Weekly Encouragement

After every Monday prayer meeting, we email a recap to encourage all of our registry members in their business work. We also post the encouragements to this blog for anyone to learn more about how we do what we do!

The Mentoring Edition

One of the things I love about reading the Bible is that every time I read it I see the same words, but they impact me differently. We prayed for you and your work team from Matthew 5, possibly Jesus’s most quoted message, the Sermon on the Mount. Verses 1 and 2 read, “When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions.” For 50+ years, I believed that the sermon was delivered to a huge crowd. Maybe it was, but the text only refers directly to Jesus and His disciples being in a quiet place. Jesus’ popularity had reached a point where a clear intentional message about how to live in the kingdom (experience God’s blessings while still living regular day-to-day lives) was

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