How am I supposed to do this?
How am I supposed to fill my support account with $3,000 before December 1st?
How am I supposed to watch people pray to monkeys and be able to do nothing?
How am I supposed backpack through the Himalaya’s for 11 days?
How am I supposed to watch my teammates suffer with death in their families, and not feel guilty for leaving my own precious family?
How am I supposed to do all of this?
I know I am fully relying on God for the first time in my life. God is something that I always just put in a box, or pulled out of my pocket when I needed something from Him. But that is no longer the case. My God doesn’t fit in a box, or in my pocket. My relationship with Christ has taken a major turn in just the past week. I have never had more faith in anything. God is so merciful when I am not even deserving of His grace.
Since I have been on the World Race I have been introduced to so many things that never get brought up in my American churches… Things like evil spirits, speaking in tongues, prophesying and healing. God can really do all of the things it says He can in the bible, people are just ignorant and believe what they want to, or pick only one verse to follow for the rest of their lives.
My contact this month, Rueben, is such an amazing example of a man after God’s heart. He was persecuted and beaten for sharing the gospel. He is taking us trekking through the Himalaya’s for 11 days starting Sunday November 20th to share the gospel with villages that have never heard the name Jesus. People who we have been praying that the Lord will prepare the hearts of, people who live off of nearly nothing, while you at home complain about gas prices and milk prices… These are people that walk 3 hours just to find water supplies for their families.
This is all a bunch of rambling now but the point is that reading Numbers we have a story where Moses asks the Lord why he must be burdened with all the peoples borrowed offenses. The Lord tells Moses that He will put the Spirit into the elders to help him carry the burden and as the story continues Moses is to feed 6,000 people meat for a whole month and questions how this will ever be possible…
21But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’ 22Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
23The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
This is such an encouraging verse. It can be used in so many situations. Is the Lord’s arm too short? Is the Lord’s arm too short to fill my support account? Is the Lord’s arm too short to take care of my family? Is the Lord’s arm to short that he forgot to send me a team of Christians to help me carry my burdens, just as he sent for the elders to help carry Moses’ burden?
The answer is no!!
The Lord will provide my every need and I will be supernaturally taken care of in Jesus’ name. I will rejoice in my sufferings and be strengthened because the Holy Spirit lives inside of me.
