God’s Faithfulness

How many of you struggle with addiction to drugs, alcohol, or pornography?  How many struggle with watching too much TV or surfing the web?  If you are one of my three faithful readers, I hope you have not had the opportunity to struggle with any of these problems and neither have I.  What I did struggle with last week is a lack of faith.  Now I am not talking about a complete loss of faith in God because we are not in SE Asia yet, but a more simple struggle with knowing how faithful God truly is. 

Let me explain.  Over the last few weeks, our ministry partner development (i.e., support raising) seems to have stalled.  God was providing new monthly partners, but then, that seemed to stop.  I began to question our philosophy of support raising, which is to share the vision of what God is doing in SE Asia and then let the Holy Spirit do what He does best and get out of the way.  When that didn’t seem to work, I modified that philosophy.  The first follow-up call did not go so well as I was not being myself.  Shortly after I hung up the phone, I confessed my lack of faith to God and asked His forgiveness.  What He did with that confession is within 24 hours He provided a substantial gift to the ministry through someone I had just met and only spoke briefly about the ministry.  He then had two people that had previously committed to being montly partners tell us that they would start giving monthly immediately!

My faith in God’s sovereignty was totally rejuvenated over these incidents.  Now, when I feel that my faith is lacking, I simply have to think about what God already did or just sit back and watch what He will do!  Thank you, God.