
Dear ministry family,
This month I would like to share an excerpt from a new book I am writing called “One Thing.” Before I do, I want to thank you because of your grace we recently printed 500 copies of Living Life From A New Source that were translated into Urdu by Ernest Rafique (pictured below), our international partner from Pakistan. Ernest is now teaching and training others through it throughout Pakistan. Here are two of those groups receiving new copies of the translated curriculum this past week. Please keep Ernest in your prayers as the Lord is mightily using him to set the captives free.



What Did Mary Experience At Jesus Feet?
“Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. She had a sister called Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.” Luke 10:38-39
As I was meditating on this verse and John 12:3 on the following page, the Spirit brought a few thoughts to mind about the meaning of Mary being at the feet of Jesus. Unlike with any other person in the New Testament, we often find Mary at Jesus’s feet. She sat at his feet for instruction. She fell at His feet in suffering. She anointed and wiped His feet in thanksgiving. Why this place at His feet? Take a moment and ask the Holy Spirit the answer to that question for yourself because it had deep significance for her.
For me, I see this position as a place of privilege and honor. Privilege, because like no one else during the time of Jesus being on this earth other than Mary Magdalene, did she see and understand the priceless privilege of being in His presence. Not even the disciples had eyes to see Mary’s motivation for seeking this lowly position reserved for servants.

What was it that moved her to this lowly place? Could it be that the awe of being in the Lord’s presence so overwhelmed her that it drove her to His feet? I believe it was because it was from this place she could honor Him as her Savior and her friend.
A second motivation was Mary’s heart of humility. In John 12, we see that after breaking the vase and pouring the perfume on Jesus’s head, she, in humility, immediately went to His feet to wipe them with her hair. Can you imagine the dirt and grime and even smell of the Lord’s feet after just coming off the dirty and dusty streets? However, not even the dirt or grime deterred Mary because nothing was going to deprive her of this divine opportunity to serve and honor her Lord.
However, I believe the overarching motivation of Mary being at Jesus’s feet was to experience the heart of Jesus with her heart. Mary didn’t want praise for what she did. She only wanted to be in the Lord’s presence to know and experience the depths of His heart. As I continue to meditate on the eternal significance of these two passages, they give me a deeper desire to see our Lord with the same spiritual eyes as Mary and to seek His heart with the same passion and focus she did. I am learning and experiencing in deeper ways than ever before that as I take my spiritual place at His feet, He takes His rightful place as King to bestow on me the treasures of His heart.
I know we are all at different places on our journey but I felt led to share these personal thoughts with you because what Mary experienced is available to us all if we are willing to seek His heart. The Lord has given us a new heart to know Him and experience the same divine transaction that took place between the heart of Jesus and Mary’s heart in those precious moments at His feet.
I pray these words bless you, encourage you and give you a greater hunger and thirst for being at His feet because the divine promise in Proverbs 8:17 says:
“….those who diligently seek ME (my heart), you will find ME (my heart).”
(Parentheses mine)