Deborah was a missionary serving overseas. Not long after her arrival back in the United States, she learned that one of her neighbor’s sons had been seriously injured. The family had no insurance and was suffering financially.

Concerned about the situation, Deborah went into her bedroom to pray. “Lord,” she asked, “what would you have me do?” She sensed a nudge from the Lord to give her neighbors some money.

Checking her bank account, she realized that her balance was a mere $200.

“Lord, how about $25?” she prayed. With $175 left over, she thought she could survive the rest of the month. Quietly waiting on the Lord, however, she felt Him say, “No, I want you to give $100.”

“I choked a bit,” she says. “That was half of what I had. As I continued to question the Lord, I had no peace about anything less than $100.”

Finally, she wrote out a check, breathing a prayer. “Now I’ve done what You said, so You’ll have to take care of my needs.”

With a sense of joy and expectancy, Deborah took the check across the street. Two days later a check for $100 came in the mail. Three days later a woman dropped by her home with a check for $200 — something she had wanted to do for some time, she told Deborah.

“Within 5 days of writing my check, I received from unexpected sources a total of $500,” Deborah says. “I stood in awe of God and His ways.”

Your View of God Really Matters …

Have you discovered the joy of trusting God with your finances? Do you tithe as God commands? Do you ask Him where He wants you to give? Today, give God an opportunity to show you that He is faithful. Trust Him.

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January 31, 2011Finding Justice in Injustice

by Charles R. Swindoll

And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
I thought in my heart,
"God will bring to judgment both the righteous
and the wicked;
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time for every deed."
—Ecclesiastes 3:16–17 NIV

It's not often, Father, that we make such a statement, but today we thank You for the injustices in life that have crippled us and broken us and crushed us. Unfair circumstances have bruised us deeply and beaten us into submission to You. Inequities have brought us to such a dead end that we can't see the way back out. The only direction we can look is up. We often think that our unjust circumstance is what has ruined our lives . . . when instead, it could be the means You have ordained to give us life. Father, if those people we know who have trudged through the valley of the shadow of death were not alive today, walking with You and telling us to keep going, where would we be? How much we need their examples and encouragement! Thank You for each one.

In light of Your sovereign grace, we thank You for blindness, for paralysis, for loss, for death, for broken dreams, for dissolved partnerships, and for disillusionment. In faith, we praise You for times of insecurity, failure, divorce, and even those when others have treated us unjustly. We see the storm, but You enable us to also see beyond the storm, so we trust You to make all things just in Your time. We believe that You sovereignly intend for good what others intentionally mean for evil.

We pray for those facing the frustration of injustice in these and dozens of other categories. We ask that they may be able to find in Jesus Christ the strength to go on . . . especially those who have almost decided to give up. We pray that they will offer everything to You in full surrender. Everything.

In the name of Jesus Christ, the Conqueror. Amen.

See also Genesis 50:20; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 119:71; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 1:3–7.

Excerpted from The Prayers of Charles R. Swindoll, Volume 1, Copyright © 2010 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Asia (MNN) ? A pastor supported by Gospel For Asia was recently threatened by police after praying with a sick woman.

Harish and his wife entered a congregants home to pray with her. She had had a fever for several days, and the pastor had come to pray for healing.

After praying, the couple left the home. On their way back, they were stopped by four drunk men and a local official. The men all threatened Harish for praying with the sick woman, accusing him of enticing people to convert to his religion.

As the situation heated up, a neighbor came out, asking questions. When he discovered why the policeman and other men were yelling at Harish, he joined in the harassment.

Pastor Harish was able to get out of the situation without a beating, but he remains shaken. Harish has been in the village for six years, pastoring a small church of 25, but nevertheless, he is now afraid for his safety. Persecution is frequent in his district, and it seems to be getting worse.

Pastor Harish asks for prayer for safety, but also for transformation. Pray that the Lord would grab a hold of the hearts of the men who have threatened Harish, and bring them to Himself. Pray that Harish would be able to continue on in his ministry unafraid, and that the Kingdom would only grow in his area.

You can encourage a pastor like Harish through GFA’s pastor sponsorship program. Click here to learn more here. Published by permission of Mission Network News.

Tagged with: Asia missions, Christian persecution

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. . . separated to the gospel of God. . . —Romans 1:1

Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to be proclaimers of the gospel of God. The one all-important thing is that the gospel of God should be recognized as the abiding reality. Reality is not human goodness, or holiness, or heaven, or hell— it is redemption. The need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers, we have to get used to the revelation that redemption is the only reality. Personal holiness is an effect of redemption, not the cause of it. If we place our faith in human goodness we will go under when testing comes.

Paul did not say that he separated himself, but “when it pleased God, who separated me . . .” (Galatians 1:15). Paul was not overly interested in his own character. And as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption. Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God. “Don’t ask me to be confronted with the strong reality of redemption on behalf of the filth of human life surrounding me today; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes.” To talk that way is a sign that the reality of the gospel of God has not begun to touch me. There is no reckless abandon to God in that. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose— to proclaim the gospel of God (see Romans 9:3).

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by Angela Walker

One week after the DVD release and its debut on the iTunes store, Like Dandelion Dust (starring Mira Sorvino and Barry Pepper) moved from #70 into the top 20 of all movies sold on through Apple.

“That is impact!” producer Bobby Downes said Saturday night after reviewing the results. “[That's] displacing dark with light!”

The adtoption drama was #18 on the iTunes Top Movie Downloads, #13 on iTunes Top Movie Rentals, and #5 on iTunes Top Drama Movies. “We just rented Like Dandelion Dust because we missed it at the theaters,” Susan reported on Facebook. “I loved it!”

About the film:
Joey lives an idyllic life with his parents on the coast of Florida. His days are spent playing with his cousins, sailing with his dad, and making up stories with his mom.

It’s a perfect life until the day they receive a disturbing phone call: a stranger’s decision could tear Joey away from the comfort and security of the only home he’s ever known.? ?One family is determined to keep the son they love, the other is determined to begin a new life, the life they’ve always dreamed of. Joey’s future rests in their hands and someone must make the bravest decision of their life.

Sometimes the greatest love is letting go…

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