NLDC BACKSTAGE: March 2008
I have so many thoughts within me. So much that stands out to me when I read in God's Word but right now I want to ask you this question: “what do you want?” What is it in life that makes you want to get up and face another day? James 4:2-3 "…You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss that you may spend it on your pleasures." Again I ask: what it is you want? More importantly what is keeping you from getting it? Is it because you’re asking amiss, knowing it’s for your own fleshly desires so you do not want to bring it before God?
Verse 4 in James reads, "Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." God is serious about the desires of your heart. He is a personal God that wants us intimately. Not only does He wants us He wants us to want Him! If the desires of your heart are Godly then that is great! I want to ask you this: do you have faith enough to ask God for them? There are so many promises in God's Word to His children. But we see so many Christians walking around with a "woe is me" attitude. Why? Is our God not the creator of the universe? My God is an awesome God, and I lack no faith in Him. I come to Him with my troubles, with my tears; I also come to Him with my joy and my smiles. He is my provider, my healer, my peace, my joy and my strength. He is exactly what He has promised us. What are you letting Him be to you?
~Carissa Peach
Team financer
Testimony from the Road
My team was at Metropolitan Detention Center in NM where we minister at local jails. We’ve been ministering at the MDC for two years now and we always see amazing things happen!
This Sunday we attended the service at New Life Church of God, the church that sponsors MDC, and the pastor told us that a lot of former inmates from MDC attended his church; I myself was thinking maybe ten or fifteen. We did three sketches in the service and as he took up a love offering for us the pastor asked everyone who was a family member or a former inmate who came to his church because of NLDC to stand. About half of the church stood up!
Being in NLDC you hardly ever get to see the fruit of your labor because you minister at a church and leave the next day. But we have ministered at this prison for a while and Pastor Jones, the pastor of New Life Church of God, invites the inmates to attend his church when they are released from prison and they do. They see us in the prison, we plant the seed, the Pastor water’s and nurtures it, and they grow in Christ! It was wonderful to see all these people transformed by God!
~Jessie Orr
Team Coordinator
