This is the title of the movie that has made a huge impact in my heart just recently. It talks about the faith of Angus, a farmer who just got saved and is stirred of the reality of a powerful God. He has witnessed many answers to his prayers and thus persuaded him to believe that God is a God who can do wonders. They were suffering from El Nino at that time and he challenged the people to look up to God and trust Him to save them from devastating effect of El Nino. He showed his faith by purchasing tons of potatoes and planting them in his field under the scathing heat of the sun. And lo, and behold, after 4 months, he harvested tons of healthy potatoes to the amazement of many.
Potatoes do grow unseen and unknown in the outside. Unnoticed, unapplauded but the result is there – the crop is growing underneath the barren field. Harvest is certain!
I then told myself, “Jonah, in your service for the Lord, how much applause have you received? How much works have you done that is seen and known and observed by others? How willing are you to work faithfully unnoticed and unapplauded until the fruits reveal the depth of God’s power in and through your life?”
Potatoes do grow unseen and unknown in the outside. Unnoticed, unapplauded but the result is there – the crop is growing underneath the barren field. Harvest is certain!
I then told myself, “Jonah, in your service for the Lord, how much applause have you received? How much works have you done that is seen and known and observed by others? How willing are you to work faithfully unnoticed and unapplauded until the fruits reveal the depth of God’s power in and through your life?”
As the work of the Lord here in Cebu Province is progressing, by His grace, those questions ring in my heart and mind louder than ever. I became more and more desirous to honestly say with John de Baptist, “I must decrease and He must increase.”Oh! My dear friends, I confess, it is not that quick and easy process of actually living the life of total yieldedness and surrender to God and until now I am yet away to the utmost reality. But I praise the God of all grace for the patience and long-suffering to work in me. He is nailing that everyday in my heart.
As the team Cebu is keeping on for the harvest for this semester, qualitatively and quantitatively, that reveals the work of the Mighty One, we painfully desire to have a changing touch from Him that will bring us to the point of nothingness and dependence on Him alone.
We are seeing you in prayers and desiring that through all of us, God would do wonders that He alone can do. Amen.
Please pray with us as we do some arrangements and changes in our local organizational set up.
Please pray for wisdom and discernments, leading and guidance and preservation of lives and testimonies.
Please pray for provision of needs financially.
After begging Him for a year or more to save my family members too, God is now starting His work of saving them. Last October 14, 2009, He saved my third earthly parents. I considered them third parents because they are the parents of the one who took me from my real parents and called me their own :) (Quite confusing huh? But that’s the way God led my life.)