It is amazing to watch the mighty hand of God work in the lives of people. People come to God so messed up, confused and broken. They come with confused ideas of who or what God is and the feeling that they have done too much or gone to far for Jesus to love them. They are afraid of rejection and yet at the same time afraid to stay where they are. So they make their way through the myriad of emotions into His house and into His presence.
The first person they meet at Faith Tabernacle is a person who expresses to them how glad they are that they have come. All of a sudden they began to relax a little because they are welcome here. They don't feel rejection like they thought they would, but rather the open arms of a church welcomes them in.
It is so much easier to receive what someone has to say to you if you feel loved and respected by the person giving instruction. Jesus had a way of dealing with people's problems in a manner that even when He spoke about the wrong in their lives they did not become defensive because He spoke with such compassion and love.
People who have been beaten down do not need to know how low they are but rather where they can go from here. The greatest ministry of a church is a ministry of compassion and reconciliation. The ability of a lost soul to find direction and to be encouraged and supported.
The greatest miracles that Jesus did were not the many physical bodies that He touched, but the inner pain and anguish that He, with nail scarred hands, has healed.
Jesus said he came to set at liberty them that are bruised. Bruises are the inner result of outward trauma. Jesus set us free from the internal pain that sin has brought upon us. He heals the internal hurts, that nobody else can reach
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