Oct 10: Kimberly boldly and transparently writes about the "businessmen" offering to SELL an entire year's worth of "USAID NOT FOR SALE" food. more
Oct 20: Kimberly is back at her keyboard: "All morning long I wrestled with God, or maybe whined to Him. 'I don’t get it. Even when Betsie Ten Boom was dying in a concentration camp with her sister Corrie she only recalled your Word, Our God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.' ... Why can’t I just call on You and let it go?
I really don’t want to write about children going hungry one more time.” more
Asking for help is difficult.
One day Jesus was teaching ... and the power of the Lord was with
Jesus to heal the sick. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man
on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus.
When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd,
they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the
tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
Luke 5:17-26 NIV excerpt
Jesus knew exactly what the onlookers were thinking.
Jesus ... said, "Why all this gossipy whispering? Which is simpler: to say
'I forgive your sins,' or to say 'Get up and start walking'? Well, just so it's clear
that I'm the Son of Man and authorized to do either, or both ..."
Luke 5:22-24 MSG
Asking for help is trusting others to hold the corners of my mat, submitting to being lowered through the roof and placed at the feet of Jesus.
Asking for help is risking that the crowd may doubt and scoff and gossip, that people will hear "I forgive your sins" as an exposure of my brokenness rather than an affirmation of Jesus' Divinity.
I need your help.
I need your help with provision for Whispered Hopes.
Please consider donating gifts, joining us in prayer, volunteering to visit the clubs, or asking friends to be ambassadors in their own faith communities. more
Like my friend Kimberly, I am wrestling not with God's abundance, but with my own unwillingness to risk asking for your help.
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The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom book
Passport Through Darkness by Kimberly L. Smith book
I will not accept another
young bull from your household
or a single male goat from your pens.
Every creature in the forest,
the cattle on a thousand hills, is mine.
I know every bird in the mountains.
Everything that moves in the fields is mine.
Psalm 50:9-11 GW
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