by Mark Huey
The other day after exchanging a series of e-mails, I spent about three hours on the phone with a brother from Germany who has had an extraordinary life serving our Risen Savior. Among many of the things we discussed, I was most struck by one written and verbalized statement that I believe launched him years ago into productive service for the Holy One of Israel. Rather than try to rephrase his words, the following is a quote from one of his e-mails that describes his transition from a translating teacher/missionary in Mongolia to a Messianic Believer:
About six or seven years ago, we as a family began to study the scriptures… A messianic Jewish brother from Vienna was instrumental in helping us to gain understanding in the related prophecies and scriptures in both, the NT and OT. The Ruach led us to…live according to scripture. So we started to celebrate Shabbat and the Biblical feasts. Having lived several years in Mongolia proper, we had no problem to completely cancel pork and the unclean seafood from our diet. In Mongolia there is hardly any pork as these species would freeze to death at winterly (sic) temps down to -40°, they traditionally eat mutton and beef and as no ocean is close, there is no seafood at all.
When we related our views to Christians here at that time, our support for the translation works and some of the acts of mercy (aid goods for the poorest in Mongolia) broke down and soon came to a halt. So we became humbled, went deeper into prayer and confession of our wrong ways before Abba and I asked [that] He [grant] me to do what He had in mind with me before creation – that I would be able to be refined to His will, not mine… Consequently, we went out of the church and engaged in a free evangelistic church nearby.
As you can read, my new friend and his family suffered from the “revelation” they received about the restoration of Israel and their decision to pursue a Messianic lifestyle. As his fruitful ministry in Mongolia began to change, his family turned to the Father with prayer and confession, imploring and petitioning the Creator to use him (and his family) for exactly what he and they had been created to do. When I read this and later heard it verbalized on the phone, I was overwhelmed by the profundity of such a simple prayer! The more I thought about this and shared it with others who confirmed the power of such a request, I was prompted to write to all that might read this posting a series of questions, comments, and suggestions for your consideration:
1. Do you believe in God?
2. Do you believe that God created you?
3. If so, then why don’t you ask God to do with and through you everything He has created you to do, be, and become?
4. That God is sovereign, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent is a given.
5. Therefore, all that has happened to you up to this point in time is by His design.
6. Let those experiences, tests, trials, and disappointments be assets rather than liabilities for your service unto Him.
7. Rest in Him, be patient, wait upon Him, and in His time perhaps you will not only know why, but for what purposes the Father has created you.
8. Finally, let Him do whatever He desires to do through you, as you yield to His will.
Until the restoration of all things!
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