Praise the Lord for all the promises and possibilities we have in and
through Jesus Christ our Lord, in whom all God's promises are
"Yes". We worship and serve the Lord, who is indeed is the God
of Miracles. As you all know I underwent a major surgery on my spine
followed by radiation treatment. My surgery was on the
February 1, 2016, in Boston. Thank you for praying
fervently and faithfully for me. I am doing well. I was back in
Boston a few weeks ago, at which time I had a very good report from the follow
up visit. I praise the Lord. I have been deeply blessed.
I
am back at serving the Lord. This summer a small short-term mission team
consisting of myself, our daughter Laureen, Andy (Sunita's husband),
and their friends Rob and Lee (all from Washington, DC) is going to Orissa,
India. We are departing from the USA on the 27th of June. We have
been invited to conduct a summer camp for youth in Orissa. This camp will
be held in the Kanabageri Church, the church whereThis camp will be held in the
Kanabageri Church, the church where I was nurtured and began to preach and
teach in 1964 at the age of 16. We are expecting several
hundred youth for this camp meeting. We had an amazing meeting and
ministry with many of these young people in April, 2014. We are excited
to be back with them once more. A ministry team,
consisting some of former students, is at work in preparation
for this exciting summer ministry event. We will be providing room
and board for the participants. Please pray for the team, for travel and
for favor with Government officials. Please pray that the Lord would
bless our ministry and will bring forth a great harvest in His time. The
group will be returning back to the States on the July 8. I will be
staying on for a few days extra to visit family and friends. I will be
preaching on the 3rd, 10th and the 17th of July at various churches, twice each
Sunday. I will be visiting the Bishop and the various Christian leaders
in the area. This area suffered severe persecution in 2008,
when over 100 Christians were murdered. 70,000 Christians were made
homeless. The Lord of the church is restoring churches. This is one of
the amazing stories of restoration and revival in modern Church
History. Please continue to pray for the team. Thank you
for your prayerful love and support.
How
beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who
proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to
Zion, "Your God reigns!" Isaiah 52:7
There are some things we will never know during our
lifetimes. We cannot know all the answers to all the conundrums and
enigmas of life. I don’t know why God would withhold the fulfillment
of perfectly noble dreams and ambitions from anyone, but sometimes He
does. There are times when we have to "fly in the dark" on some
things. We are called to live by faith, not by sight. What I do
know is that every moment comes to us pregnant with a divine purpose
that we may not be able to figure out this side of eternity. These
moments are fully understood by a God who transcends time. Furthermore,
we were made for eternity, so we will not understand everything in
our temporal world. Living with unfulfilled expectations is a part of
life. The issue becomes then, am I going to desperately grab for life or
will I humbly allow the Lord, the maker of Heaven and earth and the giver
of life, to bring life to me and fulfill my expectations if that is His
will. God makes life beautiful in His time. Those who
live surrendered to Jesus, the Risen One, according to God’s time
and schedule, will ultimately lead a life of beauty.
Today, let us allow the Lord to begin making something beautiful out of our lives. May we find freedom from life’s expectations and failed expectations. Beauty replaces the beast when life happens in His time. He is the Alpha and the Omega. Though His time not ours, now is always the right time to receive His Son. From there, life begins to get into rhythm with the divine Plan for our lives. We grow up, learning to share, making friends, learning His character and His Truth, values that will guide us into a beautiful life. We enjoy the natural things that God has given us to enjoy, rather than manufacturing a false-sense of joy through the accumulation of things. The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
"He is no Fool who Gives what he Cannot keep to Gain that
which he Cannot L-ose" Jim Ellioot
In Christ,
Brown
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