Was meditating much on John 20:14 and Luke 24:16 as I was preparing for our Re-Org for 100k this afternoon. The Lord spoke to me about these 2 parallel passages of Scripture where in John 20, Mary Magdalene was at the tomb weeping when Jesus died and was consumed with his death when she found His body missing and wondered who had taken Her Lord, while in Luke 24, the 2 persons were on the way to Emmaus and was talking among themselves about the death of Jesus and was distressed and sad. Both had similar experiences where their hearts were saddened, distressed, and downcast even when, Jesus was literally walking and standing among them. Yet, they did not recognize Him or rather, their eyes were not opened to Him. Can we ask the Lord to open our eyes to see Jesus in our midst?
I felt the Lord give me a personal challenge as we talked about the blessing that we have been doing with our friends, strangers and even our families. That we need to ask and invite the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our heart to see the heart of Jesus so that we will know and have the compassion for the Lost. It is easy to be discouraged, intimidated, entertain negative thoughts, be experiencing sickness and pain or even be so busy and caught up with our daily routines during this period in the 100k blessing (when we are supposedly to be fixing our heart and mind on reaching our 20 people) but God is steering us to rise up again, believe Him and speak faith into our own spirit man. He wants us to purpose in our heart that He is for us and desires that the Words of our Mouth and the Meditations of our Hearts be Pleasing to Him each day – We can go out and reach the World with a blessing especially when we see their felt needs.
I was so encouraged as I heard the different testimonies of my ladies' sharing that we are committed to reach our target of blessing 20 persons by August. We covenanted to pray for each other daily, love each other and be committed to be in this community together – serving and loving Jesus! What a blessing!! ☺☺
May we be brought to complete unity to let the world know that Jesus sent us and have loved us even as He has loved them…. John 17:23.
