BEACON OF BLESSINGS

John 1:7 "He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe."

How blessed are we, and more so when we realize that the Lord has truly appointed a place, a time, a reason for you to be there and makes it so obvious to you that the joy just spreads all around you.  Tonight four ladies, three and myself, went to dinner to a well known seafood restaurant. The atmosphere between us was so blessed already, just for the enjoyment of four Lord loving ladies to get together and share time with each other, knowing that there would be time for thanksgiving to the Lord and time for prayer, a nice meal to be shared between friends.  But the Lord had plans, wonderful plans for us.

Our waiter came over and introduced himself and of course, well, you can imagine four older ladies, so full of the Father's love, just flowed out to him.  I don't quite remember what was said, but the waiter said "I pray not".  Just jumped right in on that one and told him, "well, we can certainly pray", to which he replied he needed prayer.  So a little more conversation went on and then just pure laughter and enjoyment as he took our orders. Have you ever been around four old ladies that were ordering dinner?  Well, you can imagine the fun, but he was so good natured and seemed to truly enjoy us.  As we ate our dinner, he would check on us and then he came over, pulled up a chair and sat down with us.  Now we are talking a busy restaurant, so I am thinking he took his break to do so as he sat with us a good 20-25 minutes.  And he began to talk to us about his needs as we asked how we could pray.  He had a boss that was a real thorn in his side, his home life was quite difficult, and he was in need of a friend.  We ministered to him, prayed with him and just poured out the Lord's love and mercy onto him.  He was so touched, he was so in need of the Lord's touch, he cried, we cried.  God is so beautiful, so tender at moments like this.  So our new friend had to get back to his job and see what he needed to do, but he came back as we were getting ready to leave.  Now we had gotten the names of those he needed us to help pray for, and his name, well, it won't be forgotten any time soon.  But when he came, we prayed for him once more, and well, you know me, I had to give him a hug from my Jesus, can't you just tell when someone needs a hug?  Then before we left I had my favorite worshiper's new CD in the car and the Christmas one also, so we left those with him, so he would have that annointed presence of the Holy Spirit with him as he sought the Lord. 

We had told him how much the Lord loved him, and the most important things was his relationship with the Lord.  He did go to church, but we still felt led to give him the name of a church we had visited last night, should he care to visit.  I don't think we missed a thing, did we Lord.  It was a real beautiful experience, the love of our Lord flowing from above.  As we were praying, the Lord showed me that our table was a beacon of His Light, His love and this man could not help but be drawn there as we were sent to him from the Father above, to minister to him and to encourage him, to love on him with the Lord's love and grace.

On the way home, my friend and I were just in a complete state of blessed bliss knowing that we were in the perfect will of the Father, used of Him to be the Light to one of His children so in need of a touch from Him.  Are you available when the Lord puts you in place for an appointed time; are you ready with a word of encouragement and love from the Lord when He sends someone your way.  God's children are hungry for an invitation to dine at the table of the Lord, not food, but love and mercy, joy and peace.  That is the offering on the Lord's table, just sometimes some of His children are so beat up on, so dejected and low that they need the hand of those of us that have been brought up from that place to reach out our hands to them and draw them to the table, to invite them to sit down and eat with us; spiritual food....peace, love, mercy, joy.  The food that fills you up for eternity, food that once they dine and their hunger satisfied, they can share it with others.

Thank You my Lord, thank You for trusting us, Your older children, with this appointment, this feast to share with the child that was so hungry for a touch of You, so in need of a hand to draw him to your table.  I love You so much my Lord, You are so faithful.  How beautifully You work through us, how sweetly You feed us so we can feed Your hungry children.  This 15th day of October, 2011, I am so satisfied from being at Your table, so blessed to be Your Beacon of blessings to others.