I will count Egypt and Babylon among those who know me—
also Philistia and Tyre, and even distant Ethiopia.
They have all become citizens of Jerusalem!
Regarding Jerusalem it will be said,
“Everyone enjoys the rights of citizenship there.”
And the Most High will personally bless this city.
When the Lord registers the nations, he will say,
“They have all become citizens of Jerusalem.” Psalm 87:4-6
The quote above from the Psalms of David is one of the most surprising I’ve come across in scripture in a long time. Talk about inclusion! God is counting Egypt, Babylon, Philistia and Tyre among those who know Him? And He is going to register their citizens as citizens of Jerusalem? Imagine David being inspired by God to write this? Can’t you imagine him saying, “Are you sure, Lord? Did someone slip something into your holy water last Sabbath?” David’s been chasing and been chased by Philistines all his career as a warrior/king, and now he’s writing that the Lord is going to make them all citizens of Jerusalem? Put in the names of your most hated enemies and then count them among those who know God and it will have the same effect.
Earlier I shared, in this Catch, how almost daily I go help Marti’s fellow leader with Women of Vision care for her ailing husband. A big tennis fan, for the last two days she has been relocating herself and her husband to their second home near Indian Wells, California, so she can attend the BNP Paribas Open. It’s no small feat moving her husband, and his accompanying medical equipment which includes a couple large items necessitating renting a pickup truck. So yesterday, I drove the pickup out to the desert, and on the way back, I brought their housekeeper, Maria, back home. That drive turned out to be a real treat. 
Want to know a challenging way to live, full of adventure, surprise, love, and finding all the resources of the Spirit to help you do it, indeed, for Him to do it through you? Here’s how. Fully embrace, agree with, and live under the major assumption that it’s not about you. Or, as I would say, “It’s not about me.” And if it’s not about me, it must be about someone else. And, guess what? It is. Every time I adjust my attention off of me and onto someone else, I find out that they are a much more rewarding subject. In other words, it really is about them. Always was; always is. God was just waiting for me to get the message. 
John Fischer The Catch 