LOOK WHAT GOD CAN DO!
“If you
serve me, you must go with me. My servants will be with me wherever I am. If
you serve me, my Father will honor you.” JOHN
12:26 (CEV)
Being a
servant of the Lord is no easy thing. We need to give up things that really are
important to us – dreams and most importantly being with family. We need to set
aside everything according to what the Lord has said which is always right and
will the end be for the good of many.
The book
Look What God Can Do! is a compilation of biographies of mission heroes. This
book shares the stories of how these men and women totally surrendered their
lives – fame, wealth, dreams, plans and family – for God’s invitation to join
Him in His work. Through this we could know somehow how their lives have contributed
greatly to the salvation of so many all over the world through missions.
Reading
this book, God challenged me to surrender myself to Him, to allow myself to be
an instrument for His glory. Through my Quiet time, God spoke to me through
John 12:26 “If you love your life, you will lose it. If you give it up in this
world, you will be given eternal life.” Do not be afraid or worried, I promised
to give you peace, a peace only I can give. It is not like the peace that this
world can give. John 14:27
I also learned
that God uses life’s trials and hardship as a way to strengthen my faith in Him
and prepare me for whatever awaits me in the future.
I find real
encouragement from these mission heroes. Let me quote some of them.
Expect great things from God. Attempt
great things for God. - William Carey
In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes
seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary
has ever been.– Robert Moffat
My Jesus, my King, my Life, my All, I
again dedicate my whole self to Thee. Accept me and grant, O gracious Father
that when this year is gone, I may finish my work. – David Livingstone
A little thing is a little thing,
but faithfulness in the little things is a great thing. – j. Hudson Taylor
Missionary work is a grain of sand,
the work untouched is a pyramid… face it. Look and listen alone with God. Then go,
let go, help go, but never think that everything short of this is being
interested in missions.
– Amy Carmichael
Look what
God can do if Christ is in you!
Thank you
for your support and prayers during this training. Continue to pray for us.
Prayer
requests:
1.
Clear
direction from Christ for the summer.
2. Provision for all needs and for my
family
- Lexter, 21 (Mindoro/ Batangas)
