Song: You're Beautiful in His eyes - by Mercy Me
This song has meant so much to my heart. My husband, Mark, and I have been married for 34 years February 18, 1977. I come from a background where I had no worth or value. Likewise, Mark and I have ministered in Rescue Mission Ministry for over 29 years and we reach out to the homeless/poor/street people within society. This ministry began in 1872 at New ork City Rescue Mission. The founders were Maria and Jerry McAuley. Jerry had been an ex-convict and had been a part of the original gangs of NYC. Maria had been a prostitute and ran a brothel house. They repented and made Jesus their Lord. The prostitutes would attend church but were shunned. So Jerry and Maria brought 'church' to them inside the brothel houses. Every Sunday morning they would set up church services. The woman would come to know the Lord but had no where to go for shelter. So Jerry and Maria purchased a building and set up 24/7 shelter, food, clothing, and the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS for these broken women. All of us are BEAUTIFUL in HIM...
I went through so much - more than any person really wants to know...
As I shared I came into the LOVING ARMS of JESUS on October 9, 1977. The Lord brought me through the doors of Home Sweet Home Mission on October 31, 1977, and Mark (a counselor at the Mission) placed me under his care and covering...
After experiencing abuse as a child and only wanting to be LOVED... I got trapped into a season of great SIN as I so much wanted to experience only one small moment of LOVE and to be HELD for just a MOMENT - this is all I wanted ...
At that time I weighed 100 to 105 pounds. I looked like what the cat would drag in... I was completely broken inside but I now had the NEW HOPE OF LIFE in Jesus Christ as I gave my LIFE into HIS HANDS and HIS TRUST.
Mark had saved himself for marriage as he was so close to the Lord. But one day the Lord spoke to Mark's heart to marry me and cover me... (As with Boaz and Ruth)... Mark would not even hold my hands until we married on February 18, 1978. (I was a REBORN virgin in Christ).
Mark gave me a new name that he always felt was spoken by God toward me... It is CHOSEN TREASURE...
Chosen Treasure of Royalty
My life story is like that from the PLAY called - "The Man of LaMancha"... only so much better than this play for JESUS chose me to be HIS PRINCESS and HE chose you and me to become HIS BRIDE
Where I gain encouragement from God's TRUTH and word is that Rehab (whom had been a prostitute written about in God's Word) she actually became the Great Grandmother of King David - and was a part of the blood line of Jesus... (Matthew Chapter 1)...
God always took the kick outs of society, the undesirables, and the broken, and brought us to HIM and HIS LOVE...
Matthew 22 The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. 4 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ 5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless. 13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
God takes the bad and ugly of this world and makes them beautiful before Him and His glory.
A story I wrote (that I am continually changing and adjusting and rewriting) is the story of the diamond... read below
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Buried deep beneath the ugliness, darkness of the earth lays a rock, a small unidentified rock, no substance, nothing of beauty, but a plain ordinary simple ugly rock... but laying all around this small rock is the darkness, ugliness, filthiness of dark, cold, COAL... beneath the earth... As a small unidentified rock next to the coldness and darkness of this COAL - it feels like death covering.
LIFE is a hard process... and LIFE living amongst coal is a LIFE of death, darkness, coldness, filthyness... COAL - dark, cold, black, filthy, messy and without form.
COAL in hands
This COAL buried deep underneath the ugliness, darkness of the earth next to this unidentified rock, with no substance and certainly nothing of beauty, but a plain ordinary simple rock...
The COAL covers this rock of no beauty... the COAL shifts back and forth with this rock in between - causing PRESSURE, RUBBING, and GREAT PAIN... sometimes the pain and pressure is unbearable in surviving beneath this darkness and coldness of a grave... but after years as this unformed unidentified ordinary rock lays hidden deep beneath the ugliness, darkness, and coldness of a grave of this coal - one day...
A man, a simple precious man, a man named Mark Fairchild, sees something laying amongst this coal and it is sparkling with many colors of the rainbow as the fullness of the SON shines down on this 'rock'.. Mark experiences a moment of blindness from the great SHINE that reflects buried beneath this coal. So Mark bends down to see where this brightness amongst the darkness is coming from buried beneath the coal...
Mark digs in further with his hands... for something is shining brightly from this black, coldness, and darkness. What is shining so brightly amongst this darkness and coldness of a grave within this coal, to actually blind this man?Finally as Mark is digging deeper within the belly of the coldness of the coal, his hands now covered with blackness, he touches a rock and his fingers clench down around that rock... Mark pulls this rock up to the surface of the earth as the SON shines down upon this one CHOSEN ROCK within the clenches of Mark's fingers... as Mark opens his fingers - before him is the most beautiful rock that he has ever seen before...
Mark - the 'knight in shining armor' Jane - coal that became a CHOSEN TREASURE, a diamond from coal, and now a PRINCESS of GOD for eternity - earth and heaven (FOREVER a PRINCESS in JESUS)
Coal is dark, cold, filthy, and feels like inside a grave around coal buried beneath the earth
For this rock is a beautiful glowing DIAMOND...This is what comes out from the pressures of the coal buried beneath the heaviness and darkness of the earth....
DIAMONDS
Not created by man's hands but created by the PRESSURE, DARKNESS, COLDNESS, PRESSURES, AND BEARING DOWN from life...
Mark looks down and sees this beautiful glowing DIAMOND in the palm of his hands...
Mark found a "CHOSEN TREASURE" from the depth of dirt, heaviness, pressure, filth, darkness, and coldness - and in the middle of all this was a "CHOSEN TREASURE"....
A DIAMOND in the hands of God...
A DIAMOND shining HIS GLORY all around...
A DIAMOND - A "CHOSEN TREASURE"
A "CHOSEN TREASURE" in the hands of God...
DIAMONDS - for a PRINCESS OF GOD... A ROYAL GENERATION, CHOSEN TREASURES OF GOD
Mark admires this work of the Masters Hands before him and says 'I will make her my bride'... and Mark becomes my true god-given 'knight in shining armour'...
As Mark's love saw the true JANE - the JANE that God sees... A DIAMOND sharing the GLORY of GOD from my heart...
From the simple rock hidden amongst coal comes a DIAMOND and the DIAMOND is transformed into ROYALTY of a PRINCESS.
Now GOD, Himself has given me that name "CHOSEN TREASURE" and I am His Diamond - reflecting his forgiveness, his love, and his mercy.... and He gave me my 'knight in shining armour' - Mark... I have the RICHES of GOD...
He took the ashes of my life and He made me BEAUTIFUL...
All because He loved me so much that He went to the cross and He died for me (and for you) and it is through His blood shed upon that cross that gives ME LIFE.... JESUS rescued my soul from DEATH of the grave and He made this ordinary simple rock buried in death amongst the coal - He made me a DIAMOND...
A "CHOSEN TREASURE" of God...
A "DIAMOND" of His worth and His glory...
Today, I, Jane Fairchild, and not only called a "CHOSEN TREASURE' but I also was given the last name of Fairchild.... for now I am a 'fair child that is running hard into the loving arms of my Heavenly Father'....
Please listen to the words of the song that I sent as they say it all within my own life in Him.
How does COAL become a DIAMOND
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-does-coal-become-a-diamond.html
Princess Diana - was the CHOSEN PRINCESS of this world... She was beautiful... But if she did not make JESUS HER LORD - she too, after dying from this earth, is within an eternity within HELL... So on earth she was a TEMPORARAY PRINCESS of this world.
Princess Diana was an earthly princess but without JESUS - it would only be on this earth and not in heaven...
Simple beauty of an earthly princess...
A diamond on earth.
But for Jane, because I accepted and made JESUS AS MY LORD within my heart - as a CHOSEN TREASURE in God's hand - I am a PRINCESS in God's Kingdom FOREVER without end - both earth and heaven... and I am married to my God-given 'KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR'
Knight Mark and Princess Jane "TOGETHER FOREVER" in Jesus
Married FOR ETERNITY in Christ Jesus
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