Have you ever complained about your situation?
I know I have. As you know, recently we moved from the United States to here. We had to go through a lot and in the process I can tell you we did a lot of complaining! I wont lie to you. It was hard to leave our home to go to the unknown. Even though we were working in ministry for six years, at some point we had sank into our confort zone, at the beginning had a hard time adjusting to not having our own place. It was hard to be moving to different houses. It was hard having my children sick. It was hard living far from the city and having to depend on people to take us to buy our needs … well, I could go on and on with what was hard. But when you compare your situation with others maybe your situation doesn't seem as bad or hard as you thought.
I had being praying to God about to show me a way to help my children get involved in ministry.
I really want them to learn to share, to help, to share the Jesus to those in need. That weekend God answered to me. One of the sisters from Pedro Lorenzo’s church has a small group of children from her neighborhood. Every Friday night about 20 children go to her house watch bible stories movies and for a snack. Three Fridays ago she sent me a message telling me that the father of one the children had come and gotten his three little girls out of her house. He was hitting his poor daughter as if they had done something wrong. Sister Yolanda told me that they lived across the street from her and she could hear the girls and their mom screaming. It sounded as if he was braking up the walls of his house and everything in it. He was drunk. Apparently for a while he was gone. He had leave his wife to go with another woman but had come back because the other woman left him. It broke my heart as she told me all this. We started to pray for them in every prayer we had.
The next Sabbath I went to church and for the first time the lady and the three girls went to church. After church we took them home and got to see where she lives.
I really felt ungrateful, un deserving of Gods mercies. As I looked to her house I though of my situation and thought that my problems weren't really all that big compared to hers. Her little shack which she shared with her mother and an uncle had not even running water or electricity.
How miserable I felt. And I had complained to God about our situation. It was eye opening moment. Definitely God had gotten us out of our confort zone to show us how fortunate we are to have Him about all things and to show us how blessed we are. We plan to continue visiting this family and helping them in whatever they need. We pray for them that they can surrender their hearts to the Lord. The Three girls go to church now. The mother has only gone one time only but we hope and pray that the Lord may work in her heart and the husbands heart as well.
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| The Shack The youngest girl from this family |
Just like this family living in a shack made of clay and bamboo, there are thousands of families not only here in Bolivia but in the whole world needing a helping hand. Needing to know Jesus. Needing the love of our savior. We are the ones to show them the way to him. Are we going to leave our confort zone to do our job? or are we to sit back and relax while the the earth, the sky, the sea gives us signs that Jesus is coming soon.
The Enemy is working as never before to destroy this world. Are we working as hard as he is for Jesus.
Mathew 25:45"Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46"These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
I want to use this opportunity to help this family, to help my children understand the need and what our duty as disciple of Jesus is. Next time I want complain about something, I will look very closely to my surrounding, I will look at my children and give them the right example of action. I will thank God for what he has given us. Will you do the same?
Needs:
Would you like to help this family get electricity and water? Aren't you glad that you don't have to travel far to get water in a bucket to drink, to wash your cloths, or to wash your hands? Do you have electricity? This family uses candles at night!
Your prayers are very importan and your monetary help too. If God puts in your heart to help them please let us know by email your donation will go fully to help this family.
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Sabbath School Lesson:
So who of you studied the last sabbath school lesson? Well, for last quarter ,the theme was about missions and missionaries! By the way it was very interesting you probably already know it, so I won't go into detail. Someone asked me to do a video about the people groups who have not yet been reached by the gospel. We think Jesus is coming soon, but the statistics and reality shows us that there are still a lot of people waiting to hear who Jesus is!
I hope you like it and share it with other people! Make them aware of the need for people to give their lives to spreading the gospel in these remote areas!
Click below to watch it.
The unreached or Los NO Alcanzados
Let me know what you think!
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Maranatha Jesus is coming soon!
The Jaen Family
