Monday morning

Good morning,

What a great day. English church yesterday was such an uplift. We always appreciate visiting pastors who are willing to teach. But yesterday was "one of our own" missionaries. Tom has a great sense of humor and a great knowledge of the Bible. I cannot relay word for word what he shared, but I can relate the idea he presented. They had been in north America for a couple of months. When they returned, one of his trusted workers was telling him about a Jackie Chan movie. He said, "Why do we Haitians put such stock in karate and in Jackie Chan? His movies are not true. He has a fight with 200 men and he WINS! This is not true." Well, Tom is not a Jackie Chan/karate fan. But he told this man, let's look at the Bible on this. And he went to 2 Samuel 23:8 - 11, and read the story of David and his 3 companions. In verse 8b, it reads, "Josheb-Basshebeth, a Tahkemonite, was chief of the Three; he raised his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter." Then Tom went on to other incidents in the Bible. One was when David killed Goliath. He took 5 small stones from the river and faced Goliath. An interesting point here, that I had never thought of...if David felt God was with him why did he take 5 stones, not just one? Then Tom showed us, Goliath had 4 brothers, and David did not know if he had to also take them down. But Tom told his Haitian worker, the difference between Jackie Chan/karate and what is in the Bible is GOD. God was on the side of David, and all the other great men who fought for Him. And with God nothing is impossible. Tom then called us all to be great men (women) of God and step out in faith and share what the Lord has done. He did a super job and challenged us to be warriors for the Lord.

I just wanted to share that with you and challenge YOU to be what God wants YOU to be for Him.

Pray for the container...today is the inspection and we are praying it goes quickly and the cost will be reasonable.

Have a great day in the Lord!! Keep smiling and let people see Jesus in YOU.