Comments on: It’s Happening http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Stephens http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-5638 Mike Stephens Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:53:22 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-5638 Meredith you are right!!! II Corinthians 12:8-10 is my favorite verse in the Bible!!! "Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me because He said to me my GRACE is sufficient for YOU, for my POWER is made PERFECT in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that CHRIST'S POWER may rest on me!!! That is why for CHRIST'S sake I delight in weaknesses in insults in HARDSHIPS in PERSECUTIONS IN DIFFICULTIES for when I am weak then I am STRONG!!!" Life is a MIST so even if we do get bogged down, fired, win, lose, or draw hahahaha!!! it is nothing compared to eternity in Heaven at the wedding feast!!! I think we will be able to eat unlimited bacon without having a heart attack!!! I really have no idea obviously, but it is kind of like visiting your Sponsor child: I'll find out when I get there!!! Thanks for the post Meredith. Listening ot music helps me to things for long periods of time. Mike Meredith you are right!!! II Corinthians 12:8-10 is my favorite verse in the Bible!!!

“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me because He said to me my GRACE is sufficient for YOU, for my POWER is made PERFECT in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that CHRIST’S POWER may rest on me!!! That is why for CHRIST’S sake I delight in weaknesses in insults in HARDSHIPS in PERSECUTIONS IN DIFFICULTIES for when I am weak then I am STRONG!!!” Life is a MIST so even if we do get bogged down, fired, win, lose, or draw hahahaha!!! it is nothing compared to eternity in Heaven at the wedding feast!!! I think we will be able to eat unlimited bacon without having a heart attack!!! I really have no idea obviously, but it is kind of like visiting your Sponsor child: I’ll find out when I get there!!! Thanks for the post Meredith. Listening ot music helps me to things for long periods of time.

Mike

]]> By: Shelia Johnson http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2445 Shelia Johnson Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:47 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2445 I had very deep hurts from my father. At 16 years old I discovered my father was having an affair on my mother. They separated and divorced. My father stopped paying child support for 1 ½ years. This put a great deal of financial stress on my mother, sister and me. Not that we needed a lot but we did need and deserved the financial support of a father. I did not blame myself for my parents problems but when my father stopped paying child support it became clear that he did not care for me and my sister enough to make sure we had enough food and heat in the house. My mom took him to court and the court made him pay, but it was years before I was healed from the hurt. I became a Christian at 21 years old and from that moment on God began His work in me to heal me from the pain. It did not happen at a prayer meeting or my personal prayer time, although I had prayed many times that I would not hold bitterness toward my father for what he had done. The moment of healing came as you spoke in your letter, out of the blue. It happen in my father’s house as I was cleaning it for him. I had been cleaning my father’s house for him for years every two weeks. I went into his room to dust his dresser and there laid an old wallet of his. I knew it was his because he liked the 3 fold kind and he painted his initials on the top/front himself so when he pulled it out of his pocket he would easily locate the top. I can’t explain what happened looking at that wallet, except that I began to weep and cry, but it was a good cry. Something broke at that moment and I knew I needed that wallet to keep for myself as a reminder of what God had done. Well my father was at work, so I could not ask him for it at that moment. I had planned to call and ask him about it later that evening, but the business of life took over and I forgot about it. Two weeks went by and it was still there the next time I came to clean and I told myself I have got to remember to call him tonight! I forgot again, and did not think of it again until I was at my father’s house for a family gathering. I went into the room where the wallet was to check on the girls that gathered there to play. I stepped into the room and my eye’s and mind went straight for the wallet. It was gone! I went to find my father and I ask him where the wallet was that had been on his dresser. He said, that old thing, I threw it away. He did not ask, as my face must have told the story, but suddenly finding the wallet for me was just as big of a deal for him as it was for me. He said, I threw in the trash can in the bathroom and if it has not been dumped it is probably still in there. He went for the bathroom but it was occupied. He started pacing outside the door and I got distracted by kids and forgot about it. My father came and found me carrying the old wallet in his hand. I can’t explain it, but God did a miracle in my heart with that wallet and then God made it even more special by making it possible for my Father to dig into a trashcan to retrieve it for me and he never ask me why I wanted it. We serve a God that is unique and so personal. I don’t have to pray for the bitterness to be gone, because I only have to think or look at the wallet I keep by my bed to remind of the answered prayer. Also I have learned from reading these Blogs, how much sponsoring a child also effects their whole family. I have been sponsoring a child in Haiti for 11 years now and did not know I could have been blessing his family with a gift also. I will begin to do that now that I am aware of it. I would also like to add that there have been times money was tight and as we looked over our budget our child sponsered was not considered as something we would stop. We made a commitment and the benifits seen through-out the years will keep us commited to our commasion child until commpassion says the child is no longer in need or quilified for help. We have NO regrets about our commitment started 11 years ago, we only regret that we can't afford to support more children. My prayer is that will change and we will be able too. I had very deep hurts from my father. At 16 years old I discovered my father was having an affair on my mother. They separated and divorced. My father stopped paying child support for 1 ½ years. This put a great deal of financial stress on my mother, sister and me. Not that we needed a lot but we did need and deserved the financial support of a father. I did not blame myself for my parents problems but when my father stopped paying child support it became clear that he did not care for me and my sister enough to make sure we had enough food and heat in the house. My mom took him to court and the court made him pay, but it was years before I was healed from the hurt. I became a Christian at 21 years old and from that moment on God began His work in me to heal me from the pain. It did not happen at a prayer meeting or my personal prayer time, although I had prayed many times that I would not hold bitterness toward my father for what he had done. The moment of healing came as you spoke in your letter, out of the blue. It happen in my father’s house as I was cleaning it for him. I had been cleaning my father’s house for him for years every two weeks. I went into his room to dust his dresser and there laid an old wallet of his. I knew it was his because he liked the 3 fold kind and he painted his initials on the top/front himself so when he pulled it out of his pocket he would easily locate the top. I can’t explain what happened looking at that wallet, except that I began to weep and cry, but it was a good cry. Something broke at that moment and I knew I needed that wallet to keep for myself as a reminder of what God had done. Well my father was at work, so I could not ask him for it at that moment. I had planned to call and ask him about it later that evening, but the business of life took over and I forgot about it. Two weeks went by and it was still there the next time I came to clean and I told myself I have got to remember to call him tonight! I forgot again, and did not think of it again until I was at my father’s house for a family gathering. I went into the room where the wallet was to check on the girls that gathered there to play. I stepped into the room and my eye’s and mind went straight for the wallet. It was gone! I went to find my father and I ask him where the wallet was that had been on his dresser. He said, that old thing, I threw it away. He did not ask, as my face must have told the story, but suddenly finding the wallet for me was just as big of a deal for him as it was for me. He said, I threw in the trash can in the bathroom and if it has not been dumped it is probably still in there. He went for the bathroom but it was occupied. He started pacing outside the door and I got distracted by kids and forgot about it. My father came and found me carrying the old wallet in his hand. I can’t explain it, but God did a miracle in my heart with that wallet and then God made it even more special by making it possible for my Father to dig into a trashcan to retrieve it for me and he never ask me why I wanted it. We serve a God that is unique and so personal. I don’t have to pray for the bitterness to be gone, because I only have to think or look at the wallet I keep by my bed to remind of the answered prayer.

Also I have learned from reading these Blogs, how much sponsoring a child also effects their whole family. I have been sponsoring a child in Haiti for 11 years now and did not know I could have been blessing his family with a gift also. I will begin to do that now that I am aware of it. I would also like to add that there have been times money was tight and as we looked over our budget our child sponsered was not considered as something we would stop. We made a commitment and the benifits seen through-out the years will keep us commited to our commasion child until commpassion says the child is no longer in need or quilified for help. We have NO regrets about our commitment started 11 years ago, we only regret that we can’t afford to support more children. My prayer is that will change and we will be able too.

]]> By: Meredith http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 Meredith Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:30:31 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2269 Dear friends, Thank you, yet again, for you sweet words of encouragement. You don't know just how much I appreciate you taking the time to write and share you heart and your story. I love hearing from you all! Be blessed! Dear friends,

Thank you, yet again, for you sweet words of encouragement. You don’t know just how much I appreciate you taking the time to write and share you heart and your story. I love hearing from you all!

Be blessed!

]]> By: Irene Kao http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2258 Irene Kao Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:31:57 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2258 I'm looking forward to learning more about the proposal, Meredith! With our God's wisdom, power & strength going before you, you will surely do mighty works for His Kingdom! Proverbs 3:5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he's the one who will keep you on track. I’m looking forward to learning more about the proposal, Meredith! With our God’s wisdom, power & strength going before you, you will surely do mighty works for His Kingdom!

Proverbs
3:5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart;
don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go;
he’s the one who will keep you on track.

]]> By: Kathy http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2245 Kathy Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:37:56 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2245 Isn't it nice to know that we really aren't in charge, even when we (and others!) think we are? What a blessing that the project, or the person we're praying for doesn't have to be dependent on our faithfulness or our abilities because it isn't up to us. I have a son who's a prodigal. I sometimes become so disheartened because I can't control what is happening in his life. The Lord lovingly taught me years ago that He is still working in his life and I'm called to pray for him, but it's God's job to draw him to Himself. Thank you for the beautiful reminder of the lesson I sometimes forget. Isn’t it nice to know that we really aren’t in charge, even when we (and others!) think we are? What a blessing that the project, or the person we’re praying for doesn’t have to be dependent on our faithfulness or our abilities because it isn’t up to us. I have a son who’s a prodigal. I sometimes become so disheartened because I can’t control what is happening in his life. The Lord lovingly taught me years ago that He is still working in his life and I’m called to pray for him, but it’s God’s job to draw him to Himself. Thank you for the beautiful reminder of the lesson I sometimes forget.

]]> By: Compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2244 Compassion dave Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:30:55 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2244 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. (2 Corinthians 4:1) We don't lose heart! Last night I had a small presentation, and long-story-short, no children were sponsored. While that fact saddens me, I will not let it discourage me from the ministry God has so blessed me. The Lord has revealed to me long ago that He is responsible for the numbers and I'm just the 'empty vessell' responsible for showing up. Look at it in any other way, suddenly His yoke is not easy and His burden is not light. Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. (2 Corinthians 4:1)

We don’t lose heart! Last night I had a small presentation, and long-story-short, no children were sponsored. While that fact saddens me, I will not let it discourage me from the ministry God has so blessed me. The Lord has revealed to me long ago that He is responsible for the numbers and I’m just the ‘empty vessell’ responsible for showing up.

Look at it in any other way, suddenly His yoke is not easy and His burden is not light.

]]> By: Jordan http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2243 Jordan Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:01:55 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2243 Eloquent, encouraging, and very well written. Eloquent, encouraging, and very well written.

]]> By: Juli Jarvis http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2242 Juli Jarvis Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:47:22 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2242 I agree wholeheartedly. Once, when I was hurt badly by someone, I spent a long time trying to work through the pain. I forgave, continued to pray for the person, thanked God, and tried to put it behind me. But it remained. Then one day, out of the clear blue, God reached out and healed me of the hurt. I knew I had done nothing to cause the healing, or to deserve it. It was just His time and He did it completely. It's so exciting to rest in His care and to see Him do the things only He can do! I agree wholeheartedly. Once, when I was hurt badly by someone, I spent a long time trying to work through the pain. I forgave, continued to pray for the person, thanked God, and tried to put it behind me. But it remained. Then one day, out of the clear blue, God reached out and healed me of the hurt. I knew I had done nothing to cause the healing, or to deserve it. It was just His time and He did it completely. It’s so exciting to rest in His care and to see Him do the things only He can do!

]]> By: Stevi http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2240 Stevi Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:17 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2240 Thanks for sharing. I definitely feel where you're coming from. Thanks for sharing. I definitely feel where you’re coming from.

]]> By: Sarah http://blog.compassion.com/its-happening/comment-page-1/#comment-2239 Sarah Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:00:47 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=547#comment-2239 I like it ! :) I like it ! :)

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