Leveraging Your Past

I hope you know how much I treasure the prayer, encouragement and financial support that I receive from so many of you. I am humbled to serve on your behalf. I recently saw a talk given by a Wess Stafford from Compassion International. He endured a horrific experience for years as he was spiritually, emotionally, physically and sexually abused as a child in a school for missionary kids in Africa. He is able to leverage his past to fuel his compassionate serving for children through Compassion International. After watching this and the recent Graham Cooke dvd, I am reminded that what Satan intends to use to destroy us, God uses for His glory. We can stand on God’s promises and we to be excited when we have a problem or difficulty because we know God will not allow us to suffer without using our pain to do great and mighty things through us. I encourage you to be in prayer and search for ways to use your past pain to fuel ways for you to serve. Combined with your gifts, talents, resources and influence, you can use that pain to do mighty things in partnership with God.

Peace be with you during this Lent season. My family and I will be serving Easter dinner to the 30 men in the Congregations for the Homeless shelter at Westminster. Please email or call me if you’d like to join us or provide some Easter basket goodies. We’d love to add more chairs to the table for you!

You are precious in His sight.