Dear
Weekly Readers!
God’s
Peace!
I
want to thank you for your prayers as I have been traveling around the USA with
my wife and others to inform Christians about our visits to preach the Gospel
of Jesus Christ in the many countries around the world.
I
have brought them your greetings, and have said that you are praying for us
here in America. They promise to pray
for you as well!
We
have just arrived home last night, after having been gone for over 5
weeks. We pray that Jesus Christ was
glorified in all that was done.
May
God Bless your week. Please enjoy the
below article! John R.
Refresh
the Brethren
If we are walking with God there is
not a day when we may not, if we wish, be a refreshment to our brethren. This
is one of the greatest ministries. It may be no more than a handshake. It may
be a word of encouragement almost casually spoken. It may be just the light of heaven
on our faces. But if the Lord has got His way with us and we are in the state
of having no cloud between ourselves and Him, we shall find that we are quietly
being used. We may not know it, for it is better not to seek to know it—indeed
it may be better never to know it. But whether we know it or not, we are
constantly being used to refresh our brother. When he is low and in darkness,
when he has a burden on his heart or a film before his eyes, when he has been
tarnished and stained, then to us he will come. He may not stay long, perhaps
only for a few minutes. Seek for that ministry. Find grace from God to help him.
Often we think it would be good if we could give long sermons that command a
wide hearing, but few have that gift, and many are not reached by those few who
have. To refresh the hearts of the saints is the kind of ministry which
everyone can fulfill and which can reach everywhere. In the valuation of God it
is without price.
Watchman Nee
“Wherefore comfort yourselves
together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. And we beseech you,
brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord,
and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
And be at peace among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that
are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all
men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that
which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11-15
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