Tree of Life Planted in Japan after Life Restoration
C-Mo and I are visiting our branches in Japan in mid-March and it happens that the gover nment has just relaxed all social distance measures early this month. I believe that in Ascending 2023, Planting Trees of Life Everywhere will speed up.
In this Japan trip we will ordain Izuru and his wife Katsura of our Osaka branch as Pastor and C-Mo and send Yohane and his wife Anna to our Hokkaido branch. Yohane is the son of Kina, the senior pastor of our Okinawa branch. He left Japan in his low point of life and chose to come to Hong Kong at our invitations. He had his life restored and started to serve again. During those three years, his life was restored and he met his other half Anna, here in 611 and established their family. After that we sent them to Okinawa.
Two years ago Yohane faced big tension in relationships with people and his original family and considered himself worthless. He was filled with negative thoughts. Being far away from homeland and married in Japan, Anna was also powerless as their son was a treasure child and her husband was at the brim of collapse. So they came back again to 611 to get their lives restored. Thank God for being so real! Right at the time when they came back, the Mercy House was established in 611. Anna was healed here and her elder son experienced numerous miracles. Anna has got back faith from God and got peace gradually. She kept looking upon God’s grace. A year later they gave birth to their second son. Today four of them are living happily.
Now that they can go back to Japan with joy, I feel grateful for them. I also see their courage and their determination to trust God. Yohane is a young man full of potential. His way of thinking is freed from the restrictions of the Japanese mindset. He has a broad view and liberal thoughts and his English is very good. He will be mightily used by God in the nations for sure.
I just shared with our Bible School students early this month how we received the Planting Trees of Life Everywhere vision in 2018, and it crossed my mind that after I saw the concurrent appearance of the sunset and the rising moon at the cruise, the first stop that we went to share the Planting vision was Okinawa. Today, five years later, when I revisit the vision, I see that God’s hand has really been leading us and many pictures are becoming clear.
Dear brothers and sisters, three-year pandemic has not prevented us from planting. On the contrary, God has led us to influence the earth through the media. The whole globe is open now and I believe that God will show more revelations in our Japan trip. We should follow God even closer and get ourselves prepared to behold God’s wonderful work and leading.■【2023.03.12】
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