THIS IS A LONG TESTIMONY With my emotions on up and down momentum! (In short: TODAY I STARTED TO SERVE IN WORSHIP TEAM WHILE ON MISSION TRIP AND LOST MY IPHONE WITH MY CREDIT CARD AT THE SAME DAY!) What happened before that, in between and after, is the reason why you need to read this until the end!) You will be blessed!
Today was an exciting and crazy day for me! First thing, this is the day I started serving in the mission church here in Timor-Leste Dili. It is always an honour to serve the Lord through serving in the church and today I got the privilege to sing for Him again in the stage! When the church had that ministry sign up thing and reminding us that this is an international congregation wherein people come and go and regardless of how short or long is the stay what matter is how you can you contribute to bless this Nation. I prayed about it for over a week and I signed up! It was a privilege to be in the stage and sing for my One Audience and to bless the church. And my goodness how I miss "My Redeemer Lives" song! Haha. Then I got the opportunity to share my testimony and hear the testimony of our worship leader as well on the way home when they drop me home. It was a powerful moment. This was supposed to be the main thing I wanted to share today to bring encouragement to other people out there, but I guess God has His own message to deliver through this. So, when I was about to get my iPhone to see the photograph of the song sheets in the song stand I took after the last song at the end of the service so I can share about my journey on this new ministry and I realized I don't have my IPHONE!!!! I freeze for a while and searched again and none! Then I started to call the worship leader and asked if he can find my phone in the car and it's not to be found! I borrowed my housemates iPhone to track it and we failed so. I went outside and call again and also look around on the street. Failed! I went back in my room calm down and squat and close my eyes and think back! I REMEMBER WHILE BROTHER MATTHEW WAS SHARING HIS STORY ABOUT HIM GETTING SICK CLOSE TO DEATH AND MENTIONED ABOUT GETTING STATEMENT OF NOT GETTING HEALED BECAUSE OF A LACK OF FAITH I SHAKE MY HEAD A BIT AND REACHED OUT ON MY BAG TO GET MY IPHONE TO SHOW A PICTURE I GOT IN MOZAMBIQUE PEMBA AFRICA WHERE I SAW LOADS OF MIRACLES AND SET IT ON TOP OF MY BAG WAITING FOR THE MOMENT. SO, I TOLD HIM IT'S NOT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF OUR FAITH WE GET THE HEALING. BECAUSE MIRACLES ARE NOT MEANT FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BELIEVERS ITS FOR THE CONVICTION OF THE PRE-BELIEVERS AND WE DON'T NEED A MIRACLE ANYMORE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. WHETHER THERE'S ONE OR NOT WE ALREADY BELIEVE, AND IT IS UPON GOD'S JURISDICTION, LIKE WHAT'S BEEN SAID IN JAMES 4:12-17. IT IS A BONUS TO HAVE ONE AND A PRIVILEDGE TO WITNESS ONE! But we finally got to my place before I can even show my phone. And since I remember I put it just right on top of my bag I now fully acknowledge that I absolutely dropped it when I went down the car so I closed my eyes and asked God and just prayed, "God please bring back my phone" a couple of times around 7 or 8 maybe (all i can think of are the memories I had inside the phone) and stand up and went outside and look around again. This time there was a girl maybe in the age of 12 her mother in the gate and a guy in his 20's and I was looking around and the guy asked me if I need help. So I told them i lost my phone and I couldn't find it and asked them if they found any phone in the street. To my shock the girl answered and said, "YES WE DID! WE FOUND IT HERE IN THE STREET." I was shocked for a moment and answered back "REALLY?" And the guy took out a phone from his pocket and hand it over to me and said, "I SAW YOUR PICTURE WITH THE AFRICAN KIDS!" The very picture why I brought out my phone which I planned to show to bro Matthew.(crying while typing this part) God want to show it to somebody else. I thank them asking if I can do something in return and they could not understand at first. So i asked in TETUN if they understand english he answered back just a little bit in Tetun so I tried to asked, "Ita Komprende 'Miracle' iha ingles?" he shoke his head and I said, " Miragro! The girl shouted to the guy "oh milagre! I said "sim! Milagre!" so the guy said, oh, God! And pointed up! I said yes! And i thank them and said I will return the favour soon! It was indeed a miracle. Can you imagine the probability of anyone not from around to be the one to pick up my phone? I am absolutely sure they were not around when I arrived home! Can you imagine if it falls to somebody else? Dili is not a developed country. It is still moving on from captivity 15 years ago! The Nation is still overwhelmed with poverty but the people are nice and good. Well of course you will encounter different sets of people but i admire how most of the people worked under the heat of the sun to sell and work that to choose the easy bad way of life. Well, thank God my phone did not fall to the wrong one. AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A COINCIDENCE! God has a plan! God just made it more interesting! I was sharing to Bro Matthew why I am in Dili. I told him God send me here for something, but I got no concrete Idea how it will play so I just take every opportunity to share to the people I come across! So, the moment i got in I shared that moment to the tenants in the house I am staying in and I called bro Matthew again to assure that I got the phone back and call the church that there is no need to look for it in the church anymore. And I told him what happened and guess what? HE SAID, "I BELIEVE OF ALL PEOPLE THEY GOT YOUR PHONE FOR A REASON! THEY SAW YOUR PICTURE AND THEY WERE TOUCHED BY IT. GOD ALREADY STARTED SOMETHING! I BELIEVE GOD IS AFTER THEM. GOD IS GIVING THEM IN YOUR HANDS I THINK THE NEXT STEP IS TO REACH OUT ON THEM!" Mind blowing! Isn't it? Amazing! Exactly what I am thinking! So now the next part is to pray for the next step and i wanted to share this story to everyone just to have that closer view of how The God of the entire Universe, my Daddy God in Heaven!!! My Jesus, the lover of my soul works! For all who says Christian life is boring, well not for me certainly! God is always dramatic on His ways with me. I love art and He approach the same way it's always like a puzzle thing, He gives me bits of pieces to solve. It is always exciting to work with my Father in Heaven! Amazing how many souls He already brought for me to share my life and testimonies of how God has been working in my life since I arrived here, and it keeps on getting exciting!!! God just gave me an exciting open door, it will be easier to tell them that God has a purpose for my phone to be on their hands and I am excited to start with that as soon as possible! Praise the Name of the Lord!! I got my phone back with my credit cards and identification card at the back but more than that I believe God gave me more souls to reach out around here! Praise Jesus! Super thankful of what He has been doing in my life. I WILL NEVER TRADE THIS LIFE HE GAVE ME FOR ANOTHER LIFE. THIS IS THE BEST LIFE TO LIVE! TO LVE FOR JESUES! I WILL NEVER TRADE BACK DYING FROM MYSELF FEW YEARS BACK AND GIVING MY LIFE TO JESUS! BECAUSE IF I DID NOT I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO EMBRACE AND MEET THIS MUCH OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE’S LIVES IN MY LIFETIME! |
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