Hey our friend

Wow we had a crazy and wonderful week. On top of the normal weekly ministry times and tasks we had a team from China with us. They joined us in praying over our neighborhood and they also learned how they can impact the business community more with Jesus. One of the team members just became a Christian and prayed for the first time. It was a powerful testimony of the faithfulness of our father. We also had an old friend of ours come by for a visit which was amazing. During the weekend 2 couples which are good friends of ours got married. To get to both of the weddings involved a lot of driving since one of them was in Santa Barbara, but it was totally worth the drive seeing them start their lives together before God. And weddings are always a lot of fun too.

This week we will have a team from Washington that will help out at the boys and girls club to bless them. Please keep them and the people we reach out to in your prayers this week. Pray for salvations and bigger breakthroughs in their lives. Also pray for an extra boos of energy for me and Jen. Thanks friend.

5 Billion people missing

When I woke up this morning I was spending some one on one time with God which is always wonderful and refreshing. He started to speak to me about His children and how he loves each one of them. When He started to share about that it made me think about how well I do in loving His children? God’s heart is to see all his children come back to Him. It’s not his heart to judge any of them without Jesus as a middleman.  Through Jesus all He sees is freedom since Jesus took on all of our and there sin to the cross and brought redemption. So how can we have a part in that plan to bring those children back to their father? Let’s look at the 3 examples Jesus gives in Luke 15. First he talks about 100 sheep and one of them got lost. He lets the 99 stay in safety in the open country just to search all night for the lost one. The same happened in the next parable with the coin. The woman in the story doesn’t give up till she found the missing coin. And then the famous story of the prodigal son. The son dishonors the family, spends all his inheritance and brings shame on himself as well as the family. What is the fathers reaction when he comes home? He runs towards him, hugs him and puts beautiful clothing on him and throws a party since he is so happy that his son is back.

We see in all 3 of those stories that it takes an action of either searching or going towards them. So our job is to find the people that don’t know Him and bring the good news to them. But it is important to not judge them because we see something wrong in their life, no but we have to show them that they are missed in the Kingdom. If a person truly feels that they are missed and loved they get a feeling of belonging, and that is what God wants to give them, a belonging to His Kingdom. And it talks about in Romans 2.4 that His kindness leads people to repentance. So think about ways how you can help 6 of your neighbors , coworkers, friends etc. experience God in this way. By doing this you bring more of Heaven to Earth and that is a really good thing.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen