After getting back from St. Maarten in the Caribbean I will be going to the ETH World Convention. I will be gone July 13^th through the 25^th. The convention itself is July 17^th through the 24^th. I try to go early to help with set up and tear down. This convention will be in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. This is the “final” ETH world convention. For more information go to http://www.eth-s.org/events/WC30/convdetails.htm - I know this last convention will be something extra special for everyone.

I am so joyful and excited to be going back to France to minister in Sergine and Andre’s Summer Camp Meeting in Panassac, August 5^th through 16^th. If you live anywhere in Europe you will want to come, Andre and Sergine are very special and a wonderful blessing to the body of Christ. I really need to hear from the Lord about planning this trip and what He wants done and in what order. For example should I visit other places while I am there, what warfare should I engage, I only want to go and do what God says. I specifically need to know how long to plan the trip for, the main places to go and the main strategies. Please keep this in prayer. I belong to the Lord and I want to walk only in the places where He has gone ahead and prepared the way. Please ask the Lord is He wants you to give toward this trip.

It is time for the harvest to come in and the church needs to be a part of the harvest by ministering to the harvesters. Our first covenant friendship is with the Lord Himself and with His body. Sounds funny being friends with the Lord’s feet but since it is a very real part of His body and a very real part of Him we need to learn how to do that. John 13:10 Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." 

There are many meanings for the word feet in scripture. I will look at two of the main meanings.

1. God’s messenger – Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" The feet stand for the sent ones. [This word Sent is Strong’s 649 – apostello (like apostle) one set apart – to send out on a mission, send forth. – It comes from a combination of 575 – apo = off or away and 4724 – stello = to set fast, to repress, abstain from associating with, avoid, withdraw self. (as in set apart from the world for God’s work) from 2476 = appoint, abide,  Covenant, establish.
   1. So Sent means apostle, one set apart to be sent for God by a Covenant with God, one abiding in Christ, actively continuing in Him. In one sense of the word sent one means apostle. Not necessarily the Office of an Apostle but one sent out to preach or a Missionary. For the purpose of this teaching the feet (the sent ones who ‘go’ for Jesus), are the Missionaries, though I could easily see it being other ministers are well.
   2. As it is written: Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"  They proclaim (or preach) salvation – they bring in the harvest of God for the Kingdom of God.

2. Washing the Feet makes a person totally clean.
   1. Washing their feet is washing their way or path taken. It is our walk in Christ and it gets dirty just from being in a sin cursed world.
   2. Washing someone’s feet is very humbling. It was the lowest servant’s job. But like our example Jesus, the higher we go in Christ the more we are to become the servant of all.
   3. It is serving through love not the law. You have probably heard or read my lengthy teaching on serving God from love or law as well as John Bevere’s teaching on this.
   4. If it is law – then you will find a legal loophole to do what you really “want” to do. This will put you out of God’s will and therefore make you vulnerable to the attack of the enemy.
   5. If it is love, you will delight to please the Lord because you love Him and when something doesn’t line up with that motive you will seek His help to bring it back into that Love position of serving Him. Love becomes the measuring stick for all you do.
   6. If you don’t “want” to and don’t seek His help to correct your motive, you will either find what ‘seems like’ a valid excuse not to do it or do it with a wrong heart motive, which will count as though you did not do it.
   7. (Whatever you have done in your heart you have done. Jesus said, Matthew 5:28 "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Only what you do in your heart counts in the heavenly realm and if you did not wash the feet or serve from a true heart motive, it simply doesn’t count.

3. Washing their feet completes others. Why are you washing their stinky feet anyway? In order to make them clean, complete, holy and equipped.
   1. Can you clean someone else’s feet – or their walk in Christ? In a way you can. John 20:23 "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
   2. How can that be? Because if we forgive someone the Lord forgives them and that brings a cleansing and re-positions them from judgment to grace. If you want someone saved or blessed forgive them daily and release the Lord’s forgiveness to them. Often people are not healed when I pray for them until “I” forgive them in the name of Jesus Christ. I clean their feet.
   3. After they are forgiven, you are free to give them what they need, whether it be healing, equipping, impartation, encouragement, etc. Matthew 9:2-8 Jesus heals the Paralytic. First He forgives him, which shocked everyone. That forgiveness removed the enemy’s legal right to be there. The sin being the legal port of entry the enemy used to make the man sick. Many times in scripture Jesus forgave before healing.
   4. Isaiah 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; (Ways here is the path of our feet. The way or path of our walk in Christ. We can pray for someone’s ways to be healed. We can wash their feet in prayer.)
   5. We should realize that part of washing each others feet and serving each other is keeping each other forgiven. Realize that offense of any kind or negative talk about someone is the devil’s way of talking not ours. If we are negative, criticizing, harbor hurt, anger, hard feelings we become the one that dirties the feet (accuser of the brethren) not the one who serves. 
   6. Revelation 12:10b for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. The accuser is Satan, so we don’t want to be an accuser of the brethren because they are His feet and Jesus is attached to His feet. He takes anything we do to His feet personally.
   7. The Bait of Satan is to temp us with a tasty morsel that gets us to do things his way and not God’s humble serving way. Being offended means your heart is off track. Once you are off track he targets you to be his tasty morsel. What does the fisherman give the fish a tasty bit? So he can bite the fish that bit the bait.

Mary sat at Jesus’ feet. Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.  Mary positioned herself at Jesus’ feet. She was:

• Teachable & correctable
• Hungry for more
• Desperate
• Submitted/obedient (Jesus said if you love Me obey me.)
• Humble
• Didn’t care about proper protocol or what people thought
• Loved from a pure heart with pure motives

• Jesus said she loved much
• She humbled herself
• She served Him (considered Him as friend)
• She gave her best, what was costly to her personally
• She anointed Him – Became Jesus’ prayer partner
• She ministered to Jesus – What matteres to Him
• She wiped and cleansed – His feet
• With her hair – her personal glory
• She disregarded public opinion. Women don’t or shouldn’t…
• She went where He was, didn’t wait for a convenient time.
• She was grateful and showed it.

When Lazarus was dead she threw herself at Jesus’ feet – even in her pain and even when she didn’t understand why Jesus hadn’t come sooner, she submitting humbly in a servant’s position because she knew and believed in His love.

In Luke 7:36-50 is the story of a woman who was a sinner. The Bible seems to suggest that her sin was adultery and many think this was indeed Mary the sister of Martha. She was weeping with love and gratitude, washing His feet with her tears and wiping them with her hair. Mary poured the fragrant oil from the broken alabaster flask on His ‘feet’. She poured “all” of the precious costly oil, not just some. The expensive container had to be broken for the anointing to be given; it had to be broken completely and poured out completely. She loved much and because of that Jesus said she was forgiven much.

How that speaks of us, our body is just the container; it’s what’s inside that is precious. We have to be broken from self and a life contained by the flesh in order to pour our life out for Him. We are usually willing to be broken to some extent, but all? We are willing to be poured out but on His feet?  The tears speak of a personal brokenness, gratitude and a pure love. The hair speaks of our glory. Our fleshly glory and brokenness poured out on Jesus but does it have to be His feet? Mary understood that you must start at Jesus’ feet.

Jesus’ feet are now in the earth. His feet are divided, one here and another far away. His feet are sore from abuse. They have often been cast out and not taken care of. His feet are His sent ones, His Missionaries. How do you wash Jesus’ feet, by ministering to His Missionaries.

The body of Christ is responsible to allow the Lord to care for His feet through them, whether with finances, substance, prayer or love. When you go to the front lines and see a native missionary that walks 8 hours in the hot sun to minister and may not even have enough rice to feed his family (how many of us would be willing to live on rice alone, continually), you wonder how they’ve lasted this long? He thinks about quitting because he watches his family suffer and he feels responsible. Why doesn’t God do something to help them? He did, He commissioned His Body to take care of His sent ones but for the most part their not listening. Mainly because they have made their lives about the shell they live in instead of the eternal work the Lord created them to do. The enemy keeps enough storms stirred up to insure their shell or flesh focus is constant. So we lose a lot of pastors and missionaries. Many of the ones that do remain are not equipped to do the work.

Jesus’ feet represent His Missionaries and Mary represents the people that love Jesus and wants to minister to Him. The Church of Jesus Christ desperately needs more Mary’s called to minister to the Lord’s feet. Someone to pour on the anointing, wash and cleanse, bind up the wounds, surround them in prayer and love, serving them humbly. Like Jesus did when ministering to the disciples, His missionaries.

Me? I try to be a Mary. In the book “Thou Shalt Call His Name…” by Patricia Olson, Mary means compassionate, sympathetic, and has the Christ like characteristics of Mercy and forgiveness for the heart. It also means to feel with others.

That is what the Lord has me doing for Ministers, Missionaries, Pastors, Prayer Warriors and Leaders in the body of Christ as I meet them. It is amazing how the healing love of Christ flows into their deepest need as the Lord ministers to them through me. I look for His hurting feet the world over in order to serve them, anoint them and kiss them. Letting Jesus wash and anoint His feet through me. He can do the same through you.

No matter what your position and calling in the Body of Christ you can be a Mary for Jesus’ feet too. It’s fun. Find a Missionary, Leader or Minister and minister to them:

• With pure love
• Supplies and finances
• Prayer Covering (shoes)
• Washing  (Seeing faults; forgive and pray for them.)
• Anointing (In prayer & worship as a weapon for them.)
• Share your Glory (Rejoice for them, listen to them.)
• Encourage them  (Tell them you’re praying and good job.)
• Little Things (Let them know your blessed by their sharing.)

1. Keep them connected–email, cards, letters, etc.
2. Let them know what’s going on at home.
3. Show them you love them, hugs & smiles work.
4. Let them know you are praying, share what God shows you
5. Encourage them – They need encouragement & affirmation.
6. Share something neat God shared with you? 
7. If something they did or said doesn’t make sense
   1. Love them too much to be offended
   2. Forgive them – I’m sure they didn’t mean it that way
   3. Let them know and give them a chance to explain.
   4. Pray for them – that’s what you’d want if it were you.
   5. Still a problem. Love them anyway, no ones perfect. 
8. Search for opportunities to give, little things mean the most.
   1. A bag of fruit on the porch when they get back.
   2. Keep in touch enough to know what’s needed.
   3. Gifts to give, especially in the homes they stay in.
   4. Don’t think it has to be big. Just do what you can.
   5. Cook a dish or send a sweet card with a scripture. 

See if they need help with something you could do. 

• Individuals
• Ministers
• Families
• Prayer Groups
• Bible Studies
• Churches
• Ministries
• Children’s Churches
• Youth Groups
• Anyone

Some Missionaries feel like orphans, adopt them and make them feel a part of the body of Christ, what a blessing for all involved. You can:

• Remember their birthday or other special days.
• Know their physical needs and check on them.
• Know their sizes and tastes for clothes, shoes, etc.
• Know what they eat and don’t eat. 
• Know their needs and problems.
• Make a 1-2 year project to help with large things.
• Mow their lawn, see what needs fixed.
• Start a fund for unexpected bills or expenses.
• Make them something. 
• Share your family with the ones who are alone.
• Keep a box to collect things thru the year. 
• Keep a big jar for change to collect for them.
• Find creative ways to give.
• Tell them your prayer and needs.

I am blessed with so many people who love me and who believe in what God is doing through me. I have a pastor I can trust, who loves me and gives me good counsel. What a blessing. I have a church that loves me, ETH that loves me and so many ministries and friends around the world that pray for me. I am so blessed and I know I would not be able to go and do the things the Lord has sent me to do without that. That gives me the prayer muscles to go and do the hard things for Jesus in these last days.

Though financially it has been very tough for me God always pulls it off. I trust Him. I love to peek around the corner to see how He is going to do it this time. I am blessed. But others are not as wonderfully blessed as I am, with such a wonderful network of friends and people who pray for me. Look around and find a missionary or native minister that is hurting and plug in. I could give you a long list of Missionaries that even a small monthly amount would make a difference in their family eating or not.

Don’t wait for thunder and lightning to strike just do it. The Lord will enjoy it and so will you. It will bless you. Become a foot doctor for Jesus. It’s fun. Don’t let Satan rob your blessing by convincing you that you can’t. Some of the people that bless and encourage me the most are the poorest of the poor. They weren’t afraid to give what they had even if it was a smile and they’ve been diligent to give it.