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Sunday, November 28, 2010
To me it is amazing how the mind connects things. We realize that someone has a birthday around a holiday and
then they died and when the holiday comes we just grieved and do not want to remember that grief so we do not verbalize
that grief. Sometimes grief is more then we can bear and I can relate to the grief of Mary and Martha the sisters
of Lazarus whose brother just died for they too had a great grief and it seems unbearable when one just dies, however, somehow
we make it through when God is there. God sustains us even though we do not see Jesus coming and raising
our dead then we know from this story He will come and do it. We connect to our stories of people
dying and reach out to others when they have trouble so we all feel connected when someone else has the same problems.
We connect to one another when we feel alone and someone is there for us and looks up for us when we do not know what else to
do and they are there. Love that is in us connects us and that my friends is what I am thankful for for the season of thanksgiving
does not end with just a holiday but it should be year-round
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Friday, November 19, 2010
Dear Friends,
11/21/10
I do hope that you are able to enjoy this Thanksgiving on Thursday. This is a day when we give thanks to the Lord and we
should do that everyday for we are blessed by Him. He is Lord and we are recognize who He is. He died for us and we can
thank Him for the blessing of being born again and being able to be in the Lamb's Book of lfe. I know that there
have been years in my life where I did not have any financial blessing and things were tight for me. Things now are
getting better and I praise God for that. During this time we should also remember the loved ones that have gone before
us and those that are not with us. Thanksgiving for me is a time to be with family and I think that is different for many.
It can be about football and I like to watch football and almost everyone eats turkey ( I do) but the primary focus is to
give thanks to God and for those that HE put in our life and for the blessings we have. It should be easy for you to find
a blessing you have and for something God gave you this year for all of us are blessed in some way. So as the song says
Count your blessings name them one by one and you will see what the Lord has done!
Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
Monday, November 1, 2010
What are we doing in the World Today and how can you help us
What does God
do? Many times He does things that we are not ready for. He points us in a direction that we are not able to go yet. Ministry
is not always about what we can do now but what God wants us to do. He wants to go into the world and preach but we cannot
do what HE wants at the moment He sends us. What I mean by that is that sometimes we need some things to do what he calls
us to do. Recently I was asked on Facebook if I wanted to buy air time in Pakistan. I have not been to Pakistan though I
have met people online from Pakistan. I have friends on Facebook from Pakistan and they offered to translate our program
into the Pakistani language for us at the modest cost of $280 per 1 hr show. The problems are 1) that is for a TV show
2) we do not have the ability yet to produce a TV show 3) that is more money then we can afford right now 4) we do not even
have a TV show here in the US. The point I am making is this God does
not want us to limit our ministry to here in the US but wants us to go into the world and has things waiting for us there
when we get there. I have spoken to people in India and Africa and they want us to come there. They want me to go and preach
there. They want what we have. They want to know more about Jesus and His love as the song says. We have so much and much
more then we realize and God did not give that to us simply so that we can have it and look at our resources. He gave it
to us so that we can give. He put me in the ministry and expects me to go and share. He put you where you are so that you
can minister where you are at. We each have a job to do and my job is go and preach but your job may be to support the preachers
and to send them. Isaiah asked who will go? I said I will go but I need to have the support to go so send Me. The need is
there and the people want to hear of grace and need it. Many of these people have orphanages that have contacted us.
Why do I not go to those here in the states? Because they have not reached
out to us like those in those other countries have. I have become a member of Countdown Ministries that has ministers
from nations throughout the world. You have to go where people want you. I want to reach to others who will hear, so
as part of what you can do to respond to God and be a part of the ministry God gave to you I am asking you to send me so
that I can go, help provided the finances so that we can go. Help for the things we will need so we can bring these people
as evangelists, pastors, and ministers to help represent Word of Grace in these lands to their people in their language.
This is the ministry we were given so we must Go! Pastor Don Carson Word of Grace Fellowship
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