Ephesians 3:20 (MSG) “God can do anything, you know – far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams!”
DAILY READING; Matthew 24:1-31; Numbers 25-27; Song of Solomon 6:4-8:4
Although China is officially an “atheist country”, where Christians often get persecuted, interestingly, it is also the biggest Bible producer in the world.
In 1966, when China’s Cultural Revolution took place, the Bible became banned and Churches were closed.
Life was extremely difficult for Christians during those years. They had to gather, hiding in the mountains and worshipped in secret..
There were no place to purchase the Bible, so they hand-copied it and shared with each other. In that period, many prayed for access to Bibles.
Just reading the Bible became an almost subversive activity. Usually, believers would keep handwritten chapters of the Bible and put them all together when they met, to read the whole book.
After the ban on religious belief was finally lifted in 1978, there was a very high demand for Bibles. In 1986, civic groups Amity Foundation and United Bible Societies (UBS) set up a big Printing Bible factory in Nanjing, China, to meet the huge demand for Bibles among Christians in China.
This Bible factory, named Amity Printing Co. (APC), eventually becoame the biggest Bible factory in the world. Its space is the size of 8 football fields and it has 600 employees who print 70 Bibles per minute. It currently prints Bibles in over 130 languages.
This largest single Bible production base in the world in November 2019, celebrated the milestone of printing 200 million Bibles for believers worldwide.
When the early Chinese Christians who suffered during China’s Cultural Revolution, prayed for access to Bibles, God answered them in a big way. They got a Bible factory that has become the main global supplier of Bibles today. From no supply, they now have excess supply!
Truly we serve the God of overflow and exceeding grace.
He is the God of limitless possibilities. He is the God of more than enough; He has more than enough grace, more than enough power, and more than enough resources to exceed our every expectation.
Anytime the going gets tough, it can be tempting to think things will never get better, but the truth is that we must keep faith alive. Faith puts no limitations on God and God puts no limitations on faith. If we believe it, God can do it.
God’s capacity to do far exceeds our capacity of asking. Whatever we can believe, we can receive from Him. And whatever we can conceive, we can achieve by His grace.
Anything and everything is possible through our faith in God’s divine abilities.
Therefore today, stop looking at insurmountable problems or limitations. Stop looking at the doctor’s report, stop looking at your discouraging bank account. Lift up your eyes and look up to your helper, the Holy Spirit.
He is able to show you the way out of every wilderness into your fruitful land. No matter how hopeless any condition, God can still give you a change of story.
You have potentials for greater victories within you. It is not about you, it is about Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is not about your capability, it is about His ability at work in you. Through prayers, we engage the power of the Holy Spirit to expand our coasts.
Therefore today, do not limit yourself due to present problems or challenges. Do not settle for less than what God has ordained for you. In spite of the setbacks and delays, God will answer your prayers in a big way! Surely, by the power of the Spirit your visions and dreams, will come to pass in surprising ways!
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PRAYER:
Lord, please help me to keep thinking in line with Your Word and to stretch the limits of my faith. I know indeed You can do exceedingly abundantly above all I could ever ask or imagine in this season in Jesus Name.
QUOTE
It takes a heart for God to make a mark in the sands of time. – WORDBITE 201.