As I was reading through Psalms this morning the phrase "With God's help we will do mighty things" caught my attention.   It is, in fact, only with God's help that XMA has done the things we have been able to do over the past few years.   God has lead our volunteers and Ministry Partners to join us in the vision he gave us to take the Gospel to the overlooked people in remote places.  God has overcome the obstacles of no people, no resources and no vision and helped us (all of us together) do mighty things.

The verse continues, "... for he will trample down our foe."  Our foe is Satan and his primary tools are distractions of our everyday life and fear of the unknown.  The "fear factor" has been on my mind a lot the last couple of weeks.  Our first tool in combating our fears is to seek God's help through prayer.  I'm asking you to join me in praying for the Lord to help me and my fellow American Christians overcome our fears.  In order for God to be able to use us to do mighty things we must get past our fear of the unknown, our fear of terrorism and our fear of being out of control of the situation.

Another tool I believe will be effective in overcoming our fears is for us to share our stories of how the Lord has helped us to serve in spite of our fears.  Many times in the Old Testament God told his people to set up altars as reminders of his provision.  When anyone saw these altars they would recall the mighty things God did and be encouraged to continue trusting him. 

Our stories, yours and mine, can be the stones in our modern-day altar of remembrance. Our stories, if we share them, will serve as reminders of great things God has done.  Our stories can encourage others who may be facing the same fears to know that God has overcome these challenges in the past and will do it again if we trust him.

I intend to share some of my stories in this blog and in our newsletter.  I also would like for you to share your stories of overcoming fear and how God used you to help others once you got past the fear factor.  You can post them to this blog or email me directly if you want to talk about them before posting them.

Once again, i encourage you to comment on this posting and anything else that's on your mind. I want to see this become an open forum for all of us to talk about what God is doing in our lives, our hearts,our churches and most of all in our service to him.