This was a special day for me. My friends Walter and Andrea stopped by for a visit...
I had been expecting them because we made plans for this a few months ago. They're evangelists and they travel the country from their ministry base in California. Walter, however, is from New York and Andrea is from New Jersey. So for them it's like coming home.
I enjoyed the time they and I spent together. Our hearts, I believe, are supernaturally knit together by our mutual love for Jesus Christ. Likewise, we especially enjoyed sharing our stories of how God is using us and how we're seeing lives touched by God's love and power.
For us, as with all my friends, it's not just about getting together for a social chat. Rather we see ourselves as uniting as one in Christ. And we know, too, that His presence is with us. For as the Lord Jesus is quoted as saying in the Scriptures, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).
For my friends and I, our getting together in the prison's visiting room is also for the purpose of encouragement. Because as we share God's Word we are actually encouraging each other to have courage in God, and to never allow ourselves to lose the trust and hope we have in the One who is the King of the Universe, and the Lord of our very lives.
D.B.
I enjoyed the time they and I spent together. Our hearts, I believe, are supernaturally knit together by our mutual love for Jesus Christ. Likewise, we especially enjoyed sharing our stories of how God is using us and how we're seeing lives touched by God's love and power.
For us, as with all my friends, it's not just about getting together for a social chat. Rather we see ourselves as uniting as one in Christ. And we know, too, that His presence is with us. For as the Lord Jesus is quoted as saying in the Scriptures, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).
For my friends and I, our getting together in the prison's visiting room is also for the purpose of encouragement. Because as we share God's Word we are actually encouraging each other to have courage in God, and to never allow ourselves to lose the trust and hope we have in the One who is the King of the Universe, and the Lord of our very lives.
D.B.
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