: 10-12 Bread Ministry/6-7:30 Dinner Huddle and Joy Study
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Good Morning Agents of the Most High God! Amen! That salutation flows from Our Daily bread devotional for . Meditate on what that means to you and those God is allowing you to cross paths with . Our EC mission statement is to know Christ and make Him known. Did you notice that before you go, you need to know--HIM! And to practice living and loving like Him, you have to understand Him and how He loves. We have to experience and dwell in His love before we are able to incarnate and impart it. How might God have for you to bring to life His love, hope and help ? What will you do about that? he is with you and for you. Are you with and for Him and are people around us experiencing His love, hope and help incarnate (come to life)? practice putting on His love and walking around in it and sharing it as you grow to be more like Jesus and grow at loving God and others as he loves you. Are people seeing you step into your faith and choosing joy no matter what you are facing? Are they seeing you model love incarnate. Put on His love and go live and love like Him. That starts with time with Him. You are His agents of healing, hope and love. Go! Amen! God has great plans for you as you are. And as you go and love you will grow into your fuller potential and be building treasure in heaven for your future that God has for you in eternity. Follow peace as you go and be His loving agent . Amen!
Anna and her husband lived in Argentina with their two children. They kept to themselves and spoke only fluent Spanish. But they weren’t Argentines. They were sleeper agents, spies who’d been born in another country. They’d mastered blending into their host culture, down to how to hold their forks. But a change in their civil registry aroused suspicion, and eventually the couple was caught. As the family was being flown to their true homeland, Anna looked at her eleven-year-old daughter. How would she break the news that they weren’t who her daughter thought?
Believers in Jesus have a citizenship even more vital. We’re agents of a higher king, for “our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20). The citizens of Philippi were proud of their Roman citizenship; they loyally served Rome as they lived in Philippi. Paul said their loyalty stretched even further. Their highest allegiance was to Jesus, who ruled Rome and Philippi from heaven.
Unlike Anna and her husband, we’re not working secretly against our “host country.” We’re openly working for its good. Our loyalty to Jesus prompts us to serve our neighbors and pray for “all those in authority, that we may live . . . in all godliness” (1 Timothy 2:2). With God’s help we will “seek the peace and prosperity” of our city. We will “pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers,” we “too will prosper” (Jeremiah 29:7).
By Mike Wittmer
REFLECT & PRAY
How might your allegiance to Jesus serve your neighbors? How might you show that help ?
Gracious Father, please help me encourage my neighbors.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
The church at Philippi, established by Paul on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:6-40), was a faithful church that actively supported his ministry (Philippians 1:5; 4:15-19). The apostle encourages the believers in Jesus to live exemplary lives “in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ” (1:27) even though they lived in a city that opposed and persecuted them (v. 28). Paul tells them to serve the church and the city with much joy in “the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (2:5), imitating His selfless, humble, and sacrificial servanthood (vv. 1-8). As citizens of heaven (3:20), believers are to “work hard to show the results of [their] salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear” (2:12 nlt). Because of our faith in Jesus, we’re to be “blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault’ ” (v. 15) as we serve our neighbors and pray for those in authority.
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