Also. I think there would be an amzing offering that month!!!!!

I quite agree with you. Lately the Lord has been giving me this understanding about what He is after when He instructs us to pray the Lord’s Prayer and ask for His Kingdom to come and His Will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven. What you are saying there: “… I was just thinking yesterday that it might be better to give to those that God has seemed to put in our life rather than to send it off….”. seems to me to be doing exactly what He wants to do to fulfill that part of the Lord’s Prayer! Also, in light of that, I come to ponder the same thing with these Words from Acts 20:

Act 20:32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Act 20:33 I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.
Act 20:34 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.
Act 20:35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Now just imagine all the Church doing that in every place, every town, city, county, state and nation of the world. I think the world would come to realize the Kingdom has now come and the Will of God is presently being demonstrated to them on earth as the Kingdom and His Will are done back home in Glory Land!

Your buddy, Michael Burke

I feel that the most profound words that will ever be spoken to us, aside from the written Word, is that which occurs when we still ourselves before the Lord, in temporary isolation, and in replete silence.

Over the years, the one topic about which I have written and spoken, is that of the daily discipline of entering-into quiet-time with the Lord–that we might hear His voice for ourselves.

An analogy which the Lord spoke to me long ago, is that found in Mathew 18:3, wherein Jesus says that if we do not become as a “little child” we will not see the kingdom. One day long ago I was meditating upon that one verse, when the Lord spoke this to me:

“David, one of the greatest places of peace for a child is that while sitting on its father’s lap, nestled close to his chest, resting in complete peace and safety, and while hearing his heartbeat. And unless you become as a little child, by sitting upon My lap in your quiet-times, and allowing Me to still your soul, speak peace to your mind; and allowing Me to speak affirmation to your soul like no man can, you will ‘not see the Kingdom’ made manifest in your life and in your ministry, now.”

The greatest ministry in which we will ever engage in this lifetime, will be that which occurs as we minister to our Father, by sitting in stillness and silence before Him, like a child sitting on the lap of his earthly father. All other ministry is but an overflow of that ministry, and is secondary at best.

I pray a blanket of peace over you today, as you continue to instill this greatest of ministries, to those whom you are presently pouring-into and as you rest in him. May the lord open a way for us to come together one of these days.

In his Love
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