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We did an island visitation. This is the same island we went to 2 years ago – an island comprised of the “bozo” tribe. PJ, moksanim, and I went today to check it out. This is a video of us leaving that island to go back to mainland, Bamako. We leave from a hectic port where hundred of Africans are busy working and they did NOT like getting their photos taken! So, our team has to be extra sensitive with their cameras later on. However, the children LOVE getting their pics taken. Now we’re going to visit the classrooms and then quickly go off to Jema (the village where we captured the “real nike” ad last year)!
Are You Ready To Be Poured Out As an Offering?
(from: ”My Utmost for His Highest”)
(by: Oswald Chambers)
If I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all – Philippians 2:17
Are you willing to sacrifice yourself for the work of another believer-to pour out your life sacrificially for the ministry and faith of others? Or do you say, “I am not willing to be poured out right now, and I don’t want God to tell me how to serve HIm. I want to choose the place of my own sacrifice. And I want to have certain people watching me and saying, ‘Well done.’”
It is one thing to follow God’s way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a “doormat” under other people’s feet. God’s purpose may be to teach you to say, “I know how to be abased…”(Philippians 4:12). Are you ready to be sacrificed like that? Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket-to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted-not seeking to e ministered to, but to minister? Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude, because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.