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DAY 40

Two conversations. Unrelated. Linked.

I spoke on the phone today with someone who told me she is moving. Home. Country. She had just sold her car. Everything is going. She is giving up everything and going to study youth ministry in another country. She feels God is leading her this way.

I spoke to someone in a car park today. He has a part time job. Having had to share his wife's car for some time, he now has a car of his own. His boss sold him the car. Not for market value, but for less than the trade-in value. His boss, not a Christian, told him, "God gave you this car."

Both people, not only believe in God, but rely on Him. I get the impression that both rely on the presence of God in a way that if God says, "Give", she gives, and if God says, "Receive", he accepts. 

Matthew 10:5-8
The Message (MSG)
Jesus sent his twelve harvest hands out with this charge:
"Don't begin by travelling to some far-off place to convert unbelievers. And don't try to be dramatic by tackling some public enemy. Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighbourhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here. Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. You have been treated generously, so live generously." 

I don't use this quote to persuade "her" to stay. I just like the last line. I wonder what have I given to God today. Only then might I be ready to receive. God gives generously. We get the chance to do so too.

-Pr Nathan Stickland

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