{"id":2551,"date":"2016-11-10T05:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T18:19:55","slug":"participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"participate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0833\"<\/a>Emma sent me this picture with the caption: \u2018Anxiously awaiting a fish.\u2019 I replied: \u2018Like father, like son.\u2019<\/p>\n

As sons and daughters of God, we are invited to participate in the Father\u2019s great purposes. As friends of Jesus, we have the privilege of adopting His priorities and entering His life and work.<\/p>\n

Sometimes this may mean waiting with our Father\u2026 or watching with our Friend. Jesus asked his three closest friends to pray with Him as He entered His agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. Three times the disciples fell asleep. \u201cCould you not keep watch one hour?\u201d (see Mark 14:37-38)<\/p>\n

Peter, James, and John wanted to be loyal friends, but they could not endure that night. \u201cThe spirit is willing but the flesh is weak,\u201d Jesus said. Having perhaps set a record for sleeping in church in my younger years, I know their feeling, but what about now?<\/p>\n

The disciples matured to a far stronger place after Jesus ascended and they would agree the Holy Spirit gave them the power. We have been given the Holy Spirit, but do we ask what our Friend is thinking?<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit wants us to have \u2018the mind of Christ.\u2019 Is His top priority a national election? Or a championship baseball game? Or an important financial decision? Perhaps our Father is concentrating on a \u2018fish\u2019 who is about to enter His Kingdom. Perhaps our Friend\u2019s pressing concern is a group of believers suffering for His Name. Will not the \u2018mind of Christ\u2019 produce a radically different outlook than the thinking of the world?<\/p>\n

Several years ago, an American lady named Kimberly entered an effort<\/a> to rescue children in South Sudan, the newest nation on earth. This past summer, civil war broke out and thousands of precious children have been in the danger zone.<\/p>\n

Romano is a Sudanese brother who has committed to do all he can to house, feed, and educate 300 orphans in one of the most dangerous locations. A few days ago, an armed segment of one of the warring factions threatened Romano, accusing him of being a spy. Appealing for food the ministry had already purchased, Romano was told: \u201cIf you say any more, then we will not be held responsible for any deaths which may occur at an attack upon your place. It will be your fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romano sent a message through his American friend Kimberly: \u201cWill you ask all who know about us to pray through the weekend?\u201d Such pleas lead to opportunities for friends of Jesus to participate with our Savior. \u201cHoly Spirit, let us be attuned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person\u2019s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us\u2026 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, \u2018Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?\u2019 But we have the mind of Christ.\u201d
\nI Corinthians 2: 10-16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emma sent me this picture with the caption: \u2018Anxiously awaiting a fish.\u2019 I replied: \u2018Like father, like son.\u2019 As sons and daughters of God, we are invited to participate in the Father\u2019s great purposes. As friends of Jesus, we have the privilege of adopting His priorities and entering His life and work. Sometimes this may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}