Last year, in Tanzania, our team spent some time working with the Kid’s program at the church we ministered with that month. One particular Saturday, we spent a few hours teaching them to sing “My God is So Big” in English so they could perform it in church the next day. One of my favorite things about teaching this song is the hand motions that go with it which put emphasis on the fact that God is so big and so strong that there is NOTHING He cannot do.
I will confess that last year may have been one of the first times in my life that I really began to see the truth in these words. It took my leaving the country, having to raise a large sum of money and meeting people in places where I had nothing I could physically offer them to ease their pain and hardship for me to begin to fully rely on God to be who He says He is in my life and in the lives of those I ministered to. In each and every moment of need, the Lord revealed Himself to us. Sometimes He revealed Himself in the ways we asked Him to and in others, He revealed Himself differently, but He never failed to “show up”.
My dear friend and former squadmate, Kelly, is now in charge of the Real Life program here at AIM. Kelly visited the office a couple of weeks ago and took some time one morning during her visit to share some of what the Lord is doing in and through some of the Real Life teams we have out in the field right now. The following is her account of what one of the teams shared with her when she went out to visit them–it’s an awesome reminder of how the Lord continues to move in our lives when we call upon Him and ask Him to provide for our every need.
African soil, they were given a few tents and sent into the
bush with the Maasai tribe for a week. Their assignment? Door
to door evangelism. (Well, maybe hut to hut is more accurate!)
So they headed out, confident in the Lord if not in themselves.
But for several groups, they were met with a less than favorable
response. It seemed nobody was all that interested in hearing about
Jesus, and instead could only talk about rain. They’d experienced a
drought for several months and finally one man became downright
disrespectful before putting it bluntly, ‘If there is a God, why hasn’t
He brought rain for so long?’
into determination and they prayed for rain. They prayed for rain as
if this one man’s life depended on it. And sure enough, that night, the
skies opened up and did it ever rain. In fact, it rained for 3
days straight until finally, on the last night, their tents
flooded and their mattresses started floating away.
When it
finally stopped long enough for them to leave their shelter, they went
back out and stumbled across this same man.
in his eyes. When they finally approached them, he said, ‘I’ve
searched up and down this valley for someone who could bring the rains
and nobody’s been able to do it. I don’t know who your God is, but if
he can control the rain, then I want to know him.‘ So the
team prayed with him and praised God that He is not only the God of our
salvation, but also a God who can send the rains.”
He loves YOU and desires relationship with YOU!
He desires to answer the cries of YOUR heart and provide for YOUR every need.
Do you BELIEVE this is true? Is He really THAT BIG?!
Are you willing to ASK Him?
