About the obedience and the faith- Rota outreach

1. Things that God has worked to me during Rota Outreach.

Hallelujah! I give thanks to the Lord who has done his glorious work through the Rota outreach.
Though the Rota outreach, I had the great times that I was rebuked and healed all my inmost being that did lose heart in faithful of Jesus Christ.

During the Rota outreach, I was taught about the faith and the obedience even though God did firm about it. I have already known about the faith and the obedience but sometimes it’s not easy in my real life as a Christian, even though as a missionary to live by about it.
After came on Saipan then while I studied English, I have often said that God is possible everything but I am not, I don’t study English. My head is not good, it is impossible! My heart was often downed cast; it gave a pain in my heart and my missionary life. But it was actually true for me to I can’t do something and study English.

One day pastor Tony told to me “Can you stop to say ‘difficult’ and ‘but’?” When I’ve heard I was surprised with ashamed heart. As well as he continuous told me “Joy, someday you will be able to say “English was very easy to me” even though you will be able to teach English to someone. Joy, before you study English, you should pray God who giving the wisdom to you in Jesus Christ.” When I heard his advice and encouragement I wanted to say that “You know? I already have prayed God before I studied English but I couldn’t do it and didn’t have any experience.” And it didn’t become to be encouragement for me to the pastor’s encouragement. “Someday, do I say that English very easy? Am I?” I was not able to agree and get to hope about it. After a few days God mead me think about Abraham’s wife Sarah who she laughed when she was listening to the word of God at the entrance to the tent. It just like God told me that you look like Sarah.

Then the Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son… So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?” (Ge 18:10,12)

The faith doesn’t start by me; it only starts by the cross of Jesus. The faith is considered God’s faithful who had made the promise. It need to the patient and wait, I must deny myself and take up his cross but I often moved from God’s faithful.

The obedience is not the perfect but I confused that the obedience have to perfect. I never move (obedience) until my mind is satisfied by myself even though other people is satisfied but while I saw that pastor Tony and Sarita’s life, I learn about the obedience.
They stand firm to obedience only through God’s promise word. It was truly obedience toward God.

The faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Heb 11:1)
Without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb 11:6)
By faith Abraham, even though he was past age- and Sarah herself was barren-was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. (Heb 11:11)

2. My strengths and weakness what I have felt are..
The weather, new situation, meets new people…etc it wasn’t hard for me.
Although I couldn’t speak English well, I could face any situation. I have been hopping to share about my salvation Jesus Christ who he has rescued my soul from the dominion of darkness and the depths of the sad. As well as I have been hopping to be a friend for anybody who they don’t know about Jesus, so I could go near to any situation, any people. I think that it is God’s present for me; it’s my strengths. But also I learned about my strengths is able to become my weaknesses.
Because I discovered that it is able to depend on myself instead of depending on God.
Even I couldn’t be blessed about one body of Jesus Christ that one part is honored; it’s my honored and one part weak, it’s my weak.
When someone who sisters of our team could speak English well even something good well, I couldn’t glad with them even I was passive by myself. It wasn’t faith. All of the times in Rota were just like pass through an X-ray inspection of my faith in Jesus who loved me.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves (2Co 13:5)

3. How can I use this experience to better serve the Nations?
A few days from came back on Saipan, when we met the out-reach team of Japan YM DTS at YM Saipan I felt that it clearly became to be a help for me to speak English more grow up through the Rota out-reach. Because I could talk with them a little bit without afraid, of course my English made a lot of mistakes. But I was able to share with some people about God has done grate thing to my life even my missionary life. Definitely Rota outreach became a seed for my life of faith in various ways. I am marching continually in his greatly love toward the day.