The
Mission Foundation
February 19, 2016
Our dear friends,
I
would like to begin by saying that Bec and I are profoundly grateful to
each one of you who have sent financial gifts to The Mission Foundation
to enable us to carry out our work. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
This
morning, as I was sitting in the back corner of one of the legislative
committee rooms, I took a moment to try to begin this letter. I have come home at lunchtime to put my
fingers to the keyboard to bring a few of my scrawled notes (and some other
thoughts) into some order on this page.
The
legislative committee meetings at the Capitol have been numerous, lengthy, and
intense. All day every day, hour after
hour (including last Saturday and Sunday afternoon), our legislators and
Governor John Bel Edwards and his team have worked tirelessly in their effort
to find solutions to the incredibly difficult financial situation of our state.
I have been there with them every day, and
sometimes into the evening. They greatly
need your prayers! They want your prayers!
LEGISLATORS AND GOVERNOR IN
BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER:
This past Tuesday morning, we
held our first Legislators’ Bible Study / Prayer Breakfast of this session,
which included approximately one third of our legislators and our governor and
four members of his immediate team (all five of them being former
legislators). I am very thankful to our
Lord for the wonderful spirit of oneness and peace that was evident throughout
the room.
In
my introductory remarks, I focused on the words of Jesus in His prayer to His
Father on the night before He was to be crucified. He prayed for you and me, asking “that they
may all be one, just as you, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may
be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.” The oneness among us, for which our Lord
prayed, must be a oneness that is clearly
observable to “the world”, the lost society that is all around us. For it
is by our oneness that they will come to know that what we believe is actually
true, that is, that God the Father really did send God the Son into this
world! Do the people around you and me
see our oneness and marvel and become convinced of the truth of the Incarnation
of the Eternal God?!
Whereas
it is true that our legislators and our governor and his team will be more
effective in serving us if they are “one”, there are more fundamental reasons
why they (and we) must live in oneness:
Jesus prayed for it! And it is
our testimony to the world! And please hear this: it is inextricably
connected to our oneness with God the Son and God the Father! Jesus says, “. . . that they also may be in Us.”
So
please pray for the men and women of our legislature and for Governor Edwards
and his team that they will all be one!
Also, please pray for yourself and for me that we will all be one! And may the world see it and believe in our
Lord!
Your brother and sister in the Savior,
Rod and Bec
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