WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT ?

Taken from www.daghewardmills.org

I just got home around 5:30am this morning from a church conference that started last Friday and which  is completely "revolutionarizing" my heart. All I want to say my friends is that there are still people on this very earth who need Jesus desperately and have been praying for you and I to show up on their doorstep with the only message of hope that there is : that JESUS SAVES.

I am part of the Lighthouse Chapel family and my spiritual father Bishop Dag Heward-Mills (pictured above) was in the US this weekend to share about the great work going on with the Healing Jesus Campaign , an evangelistic outreach that is reaching the corners of Africa and reeling souls into the Kingdom.

For me the highlight (and I use "highlight" not as a happy term) was when we watched a video on Liberia. For those of you that do not know, Liberia was war-torn for a decade and a half with atrocities against humanity so graphic I hesitate to describe them on this blog. However after the war , although there have been relief efforts with even advanced countries like the USA making provision for refugees to migrate and become permanent residents of this country, there is still an air of hopelessness that exists till this day. The question I was faced with this weekend was this : what kind of relief effort can heal a broken, tortured soul ?

Yes, we can all make ourselves feel better by donating clothes and joining or contributing to relief and compassion organizations but does that really solve the problem of the fact that once that person is full and clothed, they will still go back to reliving the horrors and mental torture of what happened in the past ?  Bishop Dag let us watch a video of the Campaign's visit to Zwedru, a forgotten and forsaken corner of Liberia that desperately needed to hear about Jesus. He even told us a story of how one old man who had lived in the village all his life came crying and thanking them for coming with the salvation message to their village because nothing of this sort had ever happened as long as he had been alive.

I began crying. There are people waiting for you and I to actually GO. Not donate money and put up buttons of those organizations on our blogs and websites. That is GREAT ! But what this weekend taught me most importantly was that there are people who literally need you and I to come to them. They need to hear that Jesus loves them. Some of them are even part of other religions. They still want to hear about this man to died on a cross and is still alive today. The want to hear that they are loved beyond measure by a Father. They want to know that Jesus is the Only One who can heal and truly set a soul free from bondage. This is what some of our brothers and sisters in different parts of the world and even sometimes on our streets in our sweet American hometowns are waiting to hear.

SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ?

For me it was the resolve to go as soon as I can and with God's help. To go to the forgotten, forsaken, poor and broken-hearted to tell them there is hope in Jesus (I am not looking for applause or a compliment so you can refrain from complimenting me. I just am resolved more than ever to obey Matthew 28:19-20).

A soul is a soul and every soul is precious to God.

Note: If you are interesting in donating to the Healing Jesus Campaign or in finding out more about it , please visit the website here (I don't get anything for asking you to donate. But I believe there will be an eternal reward for that.)

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Love, Gertrude.