From: "Dwayne Savaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> God's Work Ministry E-mail
Dear Friend, We should always be quick to do good things and lend a helping hand towards those who can't do it for themselves. To see the benefit of being helpful, all one needs to do is put themselves in the other person's place. If we were the ones in need, how thankful would we be for another person's help and attention! Just as we know we would be appreciative, we should make the same effort to do all we can to help and show that we do care about them. The benefit will not only be to the recipient, but also to ourselves. God who sees all things will be just to give us a reward for treating others the way we would want to be treated. Remember, Jesus said whatever good we do for others; it is equivalent to doing it to the Lord Himself. (James 1:27) (Luke 6:31) (Matthew 6:1-4) (Luke 6:35-36) (Mark 9:41) I hope this message encourages your heart to never be quick to dismiss doing something nice for someone else. As miniscule as it may seem to you, it may be very important to the recipient. Spend an extra minute to make sure that they were not left wanting. A ROSE IS A WEED IS A ROSE Seeing the United Parcel Truck pull into my driveway; I opened the garage door knowing that another package has arrived helping us with the Christmas in July Party we were putting together for the orphans at a local orphanage. As I stood watching the driver get the packages from the back of the truck; I saw Madison, my three year old granddaughter, picking weeds from the lawn. “These are for my mommy and daddy,” she replied, as she held out a hand full of worthless little weeds. I just smiled and nodded my head as I looked at her tight little closed fist. The UPS driver walked into the garage and sat the two packages down on the wooden bench. He and I stood talking about the numerous baseballs gloves, baseball bats, helmets and baseballs sitting about the room. I told him I had been raised in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage and that during my entire childhood I never once owned anything of my own. I told him that these presents were for the children themselves and not for the orphanage. After taking for a few minutes, the driver told me he had to leave. He waived and began walking back down the driveway. I turned around, locked the garage door and began walking up onto the front porch. Just as I closed the dog gate, Madison came running up to where I was standing. “My flowers my flowers,” she screamed aloud. I soon realized that I had locked her weeds in the garage. “We’ll get them later,” I told her. I just did not want to walk back down the stairs and unlock the garage door for a bunch of worthless weeds. It was just not worth the effort. Putting my hand onto her small shoulder, I began directing her back into the house. After about ten feet, I stopped dead in my tracks. “You can walk out to the garage for the kids in the orphanage, but you cannot walk to the garage for your granddaughter?” I kept thinking. “Those baseball gloves are like gold to those orphan children just as those weeds are beautiful flowers to your granddaughter,” I thought. I turned around, walked back to the end of the porch and opened the dog gate. Then I walked down the three stairs, took out my keys and opened the garage door. Madison ran past me, grabbed the little treasures, which she had picked just moments before and she stood there smiling. I knelt down and looked through the green, now drooping, limp, sagging lifeless weeds and I smiled as I saw the beauty of a dozen beautiful red roses reflecting in her eyes. By Roger Dean Kiser Read and meditate on these scriptures: 1 John 4:10-12 “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth...” Matthew 5:14-16 Jesus says, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” 1 John 4:7-11 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” All scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible. Today's Selected Poem: WISE WORDS Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/enpoem109.htm Today's Selected Testimony: GOD'S ALIVE AND WELL Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony34.htm ================================================= God's Work Ministry E-mail Dear Friend, We should never dismiss doing something good for others. The Lord who sees all things done openly and in secret has promised that every deed will receive a just reward. We shouldn't expect to receive our blessings in the same manner to which we sent them out. The Lord who is infinite in wisdom has multitudes of different ways to return unto us the good that we bestowed upon others. The Lord Jesus declares in Luke 6:35-36, “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” Be encouraged and know that it is more to our benefit that we are kind and courteous and helpful to those who are in need. As much help as they will receive because of our attention, the Lord will reward us much more in this life and in the New Life to come. I hope this message inspires and challenges your heart to see the benefits of being kind and compassionate towards those who are in need. See that no good deed that is done with a pure heart will go unrewarded. THE MEDICINE THAT SAVED ME “I’ll be back in about half an hour,” I said, as I walked out the front door. Still quite sore from my cancer surgery, I began the one mile walk to Thrifty Drug Store Pharmacy on Yosemite Boulevard to pick up my medicine. Things were a bit tough on my wife and I since the Stanislaus County Welfare Department had taken almost everything we owned. It was almost unbelievable that we owed almost one hundred thousand dollars in hospital costs. Our small trampoline business, car, wedding rings and money were all confiscated by the county for partial payment of the large bill. As I entered the pharmacy, I got in line to wait my turn. In front of me was an elderly woman who was giving the pharmacists a very hard time. Feeling a little sick at my stomach, I turned around and sat down in one of the six hard chairs in the small waiting area. Within a minute the older woman also came over and sat down. I watched as she continually rubbed her legs, almost in tears, she began to talk with me. “This gout is killing me,” she replied. “I had a few bursts of that last year, in my feet,” I told her. “Then you know how it hurts.” “Yes Ma’am, I sure do.” “Ma’am, there is nothing I can do for you. Your doctor is out of town and there is no one I can possibly contact at this late hour. Besides you’re over your medication quota for the month anyway.” the pharmacist advised her. “What type of medicine do you take?” I asked. “Colcho…something or other,” she tried to say. “Colchicine,” yelled the girl, who was standing by the pharmacist. “Ma’am, I have two or three full prescription bottles of that at home. I barely used it, maybe two or three times. I mean...full bottles,” I told her, in a quiet tone. “How much do you want?” she replied. “Nothing, you can have it.” “Thank you dear. That is so kind of you,” she replied. “One problem though,” I told her. She looked at me, her eyes opened wide. “You will have to wait until I walk home and bring it back.” “Don’t you have a car, sonny?” No Ma’am,” I replied. When my prescription was filled, I paid for it and walked to the front door. Sitting in a taxi cab was the elderly woman. “Here’s your ride home,” she said, as she laughed and then began coughing. Within minutes we arrived at our small house, located in the worst part of Modesto known as “the airport district.” The woman waited in the taxi while I ran into the house and dug out the pills, from a cardboard box, underneath the bathroom sink. I told my wife what I was doing and then walked out to the waiting cab and handed the woman the three bottles of medicine. “Why would you do this for a total stranger?” she asked. “I guess because you need it. I don’t need it anymore. It would just go bad sitting under the bathroom sink.” “Give me your phone number, young man.” As we had no telephone, I gave her the phone number of my in-laws, which the taxi driver wrote down for her. As they drove away she waived to me several times out the back window. I went back into the house and took my own medications and then laid down on the bed to rest for a few minutes. Within seconds the medicine kicked in and I was out for the remainder of the night. Now owning nothing of value, I had no idea how we were going to start a new life for ourselves. All night the dreams were haunting and terrible. Early the next morning someone knocked on our door. When my wife answered, there stood the elderly woman. “Is that man here who gave me the medicine?” “Hon, I think this is for you,” yelled out my sweet wife. As I walked to the front door my wife gave me a funny look. “Young man, can you and the misses come with me?” she asked. “I stuck out my hands letting her know that I did not understand what she meant.” “Can you two come with me?” she stated again. My wife walked back into the room to see what was going on. “Hon, she wants us to go with her.” “Go where?” “Just you two never mind,” said the woman. I looked outside and saw a taxi sitting in the driveway. “Let’s go,” she said, as she put her hand into the small of my back. We loaded into the taxi and off we went. We must have driven for thirty minutes before the taxi drove up to a small farm house located out in the country. The woman paid the taxi driver and he drove away. “How are we going to get home?” I asked the woman. “You just let me worry about that,” she replied. We followed her out back to an old barn. “Didn’t you tell me yesterday that you didn’t own an automobile?” “Yes Ma’am.” “Well, I am going to give you a car. Open those two barn doors,” ordered the lady. I looked at my wife, raised my eyebrows and wondered what type of old junk Model T Ford awaited us behind the two barn doors. When I opened the creaking doors, I looked inside and right before me sat a brand new Chevrolet station wagon. It was a little dusty, but not a scratch could be seen on it. “I’m sorry ma’am, but we cannot accept this.” “And just why not,” the woman asked. “The county will just take it from us.” “Why would they do that?” I owe almost one hundred thousand dollars for cancer surgery that I had last month. “How can they take your car?” “Any vehicle less than three years old we cannot own.” “Then there is no problem.” “What do you mean?” I asked her. “This car is almost eight years old.” “It can’t be. There is less than two thousand miles on the odometer,” I stated, as I opened the door and looked inside. “My husband purchased this car in Fresno two days before he died. He made me promise that I would learn to drive and that I would never sell it.” “Then why aren’t you driving it?” “Never learned to drive”, she said, chuckling aloud. “But he also told you never sell it.” “I’m not selling anything. I’m giving it away, and I’m sure that my late husband would approve. After walking inside, the woman excused herself, telling us she was going to retrieve the title from her safe. When she returned, she signed the station wagon over to us. After hugging my wife and I, she told us goodbye. She constantly waved both her arms in the air as we drove down the dirt driveway. This was the start of a new life for my wife and me. I remember thinking that the three bottles of pills I had thrown beneath the bathroom sink was the medicine that saved me. By Roger Dean Kiser Read and meditate on these scriptures: Hebrews 10:22-24 “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.” 2 Corinthians 4:6-10 “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” Revelation 22:12-14 Jesus declares “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” All of these scriptures can be found in the King James Version Bible. Today’s Selected Poem: BRIGHTEN YOUR CORNER Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/inpoem71.htm Today’s Selected Testimony: ALBERT ODUYEMI’S TESTIMONY Click here to read --- http://www.Godswork.org/testimony137.htm In Christ’s Service, Dwayne Savaya God’s Work Ministry Please feel free to visit the Website to read more Encouraging and Inspirational stories, poems and testimonies. Our E-mail Archives are available as well to read the messages that have been sent in the past. You can now hear our stories and poems right on our website. Volume One contains 15 messages that can be heard and enjoyed at Godswork.org. 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