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From the Heart CO-FOUNDER & PASTOR, DICK KENNEY
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" THE SPRINKLER SYNDROME...." By Pastor Dick Kenney
Shalomyshua@aol.com
Feb 9, 2005
Good morning to every one of you! Yes, each one! Jo-ann and I love you and we pray daily for G-d's richest blessings to fill your lives...That is what we think of every member of MJCC! This a great church! To many of our beloved members this is their only church..This is a huge responsibility for the leadership of this online church...To attempt to bring the Jewish Messiah to almost a thousand members all over the globe, and join non-Jewish and Jewish believers in the true Messiah of Israel!!! And oh, how it has happened! MJCC is this group and they are literally on fire for Messiah Y'shua....
My message this morning is from the letter to there Hebrews, Chapter 10, verse 24: " Let us keep paying attention to one another, in order to spur each other on to love and good deeds..." That is our mission!
One of the most neglected responsibilities among believers' in Messiah Y'shua today is the responsibility to encourage others...The writer of the letter to the Hebrews says; "spur each other to love and good deeds...." All too often we are sparse with our praise and so fail to spur one another on with the kind of encouragement that others may need to hear from us...
Messiah Y'shua was a wonderful model of encouragement for His followers~~He considered His disciples His most important responsibility on earth. He said; " I am praying for them...and in them I have been glorified." {John 17:9-10}, Y'shua did not see His greatest work on the earth as raising the dead, turning water into wine, multiplying loaves and fishes, or healing the sick... He gloried in His disciples, the same disciples who slept while He prayed.....They were, in a sense, His reward......
I have been home sick with the flu for the past four days and after I have completed my work, my devotions and retired to the living room and sat by our fireplace.....The TV was on......Most all of the news programs that we watch at 10PM, before going to bed, were packed with the Academy Movie Awards~~~~As I watched the gala reports about the stars, and which one would receive the Oscar~~~I thought quietly to myself that often, we admire and heap praise on people who aren't even known to us~~for example, actors and sports heroes....or accomplished athletes being paid mega millions per year~~
After we watched Clint Eastwood, Jamie Fox, Leonardo De Caprio and the other contenders......I thought to myself, why are we so sparing with praise and encouragement for the ones closest to us....? Those we love the most...Jo-ann my best friend in all the world....Who waits on me, prays for me, the mother of my four, my toe to toe partner each day in the ministry, the one who needs my encouragement!!
Have you ever noticed that when you are using a sprinkler to water your grass, that the grass closest to the sprinkler is sometimes brown and dried out more than the grass further away from the sprinkler? So much energy and drive from the sprinkler goes to reach the farthest parts of the yard, that the grass closest to the source of water is left dry~~Isn't that true in our own lives? We need to encourage the ones that are closest to us..Our children, our husbands, our wives as well....
So my word to YOU today and to Me as well is: Be aware of the sprinkler syndrome! Let's be sure to encourage one another, especially those closest to us~~And all the more as we surely see the day of Messiah's return approaching~~
Beginning this very day, I am going to look for ways to encourage others in my life~~~~~May I begin with you? Members of this great church, I want to encourage you to write us with your every need, we are here for YOU! This is YOUR church.......We LOVE YOU!
Keepers of His text, Pastor Dick and Jo-ann
Keepers of His text,Pastor Dick and Jo-ann along with song
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