A WORD! Have you ever been served a great reminder through the eyes of a child? It is very humbling for sure! That very thing happened to me this week. One of the little girls in my room brings her little green Gideon New Testament to school almost every day. Mind you, the Gideons have been stopped from bringing them, but NO MAN stops God!!!! Anyway, we have a precious little Muslim girl in our classroom and they are friends. I saw Georgia with her bible on the way to lunch and then during lunch I noticed that she didn't have it. I went over and asked her where it was and she pointed and the little Muslim girl smiled her beautiful smile and pulled it out of her back pocket! WOW!! Tears immediately welled up in my eyes and a lump formed in my throat. I immediately heard the Lord say to my heart, "Wendy, what have you done with My Word today?" "With what thirsty soul have you shared it?" So, I ask you the same question. What will you do with His Word this week? Isaiah 50:4 says, "The Lord God has given me the tongue of disciples, that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a Word! He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to listen as a disciple." God can give us a due Word to use in due season to some thirsty, weary soul, but we must be in it and listening every morning! We need to be up with God in the morning, so we'll be prepared to be used in the day! Proverbs 15:23 says, "A man finds joy in giving an apt reply - and how good is a timely Word!" To give the right Word for a Now moment, we must be in the Word so that when God gives us the opportunity we have the Right Word! One that sustains and ministers and lasts! So, at the end of the day, whose back pocket will your Word be found in? What heart will you touch this week with the Words of the Master? His Words bring healing no matter where they are spoken, so go and speak the Life-Giving Words this week to everyone you meet! I love you! Wendy

AM I LISTENING AND HEEDING?

John 10:27 says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." When we choose to follow Him, we must go wherever He leads! I think we could all admit that it can be scary at times. As I thought about that verse, the Lord brought back to mind one particular Sunday many years ago as I was standing in church at the end and we were singing "Wherever He leads, I'll go." One line of that song says, "I'll follow My Christ who loves me so, wherever He leads I'll go." I was dealing with some pretty big fears at that time in my life and as I sang that song the Lord gave me an awesome picture of what that looks like...(I'm a visual person). As a small child I loved to go to the creek with my granddad. God gave me the picture of me following along behind my granddaddy with his Duckhead overalls through the woods, down the creek bank, and sometimes even out in the murky water. Was I ever afraid? Never!! Because I trusted my granddaddy completely! Now, if I could trust him being human, how much more could I trust my Heavenly Father who loves me and has my best interest at heart?? Where has He asked you to follow Him lately? To a foreign land to share His love? To a hospital bed for a whole year? To walk through a hard time with a child? To a job where your boss is almost unbearable? To being a caretaker for someone with a lengthy illness? The list could go on and on and you can let the Lord fill in the blank for you, but know that He only called you to that task because He knew that He could trust you with it! I am praying for you today that wherever He has called you to walk at this time, that you find His presence so thick there that it takes your breath away!! After all, He is leading the way, remember??

I love you!!

Wendy

A RICH INHERITANCE

A friend of mine and I have been discussing our grandmothers lately. Mine went home to be with the Lord in 2001, but hers is still alive and well at the young age of 96!! My grandparents practically raised me. They meant the world to me. Everything I know about the Lord came from them. Proverbs 13:22 says, "A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children." An inheritance is defined as "the acquisition of a possession from past generations." I am one rich woman because of the inheritance they left me. No, I'm not talking about material things. As a matter of fact, most everything in their home at the time of their death was borrowed from one person in the family or another. They lived in a small 2 bedroom wooden framed house. Material things were never important to them, but living a godly life before their Maker and loving their children, grandchildren and great-grands is what they sought after. We must ask ourselves the question: Is that the kind of inheritance that we are working every day to leave our children and children's children? Or do we concentrate more on what we are building up in the bank account for them?... The things that moth and rust destroy... Or the things that will last forever? Are we more concerned about what kind of house they will live in and how many square feet it will have or the impact that they will make on a lost and dying world for Jesus? It is so easy to get caught up in the "practical", but I know that the desire of our hearts is to remembered by all that come behind us just the way I remember my grandparents.....

The House that Love Built

There stands a little white frame house

In a yard that's always groomed

The occupants are not at home

It all seems doom and gloom

But at one time, not long ago

They were there, you see.

The place was such a haven

For Andy, the kids and me.

The house was plain and simple

Just barely kept out the cold

But, oh, the love that that place held

Was more than this heart can hold

If only those old walls could talk.

I'd sit for hours on end

And listen to the memories shared

And wish for one more moment to spend.

They can change the trim or tear it down

Or move it down the lane

But the little house that love built

Will forever there remain.

Let it be said of us!

Love you!

Wendy

KNOWING HIM

KNOWING HIM


Phil. 3:10 says, "I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection
and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings....."The Amplified Bible
says, "(For my determined purpose is ) that I may know Him (that I may
progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him,
perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His person more
strongly and more clearly)........OK, this is a heavy verse, but I want to
just take that part of it and camp for a minute.


My purpose, your purpose is to KNOW Christ! The verb form of the greek
word there is "gnosco" and is acquired knowledge through perception. My
life is a book and so is yours! All of us have the same title.......KNOWING
CHRIST by Wendy McLeod. You have one too. There are chapters like,
"Knowing Christ in the Rubble." "Knowing Christ in the Whirlwind." In
Every Season. What would my chapter be right now? What would yours be?
This is so cool. The noun form of that word is "gnosis" and it means
knowledge - present and a fragment of it. The commentary put it this way
and I love it! "The little that I know, the fragments that I know, are
worth the lose of EVERYTHING that I've had to give up!" Don't you just love
that??


Our determined purpose is to Know Christ, so it must become our goal to put
all these fragments of knowledge about Christ to work until we have a
working knowledge of who He is! Then when we see Him face to face it will
be COMPLETE! That is the goal!


So, pull up a chair, get in the Word and sit across from Him and get to know
the mind of the One who paints the sky, who made the oceans, who formed you
in your mother's womb! What a Savior! He is so worth KNOWING!!

I love you!
Wendy