robertus@mscd.edu

By participating we are allowed to be involved as if we were in the front lines of a ministry or missionary effort. Too often we give not thinking of the souls that are saved and the lives that are changed for Christ. We may be jaded by persuasions and give out of a sense of routine obligation. We may find it difficult to percieve of a different country, culture or government and the individual lives - but we need to. Participating financially is a step in that direction and our hearts need to follow. We need to remember the presentations by missionaries in the subsequent course of our days - a good morning pray time thought. To know we are praying for and supporting something outside of our routine and world influenced lives. When we carry thoughts of them we are partners with them and participating with them - God knows our thoughts!

Slave- A slave for God to do God's work,of one's own free will, relying on the Grace of God and not their own strength that they may serve. Not as a slave that was a victim of tyranny, of a cruel master - rather a slave who had the option to be free of the master but made a choice, to be bonded to the master for life. You need to give up everything for the Master - now that is committment - Do I have it??? Time to pray again - Praise Him. I am a slave that has the only means of showing their love for the Master by making a committment to serve their master for the rest of thier life. A slave whose only motive in life is to please their master, not to serve what is pleasing to themselves. Saint - the keyword is ownership - we are reffered to as saints because of the God's (jealous) claim on us and his overwheliming love for us presented by his Son Jesus Christ. If you are owned, you accept a role essentially as a slave; in a committement described above in "slave".