by Patrick Lai | Jun 21, 2021 | Success
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in the Middle East. Can you imagine this scene: you’re standing in HEAVEN with Jesus. Your heart is pounding with excitement and you feel like it will explode out of your chest with joy. You’ve just been...
by Patrick Lai | May 3, 2021 | Challenges, Excellence, Success
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Have ever felt like Paul in this passage? Disappointments, obstacles, failures, conflicts, struggles...
by Patrick Lai | Oct 5, 2020 | Success
The following is contributed by a B4T worker in India. In Numbers 27:1-11, we are introduced to the 5 daughters of Zelophehad. These sisters are responsible for a historical change in the rules regarding Hebrew inheritance laws in cases where there is no son to carry...
by Patrick Lai | Sep 28, 2020 | B4T, Success
I received this encouraging update from an OPEN worker in the Middle East. Fiza is a long-term employee who became a believer 3 years ago. All names have been changed. “How are you doing?” I asked, feeling a bit guilty because I didn’t know the...
by Patrick Lai | Sep 21, 2020 | Success
The following is contributed by a B4Ter in Central Asia. In Matthew 15:22-28, we read a fascinating story of a Gentile woman who comes to Jesus for healing for her daughter. It appears she thinks she’ll have better success if she tries to pass herself off as a...
by Patrick Lai | Jul 6, 2020 | Discipleship, Success
Many moons ago, I played semi-professional basketball. One practice the other team stole the ball and had a fast break. I was trailing the play and the guy who stole the ball missed the layup, so I leaped to grab the rebound. The guy running alongside me, who was...