Help = Harvest

It's Help time and it's Harvest time!

We praise God for the help that we have been able to provide and continue to provide to flood relief victims in the Philippines! We are grateful that God allowed us to be here and be a part of it. We are equally thankful that the Lord allowed dozens of those overseas who we are connected with to share in this victory by participating in prayer and in the sacrificial giving of precious resources and many are continuing in this effort! Generous donations have come from the USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and even from Indonesia which has also experienced tremendous crisis. The people of God are awesome!

This mission is yet another confirmation that the Harvest comes as the Church Helps people. Not only in times of catastophe but in all seasons. It is true, however that crisis blows open doors that previously were not fully open.

A friend of mine recently sent me a message saying that "just because doors are closed, that does not always mean that they are locked." He challenged my perception with that message and I began to check the closed doors in my life. I am reporting to you that I am amazed at connections, fruitfulness, blessing, increase and opportunity which we have experienced in the last few weeks simply because I believed that word from God through my friend and decided to actually check those doors rather then giving up when I saw a closed door. Thank you Stan! God used you Brother!

Let me encourage you today to not shy away from closed doors using the "open and closed door" scriptures as excuses to be lax or shy. We are surrounded with opportunities and we must lay hold of them. A door which is truly closed is locked. When it won't open, move on. There are plenty of other unlocked and therefore open doors.

One of the outreach efforts that Tabernacle of Faith Churches conducted this week-end was a medical mission on Saturday specifically at the San Juan facility. Hundreds were treated by medical, dental and eye doctors. In the waiting times, every patient was presented with the gospel message and every person was told of the love that we the body of Christ have for them. At the San Juan 8:30am service yesterday, attendance was up and more then 30 people publicly dedicated their lives to Jesus Christ! Awesome!