| To those on His right hand He says, "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." The question is asked, "Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?" He said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40. Thus that which is done to His needy brethren Christ accounts as done unto Himself.--Letter 30, 1884. {DG 200.1} |
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Kitchen Face Lift |
 God
saw my discouragement and my tears. He saw the fear in my heart. He heard
the destructive things people were saying. He hugged me and wiped away my tears. He did this
using my friend Diane. |
 My
friend Diane sent a huge surprise to me. She knew I was facing some awful
challenges. God tapped her on the shoulder and impressed her that we
really needed her. We were facing a crisis that was crushing the courage
out of me. She decided to do something BIG for me. She paid a
builder, her fine brother Mark, to come up and fix the roof and brighten
up my kitchen in my temporary shelter. Jesus says, that when people do
things for the poor, they are doing them for HIM. |
| I spend the majority of every day in my kitchen fixing and cleaning up for my dear family of four children and husband. The sink did not drain. The roof leaked a lot. I had no hot water, and one foot of counter space. I laid a board over things to make more counter but it was precarious. Extension cords brought the electricity for fridge and a hot plate till God provided a stove. It was an improvement over the camp trailer propane gas stove and three foot size kitchen. Yet it had many problems. My kitchen was transformed from this |
  ...to
this in a short week. |
  My
tiny 10 foot by 10 foot kitchen and dining area was transformed into the
most bright, and cheery part of the shelter. The roof was covered with
some good roofing materials. |
  Great
is God's faithfulness, there is no shadow of turning with Him. He does not
change when we are wealthy or poor. He loves us dearly no matter how
honored in society we are. We are valuable to HIM.
In Zephaniah 3:17 it says God even sings about us. In Malachi 3:17 it says God considers us Jewels. Diane and Mark caused heavens choirs to sing. Every deed of mercy makes music there. The Father from His throne numbers the unselfish workers among His most precious treasures. {DA 639.2} |
 Many
delightful meals and family times have been spent in this room brightened
by my friend. |
  Losses
had brought us to camping in tents then we were loaned a 50 year old single wide trailer set of two. We scrubbed then covered mold
with paint, fixed plumbing, and made do. The roof leaked in many places.
It was the very worst in the kitchen. The plumbing was broken out,
appliances were gone., but it was livable. On an average day of rain, 55 gallons
collected in buckets. I counted them as I dumped the five gallon buckets
of rain water outside. |
  Some
people become very critical of others when they are struggling with
poverty. Friends who love to come see you when you have a nice home, often
loose interest in you if you loose your home. The family and friends who
stay friends when you are destitute, are the friends you can trust.
Friends who love you when you have the high respectable positions in the
community often forget about you when you are struck with poverty. A
friend when you are in need, is a friend indeed.
I want to be a friend when others are in need. I pray God will help me know who needs me. I hope by writing these stories, that it will provide comfort to those who loose health, home, friends or what ever. |
| Diane is not the kind of friend who forgets you if you loose everything. She came to see me. She pitched her tent near mine and enjoyed the adventure for a couple days. Diane was such an encouragement to me. Her heart is full of the love of Jesus. We had become acquainted when I prepared for a mission trip to Mexico while I was in Portland in 1999. God sent her to bring me hope. |
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| Promises for those in loss: |
| To those on His right hand He says, "I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me." The question is asked, "Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?" He said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Thus that which is done to His needy brethren Christ accounts as done unto Himself.--Letter 30, 1884. {DG 200.1} Daughters of God |
| "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me." {DA 637.2} Jesus had told His disciples that they were to be hated of all men, to be persecuted and afflicted. Many would be driven from their homes, and brought to poverty. Many would be in distress through disease and privation. Many would be cast into prison. To all who forsook friends or home for His sake He had promised in this life a hundredfold. Now He assured a special blessing to all who should minister to their brethren. In all who suffer for My name, said Jesus, you are to recognize Me. As you would minister to Me, so you are to minister to them. This is the evidence that you are My disciples. {DA 637.3} All who have been born into the heavenly family are in a special sense the brethren of our Lord. The love of Christ binds together the members of His family, and wherever that love is made manifest there the divine relationship is revealed. "Everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." 1 John 4:7. {DA 638.1} |
| Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to Me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." {3T 518.2} Here in His sermon Christ identifies Himself with suffering humanity and plainly impresses upon us all that indifference or injustice done to the least of His saints is done to Him. Here is the Lord's side, and whoever will be on the Lord's side, let him come over with us. The dear Saviour is wounded when we wound one of His humble saints. {3T 518.3} Righteous job moans because of his afflictions and pleads his own cause when unjustly accused by one of his comforters. He says: "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth." {3T 518.4} |
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Jesus was treated very mean by church leaders of His day. They even tried to kill him by shoving him over a cliff. The were so cruel during his death on Calvary. He allowed it to show how hateful Satan is. We can choose to be loving like God or hateful like Satan. When treated mean, remember to forgive and pray. Jesus said to love, seek to do something good to them, pray for them, and forgive. |
| Never let your tongue and voice be employed in discovering and
thinking upon the defects of your brethren, for the record of heaven identifies Christ's interests with those He has purchased with His own blood. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren," He says, "ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25: 40).
We are to learn to be loyal to one another, to be true as steel in the defense of our brethren. Look to your own defects. You
had better discover one of your own faults than ten of your
brother's. Remember that Christ has prayed for these, His brethren, that they all might be one as He is one with the Father. Seek to the uttermost of your capabilities to be in harmony with your brethren to the extent of Christ's measurement, as He is one with the Father. . . . {HP 178.4} "Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous" (1 Peter 3:8). True moral worth does not seek to have a place for itself by evil thinking and evil speaking, by demeriting others. All envy, all jealousy, all evil speaking, with all unbelief, must be put away from God's children. {HP 178.5} |
| The Saviour is still carrying forward the same work as when He proffered the water of life to the woman of Samaria. Those who call themselves His followers may despise and shun the outcast ones; but no circumstance of birth or nationality, no condition of life, can turn away His love from the children of men. To every soul, however sinful, Jesus says, If thou hadst asked of Me, I would have given thee living water. {DA 194.1} |