Are we willing to put our hearts on the line?\u00a0 Paul said they poured their hearts and soul into bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Thessalonica.\u00a0 Are we moved emotionally for the people of New Haven and the area around our church?\u00a0 Do we see them in need of the gospel of Jesus Christ?\u00a0 Are we moved because without Jesus they will spend eternity in Hell?\u00a0 Paul said he worked night and day.\u00a0 Paul was a tent maker, a bi-vocational missionary while in Thessalonica.\u00a0 Paul did not want to take anything from the people; Paul wanted to invest the gospel of Christ into their lives.\u00a0 We need to pray that God breaks us for the people we see each and every day.\u00a0 Remember it is not information we want people to accept but a transformation that comes through surrendering and receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and as their savior.<\/p>\n
Thessalonica received the burden for the people because they believed Paul\u2019s writings and teachings to be the very word of God.\u00a0\u00a0 When we receive God\u2019s Word as truth we start to renew our thinking.\u00a0 When we believe the Word as truth, we see the condition of ourselves and those around us as a reality and the need for God\u2019s grace becomes a blessing not a burden.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s Word is for us today and it is still truth spoken from the mouth of God for us to receive and to share.\u00a0 Pray for God to give you boldness to stand up and to live out His Word, but also to speak His Word to others.<\/p>\n
God wants to work in our town as He did in these towns during Paul\u2019s missionary trips.\u00a0 Are we willing to let the Holy Spirit work in us to reach those around us?\u00a0 God desires to use us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}