Saturday, May 12, 2007

One Body United in Prayer!

Good morning everyone,
It is another beautiful day in the Lord here in Oregon.
I was going to change my devotional to you, however, I felt God wanted me to share this, because even though you may not know my brother Doc or Donna, each of you know or have a love one who has gone home to be with the Lord. Each one of you is a part of the body of Christ, therefore we all walk and work in that body in some form or another.

Yesterday Doc's Donna went home to be with the Lord. Sis and I had the honor and privilege to be with them at Donna's homegoing.
What I want to share with you today is how important we are to each other as a body. The Word says:
Romans 12:5 (Amplified Bible)
5 So we, numerous as we are, are one body in Christ (the Messiah) and individually we are parts one of another [mutually dependent on one another].

1 Corinthians 12:12 (Amplified Bible)
12 For just as the body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

God used Ruthie last Friday to cut Donna's hair, in doing so she thought Donna was confused and thought maybe she had a stroke. When Doc took Donna to the doctor, they found that she did in fact have a stroke.
This week as some of us was helping Doc with Donna's care, others were setting up the bed, getting everything pretty at the house so when Donna came home from the hospital everything would be ready; others were gophers, fetching and carrying things as needed to make life easier for Doc and Donna, and their family. Others were used to help at the hospital to get things done there; some have been cooking for the family, some just gave hugs and encouragement. While all of us covered the family in our prayers. We were all in different places and doing different things for the need of Doc and Donna, yet we were all in one body to make things go so smoothly for them. We were united in prayer.
The same thing happens in the body of Christ, there are many members, but each one has a different part to play in the body to bring Glory to the Father.
The thing I learned was no matter who was doing what or where we were, we were all equal in doing what the Lord wanted us to do at any given moment to help Doc and Donna and their family. We were a united body. To me that is really special. It was like at that period of time we were all knit together into one mind concept of praying and supporting the family.
I think it is awesome, and you know what it continues on a daily basis as we uphold each other in prayer and in our hearts.
May we all be united in thoughts and prayers today and every day is my prayer.
Love, hugs and prayers come your way today.
Joy

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