A Covenant

My county has an average of 3,000 children in the foster care system during any given month. The orphanages of George Muller's day have gone out of favor, but the need is still there.

So what do you do with 3,000 children who have lost their parents or have been removed from their homes?

God directed one family to do something about this problem and in 2001, Covenant Community Services was created. It's mission is the “Placing (of) abused and neglected children in families that model the love of Jesus Christ." The mission is fulfilled as they recruit, train and certify foster families to provide safe, stable and loving homes for children to develop and grow in God’s love and grace.

What better place for an abused or neglected child than in the loving home of a Jesus loving family!

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice,correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
(Isaiah 1:16-17)

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to
visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27)

Let Us Pray

It is a common temptation of Satan

to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer

when our enjoyment is gone;

as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them,

and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

George Muller

Faith and Cool Hair

I just finished reading a biography of the Prussian George Muller(1805-1898), father to 10,000 orphans in Bristol, England. Here are a few quotes from the man.

"Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" means, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

My wife and I had the grace to take the Lord's commandment in Luke
12:33 literally: 'Sell that ye have and give alms.' We never regretted
taking that step. God blessed us abundantly as He taught us to trust in Him
alone. He never failed us."

"A servant of God has but one Master."