It is estimated that 15,000 children sleep in the streets of Managua. Completely homeless. That was son’s greatest fear when he was little because he knew a lot of the homeless kids here in Managua.
PERSISTENCE!
Romans 2:7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, He will give eternal life
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Since Winnie and I started having health problems, and the ever present problems with the Gov’t, it has been suggested by a lot of well wishing friends that we retire. That really annoys me, it shouldn’t but it does. They can retire if they want to, I have no problem with that, but we have a real calling from GOD.
Our faith is real. Our love for these little children is real. I know many great pastors who have retired, I am not judging them, but not one of them has suggested retirement.
We all have our different callings. There IS NO ONE TO TAKE OUR PLACE! More than 6000 lives will be directly affected if we go. I tell everyone that we are glued here by love. My flesh would love to run. My love for the people here, my spirit and the Holy Ghost living within me will never permit it! Right now, it looks like I am going to die here. Where is retirement in the Bible? Except for Numbers 8:25 stating that at the age of 50, the Levites must retire from their regular service and not work anymore. They can still help their fellow Levites with their work in the Meeting Tent, but they are not to perform the work themselves.
We are constrained by God’s love to stay here. To persistently intercede for them. To persistently seek to improve their situations.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us;
All 15,000 of the homeless children I would nurture and teach, if we had the resources. If we know that God called us to teach these children and the Whosoevers about God’s love, and to feed them, cloth them, help them with medical care and to educate them, how can we obey the unsolicited advice of someone who isn’t called to do what we do? A pastor can retire because someone is taking his place.
I have a few ‘Timothy’s’ down here but no one with the capacity to do what we are presently doing. No one to even persistently pray and intercede for them. Read about the persistent widow, It says nothing of her being ‘righteous’. We are righteous through our faith.
James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
But if we are righteous through accepting Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, how much more effective will our prayers and interceding for them??? I do know that if we aren’t continuing to personally interacting with them our prayer life for them will diminish
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”