March
27th 2012
Dear
Friends praying for Japan,
Here is
more good news from Japan.
We are
starting to hear more and more reports from Tohoku, the area the hardest hit by
last year's tsunami, such as the testimonies below.
The Lord
of the Harvest is working.
The need
for workers is also great.
Please
rejoice with us for what the Lord is starting to do in Japan, and also intercede
for the salvation of the Japanese people.
God
Bless You.
CFNJ
Bible School
Gerald
Goodall
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"God is
Moving Mightily in Japan!" by David Lim
For
many years, we have prayed for Japan and generations have worked to bring good
news to this the largest people group of the Buddhist world. Now, a new day is
dawning! New Christians are coming into the Kingdom so quickly that mature
Christians cannot cope! God is answering the prayers from the past many years
for the Japanese people. God is working as never before and such things have
never before been seen!
Non-believers are experiencing Jesus in amazing ways. One fisherman who was not
a believer said everything stopped when the tsunami happened. He was desolate
until a Christian came to help him. When he asked why, the Christian told him
that he had a relationship with the Creator God, and Creator God talks to him,
and he talks to Creator God. Even though "God is high and lofty" and he is "only
a lowly person", God made a way for him to talk through Jesus. The fisherman
said that when the Christian came everything started moving
again.
The
area the hardest hit by last year's tsunami was the least-churched area in all
Japan. The people there lost everything. They are so open, and God is appearing
to them in dreams and visions. One lady in temporary housing said "Jesus came to
me"--she talked about it as if it was a neighbor who came over to visit, very
matter of fact. “Now there is a clean river flowing for you”, Jesus told her.
“The things you lost don't matter anymore.”
One
man told of being swallowed by the tsunami and then showed a necklace with a
cross explaining that God pulled him out of the waters and saved him. This is
very unusual since Japanese people do not wear cross necklaces (and don't
usually talk in this manner). Another man approached a pastor and said he liked
what the pastor had been sharing- and that he really liked the bright white
cross standing behind the pastor. The pastor replied that there was no cross
behind him. The man said, “Yes, there is. See right here.” He reached back to
touch it but nothing was there.
This
northeast portion of Japan has had many problems in the past including the
exodus of many young people. But now God is restoring these cities. The fields
are truly ripe for harvest in Japan! Please join us in prayer for God’s
continued! work there and for the Lord to raise up more teams to join Him in the
harvest!
David Lim is
the president of Asian School for Development and cross-cultural Studies
(ASDECS) and lives in the Philippines.
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Tohoku
Celebration of Hope, with Franklin Graham. March 2012
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