The power of the Word - over the airways

I looked over the field of antennae astounded!  Like Christmas trees or an apple orchard, row after row of antennae sending the gospel message from where I stood in the Andes as far as half-way around the world.  If that wasn't enough, we traveled further and higher into the Andes to the headwaters of the Amazon where a turbine powered from the rushing waters of a small mountain stream harnessed by a narrow dam generated the electricity needed to send the gospel message through the antennae into the ears of eager listeners from the Middle East on one side to the Far East on the other.

Now think of it, the Message, the gospel message is being communicated to locales where missionaries cannot go, by the hand of God as  He draws water up from the earth, into a relatively small stream through the turbine, to generate electricity to convert words spoken in a concrete building in Quito through the air.....Taking the Word of God, the spoken message, to other members of our family. Some already in the family, others yet to cross over from death to life, but whose only opportunity is rooted in the waters of a stream high in the Andes at the hand of God.


Almost like magic, but not really.  God is and has been doing it through the shortwave radio ministry born in the Andes nearly eighty years ago when HCJB, call letters standing for the purpose of that ministry “Heralding Christ Jesus’ Blessings” aired its first broadcast from Quito, Ecuador Decemeber 25, 1931.


I think of Acts 1: 8, But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Then  Romans 16:25,27  Praise God!  He can make you strong by means of my good news, which is the message about Jesus Christ.  For ages and ages this message was kept secret, but now at last it has been told...And now because of Jesus Christ, we can praise the only wise God forever! Amen.

It's all about the power of the Word, the living Word, the Logos, Jesus Christ and the written Word He left us, spoken into the airwaves to change lives.  All of that power yet to be harnessed by the turbines of our lives.

I am not sure what God is doing, but He is reminding me of the power of the Word, and of believers before me who had that vision - getting the message out there so the Holy Spirit could use it.  We live in an age of technology, and I wonder how many new and amazing ways there will be for us to "get it out there" so the Spirit of God can use it.  After all, He cannot use what people have not received....