Saturday December 7, 2024

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“Go to the lost sheep…. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.” (Matthew 10:1,5-8).

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Good News Reflection for:

Saturday of the 1st Week of Advent
December 7, 2024

Today’s Readings:

Isaiah 30:19-21,23-26
Ps 147:1-6
Matthew 9:35–10:1,5-8
bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120724.cfm
USCCB Podcast of the Readings:
bible.usccb.org/podcasts/audio/daily-mass-reading-podcast-december-7-2024

Heroic trust in Jesus

“I need to find God,” Jaime recently told me, “and in this search, I came across your website and I feel like I’m succeeding. Every morning, I open gmail and look for the day’s reflection. Could you send me all the reflections from this year, or let me know where I can find them?”

“Go to the lost sheep….” Today’s Gospel reading is one of the scriptures that my late husband Ralph and I took very seriously. We heard these words of Jesus in 1995 as a calling to found Good News Ministries. And when he said, “Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give,” we felt convicted, from Day One, to write into our bylaws the rule that we would never charge for anything. We’d trust God to cover our costs through people who believe in the mission of Good News Ministries.

Was it scary? Of course! But we knew that we must trust God in this. And it’s still scary twice a year when GNM’s bank account runs low.

Since then, this ministry has grown so much that it needs a staff of six (Graciela and Fernando, Lily, Kathy, myself, and now Bill Snyder who’s part of my succession plan so that GNM continues with or without me). We also have our own server and other expenses amounting to about $180,000 (USD) each year. How do we do it? Well, the truth is — we don’t. Jesus does.

Our staff motto is: Jesus leads, Grace provides. We do what Jesus directs us to do, spreading the Kingdom of God, and it’s the grace of God that inspires people to join us in this mission by giving support (prayer support and financial donations). We have no other source of funding.

Everyone who partners with us are heroes championing the Good News. They are obeying Jesus’ command to “Go to the lost sheep and proclaim that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

It’s important to realize that all donations are gifts from Jesus that bring others closer to Jesus. Without cost you have received from Jesus; without cost you are to give to others to help them discover the saving, healing love of Jesus.

Our heroes rescued Jaime. Until he discovered our website, he was a lost sheep. Maybe you’ve been praying for someone like him.

Be a hero. Trust God with the amount of your support.
gnm.org/donate

© 2024 by Terry A. Modica

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