Sunisa Lee
Recently this young US gymnast made the news after winning the individual all-around Olympics gold medal in Tokyo, one of the hardest to win because you have to be good in four apparatus, not just your speciality! What was also special is that Sunisa Lee is of the Hmong people group of Laos, but whose Hmong Father and mother live in the USA.
What is not known so well is that the Hmong of Laos are very unreached with the Gospel and have few Christians amongst them. Is not God using Sunisa Lee’s success to highlight the Hmong people? So let’s look a bit closer at what God is up to with UNREACHED PEOPLES and why.
The urgent need of Unreached Peoples
Unreached peoples, of which there are an estimated 10,000 remaining, have a key role to play in the purposes of God in the End Times. These 10,000 groups account for 2.7 Billion people (around 40% of the population of the world) but only about 5% of missionaries are involved with these peoples and many are less than 1% Christian.
This is an issue of gross injustice. God is desperate to reach these unreached peoples with the Gospel, after 2000 years without it, either through the Church’s ignorance, neglect or disobedience.
The last shall be first!
God showed me something special that He would do in many of these unreached peoples from the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Mt 20:1-16). In the parable the Master of the vineyard generously pays the same wage to those that he hired at the end of the day, as those that he hired at the beginning of the day.
Some commentators understand this as about the Gentiles coming into the kingdom late, compared to the Jews, but receiving the same blessings and ahead of many of the Jews who chose not to believe. But what is clear, it illustrates God’s amazing undeserved grace to all. The parable ends with this concluding verse:
‘So the last will be first and the first will be last’ (Mt 20:16)
God said to me something like this:
“I am a God of amazing grace and generosity who treats each people group and nation fairly. There will be many people groups now that have never received the Gospel until recently or not yet received the Gospel. Do you think that I will not pour out My love and grace on them as I did on the Early Church because they have not heard until now? No people group or nation will miss out because they are last into the Kingdom but the last will be first and the first will be last. Look how I have been blessing South Korea and also Mongolia.”
So I believe that He is promising a God visitation of these unreached peoples in the End Times.
God’s Visitation of Nepal
The recent story of Nepal is an example of God’s visitation upon unreached peoples. The following report came from joelnews.org:
“The number of Christians in Nepal is growing exponentially…Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the outside world. Nepali Christians were few and mainly lived in north India on the border with Nepal. Before 1990 in the Kingdom of Nepal it was officially prohibited to have another religion than Hinduism. It was hard for Christians to fellowship and many were imprisoned. In 1990 a revolution broke out, followed by a new constitution that granted freedom of religion. In 50 years the number of baptized Christians has grown from 26 in 1960 to one million today.”
God has dome similar things in South Korea, Mongolia and other nations. So maybe your people is next?
What do I do?
The crucial element in every divine visitation is extraordinary prayer.
So if you are reading this and your people has not received God’s visitation yet, then get believers together from your people to cry out together for a mighty revival.
If you are from a reached people that already has many believers and churches then choose a unreached people (see www.joshuaproject.net) to pray for and start interceding for a powerful visitation of this people. Or begin praying for Sunisa Lee’s people group, the Hmong of Laos.
God will use your prayers to reap a mighty harvest in these End Times and bring about His plan to make the last the first for His glory.