Saturday, February 11, 2017

One Body





I wrote this a couple of years ago and we got to see some amazing things happen that year. Guess what?  It's true again. 

We love our Celebration Church family so crazy much and we're so excited and so hopeful for the things that have happened, are happening and will happen. God is doing something new within us, something He's never done before and the anticipation as we move forward nearly makes me giddy. 

"For I am about to do something new. 
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? 
I will make a pathway through the wilderness. 
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland." 
Isaiah 43:19 

Isn't that exciting and lovely? Showing hope to the hopeless, loving the unloved, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, wrapping our arms around the untouched and the forgotten because God has never forgotten one of us. GOD HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOU. 

When all hope is lost, Hope hasn't lost you. 
When peace seems elusive, Peace wraps His big, 
strong arms around you and stabilizes you. 

And we see you saints out there! You, whose arms are linked to the arms of your church family to create a unified body of Christ WITH us!  

Many churches. 
One body. 
Jesus. 

All of us with our pasts and our baggage and our broken pieces, all woven back together in love. My scars touching yours as we lock arms and say NOT ONE MORE PERSON GETS THROUGH, NOT ONE MORE PERSON FALLS THROUGH THE CRACKS. WE!! WILL!! FIGHT FOR YOU!!!  

And I'm angry. I'm angry anyone ever told you that you weren't worth it. Or that you could never be worthy of love. It's a lie. And in HIS strength, we are picking up our weapons and will fight for you. Just as The Lord fights for us and as He's always fought for you. We love you. Truly. I ask that you trust us (again). Trust the God within us. You have this purpose just furiously beating out a rhythm within you. 

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A purpose that was lovingly placed there. Come meet the One who put that within you and can lift you out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire and set your feet on solid ground; steady you as you walk wherever you go. (see Psalm 40:2) He can set your feet to dancing and rip off your sackcloth and clothe you with JOY! (see Psalm 30:11) 
If you don't have a church home and want to come, then come with me. If you just can't regarding church then message me. If you have questions, message me. Find someone that you trust who trusts Jesus and start a conversation. 

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. (1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV)

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