Shalom Dear Brothers and Sisters My Journey Day One I want to share with you this week what this week and these dates as I write this newsletter mean to me and hopefully to share the faithfulness and love of our God. They started 22 years ago. In Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving weekend in October. On Sunday, October 13, 1985 I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy by emergency cesarean section. Later that night after finally waking up after the anesthetic I cradled him in my arms and marveled at his beauty! I thought of all the women in the Bible who had given birth to son's how they too must have marveled, for a son was a gift from the Lord! As I looked at this child so perfect in every way I wondered what plans and purposes the Lord had for his life. I knew they would be great there was never a doubt in my mind concerning that after all he was made in the image of God. It had been a difficult last few weeks of my pregnancy and he was so large he did not fit down my birth canal, which we discovered after a full day of labor and John finally going into fetal distress for the third time. I was so grateful to the Lord that we had both come through safe without any repercussions. I knew John had a call on his life the minute I laid my eyes on him. A mother knows these things. I think the Lord allows us to know and see. You can simply read back through Scripture and see why it was the different sons were given different names. As exhausted as I was that night and still feeling sick, I held him close to my heart and tight with the strength I had left in me. It would be the one and only time I ever held him on my own. This past weekend we celebrated his birthday with his son running around with great joy. I reaffirmed to him at the end of the day that we had planned and had asked God for a child. That he was the answer to our prayer. That I never regretted that pregnancy or having him. I told him he was a joy and a delight and a good father in his own right. I told him how pleased I was of him and how very much I loved him. He thanked me and told me he loved me to. It came out of me so naturally. Although I am a mother I realized the things I had spoken to John were the same things that the Father had spoken over His only begotten son Yeshua. No matter how young or how old your children are, no matter where they're at the best thing we can do for them is reaffirm and love them. If we don't have children we have friends, acquaintances or people we work with. The words we speak into their lives will bring forth good fruit if they are good words. Every child needs to know they are loved by their father and mother. If our Father in heaven reaffirmed His love for His son Yeshua should this not be a good example for us! Let us not forget how very much He also loves us, we only need to read John 3:16.
B'Shem Yeshua Hamashiach, Amen In His Love, Theresa
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