in God. I have taken 5 of these tests in other parts of America.
One of these tests was taken at Christ for the Nations Bible College when Mark and I attended there.
The other test was taken at Regent University (700 Club/CBN) when Mark and I attended there, and then I took this same test in 3 other locations/churches.
All 5 of these tests, although taken in other area of this nation and other locations: the test always revealed the exact same thing for my GIFTING'S in Him.
#1 My gift and calling in God is PROPHETIC
#2 My 2nd highest scored test is EVANGELIST;
#3 My 3rd highest scored test was Exhorter
If you notice all three gifting's you have to be BOLD and have a loud voice... ALL 3 tests revealed these exact same things (that were taken in different locations)... As you can see by my profile pictures with Mark holding my mouth - I have a MOUTH full of comments.... (he he he) I do love me for whom God made me to be... but He does have to BRIDLE and place me in boundaries at times... (Sometimes he disciplines me with his ROD of Discipline because of HIS LOVE for me and it hurts - but it is good for me.)
JESUS is the Head of His BODY... JESUS is the 'church' (A church building just because it is a church building does not make it necessarily a 'church' but only a building) For JESUS is the 'church'... You can have a 'church building' but never welcome the HOLY SPIRIT and/or JESUS to be the HEAD of that church and thus you only have a building that is lifeless...
As long as two are gathered in His name and you have fellowship with one another - you have not forsaken the 'church' but with only two in His name - you can have 'church'...
Even those whom do not attend together in church buildings in the nations that Christianity is illegal - you can have 'church' right in your own living room... (Church is not a man made building, but 'CHURCH' is allowing JESUS to be the Head...)
In American 'churchiantity' we place condemnation upon BELIEVERS in many ways. One of these ways of condemnation is saying 'don't forsake the fellowshipping together'.... YES, I agree we are to NEVER forsake being together in Christ in hearing the READING OF GOD's WORD... but how can you fellowship together behind each other's heads....
In America we attend church week after week in coming together but do our American Pastors equip us as BELIEVERS for the outside world or are we taught to grow fat and stagnant in being always together.... Is this TRUE FELLOWSHIP with fellow believers. When JESUS walked this earth - on the Sabbath JESUS (being a JEW) would always attend the Jewish Synagogue in hearing of God's word and to pay his tithes as God has written in His Word... but this is NOT WHERE JESUS had fellowship - JESUS had fellowship by going house to house as with Mary and Martha's house, as with Matthews house, as with Zacharius (The tax collector/sinners house).... breaking bread together, getting to truly know each other in relationship as Jesus did with his 12 disciples....
The "CHURCH BUILDINGS/SYNAGOGUES" should be to equip us as BELIEVERS for the outside world through God's written word - but our fellowship needs to be gained through breaking of bread and tears together...... working together, truly fellowshipping together and accepting and embracing others whom are different than ourselves.... BUILDING EACH OTHER UP in Christ.... But how can we build each other up behind each other's head on Sunday mornings... This is NOT FELLOWSHIP.
Do you want to attend a CHURCH BUILDING week after week, hearing another sermon, and yet not being the hands or feet of HEART of God of HIS BODY and doing nothing for the world outside the BUILDING made of wood and stone... or do you want to truly be a LIVING VESSEL/STONE of the true CHURCH OF JESUS AS LORD and being his feet, hands, and HEART outside in a dark world where people are perishing and going into an eternity without knowing JESUS into HELL.... This is the CHURCH I want to be a part of.... (not a building and only ministering to those inside)...
If we continued doing 'church' the same old way within America - then do you think any missionaries would go into the fields of harvest outside the church buildings.... do you think anyone would become saved into eternal life in Jesus CHRIST outside the church buildings... Learn to actually BE THE TRUE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AND NOT JUST A BUILDING OF WOOD AND STONE...
"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."
- Mike Stachura
These are QUOTES by various great men of God (Particularly: William Booth whom was the founder of Salvation Army):
“Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. - William Booth
Go for souls. Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. - William Booth
Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell. -C.T. Studd
"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for." — Charles H. Spurgeon
The FOUNDER of Rescue Mission Ministry in America in 1872 was Jerry and Maria McAuley. Maria had been a prostitute and a brothel house owner of prostitutes... The prostitutes would attend the 'church buildings' and were always SHUNNED and turned away. This same 'rejection' happens today in our American 'church buildings'... and today if you are not PERFECT and you show weakness in even small 'church groups' you can also be shunned the told to leave.... So Jerry and Maria saw this great need that was NOT BEING DONE through the CHURCH BUILDINGS so they brought CHURCH to the sinners - and every Sunday morning they set up 'church' inside the brothel houses to have Sunday morning church services. The men and women would come to know JESUS and repent but had no where else to live... so this is when Jerry and Maria purchased a small building and set up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, SHELTER, FOOD, CLOTHING and the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST daily... This was their BODY PART as part of the BODY of JESUS CHRIST (they became the CHURCH outside of a church building)....
When two are gathered in His Name - and He is the Head - then you have 'church'
Ephesians 5:22-24 (King James Version)
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Ephesians 5:29-31 (King James Version)
29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Colossians 1:23-25 (King James Version)
23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the
gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every
The FIRST RESCUE MISSION MINISTRY 'CHURCH' in 1872... This is Mark's and my calling in God... we will NEVER FORSAKE our calling in God. Mark use to be the Executive Director at Albuquerque Rescue Mission in Albuquerque New Mexico for over 15 years. Today he is the Chaplain at Peoria Rescue Mission. We have been in this 'calling' for 30 years.... This is the BODY PART that the Lord has called us for HIM...
Approximately 133 years ago a former inmate of NYC's Tombs and NY state's Sing Sing founded (along with his wife, an ex-prostitute) a rescue mission whose evangelical and rehabilitative work with the homeless and destitute continues to this day although the original wooden building in Lower Manhattan has been long gone.
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The year was 1872; the month, October, and the couple, Jerry and Maria McAuley. They named their mission house, at 316 Water Street, the Helping Hand for Men. It is reputed the first such rescue mission in New York -- a model for an uncountable number of such urban missions that followed across the country and around the world.
Years later McAuley wrote about how he and his wife began the mission house:
One day I had a sort of vision. I thought we had a house in the Fourth Ward, and a stream of people were coming in. I washed them outside, and the Lord washed them inside; and I cried as I thought, "O, if I could only do that for Jesus' sake."
"Do it for one, if you can't do it for more," said Maria, and that's the way we begun, in an old rookery of a house in one room, and a little sign hung out: "THE HELPING HAND FOR MEN."
QUOTES of famous Christian leaders/missionaries:
Missions Quotes
"Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
"I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ."
Count Zinzindorf
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies." J. Hudson Taylor
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John the Baptist
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
C.T. Studd
"The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner." William Cameron Townsend
"Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes." Robert E. Speer
"The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a "field full of wheat and tares." Amy Carmichael
"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth." James O. Fraser
"It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause." David Bryant
"What are we here for, to have a good time with Christians or to save sinners?" Malla Moe
"It's amazing what can be accomplished if you don't worry about who gets the credit."
Clarence W. Jones
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| Christian Quotes "I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages - villages whose People are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world." - Robert Moffat "The command has been to "go," but we have stayed - in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth…But 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." - Robert Savage "While vast continents are shrouded in darkness…the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field." - Ion Keith-Falconer "Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees." - J. Hudson Taylor "And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives…and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." - Nate Saint "Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in hell and neither do most Christians" - Leonard Ravenhill "Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary." - C.T. Studd "We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." - John Stott "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot "A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story." - K.P. Yohannan "I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning "God has huge plans for the world today! He is not content to merely establish a handful of struggling churches among each tongue, tribe and nation. Even now He is preparing and empowering His Church to carry the seeds of revival to the uttermost ends of the earth." - David Smithers "The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." - Mike Stachura "Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.'" - C.H. Spurgeon. |
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