Sometimes God places people in your life at certain times to help you see, to speak truth to you and possibly convict you. I thought taking this step of faith and leaving for a year was going to be where I was “walking in faith” and I had thought I had grown so much in that area. I thought since I prayed at 3 am for 40 days, heard the voice of God speak to me, read the bible the last 100 days of the race, see people come to The Kingdom, find my calling after the race, that now I have been “walking in faith” but God reminded me very quickly where I was wrong.
Our ministry had sent us to Keluang, a southern part of Malaysia, to help this man out with his ministry. So we left, took a 6 hour bus ride down here and upon arrival I met the biggest chinese man I have ever met. He has a mohawk, owns a gym and loves good food. At that moment I was very excited to get to know him and was excited to see what God had in store for this week. Well I found out exactly what that was, God wanted to use Jit to speak to me about LIVING BY FAITH. On the second night he took us guys out to eat. As we started to finish up he looked to us and asked: “If you can, describe in one word, each country you have been too.” So we took sometime to go into that and for me I really enjoyed getting to reflect on the past 8 months. Then Jit started to tell us of his story about LIVING BY FAITH. It started out with him telling us of how God has literally shown up in every way possible financially. He told us about how God has provided him with cars, people he doesn’t know paying his bill, people giving him a new car when he needed one for free, and lots of other examples I can’t think of at this moment.
The point of why God did this is because God asked him not to take a pay check anymore because God wanted to show Jit that He would provide his every need. Jit then named his youngest child Faith. He said “Ever since faith was born he has not taken a check and God has always brought in the money. Me and my wife named her that because I can tangibly watch my faith grow as I watch my daughter Faith physically grow.” To me this was a wake up call. To actually step out in faith is to literally give up all thing, not just some but keep the things that will keep you comfortable, no all things. Let God be your source of comfort and let Him be your provider.
Lord, I repent of possibly “walking by faith” but not “living by faith”. Lord I want you to be my source of life, I want you to be my comfort. I know nothing else will satisfy me. Lord I need you and only you. Thank you for showing me what it means to be living by faith. I pray one day, if thats what You call me into, that I would answer the call.
Love You Son,
Mack
