Feed My Sheep
“As you have seen my face around the Yard, have you wondered about the backpack?
Have you wondered what is in the pack? Have you wondered what I am
carrying in the bag?" Jesus said something that has had a profound impact
on The Salvage Yard:”
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,
"Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?" "Yes, Lord,"
he said, "you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my
lambs."
Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love
me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said,
"Take care of my sheep."
The third time he said to him, "Simon son of John, do you
love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time,
"Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all
things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my
sheep."
John 21:15-17 (NIV)
“You see Jesus said: Feed my lambs, take care if my sheep, Feed my sheep.
Three times he asked Peter to take care of his sheep. At The Salvage Yard
we take Jesus words to heart and try to apply them to our own life.”
“You know some give to the Church and expect the Church to give to the poor.
Yet the Church is giving less and less to the poor and keeping more and more to
run operations.”
“Is that what Jesus wanted when he said 'Feed my Sheep'?”
“Through out time, communities served communities and people took care of one
another. Yet when the depression hit the Church was unable to take care of
their own. Since the depression the Church has not. Are we responding to
Jesus call to "Feed his lambs, take care of his sheep, and feed his sheep'?”
“At The Salvage Yard, if someone is in need, we have learned God wants us to
share. Simon, Cage, Allie and I, we go down to the shacks under the bridge
and feed the homeless. For years, we took whatever we could scrounge
up and went to the market. Our grocery list contained lowcost meat, sodas, sometimes coffee, vegetables, bread, peanut butter and
jelley. We would cook up a cooler of soup, some sandwiches, and take it
out under the bridges.”
“There we ministered to the homeless by proving them food, songs, and a kind
word here or there. We did as Jesus asked us to do. We
"Fed his lambs, took care of his sheep, and fed his sheep'”
“Some friends of ours have opened there home as required to help those in
trouble. When the churches wouldn't help or could not help, they extended a
right hand of fellowship and loved these people as Jesus wanted.”
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One of our passions at The Salvage Yard is to encourage today's generation to
seek Jesus in a much deeper way and to take Jesus at his word. We believe
that the Lord is interceding at the right hand of God waiting looking for a
people who are once again willing to feed his sheep as Jesus meant for his sheep
to be fed.
One might say but I don't have a lot. When Jesus asks you to help, he
knows what you have and don't have. If you are obedient, the Holy Spirit
will provide. God is simply looking for someone who is willing to be
obedient so that they can be used to bless others. With out you,
God's ministry here on earth can not go forward. He has chosen us as
vessels of God's Love to first receive and then give it away to others just as
Jesus did.
What would happen if I
fed Jesus' lambs, took care of his sheep, and fed his sheep?
What would happen if you
fed Jesus' lambs, took care of his sheep, and fed his sheep?
What would happen if we
fed Jesus' lambs, took care of his sheep, and fed his sheep? Do you think
Jesus is asking you to feed his sheep? Are you willing to take Jesus at
his word and learn to feed his sheep as Jesus wants his sheep to be fed?
We encourage you to both listen to what the Lord is saying to you, as well as to
come expecting the Holy Spirit to provide you with opportunities to feed his
sheep.
Lord, we come to your throne, we confess that we have let opportunity to feed
your sheep slip away. We ask for forgiveness. Holy Spirit we ask
that you would teach me, to teach us, what it means to feed your lambs, to take
care of your sheep, and to feed your sheep. Tell us not what we want to
hear that will make us comfortable but teach us what we need to hear so that we
might truly be able to be your arms and your legs and spread the Love of Christ
to Jesus sheep.
In Jesus Christ name we pray. Amen.
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