Loved and Protected

Not long ago I mentioned the Kenya pastor and friend I’ve been emailing for several years. He has a huge heart for the unsaved, and frequently goes on preaching crusades with several other pastors. Their entire heart is to have others find Christ. And they are bearing much good fruit, leading hundreds to the Lord.

I’m struggling, however, knowing that though I’m supporting them with financial gifts, it’s not enough. In fact one little five-year-old boy, a pastor’s son, died Thursday after a short illness, when strong medication he was taking, took his life because he had no food to strengthen him. It breaks my heart to know these children are dying.

And as I was praying last night the Lord showed me that we as believers in most of the world have never used our authority in Christ, by using Scripture, to call into being the things that aren’t as though they were.

We have been given that authority in the same way God gave Adam authority over the earth. He told him to tend it and make it fruitful. Those who love Jesus with all their hearts and have no agenda of their own can also use that authority to bless God and others, showing God’s power to the world, and making the gospel come alive.

Few of us in America have ever needed anything that we couldn’t provide for ourselves, but our time is coming when we will need to know that we know that we know, that these truths are not merely Old Testament stories, but powerful Scriptures that are just as alive and applicable today as they were back then. Either God is a liar or He’s telling the truth when He says to claim His promises for what we need. And if our hearts are right and we ask in faith, Scripture says we will get what we ask for. And this applies to moving mountains and even raising the dead. So what are we waiting for? Gideon needs food, so that not one more child dies of starvation, so that’s what I’m believing for. For a harvest so great they can sell it and give it away with the gospel of Jesus Christ, to anyone who will listen. And will hungry people listen if we feed them? No doubt they will.

Some of the Scripture verses I checked out include: Jeremiah 29:11, Jer 31:12-14, Ezek. 34:12-15 & 34:23-28, Lam. 3:;56-59, Ps. 37:23-26, James 1:1-8, Matt 21:18-20, Mark 11:20-25, Zech 10:1, Matt. 21:22, Matt. 7:7, Luke 11:9, James 4:2.
And though this list is by no means exhaustive, I was excited to share these verses with Gideon, after God quickened to my spirit their need to take authority over the ground in which they had just planted seeds for food.

I challenge you to study these Scriptures and see if you can believe God for the supernatural. I want to live as if nothing is impossible with God, and now’s the time to start, because time’s awastin’, and we need to get this lesson down before it’s too late.

Encourage your hearts with these Scriptures and believe God for the impossible. We can change the world, once we take God at His Word in faith. And stand with me in faith, believing for more than an ample harvest of not only food but souls, and not only in Kenya, but here.
Because of His great love,
Nancy

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