I am amazed:
The first amazing thing is the number of readers that this ministry touches. When anyone subscribes, my mailing list provider sends me an email identifying them. One of the things it tells me is the country from which the subscribion comes. And that leads to the really amazing thing to me.
The CA's are from Canada, AU is Australia, and US is my own country of origin. Then once in a while I get an IN, DE, DM, ET, AG, etc. and I have to look it up on my country code chart. Then it sinks into my soul that these readers are scattered all over the globe. Some of their homelands I don't know how to locate on a map. God has gathered a congregation from all over this globe and I am blessed.
When this ministry started with a single request for a Study on the Book of Esther I had no idea where the Lord was leading. I just simply did what was at my hand to do in prayer with all my might. Each step along the way has been a reaching into unknown territory and leaning on the Everlasting Arm has become a way of life online as much as it was in my daily walk before I ever heard of a computer.
This ministry has grown from the Lord and I reaching out to a single person to a team of contributors in every facet of this ministry reaching around the world.
It is a wonder each day as He provides, leads, and reveals His glory through you to me and visa versa. To be able to touch a life across the globe and grow together in Him is something I could never have imagined and yet here it is and I am amazed. This month let us look at our speach and the One who transcends languages and tongues:
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God is amazing:
That we of different languages and customs can grow together in Christ amazes me. When I recieved my 1st subscriber for a land of another tongue than my native language it was AF:Afganistan. Being a great respector of our troops I was thrilled that I could minister to even one so far from home in service to my country (or so I assumed). Unless we have troops in countries I have never heard of before I have come to the realization that some of you are native to those lands and I wonder....
Do you know English as a second language? Do you have a program that translates for you? Does someone take their time to translate these mailings to you? How many are native to the tongue I know and living where they have learned to speak the language where they are now?
Then I think upon Acts 2:1-6
2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
KJV
And I concede that it doesn't matter how He does it. It is a wonder each day as He provides, leads, and reveals His glory through you to me and visa versa. To be able to touch a life across the globe and grow together in Him is something I could never have imagined and yet here it is and I am amazed.
Leola
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