Even When I Don’t See It You’re Working

Fresno Bible Church team finished up their time in Abaco and reflected on how God was at work the whole time.

 

Read past blogs from the Fresno team or past groups at Team Updates – Many Hands IMPACT

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We love Many Hands so much!  We were excited to go back to Haiti this summer but obviously that was not an option. So God, what are you doing?  What do we do now?  TRUST…

Before we even left on our trip to Abaco we experienced a lot of opposition.  But God worked it all out because He wanted everyone of our team present to do His work in and through us.  In 20 years of leading teams on missions trips we have never missed a flight or lost luggage, until this trip.  9 of us went to Abaco while 5 of us scrambled to catch another flight to Nassau.  They actually held the plane for us in Nassau and we were able to rejoin our group just hours later.  MY (God’s) PROVISIONS…

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Pastor Shawn Robins said to me later in the trip, “If Satan is opposing you then you are exactly where you need to be”!  Every day we experienced God doing something powerful in each of us.  God is sustaining us and providing life, life to the full.  I am so grateful for God working despite my unbelief, my failures and my shortcomings. 

 

 

You don’t have to come to Abaco for God to work in your life.  But if you do come, and allow Him to work, He has great things in store FOR YOU…

 

 

“TRUST MY PROVISIONS FOR YOU!”

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