Thursday, November 12, 2009

Global Missions Medical Conference - Day 1

We are on site at the Global Missions Medical Conference today in Louisville, KY. We left this morning at 7am and drove here arriving about 3pm EST. Yes we crossed the time somewhere between there and here. Not sure where but we lost an hour coming up here. We will look for it on the way back. I'm sure we will find it. How hard is it to loose a whole hour?

OK. So we get here and there is discussion about what sessions we are goiong to go to. There is one session today then supper and a main session with a speaker. The session I went to was hard. The speaker was ok but I think I could have gain alot more if I had just had the printout of her presentation. There were others there that got alot out of it. There are many more people here who are in the medical profession and are interested in hearing about the medical side of missions.

I am feeling a little out of my element since I am tecnologically and business minded in matters. I am going to look for sessions tomorrow that address that more if possible. I saw the vendors briefly and we talked with some who could provide an unlimited supply of medical provisions for $50 as they are available. Others who have medical provisions for free. We just have to pick them up. Would you believe it. There was a Methodist minister from Selmer there who was now on stall with one of the medical mission companies out of Memphis who knows who we are.

What is even more amazing (God is soooo amazing) is that the main speaker for the night is also from Memphis, a doctor named Chuck and has house churches there (about 4-6). He talked strongly about the requirement for missions being, hold on, don't get impatient, wait for the tone, a sold out, un-Americanized christian who is sold out to God as a real living disciple.  One who has given up everything. How much? Everything for God. No reputation, no owning anything, just 100 percent disciple of God. Ready to go where God wants you to go, giving up the easy life and working your guts out for a relationship with God that is exemplary of Gods love and commitment to us. No phoneys allowed. Nothing but Jesus. We are looking him up tomorrow to talk about us getting together. We would like to know this person better.

We could hardly believe our ears. We came all the way from Selmer to hear this man from Memphis who believes the same as we do about Luke and Acts, living for God and giving up your life as a disciple of Christ. God is so awesome! He wanted us to know that He did this for us. Not our work or doing. His doing. What other wondrous things does he have in store for us? We will see as we continue to day two of the conference.

We are also looking forward to meeting Steve James from Alabama, who has the Kenyan Relief organization and whom we talked to a few weeks ago when Amma was around. I am especially interested in discussing some thoughts about fund raising and finding partners to stand with us in Africa.

 It's exciting to think that God is just waiting for us to discover these loving things he has set aside for us to see and touch. He is so good to us. Such an awesome God.

I read in Oswald Chambers today about the changed life. The verse he referenced was: "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" —2 Corinthians 5:17
He says if you have experienced the salvation of God: "You no longer look at things in the same way. Your desires are new and the old things have lost their power to attract you. One of the tests for determining if the work of salvation in your life is genuine is— has God changed the things that really matter to you?" He says that if you have truley been born again that you will exhibit the new nature and not be going back to the old things and ways but giving your life over to the Master to reconstruct your life as He sees fit. It will be a life od no regrets and wonderful expectation of the work of God in you.

So true. I have experienced that dismissal of the old things and the refreshing life of God being poured out upon me daily so that I can sing and be filled with the joy of the Lord. No guilt or condemnation because of things that are being held on to. All is for God and He give his all in return. Think about it. We know we are a new creation because the old things have lost the desire and flavor. The new life holds all the desires of our heart and God is the recipient of our love and admiration. Does that tell you something? It should tell us we are born again. I should tell us he has saved us out of our old dead lives and placed us into a new life with him. Does it look like that for you?

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