I keep thinking about Asia, Asia Minor. The vision of Francis Xavier. The school. That village high up in the Asian mountains. I think about China, the giant of Asia. I think about the times of persecution of the Church.

I think about the ministry of the Apostle Paul, and why he was forbidden to go and preach in Asia. Our humanity is dark in a unipolar world. The Church is increasingly divided. There are poor people, people in distress, orphans, widows, the disabled, and countless individuals suffering from physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses across the world.

Cancer is wreaking havoc. Céline Dion is suffering from a rare disease. Can God not heal a fracture? Can Jesus not restore a crushed brain that has been forced out of its bony shell? Can people with Down syndrome not experience the miracle of healing?

Is our God limited in this dark humanity? Is it possible for a man of God to pray for someone who died crushed in a vehicle, and for his bones, flesh, and brain to come perfectly back to life?

Mother Teresa brought love to people and hearts were healed. But how can one offer love to a leper if not by restoring in them the taste for a healthy life?

The prophet T.B. Joshua, upon his departure, gave me an assignment: “Doing miracles. This is your duty!” It is a daily exercise. But how can one solve this daily exercise without having received the equation? Is it an eternal and imaginary equation? Oh Lord, the world is collapsing! Help me! Visit me, Lord! Deliver me, Lord! Command me, Lord!

When we are weak, that is when you are strong, Lord! When we are limited, it is then that you remain unlimited. And when everything seems impossible to us, that is when everything becomes possible…

This text is an excerpt from the book “HEASTERN CLOCK” written by Jean-Paul Marie (Pastor Samuel Binyou).

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