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January '03
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

February '03
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9

March '03
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13

April '03
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17

May '03
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22

June '03
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26

July '03
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31

August '03
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35

September '03
Week 36
Week 37
Week 38
Week 39

October '03
Week 40
Week 41
Week 42
Week 43
Week 44

November '03
Week 45
Week 46
Week 47
Week 48

December '03
Week 49
Week 50
Week 51
Week 52

Key Passage: Rom 5: 5-6

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Sanchez was at the porch of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Guatemala City in Guatemala to ask for arms. His life had been filled with tales of woes. He had lost his plumbing business, and his wife had left with their two children. He had no job, no home and no friend. He was just living by the day, sleeping in shelters, by the roadsides and wherever he found space to place his head. For him, life was meaningless, till that Saturday morning when he saw some American businessmen, all dressed in suit, arriving for a meeting at the Hotel. He hastened to meet them to solicit for arms. Many of them seemed not to notice him, but he would not just go away. Suddenly, one of the men turned to him, and with a wide smile like someone who knew him for a long time, stretched out his hand and offered Sanchez a card. “We are here for a breakfast meeting. Can you please join us?” Sanchez was taken aback. He never expected an invitation to dine in a gorgeous hotel. What he wanted was just a token. He stirred briefly on the smiling face of the man, and then looked at himself, and his eyes were fixed on his dirty bare feet. He sobbingly said, “I have no shoes.”

The finely dressed smiling man was undaunted. “You can come just as you are”, he replied. With much persuasion, Sanchez followed them into the hotel and was soon sitting between an architect and a businessman on a breakfast at the Banquet Hall. There he heard the story of a dairy farmer who prayed for his cows that were diseased and they were all healed miraculously. The testimony made a deep impression in him and he spoke to himself, “If God could change a cow, He could also change me.” He stood up, walked through the isle and knelt down, weeping in front of the platform. Some men came around him and helped him pray to give his life to Jesus. He joined the fellowship and some of the members helped him resume his plumbing business. Ten years later, Sanchez stood in the same hotel to testify of how God changed him from being a wretched sinful beggar to a Spirit filled businessman with five thriving businesses in the city, because, a man stooped to show him the true love of Jesus Christ.

This shows us how the love of God could change the destiny of someone when we Christians step out and show it. There is no better way we can win the world than through love.

Pray that God will use you as an instrument of His love to touch someone positively. Ask God to change you for good and to the glory of His name.

 

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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