Dear KKIM Family,
I though you would enjoy a break from Election day. I was not going to write anything today until the Lord prompted me to.
I am here to serve our Lord and you.
Here is what the Lord wanted me to share with you today……….
Let us love and serve one another…………
There is a new book out that I just got in the mail about former Minnesota Gov. and Congressman Al Quie.
Talk about service.
Many of you know that Chuck Colson of “Breakpoint” served time in prison for Watergate. What you might not know is that Colson was a member of the prayer group that Al Quie was in.
While Chuck was in prison one day he was thinking that he really had hit bottom.
The very next day Al Quie called Chuck and said to him that the prayer group had just met and they think they had found a way the he, (Al Quie) would REPLACE Colson is prison. In other words Al was willing to serve the rest of Colson’s prison term!!!!
Colson could barely respond…..he shouted NO!
At that moment Colson now knew that beyond a shadow of doubt that the Christ he committed his life to 18 months earlier was real, alive with him at that moment, in his midst. Nothing more than the presence of the living God could cause a man like Quie to sacrifice everything for another brother who was hurting. Jesus words rang out to Colson, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
Remember today and everyday my friends, You have the greatest friend ever, in Jesus Christ. If your candidate loses today……don’t distress………remember Jesus Christ.
The way to measure good fortune, Colson writes, is not by riches and material comforts. the good life is in the deeper things of life; Knowing God, finding HIS peace, loving your family, and having a few true friends. Friendship is a great gift of God. Jesus told His disciples, “You are my friends” John 15:15. It is not a term to be tossed about lightly, as we so frequently do.
I leave you with this closing message today……….
Love That Sweats
by Jon Walker
We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (NIV)
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Today’s guest devotional is provided by Jon Walker –
When Jesus loves, he works up a sweat; he rolls up his sleeves, gets on his knees, and washes our feet with his blood, sweat, and tears.
He labors at love, though his love is never like labor. He’s a giver, not a taker, loving us into being with a gifted carpenter’s hands. And he’s no slacker, loving us until we can take no more; no more because we’re filled to overflowing, his love spilling and splashing through our pores into the cores of those we love with his love, a love’s labor not lost on a world that needs to be found.
He wrestles our fears and wrangles our doubts and labors at love until he’s exhausted, lying prone in a garden, drinking from God’s cup the nourishment necessary for one last heroic sweaty, bloody, tearful lift of the Father’s infinite love; ready to die for God’s undying love.
A Jesus-love sticks to it, even when the it seems like an unstickable fury that’s no longer fun or convenient or even something you want to do. Jesus keeps on laboring in you and through you, finishing what he started, loving until the last with a love that lasts forever (John 13:1).
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Too many people are fretting today……….God is in charge……give it to God.
God Bless, Dewey Sharon and family
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