Moju Project

As you look at the story of Mary Magdalene, you begin to see a picture of what an undone and consumed worshipper looks like.

Mark 14

^“3 Meanwhile, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon, a man who had previously had leprosy. While he was eating,^[a] a woman came in with a beautiful alabaster jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume over his head.

⁴ Some of those at the table were indignant. “Why waste such expensive perfume?” they asked. ⁵ “It could have been sold for a year’s wages^[b] and the money given to the poor!” So they scolded her harshly.

⁶ But Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why criticize her for doing such a good thing to me? ^7”

Mary gave everything she had out of her uncontainable love for Jesus. She didn’t think about rationing out her love or devotion.

This perfume was so extravagant that is was meant to be distributed drop by drop and yet she wanted to show her deep love and worship to Him and poured out every last drop in the bottle.

I can’t help but take this passage of scripture and ask “are you consumed with Jesus like Mary was?”

In Matt Redman’s book The Unquenchable Worshipper he writes “I think back to some high-water marks in my life with God- times when my heart seemed more ready to adore God in unpredictable, crazy ways. I was ready to break off the top of the Alabaster jar and pour out the perfume unsparingly.

But now I sometimes find myself rationing out the oil of my love for God, drop by drop, with no passion or spontaneity…”

God has won the heart of His sweet bride, the church. But often times are our affections fade and our worship becomes predictable.

Remember today who is your 1^st love!

I think it is time for us to return to that passionate love we have all experienced.

Let’s be a people, His Bride, that is consumed with loving our Jesus!

1. Start Your Day with Prayer- Your prayers are powerful. Take time to pray for your family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc.

2. Smile- Remember, you may be the only Jesus someone sees today!

3. Speak words of life- The power of life and death is in our tongue. Focus on speaking encouraging words.

4. Serve- Put your neighbor’s needs ahead of your own.

5. Seek out Ways to Bless People- ask the Lord, He will show you how!

6. Slow Down- Take time to look at the big picture of what God is doing. It is easy to get caught up in the rush of our day and focus on ourselves. Remember to look up too

7. Stay Alert- Keep a listening ear to the needs of those around you.

8. Show compassion- Jesus had a heart for orphans, widows, the sick, the poor, the broken hearted- and so should we.

9. Share the Gospel- What could be more important than sharing the word of God which leads to our salvation?

10. Spend Time in the Word- God gives us fresh bread, His word, to help us grow in our faith. Make sure you are reading it every day!

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When orphans worship, their voices are loud, their eyes are closed tightly, and their little hands are gripped together. Your jaw will drop as you watch them physically enter into the presence of a king.

When orphans worship, their voices ache to express their hearts. Their songs are ones of desperation and admiration to a creator who they know holds them in his palm.

When orphans worship, your eyes fill with tears as you feel God all around you. Physically, you are overcome and spiritually you are one with your Lord.

When orphans worship, their last care in the world is what you, I, or their friend thinks of them. They sing loud, undignified, and with passion.

When orphans worship, you begin to wonder if this is what it is supposed to be like for us. You begin to wonder why God’s presence is so strong there, but we struggle to enter into any meaningful worship in our clean, well lit, and finely carpeted buildings.

When orphans worship, you are easily convinced that there is nothing else on their minds. Their deep expressions can tell you a thousand stories about the throne room.

When orphans worship, their instruments are their voices and the clap of their hands, but you’d probably swear you also could hear percussion, guitars, and booming pianos.

When orphans worship, they appear as though they have learned something we haven’t. While you and I find it so hard to believe that we have a God who loves and desires us, they take no interest in such foolishness.

Copied from Wrecked for the Ordinary. (A book definitely worth reading!)

Courtesy of Ehow.com

How many of you have ever been on a mission trip? Can you remember what it felt like to be on the forefronts of what God was doing in, through, and around you? Do you remember how alive you felt?

So many of us have had the blessing of experiencing being the tangible hands and feet of Jesus. You can’t help but feel alive. Nothing else matters, only Him. You become consumed with doing His will. You can feel His presence and see His miracles. You have the supernatural ability to love deeper than you thought possible, the faith to move any mountain, and you find yourself not caring about your own comfort anymore.

Your eyes have been opened. Your heart has been exposed. You have been changed.

But soon after coming home, life returns to normal. We become caught up with the day to day things in life; our job, finances, laundry, kids, dinner, and the list grows.

Soon the orphans, their faces, their needs, start to fade away. We think about them less and less. We become comfortable. We become consumed with self…

There is an episode on Joyce Meyer where she describes this all-about-me syndrome. She compares us (you and me) to being like a wind up toy. Every night while we are sleeping we get wound up so that when we wake up, we have the following mantra playing in our head all day “what about me, what about me, what about me…” Without knowing it, we have taken on an almost robotic lifestyle where we are wired to think only about ourselves.

But, if not for the grace of God, there goes I.

What do I mean by this? I mean, it is only by God and His grace that we can be changed. His Word is transforming. In our flesh we are selfish people. We may have giving hearts, but our 1st priority is making sure that we are taken care of.

How many of us would be willing to be uncomfortable, so that our neighbor could be comfortable?

In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul talks about the thorn in his flesh. Three times he asks God to take it away. God resounds “My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness.” And Paul replies “Then gladly I will boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me”.

Paul was willing to be uncomfortable. He was not going to allow himself to be fixated on his problems, but rather asked God to use him in his weaknesses so that others could experience knowing Christ through Him.

It is in our weakness, in our desperation for God, that we really experience His power. On the mission field we are so hungry for Jesus, that we don’t care how hot, hungry, tired, or uncomfortable we are, we just care about showing His love to a desperate people.

We know that in our vulnerability God uses us. And He usually shows up in mighty ways!

So the question than becomes, how do we make ourselves available in the midst of being comfortable? Can we really experience the fullness of God, the tangible anointing, if we have got everything together? If we are in control of our lives?

What would your life look like if you made your neighbor’s needs higher than your own?

“For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you invited Me in; naked and you clothed Me; sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me…Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did it to Me”.

God has called us to be a people that love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

So if we are really Kingdom carriers, if we really are lights shining in the darkness, how do we apply the teachings of the Apostle Paul and the instruction of our Lord Jesus?

I think we start by recognizing how comfortable we have become, and asking God to do whatever it takes to wake us up, and open our eyes once again to the broken world that we live in.

You and I have found hope. We have an eternal purpose and our lives are not our own.

Don’t let this day pass you by. Ask God to use you, no matter what it takes!

Lets be a people that is willing to be uncomfortable for God.

Today, God is stirring this thought- YOU are called to more.The question is- do we truly believe that? And if we believe that, do we want that?

Think about your life- what you do from day to day, do you believe that God has more for you?

What has He been stirring in you? Has He given you a vision; a dream? What are the desires that He has put in your heart? I believe He wants to give you those things.

I love the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4. In it, Jesus asks the woman for a drink of water. Surprised because she is a Samaritan and He is a Jew, she responds “Why are you asking ME for a drink?”

Listen to Jesus’ reply: “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give YOU living water…Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

And the Samaritan woman responded: “Please sir-give me this water!…”

I love her response- You see she CHOSE to drink! We have all been given this same offer, but we have to choose to drink. Many of us stand at the well, but do not ask for a drink. It is only when we drink that we are given the gifts that God has intended for us.

So today I encourage you to drink deeply of this free source of life-giving water. Take in everything that the Lord has for you.

God has called YOU to MORE.

You are His beloved. You are His child. He loves you so! As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so God rejoices over you! (Isaiah 62:5) He has the best gifts in store for you.

Remember who you are in Christ, and walk in it!

Let me leave you with this question: How can you show more of Jesus today?

Hey Mojuans!

We just received this letter from UNICEF and wanted to share what you all have been contributing to…saving lives!

Because of the work of orphan advocates, and different organizations around the world (both for profit and non-profits)- the number of children dying each day has dropped by 1,500!!!

That is a victory! That means 1,500 children now have HOPE for tomorrow! That mean 1,500 children now have FOOD in their bellies! That means 1,500 children now have a CHANCE at LIFE and LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY!

Dear moju project,

Because of your commitment to UNICEF and the world’s children, I could not be more thrilled to share this news with you:

The number of children dying each day has significantly dropped to 24,000. That’s 1,500 more children waking up, playing with friends, making their mothers laugh, and dreaming of the exciting things they’ll do when they grow up.

But we must not stop now. Because every day, 24,000 children are still dying. And this is simply abhorrent.

We know without question that we are on the right path. We must now marshal all our willpower, all our resources, to make sure that—in the fight for survival—not a single child is forgotten.

And we need your help more than ever.

24,000 daily child deaths can become 12,000… then 6,000… and one day, zero.

We believe in zero. You believe in zero. And together, we will get there.

Sincerely, Caryl M. Stern President and CEO U.S. Fund for UNICEF

We still have a long way to go…there are 24,000 children that will die today, and tomorrow, and the next day.

In order to eliminate the unnecessary death of these children, we have to put their needs above our own.

We have been given a mandate from our Father in James 1:27

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”

1,500 lives saved is a victory and something worth celebrating, but we believe that God has equipped us with everything we need to see the additional 24,000 childrens’ lives saved.

Ask God today- what is your part? How can you be a part of saving lives?

For the One,

Team Moju

Hey Guys-

We are so excited to share with you that through the Moju Project, we have provided over 10,000 meals to orphans!

This is just the beginning! At the Moju Project we are passionate about what we do- being orphan advocates, loving Jesus, and providing really cool t-shirts that feed orphans!

We can’t do this alone- THANK YOU for being a part of what God is doing through our site!

If you haven’t yet visited our website- check it out at http://www.mojuproject.com.

And definitely check out this video that everyone is talking about!

The Moju Project from Moju Project on Vimeo.

We always welcome your emails, thoughts, etc.- so let us know what you think and what you’d like to see as we continue to grow!

Coming Soon- a t-shirt design contest- you help decide what new t-shirts we will offer!

Keep spreading the word!

Buy a shirt and save a life!

We are UNITED to Save the World,

Team Moju

I was reading something the other day that really caught my attention. It was talking about a moment in time when everything changes for you. It happens to all of us, we all have that ‘moment’ we were born for.

Most people live very ordinary lives. They simply do the mundane day after day, never realizing that one day they will have their moment in time. Yet the truth remains that we were all put on this earth for a reason, we all have a destiny that awaits us, even if that destiny is only for a moment.

I think about the man that was called the ‘miracle man’ who landed a plane in the Hudson River near New York. Before that day, his life was very ordinary, he simply woke up each day and went to work, only he knows how many flights he flew that were simply hum drum and just another day. But one day his moment of destiny came. His forty years of everyday life of flying experience and preparation took him into a miracle zone over the Hudson River that made history.

The everyday, ordinary mundane is what bores most people, yet it is the proving ground of our awaited destiny.

I think about King David who lived the ordinary life of a shepherd day after day. Each day he woke up and went into the fields to tend sheep. During that ordinary time he had days that he was probably bored beyond belief, there were the days where he fought off lions and bears – to him, it was just another part of his job.

One day his moment came. He had learned the protection and power of his God in his day to day life therefore when it came time to face a giant, he knew the same God would deliver this man into his hands, just as He had delivered the lion and the bear into his hands.

Then I think about Elijah. He was a prophet of God, his life was simply about hearing God and doing what God said to do. Day after day, he lived life simply going where God said to go. However, one day all that day to day training come to play and he confronted the prophets of Baal and showed them which God was indeed God. His entire life has prepared him for that moment.

And we have Esther, who saved a nation. Just a young girl, living a normal life and one day she was asked to do something out of the ordinary, she accepted the challenge and an entire nation was saved in a day.

We hear of people like this daily, firemen who save a life from a burning building. Our armed forces who fight to save lives day after day – they are all living in their moment – and for many of them, we will never know their names.

That makes me think of the Navy Seals who fired the gunshots that brought the rescue of the Sea Caption who was taken hostage by Pirates. These three men trained all their life for a moment like that – from seventy five feet away they fired three perfect shots and saved a man’s life. No one even knows their name. That’s how it is sometimes, even with God, you have your moment of destiny, where you make literal history and many never even know you played a part in it.

I think about intercessors who pray for our nation and our leaders, they change things in the spirit and no one ever knows their names. Or that Mom who cried out to God to cause her children to walk in truth – those children will never know the price that Mom paid. Or those ministers who travel into the most horrendous parts of our world to tell others about the love of Jesus, many dying from disease or becoming captured and killed, those who we will never know their names until we reach heaven.

We all have a ‘moment in time’ and what you are doing right now, in your everyday life is preparing you for that moment.’ Stay alert, watch for your moment – it could be today. And this I know, it will change lives, maybe just one life, but if only one life were changed or saved, isn’t that enough? Of course it is. Don’t think of your life as mundane…think of it as preparation for your moment. That moment you were born for.

Keep in mind, whatever you are doing day after day – that very thing that you may think is ordinary is very likely preparing you for your destiny – God doesn’t waste time or days – every single day has purpose, each day as we follow the leading of the Lord, in that path, there is purpose. Never think your life doesn’t have purpose, even before you reach your destiny…even then life has purpose – YOUR life has purpose and each day God is preparing you to walk in it.

Your moment of destiny, the very second when you begin to walk in your destiny is fast approaching you – it could be this day, this hour or a month from now – but one thing is certain, it is coming and when it arrives, you will be ready for it – after all He equipped you before the foundations of the earth and He has prepared you all along the way for your destiny! You will make an impact – you will change the world and you will fufill all that God has shown you. That moment…that moment that is the beginning of your destiny…it is upon you. Stay alert, watch for it, for it will surely come.

Kim Potter

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Hey Guys,

We just received a letter from our partners, Feed My Starving Children, letting us know about a little girl’s life who has been forever changed because of your generous giving! Receiving these updates is so encouraging and we celebrate with every life that is saved and transformed!

“Dear Friend,

We recently received another donation of Feed My Starving Children rice. Thank you SO much!!! Our primary food, almost every day of every week of every month, is FMSC rice. I can’t imagine what we would do without you.

Kimberly is another example of successfully reversing malnutrition in a Haitian child from a poor family. Kimberly was 1 yr old, 12 lbs 8 oz., and sick when she was brought to Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue in October 2008. The ‘before’ photo (above) is an artist’s painting of her.

By August 2009 Kimberly’s weight was in the normal ranges and she was a very happy, active girl. Joy and good health radiate from her face in the ‘after’ photo (below).

Please convey our deepest gratitude to the staff members, donors and volunteers who make your work possible.”

Dorothy Pearce
Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue
Port au Prince, Haiti

We are so thankful for your support of our ministry , and in turn our partner ministries, and hope that you will continue to join us in being a voice and an advocate for orphans around the world!