God restores broken things
When I watched a church service on New year’s day broadcasted from Frauenkirche in Dresden, I got reminded of how God is all about restoring. Let me tell you why. During the bombing In World War 2 Frauenkirche got totally destroyed. It literally looked impossible to rebuild. During the time of the separation of Germany in east and west, nothing was done to the ruins of the church for 40 or 50 years. After Germany was reunited a plan was made to rebuild the church stone by stone. For many years specialists looked through all the stones and started to mark them and display with a computer on how to put them back together. It was a huge and expensive effort. People from all the nations in the world donated to the project so that it could keep going. On the 30th of October 2005 the impossible happened and the church was put back into service, just in time for Reformation Day on the 31st.
When I look at that church it paints a great picture of God and his plan for each person on this planet. God wants to restore everyone. He wants to rebuild us to our original design and get rid of sin and all things in our life that separate us from him and our original design. When you look at the story of Israel in the Old Testament you see how often they messed up, but God still choose to take them back and kept bringing restoration. It would have been easy for God to just destroy them and just start again at Zero, but no out of His love He choose to restore. The same is true for Frauenkirche, it would have been cheaper and easier to just build a new church, but if that would have been done we would have missed out on a reminder of Gods heart of restoration. God believes in us and wants to restore like the story of Frauenkirche and for that He uses each one of us. There are people around us that might exactly need that restoration in there live in order to see hope again. How? Easy: be the man or woman God created you to be and love on them. This can look different for every person. Example: If someone struggles with self-esteem, ask God how he sees them and then encourage them with the things God sees in them.
There are many ways to do this and it takes every single Christian on the planet to get the job done, so start this new year by joining God in restoring people.
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Wow we are already getting into week 3 of 2015. How are you? How are you holding up with your new years resolution? 46% of the new year resolutions are kept till June which is awesome. Lets try this year to get this number up by keeping the ones God gave each one of us for this new year.
We started well into the swing of things. For this new year our goal is to create more online content for the ministry to empower every believer to live the great commission practically. Please pray with us for someone who could help us in creating videos for that. I also start to work on a book that goes along all the other content. All those things are more of a long-term project and might take longer then one year, but pray that they are not put away because of the normal everyday things. Thank you for praying with us.
We also still need more monthly support. Pray about to join our support team. Every YWAM missionary is relying on support for all the expenses they have (ministry as well as personal), since none is paid. Our goal is to be fully funded by January and we had quite a few new people join our team last month. Find more info on how to support us by clicking on this link. Thank you for considering us.
We wish you a blessed week.
Markus and Jen