The AMC young adults, though a busy bunch still made time to fellowship with one another. Thanks to the efforts of dear sister Felicia. Thank you Akka. Jesus loves you.
Ok. Ten of us, including Hosanna😍, gathered in the basement of AMC. I love the basement area because we'll be truly cut off from the outside world with no mobile network. That's what surprisingly is the need of the hour. Turning our focus to Jesus and shutting other disturbances.
Sarah Paul Singh Akka was the speaker for the day and I'll be sharing the gleanings from the message.
Read Matthew 10:39
"Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it."
Yes, many a time we forget how much blessed we are. It's idolatry to enjoy the blessings and ignore the blesser!
Sarah Akka came up with a small model
The fringes of this model are marked with WORLD, WORK and WORRIES. If our focus is on the fringes, we will end up missing the bullseye.
The next level which can take away our focus is RELATIONSHIPS. Yes relationships are absolutely important and we just can't ignore them. But we shouldn't allow it to shift our focus.
Jim Elliot, missionary to tribal village in Ecuador, Huaorani, arrived with his friends. They arrived with a hope to spread the Gospel. The local people out there killed Jim and his friends. They were martyred for Christ. The news left the young wives beleaguered as they just realised they've been widowed. But this did not hinder their determination to continue the ministry. The young women travelled back to the village where their husbands were killed and preached the good news. This time the people accepted Jesus. Today the people from this village are the torchbearers for numerous people groups in South America.
We see here the primary focus of the missionaries was Jesus.
Heb 12:2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Romans 6 13
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
A surrendered life is all about trust.
Ps 37:4
4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
We need to be joyful in the Lord. That's a good thing for a believer to do. In my opinion it is a must.
Psalm 1:2-3
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a treeplanted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
3 That person is like a treeplanted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
So let's FOCUS on JESUS no matter what we go through in this life.
