Believing and Sharing

Jack’s Review of the Week:

Jack listening as a student shares
of what he is learning.

There are few things in my life that exhaust me like teaching. There are few things in life that thrill, energize, fulfill and give purpose to me like teaching! I love it! When a student grows I know that he will help others grow. It must be the farmer in me that loves to see students grow in knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The best encouragement I receive is every time I teach, I learn, I grow, and I understand more! (Shared half-way through the third week of teaching a Survey of the Old Testament to the students at the Kenya Baptist Theological College.)

Jack’s Prayer Requests:
“More hours in the day!” This is the same prayer request he shared last week which I (Bert) forgot to add! Yes, this is impossible, but keeping up with all that God is doing at KBTC leaves Jack in great need of wisdom and physical, mental and spiritual strength.

Viewed yesterday as we returned home from campus -
Bible verses about donkeys are fully understood in East Africa!

Bert’s Review of the Week:
God has really been working on me in recent days about my part in reaching our world with His Good News. I’ve been sharing of this in my daily Devotional/ On Mission posts on FB, which can be viewed by all by clicking the Bits of Our Hearts tab at the top of this page. Here is a bit of what I shared today:

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This sunbird and other birds spotted this week
in our yard truly show God's creativity!

What must be done for all peoples in our world to be reached with this incredible Good News? Believers… must so fully share Peter’s and John’s passion and conviction of the truths of God’s Words that I/we “cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). I/we must truly want everyone to know of our God who “sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him” (1 John 4:9).

I/we must want all to know, “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10)… our Savior’s words in Luke 10:2 is truer today than ever! “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few,” too few! More workers must be at work in His harvest field telling “the 2.8 billion people without access to the Gospel”* that “Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:30-31).

The truth is that the day when all peoples in our world will hear and have an opportunity to believe that “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” WILL NOT COME until this is the heart cry of more committed Believers who are ready to get to work telling all they meet and can meet of “what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20)!

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Will you join Jack and me in praying that we will always be focused upon sharing our Good News? Pray that as Jack guides and teaches at KBTC and as I share via Social Media that we will strengthen and encourage other Believers (Acts 14:22) to do the same. Our praise is for you and how your prayers, giving and coming as/ sending workers allows us and others to be at work in our Father’s Harvest Field. BERT YATES

* LIMITLESS- David Platt - https://vimeo.com/174126169

Limitless from IMB on Vimeo.