How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the gospel of peace and glad tidings of good things (Ro 10:15)!!!!!! Wooooooo :) I am overwhelmed tonight by the beauty of the body of Christ. How so many can be overflowing with HIS Spirit and life......and all in the same room!!!! How two or three....or 10 can gather in His name and He is here, in the midst!! How the body is meant to encourage, and He does this work through them, through us. It is incredible. It is beautiful. It is breathtaking. It is truly grace ~ a gift I do not deserve ~ to be a part of this, this body, this gather of Christ, in the midst of so many who have rights to stand before the throne, who have His life to live, and His Spirit to produce fruit. Why me, Abba? How often I fail, yet how faithful YOU are. Even here, through your people, so often unfaithful, Your faithfulness is SEEN! I praise God for those who pick up the weapon of prayer day after day. I praise God for those who encourage and challenge, who push me onward to Christ and deeper in truth, who refuse to let me settle or slumber or grow weary, who pick up the burdens and help me get them to Christ's feet when I am too weak to drag them, and myself, there!!!!!May we never forget our need of the body & our responsibility to be the body to others! May we live worthy or our calling. May we pour out for one another in action and in prayer, never forgetting we have access to the very throne of God, the throne of grace to HELP in time of need....ours & others. May we remember we are bondservants. We are free from self and flesh and world, all bondages and chains...free to serve and love and together to LIVE, live life. May we cast off the works of the darkness and put on the amour of light (Ro 13:12)!!! May we live knowing that "NO man lives to himeself and no one dies to himself....if WE live, we live to the Lord and if we die we die to the Lord!!!" (Ro `14:7-8) All men serve someone, let's serve our Jesus and each other. "The love of Christ COMPELS us, because we KNOW this: that if ONE died for all, then all died. And He died for ALL that those who live no longer live for themselves BUT FOR HIM who died for them"! Christ's love compels us!!!! Not circumstance, Not trial, Not others perfection nor failures....CHRIST'S love. We are compelled, called....we live in light of CHRIST and HIS love. And further, since He died for all, should we not LIVE for all??? Dying to ourselves and living to Him and to others???? Be compelled, dear brother and sister in CHrist! As The body surrounded me tonight, surround another. What would this city, this world look like if we were surrounded in prayer, encouraged in truth, and challenged to live all out for CHrist by others....THEN turned and did such to another. What would a chain reaction of "not I but Christ", that "I may decrease and HE may increase" do? It gives me shivers and shouts just thinking of it!!!! Yay :)