Highlights of My Week.
Hey everyone,
Well the last few days have been interesting to say the least. I have spent since Sunday night here in memphis at a nice hotel called whispering woods. We (My Parents, David, His Parents and Me) watched all the news reports from the tv, talked to others from our state and other states who had suffered greater losses than ours, we have seen God provide for us on everyside. From the miraculous meeting of David's parents and sister, causing us to find this hotel and get the last room available, to provision for free lunches and dinners. We have met new and interesting people. People we have been able to minister to, and people who have been able to minister to us. The Bible says that the Lord works everything for the good of them that love the Lord and are called according to His purposes. At the very least, this seeming tragedy has opened my eyes to how big the body of Christ is. Our church may be splintered all across the United States, But we still have family everywhere we go. Just last night, we decided to attend this free dinner that this Baptist church was hosting for hurricane refugees, and we met some great people. I spent most of the night talking with the Assistant Youth pastor, Charlie, about everything from where we lived and what we were expecting to go home to to what we liked to do with our spare time to which college football teams we liked (Go Blue, Wolverines Rule). Not only did they feed us, but they prayed for us, offered to board us free of charge, offered finacial help, medical help. We were awe struck as to what these people were willing to do for people they didnt even know. I was supposed to Fly up to Michigan, but with the LA Airport out of commision for commercial flights, that ceased to be an option. I was thinking about driving up to Michigan in my Focus, but #1 I doubt my car could handle 1000mile trip and back, and #2 that would only be the case if i was going to live there for a while and get a job there, but luckily it looks like things will be back to some bit of normality and i will be able to go back to Sam's soon after i come back from my regularly schedualed Vacation. Eventually we decided that i would fly out of memphis, but the return flight was also slated for Memphis, so If, as we had planned, let someone take my car back home; I would have no way to get back home. So it was decided that since i was to leave tomorrow (Sept. 3rd) while everyone else was leaving Friday, because that was as long as we could keep the hotel room, I A) needed a place to stay for one night and B) needed someplace safe to leave my car for two and a half weeks, and C) I needed someone to bring me to the Memphis Airport and pick me up on the 18th. So last night at the free dinner, they told us that they were also having a free lunch the next day. So after we checked out of the hotel we went to the Church that had been so kind to us before. It wasnt long before we were swamped with some of the same people we had met the night before, asking us if we needed any more assistance. We told them my need and in minutes we had a place for me to stay, a safe place to put my car (the Church is situated right next to the local police station and they hand cuff anyone who is out and about after a certain time and look like they are snooping around in the parking lot.), and someone to take me to and pick me up at the airport. I am just amazed at God's provision. I cannot imagine making it without His help and the help of the Body of Christ.
So, Tomorrow I leave for another mission field in Michigan to go and stay with my family there. I am confident that I will find the same provision from God as I have seen already. And I also hope that I can show the same love and servant hood to those up north as I have recieved. I want my Family to be able to see what Christianity really is and if nothing else be a witness of Christ love and service to the world.
In Conclusion, I leave you with this. Be a servant to whomever you come in contact with. It shouldnt have taken the worst natural disaster on American soil, to shake the church into doing its job. If we are really supposed to be "Consumed" with Christ and His work, then we shouldnt treat church like a social club, or an interest we have that we list on "Friendster". We should live it 24/7. And i know alot of us know this, but how often to we live it. Even those of you who are in full time ministry, Do we really live CONSUMED with the cause of Christ? Are we His Army? Are We that commited? Do we live as a servant everyday of our lives? Do you see yourself as a branch, attached to the vine? We shouldnt be worried about were our ministry is going or how it is going to be accomplished in our lives. All of our dreams and hopes were given to us by God and it is His job, The Vines job to carry them out. We are only meant to bear the fruit, not cause the fruit to grow. So be a servent. Live completely unselfishly. We dont have to worry about this world, because God is in Control. I am calling out to you, be truly consumed with Him. Serve until the end of you. Care only for His work and He will care for you. Be the Soldier you were born, even created to be. Be confident in the fact that you are empowered by God to do these things. You are empowered by God to do all things. We are His Children, and He will not deny us our needs. God has a plan and a purpose for this catastrophe and for each and every persons life. Dont be someone who only becomes the on fire Christian during the Sept. 11ths and Hurricane Katrina's that come along. Be that everyday of your life. Push yourself to you limits. Find out were you end. The Bible says that WE can do all things through God. So there should be no difference between where you end and Christ begins. Find out where he can take you, if you give everything. i guarentee that you will be surprised. I dont believe that raising people from the dead is the greatest miracle that can be achieved on earth. Where are the people walking on Water. Where are those Superhuman people that We Christians are supposed to be. God hasnt changed. We are here in an age when we can no longer be ordinary people. We have to rise to the level that we were meant to be at. We were meant to be extraordinary.
Thank you for your time. I hope all of you are safe. I am praying for all of you.
-Timothy O'Donnell
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><> So long and thanks for all the fish!
Visit my blog @ http://thechroniclesof.blogspot.com
Semper Fidelis
Semper Vigilantis
Deus Ex Nobis
Well the last few days have been interesting to say the least. I have spent since Sunday night here in memphis at a nice hotel called whispering woods. We (My Parents, David, His Parents and Me) watched all the news reports from the tv, talked to others from our state and other states who had suffered greater losses than ours, we have seen God provide for us on everyside. From the miraculous meeting of David's parents and sister, causing us to find this hotel and get the last room available, to provision for free lunches and dinners. We have met new and interesting people. People we have been able to minister to, and people who have been able to minister to us. The Bible says that the Lord works everything for the good of them that love the Lord and are called according to His purposes. At the very least, this seeming tragedy has opened my eyes to how big the body of Christ is. Our church may be splintered all across the United States, But we still have family everywhere we go. Just last night, we decided to attend this free dinner that this Baptist church was hosting for hurricane refugees, and we met some great people. I spent most of the night talking with the Assistant Youth pastor, Charlie, about everything from where we lived and what we were expecting to go home to to what we liked to do with our spare time to which college football teams we liked (Go Blue, Wolverines Rule). Not only did they feed us, but they prayed for us, offered to board us free of charge, offered finacial help, medical help. We were awe struck as to what these people were willing to do for people they didnt even know. I was supposed to Fly up to Michigan, but with the LA Airport out of commision for commercial flights, that ceased to be an option. I was thinking about driving up to Michigan in my Focus, but #1 I doubt my car could handle 1000mile trip and back, and #2 that would only be the case if i was going to live there for a while and get a job there, but luckily it looks like things will be back to some bit of normality and i will be able to go back to Sam's soon after i come back from my regularly schedualed Vacation. Eventually we decided that i would fly out of memphis, but the return flight was also slated for Memphis, so If, as we had planned, let someone take my car back home; I would have no way to get back home. So it was decided that since i was to leave tomorrow (Sept. 3rd) while everyone else was leaving Friday, because that was as long as we could keep the hotel room, I A) needed a place to stay for one night and B) needed someplace safe to leave my car for two and a half weeks, and C) I needed someone to bring me to the Memphis Airport and pick me up on the 18th. So last night at the free dinner, they told us that they were also having a free lunch the next day. So after we checked out of the hotel we went to the Church that had been so kind to us before. It wasnt long before we were swamped with some of the same people we had met the night before, asking us if we needed any more assistance. We told them my need and in minutes we had a place for me to stay, a safe place to put my car (the Church is situated right next to the local police station and they hand cuff anyone who is out and about after a certain time and look like they are snooping around in the parking lot.), and someone to take me to and pick me up at the airport. I am just amazed at God's provision. I cannot imagine making it without His help and the help of the Body of Christ.
So, Tomorrow I leave for another mission field in Michigan to go and stay with my family there. I am confident that I will find the same provision from God as I have seen already. And I also hope that I can show the same love and servant hood to those up north as I have recieved. I want my Family to be able to see what Christianity really is and if nothing else be a witness of Christ love and service to the world.
In Conclusion, I leave you with this. Be a servant to whomever you come in contact with. It shouldnt have taken the worst natural disaster on American soil, to shake the church into doing its job. If we are really supposed to be "Consumed" with Christ and His work, then we shouldnt treat church like a social club, or an interest we have that we list on "Friendster". We should live it 24/7. And i know alot of us know this, but how often to we live it. Even those of you who are in full time ministry, Do we really live CONSUMED with the cause of Christ? Are we His Army? Are We that commited? Do we live as a servant everyday of our lives? Do you see yourself as a branch, attached to the vine? We shouldnt be worried about were our ministry is going or how it is going to be accomplished in our lives. All of our dreams and hopes were given to us by God and it is His job, The Vines job to carry them out. We are only meant to bear the fruit, not cause the fruit to grow. So be a servent. Live completely unselfishly. We dont have to worry about this world, because God is in Control. I am calling out to you, be truly consumed with Him. Serve until the end of you. Care only for His work and He will care for you. Be the Soldier you were born, even created to be. Be confident in the fact that you are empowered by God to do these things. You are empowered by God to do all things. We are His Children, and He will not deny us our needs. God has a plan and a purpose for this catastrophe and for each and every persons life. Dont be someone who only becomes the on fire Christian during the Sept. 11ths and Hurricane Katrina's that come along. Be that everyday of your life. Push yourself to you limits. Find out were you end. The Bible says that WE can do all things through God. So there should be no difference between where you end and Christ begins. Find out where he can take you, if you give everything. i guarentee that you will be surprised. I dont believe that raising people from the dead is the greatest miracle that can be achieved on earth. Where are the people walking on Water. Where are those Superhuman people that We Christians are supposed to be. God hasnt changed. We are here in an age when we can no longer be ordinary people. We have to rise to the level that we were meant to be at. We were meant to be extraordinary.
Thank you for your time. I hope all of you are safe. I am praying for all of you.
-Timothy O'Donnell
--
><> So long and thanks for all the fish!
Visit my blog @ http://thechroniclesof.blogspot.com
Semper Fidelis
Semper Vigilantis
Deus Ex Nobis
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