Israel Houghton once said, "Break my heart with the things that break YOUR heart." I know that GOD is absolutely passionate about souls. HE LOVES PEOPLE. Souls and the condition of their hearts matter to GOD. HE doesn't take it lightly, and neither should we. Amen.
I tell you, my heart groans within me to see the lost, the broken, the orphan, the widow, and the outcast come to Jesus. (With tears in my eyes) I just want to love them back to health and life with the love of Jesus🤗. LIVE!!! There are soooo many broken people. I can identify them, because I, too, was a broken vessel mended by the Father's love and grace. I know what it means to be picked up and held and resuscitated after a few almost moments of grave pain and despair throughout your life. Whoo... running👣👣👣!
God's love will come get you and refuse to let you go, even when you are feeling hopeless and helpless and even gasping for air. God's love will love you and enable you to give into the remedy of love which is Christ (John 3:16). You see, I know all too well the effects of pain and brokenness, but I also know the beauty of the Father's love; Abba Father, Daddy God. HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS. It is constant.
For days now my heart has had a continuous aching for the lost. I believe it's the Father's love maturing and growing within me. I want to see the oppressed go free! I have two totes full of journals, messages, and devotionals from my 7 years of being a senior pastor and 3 years of my own personal journey to healing, health and wholeness, compiled with truth, writings, inserts, precepts upon precepts on how God feels about His people, broken people and lost people coping with the aftermath of amputated dreams and hopes. Wow!!! (Again tears...😭.) I hear you Holy Spirit. The Father's heart throbes tonight for his people. Mm... wow!
2Peter Amplified version says, "The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people's conception of slowness, but HE is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should turn to repentance. You see, God wants you to live and He has prepared a banquet just for you at His table in the kingdom of God. And Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son and sent his servants to summon those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared (made ready) my banquet; my bullocks and my fatty calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast. But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away-- one to his farm, another to his business, while the other seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death. [Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soliders and put those muderers to death and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy. So go to the highways where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find (seek out, look for, stumble upon, come across in eyes view or able to get one's attention by calling). And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.
Deuteronomy 10:17; 2Chronicles 19:7; and Romans 2:11, teaches us that God is not partial; He is not a respector of persons. God is fair and is not indifferent in favor. He loves all people of all races, nationalities, genders, status, (married, single, separated or divorced), rich or poor. HE loves us so much that not only did He send His Son Jesus to die for us, but God the Father got in on the action. 2Corinthians 5:19 Amplified Version says, "It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration of favor).
That's right! God the Father was personally involved in our redemption on the cross. It was like GOD the Father, tirelessly hung there Himself and bore our sins. Wow!!! I must say, that right there is pretty awesome!!!
God finds us, identifies us through justification, cleanses and robes us through sanctification and equips us and then sends us out to win the lost, heal the sick and mend the hearts of the broken, when HE knows we are ready.
There is a prodigal in every family, the one bent on having their own way, until disaster strikes. Dum... dum... dum... dum. DUM!!! The one who frivolously spends on things that don't matter, on people who don't care and in places that will close their door when they find out they are broke or bankrupt.
We don't know how long the prodigal son was out there doing his thing in the world, but we do know that he was out there long enough to plunder His life's savings. He looked up and his friends were gone, the money was gone. He was jobless and homeless.
But at his lowest state of existence, he realized as great of a fall from grace he had, HE WAS NOT BEYOND REDEMPTION. Now you should shout right there. God's love redeems the fallen and gives hope to the worst of sinners. In the eyes of the Father, no one is beyond hope, not a Ruth, a Rahab, or ten brothers who would voluntarily betray their younger brother or a man named Matthew (Levi) who the Jews hated; a tax collector, given over to unjust weights. NO ONE!
God wants and loves all people and shows no difference between them. We who have been called to fulfill the great commission are instructed by Christ to go and do the same, without showing any kind of variance.
THE BIBLE SAYS, HOW BEAUTIFUL UPON THE MOUNTAINS ARE THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, WHO PUBLISHES PEACE, WHO BRINGS GOOD TIDINGS OF GOOD, WHO PUBLISHES SALVATION, WHO SAYS TO ZION, YOUR GOD REIGNS (Isaiah 52:7 Amplified Version).
We are commissioned to be the hands and feet of Jesus. May our hearts burn passionately with His message, the same message that drove Jesus to the cross at calvary and brought Him back to life. That's WHO we preach and teach about. JESUS CHRIST FOREVER! OH HAIL, KING JESUS THE SAVIOR OF THE LOST.
Isn't that Good News? Yes, absolutley!
-Kingdom Building United-
(Promoting the Good News of Jesus Christ around the globe)
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