HAVE YOU ever struggled in keeping your personality and individuality, as well as staying focused on your specific ‘calling’ in Christ?

As Believers, we are admonished to remain with Christ in the same type of ‘calling’ as when we were first saved, as well as to remain in the same social, cultural or economic position. Tragically, contrary to Scripture, many of our Native people are taught they must stop being an Indian in order to become a Christian.

TODAY, I INVITE YOU to pray with me that our Native people will be given freedom and encouragement to serve Christ, as our Creator intended.

1 Corinthians 7:17 says, "In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you."

Ask our Creator to allow our First Nations people and those serving in Native Ministry to remain with Him, continuing in their calling, while honoring their identity and personality.

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES (4 translations: The Scriptures, CEV, Amplified, KJV):
"The Scriptures" is a translation that includes the original Hebrew names and has the books in chronological order.  The Contemporary English Version (CEV) is a translation that is written for 'oral tradition' peoples and it flows well while reading it aloud.  The Amplified version is one where meanings of words and phrases are 'amplified' for better understanding.  The King James Version (KJV) is the translation that works well with Strong's Concordance. Please also note the links to Scripture in Cherokee.

Deuteronomy 5:32-33;  1 Corinthians 7:20, 24.

Let us remember our ancestry and heritage as we review these scriptures. For some of our families, the ‘honoring’ of ancestry and heritage has been neglected for many generations.

Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Matthew 15:4:  Matthew 19:19; Ephesians 6:2;  1 Corinthians 7:17-40 (NIV);  Acts 2:11; Acts 26:3.

NOTE: Visit Cherokee-Bible.Org for an ongoing Western Cherokee dialect project.