Jesus Has Need of Your Donkey

Greetings:

Recently I was preparing a message for my home church in Arkansas, and I thought to ask Benjamin what scripture he thought I might share. Benjamin told me to use

Matthew 21:2-3 (New King James Version)
2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

What I found so compelling about this scripture is that it described to a tee what our role is as we serve the Body of Christ and the ministry of Serve India. We are like the disciples whom Jesus sent out to retrieve the donkey and its colt.

This is a perfect picture of how we are to approach our fund-raising.

#1 The disciples heard from the Lord what to do.

#2 Jesus knew the need before the disciples, that very soon he would need a colt to ride on so to fulfill the scripture written in Zechariah 9:9 (New King James Version)

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.

We can be sure that Jesus knows our needs way before we do and has prepared a provision that is waiting for us.

#3 The donors were waiting for the right opportunity to give the donkeys because God had already put it on their hearts to give them. All they needed to hear from the disciples was "the Lord has need of them."

#4 The Lord provided more than enough. A friend of ours pointed this out to me that Jesus needed only the colt but the donor supplied the donkey as well. We must remember that as we work to find the provision for the missionaries that God will also supply our family needs as well as the administrative cost needed to go find the donkey colts.

Thank you for your kind support and prayers for our ministry.

Michael, Jane and Benjamin Erwin

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