With God ALL Things Are Possible

Many of you probably have seen on CNN about the political issues in Thailand right now. Yes, the “red shirts” do not like the way the government is doing things and to make this part short, they are gathering in Bangkok and Chiang Mai to protest. This is causing lots of roads in the city to be backed up. The morning that our first youth conference was going to begin, we found out that the government put into order that “no groups over five people can gather at one time.” They did this in hopes that the red shirts would disperse.

Originally we had 500 youth planning to attend the first conference and about 800 youth planning to attend the second one. So as a group we prayed. We obviously had to obey the law and did not know what was going to happen. =) Pastor Boonchu met with the government near by and was given the “OK” to have 100 youth come to the first conference. So he and another couple men spread the word to the neighboring villages to send their youth leaders to the conference and then have those individuals go back and repeat the conference material with the youth of their villages. This worked for some but, still some youth had already been traveling all day to get to the conference and did not know about the orders the government had put in place. So, we had many more people come that allowed. When the number went past 100 people, the government officials there said that no more can come. Pastor Boonchu said that that was fine. But, He paid for them to get to the conference and he didn’t have the money to send them back separately. The government officials than said, “Neither do we.” So, all the youth were able to stay and it was so neat to see how God is above all things in such a big way. As I stated in the previous post about 250 youth still came to the first conference.

After the First conference, we were not sure if we would be allowed to do the second conference. Obviously praying for God’s will, Pastor Boonchu went to meet with the officials…and praise the Lord…Everything was cleared and we were able to have the second conference!!!

I am in Awe of the Lord. This just shows that we can trust God. His hand is in all things. And if HE WANTS something to happen….IT does NOT matter what is going on in the world, He WILL make it happen. If He doesn’t, then there is a reason and we are glad that God knows that reason and we do not have to fret about it…but thank Him for having better understanding than yourself =)