Sick...

"...When you are brought face to face with a difficult situation and nothing happens externally, you can still know that freedom and release will be given because of your continued concentration on Jesus Christ. Your duty in service and ministry is to see that there is nothing between Jesus and yourself. Is there anything between you and Jesus even now? If there is, you must get through it, not by ignoring it as an irritation, or by going up and over it, but by facing it and getting through it into the presence of Jesus Christ. Then that very problem itself, and all that you have been through in connection with it, will glorify Jesus Christ in a way that you will never know until you see Him face to face." (October 3rd entry, My Utmost for His Highest)

It's so easy to lose focus... and when we get distracted and lose focus, when we give our attention to anything other Christ... we lose Power.

This whole week I have been sick, I don't know with what but I have been coming down with fever, chills, body ache, etc. feeling powerless. wanting nothing more than to just crawl into bed after work.

In today's article from 'My Utmost for His Highest', it talks about concentrating on Christ and overcoming whatever that gets in between you and this task. Mark 28,29 describes a scene with Jesus and His disciples. His disciples could not cast out a demon and they asked why this was so.

...And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer." (Mark 9:28,29 ESV)

Constant prayer and connection is necessary for power, power to cast out certain type of demons and power to have faith and peace. It's such a delicate thing... it's delicate because we are weak. I am weak.

Please pray for me, the seminarians, Missionary Choi, Missionary Yang, Tanzania, and Africa. Thank you