Hey our friend
We hope you had a wonderful week. We definetly did with Germany winning the Worldcup!! What a wonderful day!! We had a great neighbor’s brunch this weekend and lots of great events during the week. While listening to a message of a wonderful friend and also our wedding pastor Don Neff I got reminded of the greatness of God (if you would like to hear or watch the message click on this link and click on the James Part 3 message). He talked about how we should remind ourselves daily of how big God is. That will strengthen our faith in our circumstances or in whatever He calls us to do. This is a great reminder for all of us. During the last 2 years the ministry kept growing from month to month and without knowing that a big God is with us it would have been a real challenge to take on some of the tasks. But God was faithful in each one of them. SO whatever He calls you to, go for it he is right at your side and nothing is too big for Him. This is also something we need to be reminded of with the YWAM Base and all the fundraising that is going on. But again what are 4 Million Dollars for a God who created the earth and all his followers on this earth? http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/miracle/
Heroes through Challenge Part 1
Many times I saw people evangelize with saying when you become a Christian life will be just perfect. They don’t use the exact words, but the message they give is that one. I don’t believe that is totally true.
When you become a Christian not everything is going to be magically perfect, but you start walking with a perfect father who is with you in all of it.
Over the next few weeks I want to look with you at the lives of different people in the bible who went on that journey. I want to start with Moses. For that I want you to read the book of Exodus to get his Story.
The life of Moses didn’t start of well. All male Kids that were born around that time were killed, because they were seen as a threat to the Egyptian society. His life was saved by a great move of his mom, which brought him to Pharos house as an adopted son. He started growing up in a culture which was not his own. When he was older he saw the injustice that was done to the Israelites by the Egyptians and he stood up and killed one of their guards. He stood up for something but that got him into trouble and he had to flee for his life. He lived in the desert away from all the luxury he had before in the Kings palace. Many years later God speaks to him and asks him to go back to the place where he committed the crime and challenge Pharaoh to let all the Israelites go. When you look at that Moses was able to protect one person through his acting out, but God already had a greater plan to free all of them. After a long discussion Moses finally went back after asking God for a helper. He challenged Pharaoh with plaques till he let the Israelites go. But now Moses had to deal with a whole crowd of people who were just set free but just kept complaining. Moses kept going aside circumstances, because he knew God was on his side. But how did he know that? He spends one on one time with Him on a daily base. Moses life was a challenge till the day he died, but he decided to walk with God and God helped him through all of them.
So now when you look at the life of Moses and see the challenges he faced you see that being a Christian isn’t making everything easy. But then when you look at the relationship Moses (Exodus 33.11) had with God you see that it was worthied. God walked with him through every situation and Moses became closer and closer with God after each of those times of challenge. Look at your life and look at the challenges you are facing because you are a Christian, and then look at your father in heaven and how He walks right at your side and how He is with you in all of it.
Have a blessed week.
Markus and Jen