A word from our Director...
Ephesians 3:20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. This is the conclusion of the Apostle's prayer, in which the power of God is celebrated, a perfection which is essential unto God, and is very large and extensive; it reaches to all things, to everything that he wills, which is his actual or ordinative power; and to more things than he has willed, which is his absolute power; and to all things that have been, are, or shall be, and to things impossible with men; My church Wednesday night Bible Study was on this verse this week. As I meditate on it, it makes my spirit man just marvel at the things that I have witnessed Jesus do over and over in my life and the lives of the people I love and are called to. So many times circumstances that seem to be impossible have been turned around and accomplished. I think about the Men’s Shelters. We opened the first one at 84 Delap Court in 2000 and 21 years later so many men have gone through the program. Some were successful in finding housing through the program and some were not. However, according to God, all were successful in hearing the Gospel and receiving the love of God while they stayed there. Some men received the Word of God as described in Matthew 13:4-8. Some men who received the seed of the Gospel the birds came and ate them up, some fell on the rocky soil of their hearts and others fell among the thorns (life circumstances) and choked out the Gospel. But then some men received the Gospel and grew beyond what we ever expected! But for all these men that we had the pleasure of sowing into their lives for a short time, we don’t always know what happened with them a year-5 years after. What we are believing and agreeing with is Isaiah 55:11 “So shall my word that goes forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Meaning that everything that was sown into each man will take hold as each man receives it. And we are expecting it to be able to “do exceeding abundantly more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power, that is at work wi