Some years ago, a dear Christian lady began preparations to send a box of supplies to missionaries from her church.\u00a0\u00a0 A neighborhood girl hear of her venture and desired to help.\u00a0 But being only a small child, she had very little that would be useful to the missionaries.\u00a0 The child did have a penny, however \u2013 a gift from a favorite uncle – which she cheerfully presented to the woman to help her friends on the mission field.<\/p>\n
Touched by the child\u2019s heartfelt generosity and not wanted to offend her in spite of her small gift, the lady graciously accepted the coin.\u00a0 But the gift was much too small to purchase supplies, and the lady was uncertain how she could put it to good use.\u00a0 Then an idea occurred to her, and she used the child\u2019s penny to purchase a single gospel tract.<\/p>\n
On the day when all the necessary supplies had been gathered, the lady asked the child to help her prepare the box for shipment.\u00a0 One by one, the lady and the child packed the items, being careful to include the gospel tract purchased with the penny gift.\u00a0 The box was finally sealed and addressed, and together the lady and the girl took it to the post office to be shipped to their friends halfway around the world.<\/p>\n
A few weeks later the box reached the missionaries.\u00a0 The supplies it held brought a measure of sweet relief to their modest circumstances.\u00a0 Near the bottom of the box, the missionaries discovered the gospel tract, which they soon gave to one of the local people.<\/p>\n
The tract was passed among the people, eventually reaching a great chief who lived in a nearby region.\u00a0 Intrigued by its message but unsure of its meaning, the chief called for the missionaries to come and explain the teachings.\u00a0 They came and began to share the gospel, and in time the chief yielded his life to Christ as his personal Savior and Lord.\u00a0 The chief told the story of his conversion to his people, many of whom also believed.\u00a0 Eventually, the new believers established a church, and through it over fifteen hundred people were brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus.<\/p>\n
An excerpt from \u201cActs & Facts\u201d magazine from the Institute For Creation Research (August edition).<\/p>\n
Mark 12:41-44 – 41\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put\u00a0and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.\u00a042\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.\u00a0 43\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said,\u00a0\u201cTruly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.\u00a044\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything\u2014all she had to live on.\u201d<\/p>\n Our God, who is good and gracious all the time, and who loves us so preciously, does not expect of us more than He has given us.\u00a0 He just wants us to give to Him as He has enabled us.\u00a0 And, since He gave us what we have, He knows exactly what we should be giving to Him.\u00a0 I write this concerning the giving as God has blessed us financially, but also, and importantly, about our talents and abilities.\u00a0 God would have us give the \u201cpenny\u201d of our abilities and let Him bless it so that His kingdom is advanced exactly as He would have it.\u00a0 He is saying, give to me your desire to serve me and I will use you to be a part of the sharing of His story to the world, beginning in our little section of the world.\u00a0 When we think we have nothing to add to the Kingdom of God, then we are ready to let the power of God work through us. We are unable, but in His will, the work He does through us is invincible!\u00a0 The purpose of what He has us doing may not be the purpose we think.\u00a0 Do we have to know what He plans to accomplish through us?\u00a0 Why not just have more fun than knowing, let loose, and when God says to, in faith, jump, let\u2019s jump!\u00a0 The excitement is in landing squarely in the will of God!<\/p>\n Zechariah 4:6<\/b> – So he said to me, \u201cThis is the word of the\u00a0Lord to Zerubbabel: \u2018Not\u00a0by\u00a0might\u00a0nor\u00a0by\u00a0power, but\u00a0by\u00a0my Spirit,\u2019 says the\u00a0Lord\u00a0Almighty.<\/p>\n This is what I know: God is good all the time and He loves us!<\/p>\n May the awareness of His great love for you be what you most know.<\/p>\n IHS 3\/22\/15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some years ago, a dear Christian lady began preparations to send a box of supplies to missionaries from her church.\u00a0\u00a0 A neighborhood girl hear of her venture and desired to help.\u00a0 But being only a small child, she had very little that would be useful to the missionaries.\u00a0 The child did have a penny, however…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[873,871,79,836,858,846,839,209,840,647,851,159,865,864,863,338,870,213,848,844,850,7,743,868,521,218,872,8,535,876,666,1019,1035,93,841,451,842,849,857,838,116,174,869,860,859,856,854,22,852,862,175,153,203,855,866,845,861,853,843,867,847,874,875],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-accomplish","tag-advanced","tag-almighty","tag-awareness","tag-careful","tag-cheerfully","tag-chief","tag-child","tag-chrisitian","tag-church","tag-coin","tag-desire","tag-established","tag-eventually","tag-explain","tag-few","tag-financially","tag-friends","tag-generosity","tag-girl","tag-girt","tag-god","tag-gospel","tag-gracious","tag-great","tag-idea","tag-invincible","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-know","tag-lady","tag-lord","tag-loves","tag-mark","tag-missionaries","tag-necessary","tag-neighborhood","tag-offend","tag-packed","tag-penny","tag-poor","tag-power","tag-preciously","tag-region","tag-sealed","tag-shipment","tag-singe","tag-spirit","tag-supplies","tag-teachings","tag-temple","tag-time","tag-touch","tag-tract","tag-treasury","tag-uncle","tag-unsure","tag-use","tag-venture","tag-widow","tag-woman","tag-zechariah","tag-zerubbabel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}