Imagining the Infinite

It is difficult in my finite state to imagine a God who is truly in control of the universe. It is so vast. In fact Atlanta is so vast; so, I have a hard time imagining being in total control of what is going on among the five million people who live here! But God controls the world, all that is in it, the heavens and all that is contained there. My mind cannot grasp it. But occasionally I get a glimpse of His omnipresence and omnipotence. Last month was one of those times.

Africa is a long way from Atlanta. I personally don’t know a single soul who lives there; but my sister visited once and returned with reports of lions and giraffes and lush land and brilliant colors. And yet God has this ability to live everywhere. And so a month ago I received an email out of the blue from a Mr. Darius Koekemoer who just happened to be content manager for TBN Africa (not related to TBN in America), a Christian broadcasting company in South Africa. TBN Africa broadcasts Christian programs throughout the entire continent. He had been on the web and had come across The Amazing Collection as it was being broadcasted in New Zealand! He was very impressed and wanted to know if perhaps they could partner with us so they would be allowed show the program over their satellite. And I stood amazed!

I remember the number of times Eleanor, Linda, Margie and I sat at my dining room table and asked God to use this study for His glory…and to send it around the world. We prayed week after week every year of production and continued to do so even after the project was completed. And yet we never dreamed that God would say yes. Furthermore we had never considered television. But here we go again! TBN Africa is the ninth overseas broadcasting company in which we have partnered. Each one came to us not by any efforts of our own but because they had “found” us over the web and played a part in the resounding YES of God.

God says the day will come when all of the nations will come before His Throne. At that time I am looking forward to meeting Mr. Koekemoer. But then I also can’t wait to see John Green who originally saw that this study would make a good television program and took a chance and put it on UCBTV in England. Mark Patterson and Maxim Maximov from Russia (CNLTV) were introduced to us through most unusual circumstances, and they not only have shown the program over their three satellites in Russia for several years but also translated all of the programs into both Russian and Ukraine. Terry Cobham in Auckland, New Zealand saw the program on ACCTV in Australia that ACCTV manager Neil Elliott had been broadcasting and was able to get the program from them and show it on Shine Television in New Zealand. T.J. Burnett saw the program on the web and contracted with us to show it on Miracle Channel in Canada. Herman Soegeng manager of U-Channel Television in Indonesia also “came out of nowhere”, translated the programs into Indonesian and broadcasted it over U-Channel. Michael Youssef and Magad Atalla at Leading the Way translated the programs into Arabic and now offer the study throughout the Middle East over Kingdom Sat.

John, Terry, Herman, Neil, Michael, Maged, Maxim, Mark. T.J., and Darius, all from different countries, all over the world, all connected to us by an Almighty God. Simply amazing!

Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Mark 16:15