WHEN THE SAINTS: Saint Mother Teresa (Week 4)
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ST. MOTHER TERESA
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
Saint - someone set apart by God to be holy, live faithfully, and reflect His character. Through the grace of Christ, all believers are made holy and called to live as saints in their daily lives.
Ephesians 4:1-3 (NLT): "Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.”
"Call Within a Call”
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."- Saint Mother Teresa
See Christ in Everyone and Love them!
Romans 12:10 (NLT): "Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” - Saint Mother Teresa
Do Small Things with Great Love
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” - Saint Mother Teresa
Colossians 3:23 (NLT): “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Live in Absolute Trust and Surrender to God
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” - Saint Mother Teresa
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT): “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
Dear Jesus,
Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Your spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may only be a radiance of Yours.
Shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see no longer me, but only Jesus.
Stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as You shine, so to shine as to be a light to others.
The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine; it will be You, shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me.
Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You.
Amen.
