Conferences, KFCs, and Revolutions

It has been almost a month now since the end of EuroCon. And we were just so built up by the messages and fellowship. It was such an awesome time for the Romanian church. There were over 60 people there from Romania! God spoke to us greatly during this time, imparting supernatural wisdom for situations and speaking a Word in season to us that was so timely for all here.
We also had our own conference here in Romania, we called it RomaniaCon. Not very original, but we weren't looking to be. P.Stan Collins, P.David Stambovsky, Istvan Pirger, and Mat Laflamme were just a few of our speakers. We had a variety of subjects from Missions to Relationships, all while considering our theme, Luke 16:10 "He who is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much."
It is a great thought for our Christian lives, to often we just want something. Not necessarily something bad, just something. I love that in the Bible God never calls us to anything, but Him (Mark 8:34, 35, Hebrews 5:4,5). I love it when I can wake up in the morning and hear God's voice calling me. He wants to leave me with no options. It would be easy for me to change something by doing it, changing it myself, but the effect would only be temporal. Recently here we had a Bible study with Shane Richardson, a missionary from Budapest, Hungary. I was supposed to be preaching at a Youth meeting, but I was the youngest one there! We preached about Barabbas and Jesus. Even before dying, Jesus was redeeming people! Here was Barabbas, a convicted criminal, a murderer, a thief, and who knows what else he did, but at the moment he was free. It was impossible for him not to have been! Revelation 13:8 says that He is "the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world." Barabbas was redeemed because of this promise! Maybe he was on a balcony with Pilate and Jesus in front of the Jews and Pilate asked which one he should let go. The power to redeem wasn't Pilates, it wasn't the people who screamed for Barabbas to be let go, but it was in the Promise of God. It was so encouraging, to be reminded of the power of the Promise.
When Pastor Stan Collins was here he said something so simple but so true, "The grace message is the balanced message." This is an awesome thought, and it was one of the thoughts about the message with Jesus and Barabbas. We have it all with the grace message. People to often go around trying to balance out the grace message. They say there is forgiveness, but the same people won't forgive a "repeat offender." "He had his chance and he blew it, we gave him grace, but he didn't want it." That's there balance. We brought this up in the "Youth Study." They try to balance everything in the grace message, they become to pratical, they think God can't do anything without them and their great skills. These people are only trying to steal the glory from God for themselves. You know who did that first? Satan. Remember? He thought that he should be greater then God because he thought his plan was better. It's an incredible thought, we call these people all sorts of things, legalistic or works people or anything (insert name here). All they are really after is God's glory. Wurmbrand writes about this in his book "My Correspondence with Jesus." He reads Hebrews 6:6 and decides that he is going to be the one to stop Jesus from being "crucified afresh." Later into the book he sees what a foolish plan this is, Jesus doesn't need our help to stop His Crucifixion, this is what Peter thought and tried to do in the Garden. God receives the glory through His Son's crucifixion. We should never try to take that away from Him.

Finally in close to this post, please keep our brothers and sisters in Moldova in prayer. If you have not heard, there is a revolution going on at this moment in Moldova. It is so interesting watching the reports from a country where this only happened here 20 years ago. The rioting in the streets, the destruction of property, the cry against Communism, it is to familiar to the people here in Romania. So please keep them in prayer and if you would like any info on the subject, please go to www.unimedia.info for news in regards to the revoultion. Until next time, may God bless you.