The Lord Has Need Has Need of Us!!

Submitted by smossburg on March 20, 2008 - 12:00am.

Many of you who are reading this may have never heard of G. A. P. Ministries, thanks to a soon to be ready web site and this blog page you can learn about our ministry work. We are are a mission outreach working in Haiti and Canaan Christian Community is the name of the ministry complex we work at. About 125 people call Canaan home and nearly 100 of those are boys and girls who live at Canaan orphanage, the rest are missionaries and staff people. One of G. A. P. MINISTRIES outreaches is providing opportunities for individuals and churches to join with us as we do God's work here in Haiti.

Last weekend you may have read the familiar Palm Sunday passage where Jesus asks His disciples to get the young donkey. Luke 19:33-34 says, As they were loosing the colt, the owners said, "Why are you loosing the colt ? " They said "The Lord has need of him." As bible pasages go that one is not very long and may seem pretty insignificant, but for whatever reason it seemed to really speak to me. This short little verse can be summed up as a donkey fulfilling it's devine destiny. Through out history God has always used someone or something to accomplish His work. Now I'm pretty sure if God created a donkey for a devine destiny then He created you and I for some mighty significant opportunites as well.The donkey had one very brief task to fulfill it's destiny, I've been working on mine for 8 years here in Haiti. The point isn't how long we work at it , but that we discover and embrace it, because God has need of each of us. Eph. 2:10 says He created each of us for a purpose and planned us to live our lives doing them. Here at G. A. P. MINISTRIES we take interest in getting high schooler's 15 years and older as well as encouraging people well into their mid 70's to come to the mission field. Young and old whatever age we may be, the Lord has need of each us.

Steve