@sinbach
Pay heed America; this is not as far away from us as we think. Consider now how you will handle such things so that you can finish your race without dishonoring your Savior.
@bethany I believe so too. It kind of felt ordained from the beginning, but I didnt know if that was REALLY ordination or excitement. To be completely honest with you, in the beginning stages I kind of felt "THIS IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN." I really felt that her and I didn't click. She was very guarded and I was a stranger. She also has so many people wanting to write her story and I felt insecure with her asking me. But I dared myself to take each step with a feeling in the back of my mind that it was going to stop for one reason or another. Do you know we JUST signed the contract yesterday? that is how much doubt I had that we would actually do this. We have been working on this for a couple of months, but it was only made official yesterday and now it feels more real than ever. So many things have been clicking into place in the last week that has made me also say "this is ordained by God."
@sinbach I kind of feel like when there's a thousand reasons something shouldn't work out, and it STILL does... it has to be God. I can't wait to read it once it's finished. You got this 😁🙏🏼
A Chinese Christian leader recently told his congregation:
“Of course the government is watching you, and even listening to you in your own home! So make sure that what they are seeing is a true disciple of Christ!”
This is the attitude to take. We are not backing down. We are fully trusting in God’s sovereignty over what they do or don’t do to us. We are in the hands of the risen Jesus and He will never leave us nor forsake us.
Be bold.
Amazing testimonies from inside of China!
“We are seeing so many people come to Christ. I have been calling the church leaders and begging them for more workers."
Dear prayer warriors, please continue to pray for my daughter's healing and for wisdom and God's direction for my husband and I as we seek where to get the care that will be best for her. We've been praying for a healing miracle and will plan to continue to do so. God is more than able. We need Him desperately.
Dear DingDash family, please keep us in your prayers today. I am here in the US writing Meriam Ibrahim's story. Not an easy story. Yesterday was filled with emotion and tears as Meriam talked about being born in a refugee camp, her father brutally murdering her aunt for an honor killing, her mother being tied up for two days and raped, and her running away and hiding to escape circumcision - only to be forcefully dragged back to the village and the Muslim elders publicly witnessing her genital mutilation - and this was all before she was even 7 years old!
We can use all the prayers we can get for this project.
@bethany
On a side note, I will say that these BTJ articles are among the most interesting content on DingDash. Thanks for posting them as I forget to go to the site regularly.
Father, You’ve put on my heart over this last week to intercede for every member of this group, as well as those needs which You have placed in their heart. I ask You, Father, to keep Your wall built around each person; that no areas of the wall will become weakened by fatigue, discouragement, anxiety, or even satanic attack. May this group be strong in the Lord, trusting You in all things and at all times. May we go about the Father’s business with expectation of joy in what doors You will open for us. May we join together in love for You, Abba, and in love for each other. May You anoint each person within this group with a burning desire to share the gospel, to heal the sick, to make disciples! May we be obedient to every command You instruct us to do. May we not grow weary in doing good and allow Your joy to be our strength. Father, it is a privilege to link arms with my fellow brothers and sisters on this site. Bless each one. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
Are we witnessing the end of the digital age for the church in China?
https://backtojerusalem.com/the-end-of-the-digital-age-for-the-chinese-church/
@sinbach And this, of course, is what they are planning for us here, too.
These laws are becoming increasingly common in the west - and they are a direct threat to missions.
https://backtojerusalem.com/new-french-law-targets-christian-missions-and-likely-to-prompt-other-nations-to-do-the-same/
A BIG FAT THANK YOU to all of you guys that have been praying for our work in China. We've had some major miracles happen and KNOW that it's the direct result of your prayers!
https://backtojerusalem.com/back-in-business-an-answer-to-prayer-in-china/
@MaineStreams
Kinda makes all those old predictions of what couldn't be done look like jealousy and condescension. I'm glad they went anyway.
The Chinese vision to send out 100,000 missionaries from China into the unreached nations between China and Jerusalem was not well accepted by many western Christian observers in the early 2000s.
From their armchair perches of plush Western headquarters, “mission experts” dismantled the Chinese notion.
Yet God used His Church in China to prove all of the mission experts wrong.
China went from having no known missionaries in the area between China and Jerusalem to having the most missionaries in less than two decades.
So now, what can God do through YOU and your "foolish", "crazy" vision??
Read more:
https://backtojerusalem.com/meet-cory-one-of-chinas-first-back-to-jerusalem-missionaries/