Thoughts for the day

Revelation7:9                                                                                                                                       

 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
 
 
 

The answer to spread the Gospel lies in India's future it's children.  They have very beautiful child.  These are children from a Christian School in the city and these children are from the slums pictured below.  Many of the parents of these lovely children  are drunks, drug addicts, or prostitutes.  These children were offered the chance of a life time to attend an English school that is Christian and for free. Not all education is free in other countries, so often the ability to succeed and be educated is based on the success of one's family.  The cycle is being broken, slowly but surely.   From the ashes the leaders and life changers will rise up.  The children in the pictures did not crowd in for the pictures, this is how close and crowded the classes are.   We are talking 100 degrees or more with no air conditioning.   We need to appreciate all that we have and take for granted on a daily basis.                                                                                                                                          

My heart is still grieved from our recent trip to India.  There are so many people and they are so isolated in the countryside.  Imagine stepping back in time by 100 years.  I think of the pioneers here in America and how everything was done by hand.  The farming all done by hand, the harvest done by hand, carrying water in jugs, no electricity, no plumbing, no running water, no cars, no refrigerator.  Need milk, just go milk the buffalo and drink as much as you can before it sours in the heat.  Sour buffalo milk cannot even have the taste masked in tea.  How do we effectively spread the healing words of the Gospel when we can't even get to the people.  Then we throw in all the obvious barriers language, culture, lack of trust between cultures, lack of technology,the written Word, and literacy.  The answer is raising up local believers to spread the Word.  We in the white world are not the answer, but hopefully our resources can help across the world.  We can petition our Lord in heaven on behalf of our brothers and sisters in India.  We know the God hears our prayers and we need to keep petition on their behalf until we no longer have breadth of life.  We cannot forget them.

1.Revelation 5:8


And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.