Infinite King.

Last weekend I had a benefit concert to raise financial support as well as awareness for my mission trip to Thailand this summer. I have such wonderful friends that were so generous to help me out: we had three bands willing to give their time and energy for free, a church let us use their facilities, as well as food and drinks were also donated to sell. The boys from the band handed out sooo many fliers, which we also got to print for free, and there were over 1000 people invited to the event on Facebook. It really looked like it was going to be fun and awesome, as well as raise the support that we needed. The days leading up to the benefit I just prayed and prayed that God would just be glorified and it would go as He has planned. Well, Saturday night comes around and it’s slow at first.. and then a few more people come. Still slow.. to the point of it being kind of awkward because we prepared for a huge crowd. Well, a little over 50 people ended up coming throughout the night, which is not bad and we had fun, but not what I had in mind at all. The whole time I was thinking, “Hey, it’s ok. I’ll just have to set up another fundraiser to figure out how I am going to get the support I need.” I was ok with it. The night came to an end, and we counted what we had raised. I kept counting, and kept counting, and when I finished I had counted $1422.72. Not possible. Recounted, again and again. $1422.72. That can’t be right. I got someone else to count. $1422.72. Are you kidding me? I sat back in amazement, wanting to cry. The whole night I was thinking no more than $300-400 hundred. No more. But over a thousand? That’s just not possible. 53 people, the majority of them being teenagers, and over a thousand dollars were raised? Are you kidding me?

God multiplied the donations. I have no doubt in my mind that His hands were behind this and through this experience, He taught me a lesson I really needed to learn: He is bigger. He’s bigger. The whole night I was looking at numbers and limiting God. I already had in my head that there weren’t enough people there so the night wasn’t going to be a success, but guess what? My God is bigger than numbers, and you know He’s also bigger than statistics. In Asia alone, human trafficking is a 9 billion dollar industry. In Thailand the average age of the victims is 14 years old, and around 25% of the customers are Americans. Around 80,000 women and children have been sold in to the sex slave industry in Thailand alone, not even looking at the bigger picture of the millions sold and traded in the world as a whole. But God is bigger.

Only 0.5% of the Thailand’s population is Christian. And to make it worse, there is absolute religious freedom in the country of Thailand protected by a constitution, yet still 95% of Thai people are devout Buddhists. But God is bigger. And I firmly believe that there is a move of God in store for these Thai people very soon. You see, when God speaks a nation, He intends to fulfill His promise. Number and statistics don’t give Him a boundary, no matter how hard the world tries. From things as small as a benefit concert done for His glory, to the Christianity of the world, the reality is that one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. He is bigger than what we can even imagine, and it just humbles me that such a big God can and will do such a big work through these small hands of mine.

I can’t wait to see what the Lord does in Thailand this summer. Each day it gets closer I just get more and more excited about what God is planning and orchestrating for this beautiful country, despite the number and statistics of this world. I serve an infinite King.

“For nothing is impossible with God.” 

Luke 1:37

-kf.