This Post is dedicated to my True Best friend Rinna!(aka Roo!) I have come to learn the true value of friendship from Rinna, and what it really means to lay down your life for a friend.I use to think that this scripture meant just in the literal sence like Jesus did for us on the cross. But the lord also showed me in this scripture back in 2007, that laying down your life is also being completely selflesss in your own hearts desires whether it be for Natural or Spiritual purposes for another person. Not just the willingness to die a Physical Death, but mostly to put someones elses need, desires and maybe even wants first before yourself. That's really what JESUS did for you and i. He not only gave up his Diety, but also his will to the Father which can only come from the heart and not from the Head. I thank God and thank Rinna, for showing & allowing me to not only be a recipient, but a witness this truth.
In our walk with God, we often encounter change which can result to ourselves being faced with Challenges from within the Heart that has been hidden for so long we forgotabout it, but God didn't... or maybe even STRONGHOLDS that the devil has built over years of conditioning in our flesh. I am reminded of the story with Israel when God delivered them from out of the Hands of Pharoah in Egypt. It was some time before Israel's mentality changed about there freedom from so many years of being in captivity, which in effect caused them to sin & rebel againts God's will.
For the past month or so i have had to endure a similar ordeal, whereby our enemy Satan lived up to his reputation as a roaring lion and the accusser of the Bretheren. I was so distracted with my past like Israel, i failed to see the Blesings and the Freedom i have been given by God through Jesus Christ.
If it wasn't for the Prayers of many and the unfailing support of my friend Rinna, i truely believe that the enemy could have quite possibly caused me to completely give up on God. Spirtitual friendship is important but so also is the natural that i thank God that Rinna so faithfuly portrayed & showed with the unconditional love of Jesus.
Rinna was fufilling part of God's will here on earth.... Being his Eyes,Ears,Hands & Feet. Revealing the true nature of God not just from the spiritual but the practical, which sadly i have found to be lacking in many christians lives & churches today. Most people feel either un comfartable around somebody who is going through trials or they are so full on in the spiritual counciling that often times that person can often be worse off than they did before.
There are many scriptures i could draw on to press this point across, like when the word says " Be quick to listen & slow to speak! " but this Post is really to encourage anyone who knows of someone facing tribulation in there walk to just BE A FRIEND!.....Yes! Jesus and God our Father is the only true source behind our deliverance and victory. But even God had to use People like Moses, Abraham and my Best Friend Rinna to guide & encourage his people.
Thank You Rinna for all your support & Love
May God Bless u & keep you in his perfect Will
In Christ 4 Eva
Amen
