Japan on cusp of revival, ex atheist says

Oiginally published in God Reports

Atheist Businesswoman Akane Fujimoto had all the success — career, house — but she felt purposeless and empty.

So the nominal Buddhist prayed to the God her mother had received 10 years earlier: “If you really exist, if you really love me for who I am, If you have a purpose for my life, would you please appear or prove it to me?”

”I could feel God hugging me a deep hug,” Akane says on a Know Christ YouTube video. “ I came to repentance for the first time in my life. I couldn’t stop weeping. I realize that everything I was looking for lunging for my life was there. I experienced love.”

That was 2 1/2 years ago. Today, Akane has a vision to save all of Japan — a feat reputed to be hard due to the stronghold in the nation that makes the people that makes people resistant. Where others have struggled, Akane is optimistic.

“I heard from other Christian people that sharing the gospel is hard in Japan, but actually it is quite fun,” she says. “They have material things. They are in a comfort zone. You cannot compare to the fullness of Christ.”

Akane says the vaunted Japanese resistance to christianity consists of pride, worrying what others think, competitiveness, and suspicion of the gospel.

But the very same strongholds of resistance are the keys to revival. They leave the person unfulfilled. The suspicion of the gospel is simply because they don’t know anything about it. Once they are presented the pure gospel, they can consider if it answers the loneliness and longing in their souls, she says.

“I really truly believe the revival is happening in Japan right now,” Akane says.

Street preaching gets the message out but building relationship with people brings trust, she says.

Akane came to Christ because of her mom. But she allowed God to use her to bring her father to Christ.

One day, the Holy Spirit prompted her to forgive her father. She invited him out to dinner and told him he was adorable. That was the beginning of a major turnaround.

Later, she went to his room and said she wanted to have a better relationship with him.

”For the first time in my life, I saw him weeping,” she relates. “ He was weeping like a little child.

”The Holy Spirit told me now is the time.”

At the prompting of Akane, her Father received Jesus and began attending church.

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