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Text Box:  Seeds for Christ                              January 2010 As I was thinking about what I could write for this article I was thinking back to the end of 1999.  Take a minute to also think back, that was 10 years ago.  Y2K was the saying as January drew near.  What was going to happen in the new millennium?  Of course one of the biggest fears was our computerized world would stop functioning.  Well, we made it through it and many other happenings for the ten years.  Ten years, a decade gone by and it seems like yesterday.  Let me share a poem that the Lord blessed me with back then.                                   “1999” The New Year is upon us the millennium is now in sight. All the bad things that happened last year this is the year to make them right.  Keep the important issues in front of you and your priorities number one. Be kind to your fellow human beings and remember to have fun.  Always give thanks to your Creator every minute of the day, for without Him, none of this would be possible and there is no other way.                                           E. P. Shagott Back at the end of 1999 I was not thinking of Seeds for Christ.  Though I did ask for Jesus to take control of my life, He knew it would be best to start with small steps.  I wasn’t even thinking about retirement, but God knew the plan before I was born. In the Bible in the book of Jeremiah 1:5, Before I formed you in the belly I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I consecrated you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.  God already knows every second of our lives.  He knew that at the end of June 2003  two days before I was going to retire that I would walk out with a projection screen.  See I didn’t know what I was going to use it for but God knew it was best that I didn’t know.  For us humans, “too much knowledge “, is a bad thing at times.  I didn’t have any idea what to do with it, I didn’t have a projector to hook up to a laptop, I had to give my laptop back to the company.  Wow!  Are you starting to get what I am saying?  This year within the 1st quarter I will be showing the “1000th” program for the “God’s Love Outreach Ministry”.  Praise God!  Yes, He knew this before I was born.  All that had to be done was for me to ask!  See if I didn’t ask for Our Father to take control of my life back in 1997, that projector screen would have been in the scrap heap! Do you see the importance of asking Him to fulfill your purpose?  Sounds familiar, where did I hear that before? “Purpose Drive Life, Purpose Driven Church”, God’s purpose for us!  Over 27,000 Seeds for Christ planted in 6years and it all started with, “God, please take control of my life for what I have been doing, is not working!”  To God, 10 years is probably a blink of an eye.  I truly believe there will be no clocks in Heaven.  We won’t need them anymore.  Here on earth everything is time orientated.  We become so busy that we find we don’t have time for Him! May this New Year we make one of our purposes to spend daily time with Him. God’s love and mine to you all, Ed Shagott Founder and Director God’s Love Outreach Ministry Union Presbyterian Church Blasdell, NY 14219                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Seeds of Love February 2010 Well, here we go again, another year to bring God’s Love to His many, yes many wounded. To so many that life has become a routine, but in this case the majority are relying on someone else to help them, just get through the routine. The Seeds of Love is a good program to kick off the New Year with, for that is what this ministry was founded on, 1John 3:18 My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. It is what the two greatest commandments are about, Mark 12:30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is the first commandment. Mark 12:31 And the second is like this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Love is so important that it is what the two greatest commandments is all about, “You shall love!” So how awesome it is to tell someone through pictures, songs and heartfelt love, that God has not and will not abandon them. He loves them. This program is the start of our 7th year in reaching out to people for Christ. Just as important it is for this ministry, God’s ministry, to be obedient to Him, it is also important for each of us to be obedient to Him for what each of us has been called to do in our daily lives. My friends what I have found in 66+ years is, it is all about love. As I was writing this article the Lord blessed me with this poem; It Is All About Love It is all about love, no matter what you do. It is love that starts your day and is love that gets you through. Love was at the very beginning, when God spoke, “Let there be light”. Yes love was there each time we failed but we remained so precious in His sight. Even as the worldly sin increased, His love would not let go. Each time His flesh was cut so deep, He said, ”Father forgive them”, because He loved us so. And His love was left within us, on that day from this world He did depart. The same love that was in the beginning, remains embedded so deep inside our hearts. E. P. Shagott 1/19/10 So every program that will be presented this year I know for sure the one constant that will never change is God’s love. My prayer is that each person that the God’s Love Outreach Ministry ministers to will understand, life’s situations may change but Christ’s love never will. I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love. A spring so full that it must overflow, A fountain flowing from the throne above. A. B. Simpson Over 27,000 Seeds for Christ planted in 6years and it all started with, “God, please take control of my life for what I have been doing, is not working!”  To God, 10 years is probably a blink of an eye.  I truly believe there will be no clocks in Heaven.  We won’t need them anymore.  Here on earth everything is time orientated.  We become so busy that we find we don’t have time for Him! May this New Year we make one of our purposes to spend daily time with Him. God’s love and mine to you all, Ed Shagott Founder and Director God’s Love Outreach Ministry Union Presbyterian Church Blasdell, NY 14219