Imagination-Overload

"I will also make You a light to the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth." -Isaiah 49:6

I'm dreaming today about Asia.. Thailand, South China.. Guilin, Nanning, Beihai, Bangkok.

The challenge of changing and revolutionizing a Buddhist country for God can only come about through servants and believers who are willing to lay aside their own understandings and zones of comfort in order to embrace the harvest and all it entails. Holding both of these ideas at the same time will only bring conflict and an apathetic or lukewarm lifestyle. Choosing the harvest however will ultimately lead us to a Kingdom that is so bountifully and vastly overflowing with the goodness of God that we could never miss what we thought we’d be obtaining through the pursuit of our own comforts and safeties in the first place. Our partnership with Him in the journey is the reason we live. God is calling you to be His fellow comrade, to co-labor with Him all around the world.

You see, God is the creator of everything.. His kingdom on earth is crying out for creativity. Creative minds, creative ways of doing marketplace ministry on every level.. small-scale, large-scale, local and international. One of my amazing friends Kristin is leaving in a few days to study abroad for business in Cyprus, Greece, India, China.. she is a marketing ambassador for America but above all, for Jesus. It's remarkable to me when I think of how many people she will touch with the sweet love of Christ, how many doors she will be able to walk through, that no one else could attain, simply because she was willing to work hard and take a chance on something that's bigger than herself. God's blessing, favor, grace and kiss is attracted to our willingness to step out on a limb with Him.

We must also be creating things with our prayers.. that's faith!

Get creative and use the Bible for your inspiration. I looove the Bible! The Word of God has no limits. It can be taken anywhere freely without bonds of religion and handcuffs of pagan worship. It is powerful. It saves. It restores people from their paths to eternity in hell and sends them on their way to heaven. The Word speaks everywhere. You can’t get away from it. It only takes one brief moment to divide the soul and the spirit, to call our humanity into divine freedom in a supernatural world.

Even when in the borders of communism and illegalities, the Word prevails. The Gospel can lead one homeless person to salvation in Bangkok while at the exact same moment bring 100 people to Jesus at your home church in America. The Word is international, bilingual, generational, irresistible and intense!!

God promises in Psalms that He will "beautify the afflicted ones with salvation!" Pray today for the people of Asia. Pray that they will hear and understand. Pray that they will be filled with Holy Spirit. Pray that they will have personal encounters with the King of the universe.. encounters that leave them ruined for anything else.. convinced, passionate and desperate for the Kingdom of God. Pray for the homeless, the rich, the business men, people in authority.. and then ask. Ask God to give you personal imagination-overload! Ask Him for creative ways to sneak into intellectual and fogged minds with the Gospel. Wow God! Thank you for what you're doing and planning in Asia!

Photos from some of my trips to China and Thailand..