One Faith Fellowship Newsletter
"Nuggets For The Soul "
September 26, 2010 Volume 91 |
Board of Directors and Advisory Board (Syeeda Jacobs not shown)
Dr. Tonya Lewis, Founder and CEO
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1st Saturday's Fellowship
October 2, 2010 12:00 noon
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Dr. Tonya Lewis
11:00 A.M. Speaker
Macedonia AME Church
2906 Adams Avenue S.W.
Pastor-Rev. James F. Highsmith
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Greater New Calvary Church of God In Christ
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Camden, Arkansas
Pastor--Bishop Wallace Johnson
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Dr. Tonya Lewis
Weekly Featured Article
LAVISHED LOVE
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Greetings!
Lavished Love
THE LOVE OF GOD IS TRULY AMAZING! It is richly and freely offered to those who will receive it and commit to a personal relationship with Him.
Exodus 20:6 NLT- But I lavish my love on those who love me and obey my commands, even for a thousand generations.
1 Corinthians 8:3 NLT-But the person who loves God is the one God knows and cares for. 1 John 3:1- NIV-How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! ...
To "Lavish" means to be very generous, to give or bestow in abundance; to shower.
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Anyone who has experienced the Love of God could easily conclude that they are the "ONLY ONE" loved and cared for by Daddy-God! Of course we know that this is not the case, but it certainly feels like it!
Consider the greatness of God's creation: massive bodies of oceans, humongous mountains, height of the tallest trees or the width of the sky as far as the eye can see; all of these provide us with a glimpse of just how big and great our Heavenly Father is; for He is a trillion times greater than any of His creation.
Because of the greatness of Daddy-God is why His love is lavished all over and around us! It is not His nature to just love us a "Little Bit"! He Can't! But He lavishly (abundantly and generously loves us! His great love is expressed each and every day of our lives; each and every moment!
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Lavished Love (4 of 6)
His "Lavished Love" is what gives us favor when all odds are against us. Daniel 1:9-Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love (NLT-great respect) with the prince of the eunuchs.
Daddy-God's "Lavished Love" is what enables us to experience the "Sunshine of Hope and Peace" when others around us can only experience the rain and storms of life. 1 Corinthians 2:9-But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
His "Lavished Love" is what has kept us throughout our entire life; through experiences of molestation, rape, bad relationships, physical or mental abuses etc.! His "Lavished Love" is what gives us the faith to know that no matter how difficult life has been that there is "Hope for Change."
Daddy-God's "Lavished Love" is what leads and guides us into change when otherwise we would not know the way. 1 John 3:16-NLT-We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us...
1 John 4:9-NLT-God showed how much He loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.
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Lavished Love (6 of 6)
1 John 4:21-And God Himself has commanded that we must love not only Him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.
Hebrews 6:10 NLT-For God is not unfair. He will not forget how hard you have worked for Him and how you have shown your love to Him by caring for other Christians, as you still do.
Hebrews 10:24- And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. 2 Thessalonians 3:5 NLT- --May the Lord bring you into an ever deeper understanding of the love of God and the endurance that comes from Christ.
Family, let's decide to bless ourselves by experiencing and extending "Lavished Love"! Lets lavish (be very generous, to give or bestow in abundance; to shower) love on one another.
It will definitely impact the world and our lives for good which will usher us into greater dimensions of fellowship with God and man. Blessings and love!
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"The Medicine of LAUGHTER"
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E.E. Cummings
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength. Proverbs 17:22
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Be Blessed by Previous "Nuggets for the Soul" Issues and Songs!!!
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Words of Expression! (2 of 2)
Praise God! Dr. tonya Lewis: Just a note to thank you and admonish you for sending out your e-mail in such a timely manner. The entire Newsletter was thought-provoking and inspirational as well as spiritually enhancing to my soul. I praise God for your anointing and giftings to the body of Christ. Much Love and Prayers for you may God's blessings continue to flow in your life! Evangelist GK
Hellooo
Famous word of Jesse Jackson-"How Long??"I will continue to practice Patience. All the days of my life shall I wait until my change comes -Psalm Of David.. Enjoy your vacation.
Sunday School Was Wonderful.
see you soon. Much Love PE
I SHALL WAIT ON THE LORD. HE SHALL CONFIRM HIS WILL WAY TO ME BEFORE I MAKE A MOVE. BEING DOING THIS FROM THE EARLY 90'S UNTIL NOW. BEFORE THEN I WAS DOING MY OWN THING AND WAS INVOLVED IN NUMBERS OF ACCIDENTS. THEREFORE I SHALL WAIT UPON THE LORD. HE SHALL SHOW ME HIS WAY NOT MY WAY NOR MAN IN THE FLESH WAY. HE HAS MY BACK. THATS HOW LONG I SHALL WAIT. THANKS! FOR THE MESSAGE. GOD BLESS! BE SAFE. IN JESUS NAME. DR. G
Hey Dr. Lewis-As always What a wonderful Word from the Lord! We need to learn how to wait on the Lord, He is the only one that can take care of us and do for us what we need done! Lord help us to wait on you!!! God Bless you and yours, love you much! VL
From: B H Subject: Re: How Long Will YOU Wait? Thanks for your mail...enjoy family down south for our Heavenly Father's purpose...
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Lavished Love (3 of 6)
Zephaniah 3:17- The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over thee with singing.
His "Lavished Love" keeps us from being overtaken in defeat when we choose to stand up in victory! His "Lavished Love" keeps us safe from hurt and harm; for just as Daddy-God is in the midst of our lives each day; so is our enemy-satan.
Daddy-God's love is so great that even when we encounter difficult situations; He is right that with us to be our Guide and Shield. His "Lavished Love" is so great for us that He has planned each day to be a blessing in our lives.
Daddy-God's great delight is to love us into righteousness; not to beat and frighten us into loving Him. His "Lavished Love" is what has provided opened doors for us when we knew that we did not have the slightest of opportunity.
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1 John 4:10-This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us.... Because of the "Lavished Love" we have experienced from Him; He desires that we extend this kind of love to others.
Daddy-God's "Lavished Love" gives us the ability to forgive and to even forget wrongs done to us. His "Lavished Love" motivates and enables us to be a "Beacon of Love" to others when we otherwise would choose not to be.
1 John 4:11-Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. V16-... God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. V17-And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the Day of Judgment, but we can face Him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.
V.19-We love each other as a result of His loving us first. V.20-If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian Brother or Sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?
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In love beggar and king are equal. - Indian Proverb
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Words of Expression! (1 of 2)
Excellent newsletter!
My soul wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him!
(Psalm 62:5)
Bishop Johnny J. Young, Ph.D.
Chief Apostle / Senior Presiding Prelate / CEO
A few days ago, my sister texted a photo of my mom's crushed car roof, hood, trunk, windshield, and other windows to me. I thought, "Oh, God!" I went into prayer mode and called to get the facts. My sister said the accident was a few days ago on a Monday. I thought, "Mom crossed my spirit Monday and I started interceding and reminded myself that if something were going on, I would get a call." No call came. "This doesn't make since, " I told my sister. "I talked to mom that day and the days since and she never mentioned a thing, sounded in a good mood and everything, not like a person who's been hanging upside down in her vehicle." It is a miracle. As my mom was driving, another vehicle smashed into her car, flipping mom's vehicle over, landing on the car roof. The tow truck had yet to arrive, so witnesses rushed to her aid and one or two, perhaps more citizens pushed until my mother and the car were right-side up again. My mom's vehicle has been sent to the car graveyard, but hallelujah, my mother is walking around, seemingly unscathed. As a precaution and upon my and my siblings insistence, she went to her doctor for an examination, just to be sure all is as it should be. So praising God that mom was spared, I called to lovingly fuss at her for withholding this information from me. Apparently she didn't want to worry me. I said, "Why would I worry when after being flipped over and hanging upside down, God saw fit to let you walk out seemingly without a scratch and you're not even scared to keep driving?' Yes, God is a miracle worker. All the blessings involved and more that I probably haven't even comprehended. The smashed car roof stopped just enough distance away to keep from crushing mother's head, or snapping her neck. She didn't suffer whiplash OR heart attack. The seat belt worked properly. God touched people and gave them the strength to aid her. Her praise music was still playing providing comfort. I asked, "Mom, did you break down and cry once you got home, or the next day, or anything?" She said, "Well, it happened so fast. I was driving. listening to the praise music, which wasn't up too loud. Next thing, I'm hit, and looking at the ground. So I initially wondered why this had happened to me. Then I figured God must have more for me to do around here. So right now, I'm going to get some more milk. Talk to you later. Love you!" KD
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You have an awesome newsletter. I really enjoyed it and am honored to have been included in it. Thank you for sharing.
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You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California. In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems: If you focus on your problems, you're going into self- centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain. But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings. Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.
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