{"id":1105,"date":"2016-05-26T20:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipframework.org\/?p=479"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:49:28","slug":"from-faith-bankrupcy-to-rich-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ldhr.org\/es\/from-faith-bankrupcy-to-rich-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"From Faith Bankrupcy to Rich Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders do not lead perfect faith-filled lives. They sometimes struggle greatly with God and their circumstances. <b>In this post, Sufen Tsai shares a beautiful testimony of her struggle and renewed faith<\/b>. We hope you will enjoy her story and find encouragement and hope for your personal faith challenges.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Becoming LOVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I went bankrupt. Faith bankruptcy! <strong>I had zero faith to keep following God.<\/strong> The God I knew in the Bible was not the one I experienced in my life. Reading the Word became empty.<\/p>\n<p>God seemed to give me the opposite of what I prayed for. In my mind, God was indifferent, far, far off in the sky, unconcerned with me. He saw my suffering; He could help but chose not to reach out to me. What a ruthless God! I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to pray to a God like that. He was silent for about 11 months.<\/p>\n<p>One day, seemingly out of nowhere, I desired to read my Bible and pray. I prayed with open eyes, and suddenly I saw that indifferent God appear in the sky. His face started changing, and He was smiling at me! Then He started moving towards me and gave me a powerful HUG. The HUG was so real that physically I could feel it. I could only weep. God was doing something indescribable in me!<\/p>\n<p>Later, a pastor was praying for me and came toward me to give me a hug. The\u00a0moment he hugged me, I heard a voice say, &#8220;I want you to know that the hug I gave you\u00a0is real.&#8221; Again, I could only weep as I felt the same hug God had given me earlier\u00a0through the pastor, and I knew in my heart His care for me was just as real.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Moses did not search for\u00a0the burning bush, nor could the 120 disciples have anticipated\u00a0Pentecost, I could not generate my experience of God. <strong>He is the same God of the Old and New Testament and is bigger than our logic or preconceptions can contain.<\/strong> He desires to reveal Himself to each of us in His sovereign way. We can\u00a0only be open and willing.<\/p>\n<p>My encounter with God was a turning point. God used it to open a door for me to experience His love deeper. I came to love being a part of the ministry because it was the way He gave me to love Him, love myself, and love others. I experienced firsthand the scars that come with serving in leadership; I went bankrupt because I lost touch of the God who reveals Himself and works in human hearts. I saw no other choice than to live and minister in my own strength. <strong>Now, I&#8217;m convinced it is impossible to do leadership development well; only God can do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God used my role to show me how sinful I was and how desperately I needed Him. 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