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 The life and times of an
ORDINARY Missionary

 My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the
 name of Christ has never been heard, rather than where a church
 has already been started by someone else. I have been following
​ the plan spoken of in the Scriptures, where it says,“Those who have
 never been told about him will see, and those who have never heard
​ of him will understand.”


Romans 15:20,21

God Sees You

1/12/2019

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"Look up and see....For I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you." Genesis 31: 12

God sees.

God sees your pain.  God sees your struggles.  God sees the injustice directed towards you.

God sees.

God saw Jacob.  And Jacob was never alone even in the midst of the injustices.

From the words of Jacob, "I've been with you (Laban--Jacob's father-in-law) these twenty years.  Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.  I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss.  You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.  There I was--the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.  For twenty years in your household I served you--fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks--and you have changed my wages ten times!" Genesis 31:38-42

Talk about injustice-Jacob went through it for twenty years.

But God saw.

"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, HAD NOT BEEN WITH ME, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed.  BUT God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and he issued his verdict last night." Genesis 31:42

God sees you.  In the trenches.  When everything and everyone seems to be against you.  When you do the right thing and consequences are still suffered.  When life hits you hard.....

God sees you.  He sees your affliction.  You are not alone.

What was the "secret"?  I believe we can find a bit of Jacob's life lived out in Psalm 91.  I would encourage you to marinate on all of it, but in Psalm 91:14,15 it says, 

"Because he has his heart set on me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name.  When he calls out to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble.  I will rescue him and give him honor"

Note the words, "I will be with him in trouble."  In this life, we can't escape the sin of this world or the ill-intentions of others, but He will be with us and He is with you.

Look up and know that GOD SEES YOU!
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    Mike serves as Lead Missionary of Church Inside Out and Executive Director of Mobile Missions Network whose aim is to take the church to people.

    Mike and Sarah have been married for 25 years and have 6 kids and one son-in-law: Hannah and Kendall, Noah, Grace, Elijah, Judah and Mercy.

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