Mighty God (Part 1)

Good morning Colleagues and Prayer Warriors, 

For same time now, people have been asking, "What is Gods perspective on ministry?" It is my prayer that through this series we can all say Amen. Over the last few day we have seen a great improvement with Kevina. Her home nurse care and physical therapy care at home has stopped.  She has three more appointments of which we know. Our prayer today is, "However long this trial is, or what ever Gods will is. At this point, all we can say is, "God is GOOD! Hallelujah!!!!!!!

As for myself. I am looking for great results on Monday January 4th as work will continue on my mouth. Karon has been resting that is good. Jonathan our son has come up to help in what ever way he can. He has become the babysitter of Karis and what ever he puts his hands to. Thank God!

Update on ministry:

On Wednesday December 23th, seven  people from the group we have been ministering to in our neighborhood, gave their hearts to the Lord. Let us keep these people from Cap Verde in our prayers. At the church I have been asked to lead out in while I'm here in Cambridge Ma. Six people gave their hearts to the Lord over the weekend through a message of hope. The congregation is small but through the power of the Holy Spirit. God shall do big things through this Gideon's Band. 

Early yesterday morning at 6:30 am when many where still sleeping. My ride came by to take me to Framingham Ma. We got there about 7:15 am, which was early. When the chaplain came in, we talked about ministry until we want in to minister to the woman. When we got the green light to move on, everything was like clockwork.

As the woman came in, they all sat in their place and the chaplain spoke and then started singing. As the praise of Gods daughter where a ascending to heaven, the building seem like it was rising off its foundation. When the woman's choir, started to sing, they can sang!!!!!! About 100 people was in attendance and about 40 lady's stood to give their lives afresh to the Lord. The Lord is blessing the woman of MCI Framingham under the leadership of His minister Chaplain Marshall. Let us keep the heads of the this state prison, the Chaplain, and the staff in our daily prayers because they are all doing a wonderful work in changing lives. 

This evening Monday Dec. 28th at 6:30 pm, I was at the Old Colony state prison preaching to the men that came out with three other leaders of the church. We seek your prayers for the 50 men that gave their lives afresh to Jesus. May we pray that Gods will continue to be done by those who are called to minister behind bars. Today a new revelation of Mathew 9:36-38 is open to us. "36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."

Many of us talk about ministry. Others long to get involved in a ministry. Still others are held back from ministry due to sometimes themselves, but most of the times by others. Then their is that few, who dispit the set backs, they puch ahead anyhow by the power of the Holy Spirit and do the work before them. Every minute of their lives is unto God in service. These are the few Jesus was talking about in these text. But they can't do the work by themselves. They need help, and only God can send the help needed. But note, the majority of their help will not come from the institutions of higher learning of the day. God will do a new thing and bring most of His labourers to finish the work from the common walks of life. 

Don't get me wrong, "Educated workers who are consecrated to God can do service in a greater variety of ways and can accomplish more extensive work than can those who are uneducated. Their discipline of mind places them on vantage ground. But those who have neither great talents nor extensive education may minister acceptably to others. God will use men who are willing to be used. It is not the most brilliant or the most talented persons whose work produces the greatest and most lasting results. Men and women are needed who have heard a message from heaven. The most effective workers are those who respond to the invitation, "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me." Matthew 11:29.

It is heart missionaries that are needed. He whose heart God touches is filled with a great longing for those who have never known His love. Their condition impresses him with a sense of personal woe. Taking his life in his hand, he goes forth, a heaven-sent, heaven-inspired messenger, to do a work in which angels can co-operate.

If those to whom God has entrusted great talents of intellect put these gifts to a selfish use, they will be left, after a period of trial, to follow their own way. God will take men who do not appear to be so richly endowed, who have not large self-confidence, and He will make the weak strong, because they trust in Him to do for them that which they cannot do for themselves. God will accept the wholehearted service, and will Himself make up the deficiencies.

The Lord has often chosen for His colaborers men who have had opportunity to obtain but a limited school education. These men have applied their powers most diligently, and the Lord has rewarded their fidelity to His work, their industry, their thirst for knowledge. He has witnessed their tears and heard their prayers. As His blessing came to the captives in the courts of Babylon, so does He give wisdom and knowledge to His workers today.

Men deficient in school education, lowly in social position, have, through the grace of Christ, sometimes been wonderfully successful in winning souls for Him. The secret of their success was their confidence in God. They learned daily of Him who is wonderful in counsel and mighty in power.

Such workers are to be encouraged. The Lord brings them into connection with those of more marked ability, to fill up the gaps that others leave. Their quickness to see what is to be done, their readiness to help those in need, their kind words and deeds, open doors of usefulness that otherwise would remain closed. They come close to those in trouble, and the persuasive influence of their words has power to draw many trembling souls to God. Their work shows what thousands of others might do, if they only would." MH p. 151 

God is doing a great work today through humble men who have synchrony in Him. May we see ourselves helping them and the work they are called to do, and not hold them back. 

I am asking for your personal prayer today.

Chaplain Kevin Santucci

Song of the Day: 

Soweto Gospel Choir ft.Joe Praize - Mighty God