Cyrus…no …Mozambique…

 Cyrus…no…Mozambique…

I was thinking about Isaiah 45 yesterday and the king Cyrus…Ezra…Nehemiah….and God’s mercy and timing for the Jews return to their land…another day…

I have a friend who ministers in Mozambique to the poorest of the poor…she works with a mission organization called the Iris Project which was started many years ago…her husband and mine were business and geology partners until God saw fit to call each home, leaving two widows to manage their business…what a shock that was…we sold and gave away everything…she followed her calling and gifting into mission work…I stayed and followed mine…different paths with the same goals…using our talents to glorify God in what we do…

We talk via What’s App, visit when she is stateside with her family….

She suggested a new book the other day, stories about people and their lives who have been changed because of this ministry …ministering to the poorest of the poor…

It struck me with its contrasts of how God uses different giftings, callings of people….here I am working on furnishing a new home with new furniture, appliances, accessories needed for others to rent and use…I can order on Amazon…go to furniture companies, restaurant suppliers, Walmart, thrift stores, order pictures for the walls, etc to make people comfortable…using the incoming funds to fund missions all over the world…

Stories  in this book speak of the poverty, the life stories of children dying because of lack of food, medical help….building shelters of grass which  wash away in the floods, monsoons each year, or lack of schooling, or teachers…and so on…

It is amazing to read of lives all over the world changed by the Gospel, not necessarily from poverty to riches, but of the faith in the True God who saves…how He worked in their lives and those around them…

We each have a place, a plan, a gifting, a calling on our lives whether we live in the flood plains of Mozambique, the tropics of Colombia, the desert of Somalia, the mountains of Nepal…God can use us and wants to if we obey…the Gospel is for all, rich or poor, no matter the culture…if we just come to Him….

Thank YOU…

 I am the Lord, and there is no other;apart from me there is no God.I will strengthen you,though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting people may know there is none besides me.

I am the Lord, and there is no other. 

I form the light and create darkness,I bring prosperity and create disaster;I, the Lord, do all these things. 

For this is what the Lord says—he who created the heavens,he is God;he who fashioned and made the earth,he founded it;he did not create it to be empty,but formed it to be inhabited—he says:“I am the Lord,and there is no other. “

Turn to me and be saved,all you ends of the earth;for I am God, and there is no other. 

By myself I have sworn,my mouth has uttered in all integrity-a word that will not be revoked:Before me every knee will bow;by me every tongue will swear.

Isa.45.5-7, Isa.45.18,Isa.45.22-23

Bible study notes…

“God is ruler over light  and darkness, over prosperity and disaster. Our lives are sprinkled with both types of experiences, and both are needed for us to grow spiritually. When good times come, thank God and use your prosperity for him.when bad times come, don’t resent them, but ask what you can learn from this refining experience to make you a better servant of God.”

Thank you for stories of people who have been impacted by the gospel no matter what mission organization…

Find us Faithful…

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