God's Timing
It's always neat to see how God's timing is always better than ours! I fırst saw this on a tiny scale by the fact that the conference in Turkey was actually a much-less demanding schedule than the track Chris & I have both been on at home for the past several weeks, so other than jet lag, we both had a chance this week to catch our breath & get ready for the next flurry of activity once we return to Chicago.
On a much more important scale, though, was seeing how God orchestrated events for the Turkish church. As I've mentioned before, we felt so inadequate to address the deep hurt & rejection the believers here are dealing with, particularly in the aftermath of the Malatya murders earlier this year. However, the main speaker for this conf. (Chris & I taught sessions for women & men during the day) was Dr. Leslie Keegel, the head of the Foursquare denomination in Sri Lanka, and a wonderful man of God whom we were privileged to meet here.
Since the Church in Sri Lanka has undergone persecution on even a more severe scale than the Church in Turkey, he was able to speak to these precious believers from experience and with authority, getting right to the heart of what they needed to hear!
Want to know what's really neat about that? Pastor Ihsan told us this morning enroute to our flight to Ankara where we will minister in his Sunday service tomorrow that he had actually invited Dr. Leslie on several previous occasions, but he was never able to get it on his schedule, until this conf. - just a few months after the most difficult crisis the Turkish Church has ever experienced. In fact, Ihsan said had Leslie come any earlier, his ministry would not have had impact like this at all! How good God is, to come through with exactly what we need, at precisely the time we need it!
Have you ever experienced something similar, when God's timing was unmistakeable? Please share it with us here - I'd love to hear your stories of God's timing.
On a much more important scale, though, was seeing how God orchestrated events for the Turkish church. As I've mentioned before, we felt so inadequate to address the deep hurt & rejection the believers here are dealing with, particularly in the aftermath of the Malatya murders earlier this year. However, the main speaker for this conf. (Chris & I taught sessions for women & men during the day) was Dr. Leslie Keegel, the head of the Foursquare denomination in Sri Lanka, and a wonderful man of God whom we were privileged to meet here.
Since the Church in Sri Lanka has undergone persecution on even a more severe scale than the Church in Turkey, he was able to speak to these precious believers from experience and with authority, getting right to the heart of what they needed to hear!
Want to know what's really neat about that? Pastor Ihsan told us this morning enroute to our flight to Ankara where we will minister in his Sunday service tomorrow that he had actually invited Dr. Leslie on several previous occasions, but he was never able to get it on his schedule, until this conf. - just a few months after the most difficult crisis the Turkish Church has ever experienced. In fact, Ihsan said had Leslie come any earlier, his ministry would not have had impact like this at all! How good God is, to come through with exactly what we need, at precisely the time we need it!
Have you ever experienced something similar, when God's timing was unmistakeable? Please share it with us here - I'd love to hear your stories of God's timing.
posted by Pastor Jerry McQuay at 9:23 AM
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On my last job, I'd been demoted for no legitimate reason. I was in charge of "supervising" a team of specialists, but recent events led to the promotion of one of the specialists over me. She was determined that when time came for her to evaluate my work performance, she was gonna sock it to me good. Before she had the chance, a job offer came through and I was able to leave an organization that seemed to be following the devil's handbook. I'd applied for the new job a year prior. God came through, and I've been reminded more and more as of late, that He's been coming through for me in ways I can't even count for longer than I can remember.
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