Someone said, \u201cThere\u2019s no free lunch.\u201d While that may be true, there is free love, at least in a manner of speaking. God\u2019s love for us is free, meaning it cost us nothing to receive it and nothing to keep it. God said, \u201cI have loved you with an everlasting love\u201d (Jeremiah 31:3). \u201cEverlasting\u201d means it lasts forever. Free, unchanging, eternal! What a love! The very fact that God\u2019s love is based on nothing of our doing makes us all the more secure. We can do nothing to earn it, deserve it, facilitate it, support it, or maintain it. We can only receive it \u2013 and respond to it. Ah, there is the cost! Not to purchase, but to reply. We do not serve in order to get God to love us. We serve because God loves us with an everlasting love. In response to God\u2019s great love, what service will you render this week?<\/p>\n
Begin by joining me in remembering a few of God\u2019s global concerns:
\n\u2022 Continue to pray for Carrie in Austria as she recovers from tongue reconstruction surgery.
\n\u2022 Pray for volunteer mission support for new work in Bryansk, Russia, an area southwest of Moscow about 250 miles.
\n\u2022 Pray for Refuge and Hope as they begin a project to serve youth who are either former child soldiers or who have been traumatized by the war in Democratic Republic of Congo.
\n\u2022 Pray for the intentional acts of kindness cookie outreach during the Gentse Feesten (Gent Festival) this summer in Belgium.
\nPray for Steve and April and their family as they relocate to Prague, Czech Repub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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