06-16-08

It is time, once again, for me to welcome new "subscribers" to T.O.D.A.Y.'S Encouragements! So, I want to say to you what I have always said to "new readers" . . . Thank you for your interest in the Encouragements! May they bless your life and strengthen your daily walk with The Lord! Please feel free to share them with your friends and family! I consider all of my readers as "family"! It is a way of staying "connected" with other members of the Family of God, and bringing unity to the body of Christ! I have readers from all different "denominations", and every one of them are very precious to God AND to me! The Lord is not "wrapped up" in denominational names . . . He is all about "individual" people and He knows YOUR name! I am just following the leading of the Holy Spirit about this . . . The name of your "denomination" is not written on the palm of His hands, but YOUR personal name is! Praise God!! What we need to remember is this . . . not only is YOUR name written on the palm of His hand, but also the names of every other member of the BODY of Christ (which is what The Bible calls the "CHURCH")! We need to get a "revelation" of this. The Holy Spirit is speaking to the 'CHURCH" right now about pursuing this "unity". We may never be in agreement with every "doctrine" that different denominations preach . . . but we are told in God's Word that we all are supposed come together in the "unity" of the FAITH! We can do that by just walking in LOVE with other members of the body of Christ. God's Word says that our "faith" only works by "love"! Loving people with God's kind of "love" does not mean that we have to AGREE with what other people say or do . . . it means that we are to see them as "valuable and precious to God"! We might as well start doing that right now, here on earth . . . because we are going to have to live together forever in Heaven! The "Baptists" are going to have to live with the "Methodists", and they are going to have to live with the "Pentecostals", and they are going to have to live with every other person that has ever accepted Jesus as their Savior regardless of what "church" they are attending here on earth! It is the "new birth" and our "faith in Jesus Christ" that unites us as one! If we can't agree on anything else, we MUST choose to come into agreement on those two things!