MARK 3:10, 13

MARK 3:10, 13

10 He healed so many that everyone with diseases kept pushing toward him to touch him.
13 Then Jesus went up into the hill country and called those he wanted, and they came to him.

All are welcome to come to Me. Come as you are; there is always room. No one who truly desires to touch Me, be touched by Me, and be healed in every way they need will be denied.

Bring all that you need to Me: your sorrow, pain, grief, loss, lack, sins, failures, fears, and anxieties—not just for yourself, but for all those you love and even for the needs of the whole world.

My mercy is infinite. My power and grace are for all who come to Me, whether by themselves or brought to Me in prayer by those generous souls who understand that it is the will of My Father that not a single one of His little ones be lost.

And then there are those whom I call, those whom I want; they too will come to Me, and I will keep them close to Me. They will accompany Me, and I will accompany them. I will speak to them and reveal great and wonderful things, and even in this life they will experience the joys of heaven.

Come to Me, remain in Me, and ask to be counted among those who desire to be near Me and among those I want and call by name to be Mine—so closely, so intimately, that they will do all I ask without hesitation and without stopping to count the cost.

Ready to be stripped bare of everything so they can be filled with My Life and My Love all their days, and begin living here on earth the life they will live in eternity: intimate union with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit even as they walk through this valley of tears.

Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and I will open the door; I will come to you and dine with you, and you with Me.

LUKE 21:3-4 (2026)

 LUKE 21:3-4

3 And Jesus said: “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them. 4 For all of them gave an offering from their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, gave all she had to live on.”

---- my own,

Rely on the providence of your heavenly Father; He will supply all your needs. When you give, let your giving be after the model of the widow who dropped two copper coins into the offering. View her gift with the mind of God. It was all she had to live on, while all the others made a great show of dropping their much larger offerings into the temple treasury. She gave without a thought about where her next meal would come from. Her faith in God was so great that she trusted Him to feed her just as He fed the sparrows in the air and clothed the lilies in the field. 

Money is not the only thing that you are called to give, ---- mine, the greater gift is the gift of yourself, your time, your attention, your presence. Be attuned to the needs of others and permit the Holy Spirit to inspire and lead you in meeting the needs of those you encounter. Be receptive, be open, be aware, and soon you will become more sensitive to what I AM asking you to give. God loves a cheerful giver.