2/17/16
This month, my team and I, were/are stationed in Balaka, Malawi working with the ministry Destiny International, and our host was Apostle Andrew. We’ve been here 8 days so far and are here for another 12 days before we leave. We’ve done a little bit of everything, from children’s ministry to preaching and teaching, to today we were praying healing over people.
We asked Apostle Andrew what the word Apostle meant here and he said “overseer” and that he oversees around 34 churches or so, and that he oversees the ministries that they do as well as all the congregations. Not only that, but he also does prison ministry, plants churches, and so much more.
This month has been fast paced, with so much diversity that it’s been an interesting experience. I prayed healing over people for the first time, watched a Muslim become a Christian and accept Christ, spoke at a home cell (Care-group/Bible Study), worked with the youth, spoke to the youth leaders about what our youth groups (my youth group Rooted) is like, and so much more; and the month is only half over.
In everything we’ve done and have to do still it just amazes me how big our God is. Apostle Andrew may be an overseer here in Malawi, but Christ is the ultimate overseer of us. He knows everything, each and everything he has planned for our lives he knows about and he has the blueprints already in mind and he knows how we’re gonna react and what we’re going to do with it.
Knowing that Christ is the ultimate overseer of our lives, should put us at ease, it should allow us to relax and just let things be, to see what he has planned for us. So often though we freak out, we want to control it all, we want to be the overseer of our own lives, but it doesn’t work like that. God knew everything from the get go, he knows every good and bad thing that is going to occur in our lives. It’s up to us whether we let him lead and use it for his Glory, or allow Satan and win. I say it’s time we take a stand, let God be the ultimate overseer of our lives, and as I wrote in my journal the other day, “Satan will not win. God has all the power and glory.”
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 ESV)
