Seeking the Lord by Jose Carlos Rodrigo Azcarraga https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog Senses from the Lord en-us 2021-12-06 14:00:14 UTC 2021-12-07 02:41:54 UTC hello@padlet.com An encouragement to prepare ourselves, care for the flock, and be spurred on by the Spirit https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932546791 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
- Acts 20:28

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
- Matthew 10:16-20]]> 2021-12-07 02:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932546791 Shepherd of the Lost jjazcarraga https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932551906  I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak.
Ez 34:16

Perhaps this is a reminder of the Lord that he intends to shepherd his sheep that has been lost in the faith (specifically this pandemic). The loss of physical church and communities has brought darkness towards God's sheep (Ez 34:12). And God intends to shepherd them back through the mission God has entrusted us in.

As Jesus is our true shepherd ( Ez 34:23) the Lord is reminding us to set our obedience more to Jesus' teachings, and less towards the fear of viruses, political uncertainties, and the spread of evil influence. Let us only fear the Lord, our shepherd. And seek even more to instruct our lives towards the way our shepherd intends us to. Let Jesus be our one and only master, setting our eyes on him (Matt 14:31) and not towards the world's sea and darkness.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Ez 34:12

And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
Ez 34:23

Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matt 14:31
]]> 2021-12-07 02:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932551906 Generosity Encouraged https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932551978 Something I heard last Sat's House LD celebration... an exhortation to be like God, a generous Father who created and called men and women to Himself out of His generous love. He called a man named Abraham who likewise was generous in his response to obey God. 
I also felt the Lord's continuous call to us in CYA, especially during this time. He has formed and called men and women in CYA over the years to be generous in our response of obedience for such a time as this. We can be generous in our love because we are sons and daughters of our ever generous Heavenly Father.

6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Cor.9: 6-7]]> 2021-12-07 02:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932551978 https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932557811 Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.

Do not grow weary. Do not lose heart. Hold fast to the things that endure.]]> 2021-12-07 02:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932557811 New Season, Deeper Love quiringjerome https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932559684 10  My beloved speaks and says to me:
a“Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away,
11  for behold, the winter is past;
bthe rain is over and gone.
12  cThe flowers appear on the earth,
the time of singing4 has come,
and the voice of dthe turtledove
is heard in our land.
13  eThe fig tree ripens its figs,
and fthe vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
gArise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come away.

God is bringing us in a new season and with a new season is a call to a deeper love to experience and to respond to. This is true for us but this is also what God wants us to proclaim.

]]> 2021-12-07 02:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932559684 Greater unity as CYA, suffering and rejoicing with one another jagdagelet https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932563474 1 Corinthians 12

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
]]> 2021-12-07 02:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932563474 Spending time with God https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932565291 This sense is more for the leaders of CYA (Staffers & student leaders)

"--but his delight is in the instruction of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all things he does, he prospers."
(Psalm 1:2-3)

Do we allot space to seek the Lord's instruction? Do we have time to spend in God's presence?

Do we seek his instruction, when pastoring His young people? Or do we just rely on our own past experiences and skill?

Do we witness relying on the Lord in what we do, with our student leaders?]]> 2021-12-07 02:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932565291 A Reminder rgforonceargo https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932579934 "My dear missionaries, you can never box how I work. I am here to surprise and overwhelm you with my miracles."

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." - Isaiah 55:8-9]]> 2021-12-07 02:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jjazcarraga/uhyhmdh7jhis0xog/wish/1932579934