Be a Source of Joy!
I know I have not written you in a while, not because I haven’t received a word but due to various demands and responsibilities. However, I want to assure you that I will be bringing you ‘a word’ in no time. Meanwhile, you can visit my blog to read previous editions. Now, I want to share something very important with you.
About this time last year I participated in Feed the Widows Project, a vision that was given to a dear friend of mine. He fed several widows and it was a rare privilege to have been a part of that project. Nothing could be compared to the joy of seeing those women, who have been forsaken by the society and even the church cry for joy as they each received their aid. It was an amazing experience!
This year, he has received a mandate to clothe the widows and I am blessed I must say to be a part of it. James 1:27 says:
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Also, in 1 Timothy 5:3 Apostle Paul admonishes us to take care of any widow who has no one else to care for her. You might be tempted to place an undue emphasis on the expression ‘who has no one else to care for her’ but I urge you to be the person who will bring joy and happiness to a widow by sowing a seed towards clothing them.
The book of 1 Timothy 5:5 gives a vivid description of this widow:
Now a true widow, a woman who is truly alone in this world, has placed her hope in God. She prays night and day, asking God for his help.
Wouldn’t you rather be the person God wants to use to answer her prayers? I know you have good reasons to think this may not have come at the right time but it has come at God’s time which is the best time. You probably have been praying and asking God for a major breakthrough, sow this sacrificial seed towards the clothing of widows in Africa and see God work wonders for you!
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Thank you and God Bless.
Jeanie
On behalf of Christ Academy.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat… I needed clothes and you clothed me. Matthew 25:35a/36a