A New Revolution

I have been pierced..... God has taken my heart and plunged a knife right through it..... I will never be the same!!!! I am reading a book called "Revolution in World Missions", by K.P. Yohannan. Dr. Yohannan is the founder of Gospel for Asia a ministry that supports, sends, trains, etc. indigenous missionaries to Asia. I am only half way through the book and already know that it is causing a "revolution" in my own life. I am shaken and cannot believe what my eyes are being opened to see! I have prayed and asked God to forgive me for my shortcomings.... I have also asked Him to show me how I can simplify my life and support world missions even more than I do now. I look around my home, that God has blessed me with and see so many things that are not needed and are unnecessary! If I had never bought the $15 tart burner on my counter that I never use, how many people could I support? This is what I did last night as I scanned my home and realized how much I have that I truly don't use and do not need. My husband reminded last night as I looked upon him with tear filled eyes that God places us in our lives for a reason. What I have realized is that I could be a nurse in India and still have the same calling on my life to live on the mission field and meet the practical needs of the people I am called to serve. But, I am not! Instead I am a nurse from the US with that call on my life.... I say again, I am a nurse from the US with that call on my life. I was fortunate to be born in the most affluent country in the world. I have resources available to me that a nurse from India could not dream of having at their fingertips. Do you get it? Do you see it? As Christians in the richest country in the world we have a responsibility to those in the world that are less fortunate.
"Jesus answered him, If you would be perfect [that is, have that spiritual maturity which accompanies self-sacrificing character], go and sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, be my disciple [side with my party, and follow Me]." Matthew 19:21 (Amplified version)
"But if anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity)." 1 John 3:17-18 (Amplified version)
I will continue in my journey to simplify as I finish reading the book that is "revolutionizing" my life. All I ask you, as my reader to do is to think, reflect, and meditate upon your life and pray about how you can help make a difference and reach others for Jesus Christ!

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Time, Time Time

I have been thinking about time, and timing over the past week. It almost sounds cliche now to say, "it all happens in God's timing". But, that statement is so true. It does all happen in God's timing, we certainly are not in control of something so important. Why do things happen when they happen? Why do things not happen when we desire them to happen? Or, why do things happen when we are not expecting them to happen? Most everyone knows Ecclesiastes 3...."To everthing there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted...." The most known verses of this chapter are verses 1-8. But, last week as I read this chapter I found some new precious nuggets of scripture I had never noticed before. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live. And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor- it is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is]." (Ecclesiastes 3:11-14, Amplified version)
I love that! What and when God does what He does, just is! There is no philosophical theory, it just is! And we need to accept it, so that we can worship and understand Him as our God. Tough stuff to swallow, I know! It proves we have NO control. That is the beuaty of it, especially for those of us that are type A....we just have to accept and trust and LET GO!!! Wow! When you get to the place when you can do this, it is such a relief, to let the reigns of control go and to just allow things to happen in the timing of God. He knows His plan for you, and He even knows the outcome so just let Him do His job!