One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter February 2023
- havenministryinfo
- Feb 14, 2023
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Download the February 2023 issue of THE HUB from One Hope Outreach here.
Dear friends and partners:
I want to thank you for your partnership with One Hope Outreach Ministry. Your prayers and support are making an impact around the world as we broadcast the gospel through various means. God has joined us as a team to work for a greater harvest.
Have you ever considered yourself as a building block, precious stone, or an important building component in God’s house? The house of God is a place that He has chosen to dwell. A church is sometimes called the house of God. The church is not a building made up of bricks, mortar, and stone. It is a company of people made up of individuals who are believers in Christ, (Christians).
The apostle Paul calls this dwelling place of God, the holy temple in the Lord, Where the people of God are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:21,22 (KJV).
Believers are a house or (temple) inhabited by God through the Holy Spirit. The apostle Peter says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:5 (KJV).
Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of this house, made up of living stones. He is the precious living stone. Born again believers are possessors of His life and are living stones which constitute a spiritual house.
The miraculous work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer is to transform he or she into a living temple, a dwelling place of God.
The moment any person exercises saving faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit regenerates the spirit of that individual and baptizes him into Christ, the head of the church and into union with other believers in the body of Christ (the church). (Galatians 3:27---1st Corinthians 12:12,13 (KJV).
It is God’s design that every believer to be connected to the rest of the body of Christ. It is also His design that everyone is fitly joined together (fitted). Just as a stone in any sturdy building is an integral part of the building’s strength, so is every fitly joined lively stone in the building called God’s house.
The apostle Paul once again says, “But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ. Dependent on Him, the whole body—its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another— grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.”
(Ephesians 4:15,16 (WEY).
It is incumbent upon every believer to allow the Holy Spirit to fit us in His plan so that a greater harvest can be reaped as we work together.
-Marvin Smith
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