Hi and Bye!!!
Firstly want to thanks for being for me such a blessing and especially for my country. My heart rejoices when I realize that people from all over the world worrying about people of Ukraine. Thank you all for your prayers, love and your contribution for the Christians development of my country. I'm studying the Lord's Word, and it is big blessing for me, and for my country that we can learn from God and His word and apply to our lives.
I pray that God changed our history through His faithful servants who are really excited to do His will, including myself, "please, God, give me enough humility to do Your will here on the earth."
So I am going back to Ukraine, I was in the U.S.A. since September of last 2010 year and now is June 2011 (I'm leaving in couple days), I was here for 9 months in excited adventure of Bible studying. Now it's time to test everything what I learned here, it will be time when I can apply this knowledge in my life. I have to tell God that, yes, I want to be changed and have good influence on other people / my country for His glory.
It is a pity that I have to say “Goodbye” to people who became a good friends to me during this time, I hope that I will be able to see someone from them in my life again, because God blessed me a lot through them and also taught a lot. I know for sure that my heart has changed under influence of all these people, and specifically their cultural differences. I thank God that He has expanded my worldview under the influence of all these nations. The nations that had influence on me over the last 9 months: USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Norway, Italy, Africa, Kosovo, India, Nepal, Thailand, South Korea and so on. Oh, wait Jews especially throught all this 9 month, yeah...
One of the latest books in the school, through which God has taught me it is the book of Queen Esther. Many Jews at that time (470 BC) have returned to Jerusalem from exile in Babylon.
This is the story about the Jews who left to live in Persia (the kingdom that later defeates Babylonia), because that place became as their home after 60 years being there in exile, but they were still opressed by the local culture, they forced them to worship their gods and rulers. Mordecai's the cousin of Esther, the Jewish Queen of Persia once again refused to bow down to their authority, because he worshiped the Only One True God of the Jews and for it he had sentenced to death of all Jews. I was encouraged by this man's faithfulness, when he encouraged Esther to make petition to the king that he may help the Jews. And when the queen humbled herself before God and her people, the Lord helped them defeat their pagan enemies.
Esther 2:13-14
“When Mordecai heard this, he sent her his answer: 'Esther, do not think you are one of the Jews will be saved in the royal house.
If you keep silent now, help and salvation for the Jews will come from the other side. But you and your father's family will perish. And who knows, maybe you were chosen to be queen at a time like now. '”
In that story God has show my heart. Very often, I think this way, what can I do for the kingdom of God, I do not have some super gifts so it can allow God's power act. Through this example, I realized that God is God and we are just His servants. God expects from us humility and understanding that it is not our strength, but God's. Someone encouraged me in this school, that I have to be a peacemaker and bring love in my ministry to my church family. And rest of things God will do.Thank you for your prayer, or for your financial support or encouragement and your letters.
With love in our Almighty King Jesus, Gyulnara Grygoryan
