Roger Thrower

We are God’s people on God’s Redemptive mission in this world. We are empowered by the same Spirit that empowered Jesus: The Spirit of the Lord. Isaiah 61 targets our Goals.

1. Who are we sent to?
* Poor, brokenhearted, captive, bound, mourning, ashes (burned out) faint spirit, and devastated.

2. How do we serve to them?
* To bring good news to them, proclaim liberty to them, proclaim the LORD’s favor to them, to bind their brokenness, to open the prison for them, to comfort them, and give them beauty, give the oil of gladness, and give them the garment of praise
* Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

3. What are to be the results of our ministry?
* When the poor began to prosper, and the brokenhearted are healed, when the bound are liberated, and the prisoner is freed from his or her prison, when those mourning receive the oil of gladness from Jesus, when the burned out become beautiful again, when the heavy-hearted put on the garment of praise to worship God….
* God’s goal is that they may be called oaks of righteousness and a plant that God has planted bringing Him glory; and that they build up, raise up, and repair ancient ruins, former devastations, ruined cities, and the devastations of many generations