The YWAP Hope Trust - The COST of NOT GIVING

The YWAP Thanksgiving Celebration is Tuesday 11-22-11.  All are welcome and there is no cost.  Generous people counted the cost and shared their hearts in giving.

Today is Day 5 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

The COST of NOT GIVING 

 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 is a very special YWAP Day. We will open the doors of the Holy Cross Youth Center for our 8th Annual Thanksgiving Community Celebration. EVERYONE is welcome to enjoy a free turkey dinner. Most of the people who prepare the dinner are volunteers. Most of the clean up crew will be young people volunteering to help their community. It is another opportunity to give.  If we don't keep our young people busy in safe, positive and challenging activities, they will become idle and susceptible to damaging at risk behaviors.

 Young people who are not given the opportunity to give

extract a large cost from the community.

Young people from YWAP were given the opportunity to help The Teacher's Desk set up their store. Teacher's are given the opportunity to receive classroom supplies. Students are given the opportunity to receive better tools for their education. They receive better grades that gives them more confidence. Giving is reciprocal.

When water is contained in a pond without a current that is out-flowing, the water becomes stagnant. A rushing river carries life sustenance downstream. A heart that is not given the opportunity to give becomes stagnant and eventually calcifies. The heart is a muscle that needs to be growing through giving.

A heart that does not give will eventually undergo atrophy. The cost of not giving is a hardened heart.

 James 5:1 The Message
[ Destroying Your Life from Within ] And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.

Families are given the opportunity to share with other families. Children carry the seeds of giving in the rushing river of their souls. As they grow, the seeds of giving germinate and are dispersed through their actions.

If you have not lived a life that has permitted you to learn about the extravagant bounties of giving, start with one small act of giving. Give somebody a compliment. Give somebody a smile. Give silence when you are angry. Give a penny. Give a positive thought. Give a prayer that is only spoken within your soul. Give somebody the opportunity to give to you - ask someone for help. Too often we do things on our own that were meant to be shared blessings. By not giving somebody the opportunity to give help, the cost to you will be a growing selfish pride. Nobody needs to know that you are giving. Your heart will know and the kingdom of God resides within you.

Ephesians 3:20 The Message
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. 



 Philippians 2:11-13 The Message
That energy is God's energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.


Philippians 4:23 The Message
Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves.



1 John 2:26 The Message
I've written to warn you about those who are trying to deceive you. But they're no match for what is embedded deeply within you—Christ's anointing, no less!

 1 John 4:11 The Message
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

Time is of the essence to become a giver that freely gives the perfect love that is planted within you. Thanks for you time. Go do something nice for somebody. Jesus loves you and so do I. 

A young person who is taught how to give will become an older person who generously gives.

 

 

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

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The YWAP Hope Trust - GIVING REVEALS YOU

We The People need more Bibles.

 

 

  Today is Day 4 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

"Giving Reveals YOU"

If you ever catch me without my Bible, I will give you 10 bucks. If you ask me if I have my Bible and I do, then you will have to open the Bible and read something. In 10 years, I have only given out 10 bucks. A young lady whose birthday happens to be tomorrow, caught me without my Bible. I could have argued with her because my Bible was just inside the gym where I was standing outside. I gave in and she received her 10 bucks at the Annual YWAP Community Christmas Celebration. I think it was the best thing that could have happened because there was an immediate increase in young people asking to see my Bible! The young people would give me a question and I would give them the Word. I gave the ten bucks and it became a silent seed in their souls as they gave more questions and received more of the Word.

It's easy to spot a Clown. It's not always easy to spot a giver.

Your giving reveals to the world a reflection of the love of God that resides within you. A clown reveals he's a clown by just dressing and acting like a clown.  A clown calls attention to the fact that she's a clown. The whole point in being a clown is to make people smile and bring joy and laughter. A clown gives the gift of heart smiles. Do you give the gift of heart smiles? Even a clown with a sad face can give a gift. If you are sad or depressed, ask a friend to help you give to somebody. Giving can release pain. It doesn't matter who you are or what you may have done, please know that you are loved! This may sound corny because I may not have ever met you, but I love you. My love for you is a reflection of God's love for me. We love because He first loved us. We have been created to receive and give love through our actions.

IT JUST FEELS GOOD TO LOVE!

Giving is reflected through many expressions.

The reflection of your heart is stillness. A body of water without ripples. Silence is speaking. The love you give is louder than the love you hide. A smile and a tear do not make noise. The memory of your giving is set apart in the quietness of the receivers soul. Your acts of giving are a communication between you and God. He knows the enormous capability that He has placed in you to give love. Sometimes it's hard to fathom, the greater the pain, the greater the potential to love. It's muscle building at it's finest. Tear down to build up.  

Through brokenness you are given a greater capacity to love.

Matthew 6:3-4

The Message (MSG)

^2-4"When you do something for someone else, don't call attention to yourself. You've seen them in action, I'm sure—'playactors' I call them— treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds. They get applause, true, but that's all they get. When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out.

Are you clothed with cheerfulness when you give?

 Thanks for your time.

Go do something nice for somebody. 

Jesus loves you and so do we.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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YWAP is a 501C3 that has served thousands of children and their families for the past 10 years. Will you join us in giving?

 

The YWAP Hope Trust - GRACED by GRATITUDE

The young boy's face was graced by a smile of gratitude.

 Today is Day 3 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

 Youth With a Purpose Inc. is an organization that gives out of gratitude. We desire to produce Thanksgivings by sharing the gratitude that we have been graced with. When you feel thankful, you want to share your good fortune.

YWAP has been around for about 10 years and we have nurtured relationships with many young people for over half of their lives. They give back a smile. They give back by sharing love with other people. They give back by living a life that demonstrates accountability and self sufficiency. They give back by sharing the good news with other young people. They give back by becoming missionaries in foreign countries. They give back by working or volunteering in our Youth Center. They give back when they become mentors for other young people. They give back when they do greater things for those around them. They give back when they open their eyes to the oppression around them.

A Saturday night YWAP Radio Live at The Bridge Coffeehouse. Young people graced with smiles of gratitude.

Sometimes it is hard to feel gratitude. When you have a toothache with excruciating pain, gratitude is probably the furthest thing from your mind. An aspirin or a trip to the Dentist will usually alleviate your pain. You are filled with gratitude for pain relievers. A soul ache is generally caused by an unforgiving heart filled with self pity. You were created to be a yielding human being. All living things were meant to yield; The sun yields light, the seed yields new growth, the clouds yield moisture, the earth yields a crop, the tree yields fruit. When you receive an act of gratitude from somebody, that gift is meant to be reciprocal, it should be continually passed on. Yield your unforgiving heart to God. He forgives and loves you. Tell Him you are thankful and cultivate a relationship with Him filled with gratitude.

A tree yields it's shape to appear as Jesus hanging from the Cross. We feel gratitude for the ultimate act of love through yielding a life so that others may live.

 God has been generous with you. His generosity is meant to elicit gratitude which results in giving. The following was taken from 2 Corinthians 9:11-13 The Message:
 "This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you. He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God. 

Carrying out this social relief work involves far more than helping meet the bare needs of poor Christians. It also produces abundant and bountiful thanksgivings to God. This relief offering is a prod to live at your very best, showing your gratitude to God by being openly obedient to the plain meaning of the Message of Christ. You show your gratitude through your generous offerings to your needy brothers and sisters, and really toward everyone. Meanwhile, moved by the extravagance of God in your lives, they'll respond by praying for you in passionate intercession for whatever you need. Thank God for this gift, his gift. No language can praise it enough!"

Gratitude is multiplied and duplicated through grace.

 

 1 Timothy 5:3
Take care of widows who are destitute. If a widow has family members to take care of her, let them learn that religion begins at their own doorstep and that they should pay back with gratitude some of what they have received. This pleases God immensely. You can tell a legitimate widow by the way she has put all her hope in God, praying to him constantly for the needs of others as well as her own.

Luke 7:44 The Message  "If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is minimal." 


You can help those who are destitute with an act of gratitude. What are you willing to give so that those in need may receive and multiply your gift?


Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody. Jesus loves you and so do we.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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The YWAP Hope Trust - PRAYER

Today is Day 2 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.  

"I call to you, God, because I'm sure of an answer.
So—answer! bend your ear! listen sharp!
Paint grace-graffiti on the fences; take in your frightened children
who are running from the neighborhood bullies straight to you."
Psalm 17:6-7 The Message

A place of prayer and a pine needle Cross.

 The most powerful gift that you can give anybody is the gift of prayer. Asking God to bless somebody is one of the most beautiful expressions of love that you can give or receive. I am going to pray right now for all of you who have found their way to this study on giving and receiving.

Thank You God for this opportunity to be with You. We are blessed already before we even ask for blessings. Thank you for the brokenness that gives us a greater capacity to love. Thank you for new seasons in our lives that let old habits fall away. Thank you for extravagantly abundant expressions of love that are new each and everyday. Please lift a burden for those who are heavy laden. Let them feel Your infinite love as you hold their hearts in your hands. Let them know that they won't sink any deeper. Lift their self esteem and teach them how to give value to other people the way you desire us to give. Bring healing Father God. Emotional healing for those whose hearts have been persecuted, crushed and destroyed. You know the depth of their pain. Lift them into a place where they can get a glimpse of your glory. Teach us O God how to be receivers as well as givers. Take our pride and let it burn away. Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Renew our minds and reveal to us the work of our hands that you have already established. You knew us before we were formed in the womb. Show us what you know and reveal our purpose in your perfect will.Thank you God for the way you made us in your image and help us to reflect an intimate relationship with you that will reflect on those to whom we give. Teach us how to give O God. Amen. 

It's a beautiful prayer in the neighborhood.

 

YWAP is at a crossroads and we need to charge into the future in a blaze of compassion that will help set young people on fire with the flames of the Holy Spirit. We now have a Prayer Team that is growing. I will ask you to pray and add to our Prayer List any items that God reveals to you. Please pass these prayer requests on to anybody that you know will pray for us.

Please pray for:

1. Healing - Helping children let go of old wounds.
2. Patience - It takes awhile for young people to grow and we cannot give up on them.
3. Planning - That we keep our focus on spreading the love of Christ.
4. Provision - We need financial resources to ensure adequate delivery of services.
5. Restoration - Bringing fractured families back together again.
6. Revelation - Guidance from the Holy Spirit regarding future entrepreneurial endeavors.

Thank you for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

A basketball prayer at halftime during the game of life.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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The YWAP Hope Trust - TIME

Today is Day 1 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving. 

"Time passes much too quickly..."
That's a line from the song "Beginnings" written by Robert Lamm and performed by the group "Chicago."

TIME

Please give some time to yourself. The leaves are falling and it's a time for letting some old habits fall away. Take the time to give yourself a deeply reflective soul examination. Have you accomplished what you have set out to do? Do you feel a peace walking on your current life path? What is the purpose of your life?

Are you helping others climb the mountains of life?

It may seem strange that the Director of a non profit would urge you to take time for yourself. Most letters that I see from non profits are solicitations for some type of donation. Yes, our organization does depend on the compassionate giving of donations. Youth With A Purpose believes that "All Children Are Gifted." The best gifts are given by a healthy giver. If you were to give to yourself the gift of knowing how much you are loved, that love will spill over unto the children we serve. It doesn't matter if you give to YWAP.  Anytime you do something that creates more opportunities for our children,  you create a more compassionate world. We are all one body and when one part of the body receives, the whole body receives. We freely give love that we have freely been given. Take the time to discover the love that resides within you. 

They hold flowers that grew from seeds that were given to the ground.

The Heart Farmer spent his life sowing seeds that helped hearts grow. He would find the ground of broken hearts and then let go of the seed into the brokenness. He couldn't control the sun and the rain, he just believed that the Son would reign in love and the hearts would grow. Take the time and discover how you can be a Heart Farmer. In the process, your heart will grow and a larger heart has a greater capacity to share love.

Take the time to heal yourself and you can help a young person fly. There is no limit to how high a healed heart can fly.

The difference between 

destructive and creative 

is found in your perspective.

Take the time to plant seeds of positivity in your soul and you will reap thoughts of creativity in your mind. Be creative in giving to yourself.

 

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

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If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.  

 

THE YWAP HOPE TRUST

THE YWAP HOPE TRUST

Most people love to give. To receive is a form of love. Youth With A Purpose  is an organization that loves to give that which it has received.

This morning we received a large quantity of food from the Food Bank of WNY. We will give the food to young people in the form of hot meals and snacks 5 days a week.

We are receiving 5-7,000 dollars from several churches that will help renovate our kitchen so that we can give better service to 100's of young people who visit us every week.

We have received clothing from several people that allows us to give swagger to young people who rarely receive new clothing. New clothing can help you feel better about yourself and your appearance and you begin to swagger with confidence.

We have received so much love from Urban Christian Ministries over the past 10 years that it would be impossible to mention all of that love here. They help us to give young people a glimpse of the kind of love that will never leave them or forsake them.

Whoever thought that a young person could receive love filled life change by shoveling horse manure? https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1340354236 Saving Wild Horses helps young people connect with the love of God by giving them peace, serenity and inner healing through a horse farm.

Sometimes we receive physical labor. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000020746745 My Fathers House Youth Group came out to give their talents through painting, cleaning and scrubbing in our Youth Center.

Many people want to give but do not know where to give. We want to present you with an opportunity to do that. Starting tomorrow (11-12-11) we will publish a daily edition of "The YWAP Hope Trust" that will help you receive an opportunity to partner with us as we give and receive seeds of love. Please give it to your friends and ask them to join the Youth With A Purpose movement - ALL CHILDREN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Saving Wild Horses is spreading love in children's hearts.The King's Court. Urban Christian Ministries is changing the world one youth at a time.My Father's House Youth Group. Can you believe that a group of young people volunteered their time to clean and scrub and paint a building for other young people to use? Yes! Yes! Yes!

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

Youth With A Purpose

In School & After School
In The Mountains & In The Hood

157 Locust Street

Buffalo, New York 14204

716-830-8240

"All Children Are Gifted" 

http://www.facebook.com/bob.kuebler

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-With-A-Purpose-Inc/111808805513470

http://thebrightspotreport.blogspot.com/
If you are looking for a speaker for parents or youth or both, please call us.