PCM 07-26-2012  Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits

You are needed, wanted and important! especially those of who have experienced life changing illnesses, traumas or hardships. Your experience is unique to you and while each of us faces our own challenges, weakness and trouble, together with God we are and will remain eternally undefeated.

We all need each other to make it through this journey we are on. We as a people of God are incomplete without each other, we are intertwined and connected through Him and the ways He works through us.

1 Corinthians 12:7 [The Message version] Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people!

1 Corinthians 12:14 [The Message version] I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together.

You are important and so is everyone else! What our part of the body is, we are and what function we have is not really 100 percent up to us. Remembering we are part of something bigger than us helps us to stay focused on what we are given to do. You can only do what is in front of you and we cannot lament what we were doing in the past.

The reality is our physical and emotional capabilities change as diseases progress and as we age. Life changes, roles change, skills change. In my family my role has constantly changed. I went from working to disabled and Cathy my wife went from housewife to worker. As our health needs have changed and Cathy's health has digressed I have had to change to more of a helper role.

Writing has become a passion for me, kind of ironic I did not like the literature and English classes as a student. Grammar was boring and not as exciting as all the science classes I enjoyed. The biggest laugh is that I created a company that specializes in fancy writing when the facts are I flunked penmanship in the third grade. With spellchecker even a poor speller like me can seem half intelligible...sorta...lol

The point is we have to find our role and opportunities given our current ever changing circumstances. Turn lemons into lemonade and fight the urge to give up and feel useless. You are all very much on my heart as our time is limited.

Focus your energy on asking God to illuminate the opportunities given you and work with all you heart to do your part. Take all the pain and hurt you feel and turn it into a force for God there is someone who needs to hear what you have to say.

I have a burning desire to get encouragement to as many people as possible. With the internet, social media and devices to access all that is out there we need to spread hope to those around us.

Hoping to brighten your day so you can brighten someone elses when you are up to it.

Oh and by the way if you are the one being ministered to just remember your job at the time is to be there for that someone so they can fulfill what God has asked of them, you will get your turn to give to others when you are comfortable with being comforted.

Bill Sullivan
The Physically Challenged Ministry

PCM 07-20-2012 Moving the heart of God through prayer

The Physically Challenged Ministry [PCM] Hi everybody I have had ms since 1986 and started the PCM in my church in 1989 to help ALL of us who have physical, emotional or spiritual challenges.

I write to help others as I am helped by God. This is my passion, mission and joy.

Many times we are asked to remember someone in prayer who is going through a particularly hard time. So we say a prayer, ask God for help and think about the situation with compassionate giving hearts. Heaven is moved as our hearts are forever changed as we take our eyes off our own problems to focus on another with a request to the creator of the universe.

It is these moments that we flesh out our faith, fulfill our purpose and bring a sense of community and love to each other. For it is when we are asking our God to comfort, help and assist another of his children that God is pleased. It is in the selflessness of compassion that we are refreshed. It is within the quiet cries of our hearts that lives are changed.

Sometimes the answer is what we desire and sometimes the answer is different than we anticipate. The reasoning, circumstances, and causes are often hidden, obscured by our lack of knowledge and understanding. Of course this is normal, we only live so many years and after all our brains are quite finite in what they can comprehend and create. If you were to create a universe, you too get to call the shots.

There are some things that are certain, first and foremost God hears us and he understands even the groaning of our souls that come from the depth of our hearts. The most important thing here is to “know he is God.” God is God......we are not...... I realize that is not exactly “news” to you but I say it as a reminder to myself when I do not understand the answer.

The second is to remember, “know he is GOOD” knowing that evil cannot come from God is of utmost importance. God always is working for the good of those who love him. How he works is up to him, not us.

Here is something to ponder, consider, roll around in your mind....

Troubleshoot the source of trouble. If sickness were from God, why did Jesus relieve so much of it??? We need to see the source of ALL suffering as the enemy of God. Place the blame at the right place and keep from putting it on God

Update on a little girl we as a ministry have prayed for a few years ago.

Just heard from Silly Jilly's mom. Just a quick background for those not familiar. Jilly is a little girl abandoned by her mom and adopted by another mom who had lost her baby a year earlier. Jilly has severe heart problems and has been close to death too often for anyone, never mind a little child.

She is doing great but still limited until they can operate on her heart again.

In love with God, Bill Sullivan

PCM 04-09-2010 The Big picture - get your mind ready

PCM 04-09-2010 “The Big picture” get your mind ready....


Everyone Jesus healed died.......eventually [otherwise they would
be almost 2000 years old].


Think about it...........while they were healed of their physical
illnesses at the moment, eventually... they physically perished.
These bodies we were given have [hidden, thank God!] expiration dates
just like the gallon of milk you bought the other day. As a side
note, please take good care of the “milk,” do not waste what you
have been given..... you will never think about “got milk”
quite the same way...


Looking at the Big picture means looking at things from God's
point of view. The difficulty is we are stuck in our minds with what
is right in front of us. Try to see things from an eternal point of
view, change your perspective to try and see ALL of eternity in the
picture.



Of course if you are angry at God this will be hard to do. Try
putting your anger aside, reason with yourself that there are some
things in this life you are not going to understand [I still cannot
wrap my mind fully around all this wireless stuff and GPS but I still
use it even though my brain is too tiny ], just give Him the benefit
of the doubt on this one. It's worth the try! What do you have to
lose? There is so much here to gain!


In Romans 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not
worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
http://biblestudy.crosswalk.com/


Or as the Message version puts it



That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the
present hard times and the coming good times.





OK now that you have tried to see things from a different point of
view, let's try looking at each other with that same point of view,
try looking at other people from God's point of view, with compassion
and love. I have started a study of the four Gospels, re-examining
all the instances where Jesus came into
contact with PC people. What I discovered is that even though Jesus
knew the healings were temporary, He also felt compassion for those
around Him. [He still does feel compassion for you]


Love & peace,Bill Sullivan