Lithuania Revisited

I just got off the phone with a woman named Katrin from ERF Germany, TWR Vienna's partner organization. She's doing a special project about the spiritual state of Lithuania and wanted to ask me about my reflections of the country. I felt like I was gushing and gushing information the whole time, but I don't care if I talked her ear off because revisiting Lithuania only reinforced my memories of experiencing the Lord in the new light that I did there.

I never want to forget it. I know that the Lord is at work there and to see it first-hand was the reminder of how sovereign and mighty my God is. Even now, as I sit here and think back over my time in Lithuania, the Lord is showing me things I didn't see before.

I was telling Katrin about the Christians that I met in Vilnius. I could see how they were discouraged, how the enemy was trying every tactic he could to find a way to stop them. The ministry through GNC is powerful and Satan knows that. But I believe that the Lord hand-picked GNC to minister to Lithuania and that surpasses any power held by the enemy.

The Lord has brought GNC so far and used them so greatly, but they've been through the fire during it all. And not just in Lithuania, but all around the world. We have to remember our global family in prayer.

I realize how many resources I have as a Christian living in America. The believers I met in Lithuania have only their personal relationship with the Lord, but it's enough to keep them going. I learned in Lithuania that I rely more on the Christian religion than on my relationship with the Father. He is enough. He is more than enough!

Will you pray with me for GNC? The Lord has used their ministry beyond Lithuania, into Pennsylvania and - I pray - through my life, into the world.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen" (Ephesians 3: 14-21).