Hello! I’m back!

Hello! I’m back! My thanks to John for keeping up with the blog posts while my family and I were in America for the month of July with our Liberty Church Family as we were working to build better relationships and a broader prayer base.

 

God is so amazing! This past month was amazing on so many different levels, but ultimately this month was about God showing me and my family that He is in control and that He has never let us down and will never let us down!

 

We serve a GREAT BIG GOD, and yet at times, I forget this because I cannot define God and put Him into a box. Of Course, I can always define my problems, and because I can define my problems, I assume they are too big for God to handle because according to my definition my problems fall into two categories – the impossible and the improbable.

 

I have a tendency to be like Peter. You see Christ called Peter out of the boat in Matt. 14:22-33 and Peter succeeded in doing the impossible when his attention and focus were on Jesus, but as soon as he took his eyes off of the Maker of the Wind and the waves, and the Doer of the impossible and improbable, he started to sink.

 

He lowered his gaze just enough where he no longer saw Jesus above the situations, in control of the situation, or even present in the situations, and instead he began to define his reality by the boxes he could define – the strength of the wind, the relentless power and pounding of the waves, the impossibility of man walking on water, and the improbability that Jesus had really called him out of the security of the boat into such a situation.  

 

Recently every day has felt like I am being called to get out of the boat and experience Christ in the impossible! And while it is one thing to pray that God will keep me a float, it is another thing to believe that it will actually happen, and yet that is exactly what happens! Jesus miraculously provided the money for us to go to America even though people said we were stupid for trusting in God to do so. Once we were in America, Jesus provided the car, phone, and finances necessary to do the work he had for us to do. And then Jesus provided the finances in a day through the heart and giving of amazing people to pay for our rent for the month of August, and the ability to get me some much needed clothes a day before we had to go back to Japan.

 

This month has been a huge example of the faithfulness and trustworthiness of Jesus in the realms if the impossible, and the improbable! Let me encourage you all – He is no fool who trust in the Love of Jesus to do the impossible and improbable things that Jesus wants him to do, because it will be done not through that man, but through the Power of the Doer of the Impossible and the Improbable! He never fails!

 

~ Mike