Being in God’s will is an amazing place to be with God. In this place, we are assured of answered prayers.
1 John 5: 13-15 (NLT)
I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.
And we can be confident that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with His will.
And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for.
The Scripture above is a beautiful assurance from the Scriptures. As long as we ask according to God’s will, He will hear us and grant our requests.
At the beginning of 2017, our team was much smaller. We were hosting about 30-50 people and at most eighty people in a year. Then, we moved over to the capital city, Manila and in around three weeks of our first outreach, about ten thousand people gave their lives to Christ. We knew that the harvest was truly plenty, but there were few of us to carry on with the work. The Lord spoke to us that we should ask that His will be done, for in doing that, we can have great confidence that He will hear us as He promised in His Word. We knew that His will was to send us more hands to help with the work in the Philippines, so we began to pray for laborers.
In a few days, I got talking with one of my friends who is one of the leaders in one of the bases of the Youth With A Mission (YWAM). YWAM is the largest Mission organization in the world. They have about thirty thousand members of staff, and they are in every country in the world. They do everything from compassion, to evangelism, to training. My friend told me that he wanted to start sending in Missionaries to the Philippines. You can guess that I was very excited to hear that!
Within two months, we started taking in 50-80 missionaries per quarter as against the 50-80 missionaries we had in the previous year. Before we could only do evangelism but staying there and making disciples was such an arduous task because we were few. Well, that has changed now.
Within two months, we started taking in 50-80 missionaries per quarter as against the 50-80 missionaries we had in the previous year.
If the Lord has promised you something in prayer, don’t let the facts or statistics scare you from believing in its fulfillment.
Keep praying that the Lord’s will be done. Keep hoping. Keep believing, and the good thing shall surely come and not delay
Regardless of where your current condition is as compared to where God is taking you, you can believe the promise that God has given you.
From around the time when we prayed that God would send laborers and now, we have a lot of human resources, and we have not only been able to evangelize more people, but we have also been able to make disciples of the new converts. We have been able to disciple 75% of people that got saved, distribute Bibles, develop long term transformational programmes and create resources for both missionaries and locals to help them with their daily lives.
God will always give you a dream that you will need His help to fulfill. What I am trying to say is that you should expect challenges on your way to fulfilling that God-given purpose. When you do face them however, you should believe in the One who has committed the assignment in your hands.
Do not feel overwhelmed by the challenges, do not be discouraged by what you see. If the Lord is giving you a vision or a promise, He is going to give you what you need to make it come through. Our main job is to do what God would have us do. He will surely do His part.
Our main job is to do what God would have us do. He will surely do His part.
Let your faith soar; let the promises of God come alive with you with a passion. Once you are giving yourself out to the Lord to do His will, believe that He will provide what you need in that journey. Believe that He will provide what you need to fulfill that purpose.
At the start of our missionary work in the Philippines, we faced so many financial and manpower challenges. Some of our plans were skeletal and humanly speaking looking impossible, but we kept believing in what we were doing. We kept believing in what the Lord has said. Anytime we were faced with a fight from the devil, we always kept faith. As a team, we do pray and encourage one another and get back and fight again. We kept taking what we had, using it and trusting God to multiply it. We tried to make something out of nothing.
So instead of us merely trusting God for survival, God is placing in the hearts of our team members to trust God for the big things, and that is what we are doing now.
When you get into big battles with the devil, do not lower the vision that God has given you, go for it even harder.
When you get into big battles with the devil, do not lower the vision that God has given you, go for it even harder.
A successful missionary once told me when I asked him for the secret of his successful mission work, ‘The same way you eat an elephant. You don’t eat it all at once, you eat it one bite a time.’
In whatever God has called you to do, the big picture might look daunting but try to break it down into small bits and take it step by step. Don’t try to do everything all at once. Do it one after the other, and with God’s help and consistency on your part, those God-given dreams of yours will come to pass.
