Wednesday, April 3, 2024

April Sharing!




This week is Black Maternal Health Week! 
In the United States, Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women. This is unacceptable. Congress must act to ensure that Black mothers have equal access to maternal health resources. 
We must also act to protect those that choose to exercise their right NOT to have a child. From abortion to IVF to maternal care, the state of women's health in this country is dire.  Just last week, Arizona's Supreme Court revived a law from 1864—before women could vote—banning abortion in virtually all instances. 
This is why reproductive freedom can't just be "left to the states to decide." All people deserve the right to make their own health care decisions, without 160 year-old laws and a panel of extremist judges coming between them and their doctors. 
No judge's ruling can change the facts: reproductive care is fundamental, and the right to decide what is best for your body, your family, and your future is inalienably yours.  As Co-Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, I will never back down in the fight to restore abortion rights nationwide, once and for all.  
Learn more about your reproductive rights as Californians and how I'm working to advance reproductive freedom for all here 

Best,

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(Above shared by Pastor Knox, Bell Chapel CME - April 16, 2024)


 
  

Gifts of Healing

 

    To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:9
 

Physical restoration was of such importance that a special spiritual gift of healing was bestowed upon the church. Many examples of the exercise of this gift are found in the book of Acts (3:1–8; 8:5–7; 14:8, 9; 19:11, 12; 28:7, 8). 

Healing is mentioned three times in 1 Corinthians 12, and each time it is referred to in the plural: “gifts of healings.” The clear intent is that the supernatural healing of the sick should be a permanent ministry established in the church, alongside and abetting the work of evangelizing the world (vv. 4–11, 28). This is for today—timeless—for “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom. 11:29).  

Through the Holy Spirit, God gives all gifts in the name of Jesus. If you need healing today, ask in prayer believing, request the prayer of other believers, and call for the elders of the church to pray. Do not wait to pray until a serious problem arises; begin today to take all needs immediately to the Lord!
(Above shared by Wallace - April 6, 2024) 

    

Repentance and Healing

 

   And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 

Job 42:10
 

Some point to Job as proof that sickness is God’s will for many people. While it is true that God permitted Job’s illness to show Satan that Job would not turn from his Lord in the face of adversity, it is important to see that the affliction was a direct work of the devil (2:2). When God later healed him and restored his losses, the Hebrew text literally refers to his recovery as a return from captivity, an evidence that his restoration was a driving back of evil, a recovering of something that had been “captured from him” (42:10). 

Job’s healing also coincides with repentance. Chapter 29 seems to reveal that Job was extremely self-centered, and he repented later (42:5, 6). Job’s changed attitude and God’s restoration are linked. And Job’s spirit of forgiveness toward his friends became pivotal for his own well-being and for theirs (42:7–9). 

As we seek the Lord for healing, let us also ask Him to reveal any areas in our lives that require repentance and forgiveness. - Pastor Jack Hayford (Above shared by Wallace on April 14th)

  

Shared by Wallace

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West - by Wallace

Life is short but eternity is long.
 Pastor Tim Clark - by Wallace

Shared by Rikki

shared by Rikki








(New Jersey Earthquake - April 5, 2024)

https://abc7ny.com/new-jersey-earthquake-residents-across-tri-state-report-feeling-shaking-as-48-quake-rocks-region/14622009/ (New Jersey Earthquake - April 5, 2024)


QUOTES

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombard

"Life is short but eternity is long" - Pastor Tim Clark

Above Quotes shared by Wallace



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1 comment:

BellGram 2024 said...

I am blessed by the words from Pastor Jack. Thank you.
Renee