Open My Eyes

Hello all.

The past few days have been filled with meetings. This has been very interesting work, and amazing opportunity. Some doors were closed, some doors were opened, and one hangs on for a response. The work is not detailable now.

Please pray for God’s immediate vision to be realized by the team. Please pray that God’s longer term vision is realized by the team. Everyone seems tired. Please pray for strength and mental and (especially) spiritual acuity. Wednesday (July 17) we leave at 5:30 AM to travel to Al Fashir. We have been approved by the local agency to go. Thank you for your prayers in this. Please pray for the planned meetings and the unplanned meetings, that we would be uniquely prepared by Our Creator, Re-Creator, and Perfector to be, speak, love, pray, as He calls us. We will need your prayers for God’s gift of peace and faith, as this is a place that is not on the world’s top ten list, but it would be on God’s for caring for the lost. The Lord has told me that I will not be eating for the next few days, so if any will join me in this fast…Amen.

This morning the Lord gave me Mark 4: 24-25: “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you – and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.” This verse is popular among people preaching prosperity theology, but the context of chapter four is not about money or worldly desire at all, it is about being a light and sowing the gospel. Think about it again….With the measure you share the gospel, with the measure you shine, this work of God will bear a harvest, a light…even more than what you expect. Whoever shares and shines will be given more of such spiritual blessing. Whoever does not…the light and the gospel will be taken from him.

There is a similar teaching in Matthew 25:14-30 regarding the investments of the stewards on behalf of the master, each given an amount according to his ability. Those that applied their spiritual ability were rewarded, and the servant that did not use the talent, given to be applied, received no reward and lost what he was given.

May we be lights to all around us. May we be sowers of the seed and given over to God for His use, such that we shine.

Love to You All,
Todd