Blessing to Others

Recently Stephen and I had an opportunity to re-connect with our church in Alabama, the one we attended while engaged, the one where we got married. Shades Valey Community Church is not exactly your traditional normal church, but then, I would not call us your traditional normal people.

Before we spoke on Sunday, we had an awesome experience of being ministered to in their prayer room. Old friends got together and prayed for us for half an hour, and I honestly almost cried. I spoke in many churches, and most of the time people were looking to me to bring them an insight from God or share a unique international experience. Here I was prayed for, truth was spoken with love and care, and what was said about our ministry and life was so true that there is no way these people would have known these details unless God told them, because we did not.

It was like coming back to my family. People cared, heard words from God, and had no agenda other than ministering to us. After that experience, I asked myself- am I the type of person that someone who has not seen me in a while can come "home" to? Can I love with no agenda?

Can we be a community that loves with no agenda? That walks with God so closely that we hear words of encouragement spoken to us by Him not for our benefit but to bless others through us?

In Genesis 12 God said to Abraham-

2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to other

Just something to think about. "Blessing to Others" is what strikes me in this passage.

What do you people think?