Dear Family of our Lord Jesus Christ,
“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” – Philippians 2:4
I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. C. S. Lewis
Shari is with us today and has two wonderful posting for us!
Please let me share this with you first……..
Last night I was counseling a person who has a problem with alcohol. This week I also have been counseling another with a marijuana problem. My friend calls marijuana her best friend.
As I roam the streets for Jesus Christ I find many that are looking for a best friend.
It is a blessing to share Jesus Christ with all. When we are counseling someone in need through the Word’s of Jesus Christ we are able to refer them to Joy Junction, Albuquerque Rescue Mission, Catholic Charities and other resources that are here to help.
We have relationships with so many wonderful organizations, Counselor’s and Pastor’s to help us, help others.
I let everyone know that I am not a hit and run Pastor, You are stuck with me until the Lord releases me from your life!!
We also have been counseling people out of state and who have turned to us to find comfort and resources.
I have to tell you that the people who are contacting me are wonderful people who just need a friend, Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are the Bible to them, a walking, talking Bible. They do not want to be doing booze and drugs.They want to be set free and the only one that can do that is our Lord Jesus Christ. We are to be the Salt and Light.
People hurt, people seek booze and drugs to feel better, let us be the guiding light for them to come closer to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us show everyone the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
One of my role models for FGGAM is Valley View Christian Church of Edgewood, where they are a Beaming Light to the area! This is a Church that has no walls and is involved in the lives of people in need, people that may never go to their Church.
We have no walls here at FGGAM. We extend our hands to all.
When you support the efforts of FGGAM, you are helping us bring the light of Jesus Christ to the World……one person at a time.
You can support our efforts at www.fggam.org and click on the donate button and scroll down to pay pal.
You will help us with basic services such as phone, utility bill, gas for the car, etc….
We are not a fancy dancy Ministry……we are just here to serve our Lord Jesus Christ.
You can never go wrong by counseling someone in the Word of our Lord with the Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN! The MOST POWERFUL medicine in the World! AMEN!
Then the Lord moves to bring people together to help the hurting individual, the Body of Christ working together! AMEN!
Please pray for strength and peace for Andrea. We love you Andrea!
Please pray for Sammy! Oh, Sammy we love you in our Lord Jesus Christ!
Please pray over this from Erin………….We are praying!
Erin Campbell
PRAY WITH ME, PLEASE… Very serious…
My producer’s wife, Melissa Bowen, has been hospitalized. She is a recovering breast cancer patient who has had numerous surgeries in the past 18 months, including dbl mastectomy and hysterectomy. She is now in hospital with heart condition and every test has come back abnormal. They will perform an angiogram tomorrow at 11am.
But please read on….
Jim is unable to be there with his wife because today is the final day of home nursing care (medicare dropped all nursing benefits) for their daughter Miranda who suffered a traumatic brain injury 15 years ago and has required 24 hour nursing care since. She seizures many times a day and is fed by tube. Jim needs to remain by her side.
But that’s not all….
Jim, himself, is unable to lift his girl because he is scheduled to have back surgery himself! But now, he has to care for his daughter AND extend care for his wife, who is just recently recovering from cancer surgeries and treatment and will have another breast surgery soon.
There is seemingly no help in store because the nursing benefits for Miranda have been dropped… but they are a family who prays and prays and they believe!
I will be with Melissa at the hospital tomorrow, but this family needs serious prayer. Will you pray? They are in GREAT need for God’s help. I have never known a family to suffer for such a sustained period of SERIOUS, traumatic health problems with EVERY member of this family.
My heart breaks. ECM – Please, let’s mobilize.
(Picture of Jim and Melissa Bowen when they renewed their vows on Sept. 11 2011)
Hello. My Name is
Shari… and I’m a God Addict
I Corinthians 16:15-16 ~ I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
Hello. My name is Shari, and I’m a God addict.
Over my almost 50 years I’ve been addicted to a variety of things. Most of them not healthy, but following my salvation in 1996, I became addicted to the things of God. I literally became addicted to Him. I couldn’t get enough of Him, His people, His things, His Word. If it was of Him, I wanted it. I don’t want to sound pious and self righteous, because that is the furthest thing from the truth. I’m not saying that I am “soooooooo right” with God. Believe me when I say I have issues. But I’m still an addict, so I understood Paul when he said the house of Stephanas had addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. What an awesome thing to say about someone!
Addiction: [uh–dik-shuhn] (noun) to abandon oneself to something compulsively or obsessively.
Abandoned Faith
Abandoned faith is not walking out on faith, but walking out on the world to faith; abandoning those things in life that we clung onto in hopes of it making us happy and complete, only to realize that without God, it was nothing. There was no hope in the things that I clung to. I worked to please people, only to discover you could never please them enough. I longed for status, only to realize that for every plateau I achieved still left me longing for something. It was never enough, regardless of what it was. Until I found Jesus. And when I worked for Him, it was enough. He was well pleased. And it became not about status, but about John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Compulsive Faith
That inability to control yourself! It’s not a good thing generally to lose control of oneself, unless it’s in the spiritual realm. Then by letting loose of your control, you’ve allowed God to have control, and life is in much safer hands. I recently attended a service at another church where just that happened. If God wanted them to sing, they sung, if He wanted them to speak, they spoke; some just wept. When the preacher preached it was straight from the heart. I’ve been a few of those services, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been in one quite as intense. A sixteen year girl stood and spoke without reservation that we needed to do something with what we were feeling, she pleaded “Please don’t let it stop here.” That’s Godly compulsiveness!
Obsessive Faith
Fanatical! ~~ My friend Doyle Ballengee used to say, “Go ahead and call me a fanatic, if you get a bad diagnosis, you’ll be lookin’ for a fanatic!”
Obsessive Christians talk about Jesus all the time. They drive the backslider crazy, and the heathen into a rage. I’ve witnessed both, likely caused both. Yes I’m a tad fanatical… okay maybe more than a tad. Because I know what I have a hold of….
Unconditional love. Peace. A 24/7 friend.
Hello, my name is Shari, and I’m addicted to Jesus!
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