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Have you tried Jesus?

Hey Peeps,

Yes, I know I keep needing to remind you that I am alive...that will change.

I was so shocked at how I have only had one post in 2016...and 2016 is almost over..what??

Anyhu let me get to the gest of my post today...

Today I woke up from a dream that was not only very detailed, real life like, but also so heavy in terms of the message it carried. I am still unpacking it. I woke up and a phrase I remember using in my dream was "Have you tried Jesus?"

The dream involved a public space, bunch of people - I only knew one person from the crowd, and the main character - also a person I have never seen. It seemed like this main character was done with this world, he kept on saying "I tried it all, I am tired, am done!"...and was ready to end his life.

I screamed out with a shaky voice, "Have you tried Jesus?" The man looked at me and did not move for few seconds. I felt in that moment he encountered the love of God, he somehow saw Jesus...I think... I remember staring at him. Such an intense moment I tell you. As I saw him respond to the very present presence of God, I started worshiping at the top of my lungs.

I woke up from this dream and started thinking about it. I had an overall idea of what it stood for but it is so detailed I will need to continue to seek the Lord to help me understand it.

In the mean time this very dream led me to think of the story of the lady who had an issue of bleeding for 12 years (Read Mark 5:25-34). It says this lady tried everything, she spent all she had, she went places and tried things but her bleeding did not stop. She heard of this man Jesus, and faith rose in her, she knew things would change if only she could touch the edge of his clothing. She reached out, she was encountered by His love, His healing power...she was changed!

For those of us who have heard of Him, who know Him or know of Him, it is for us to reach out to Him. It will not matter if He was/is your first or last resort (See this Parable of the field workers: Matthew 20)! His love remains unchanged!

However, it is our responsibility to seek out, look for, help and guide those who have never heard of the name Jesus. Those who are going through this hard life without a hope for eternity and abundant life in the 'now' of their lives. I have always thought of the great commission as only a missions related thing. I am learning that sometimes it is as simple as asking "Have you tried Jesus?"

Dear Heavenly Daddy help us be compasses to direct the hurting to the healer, the lonely to the one who is closer than a friend, the broken to the one who formed us!

Let us find few practical ways of walking this out! Faith without works is dead...the lady reached out..so should we!

Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Stay Blessed<3

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