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Each month the Glen Park Gospel Church produce a one page newsletter called the Green Leaf. It's available from the chapel each Sunday. Anything that may be of mild interest will be published here.

Who Would Be A Prophet?

When God calls, do we listen? Do we act? Often, God offers us encouragement, sometimes instruction and sometimes He expects us to go out of our way for His ministry. Sadly, we are often not listening, distracted, and sometimes we are too comfortable where we are. If called to a specific ministry, God's call usually troubles us until we give in and make a start.

The Bible has many examples of this, such as Moses in Exodus chapters 3 & 4 where he was reluctant, frightened even, but ultimately used mightily. Or Jonah, who was angry with the Assyrians but wary of whether God would relent on His judgement. And then there was Elijah, who started boldly in 1 Kings 17, stumbled in chapter 19, and finally was a mentor to Elisha. Each of these prophets had times of distress and others more so, which shows us that they were ordinary people.

Letting God speak through us can be costly. Stephen, one of the first Church deacons, professed this before the Sanhedrin in Acts 7:52 "Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,". His speech was blunt at the end and the people did not want to hear it. The same is as true today.

Our own generation has long been stiff-necked but is now becoming brittle too. People are jumping at shadows of their own making, some violently and others in fear, as reported daily in the news. This brittleness portends a change that will both be difficult to many Christians but also opportune to tell the joy that is in Christ Jesus. Some listeners will continue in the same path but some have had enough and are beginning to search for deeper value and meaning. Let's be ready to let God speak through us when each moment arises.

Thought for the Month

"There is nothing too great for God’s power and nothing too small for His love."

Corrie ten Boom

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